All Films

Grease

1974 • 47 min • United States of America

A noir street film shot on the east side of Cleveland in the Collinwood District where i grew up and and went to High School . Influenced by Cassavete"s SHADOWS ...and Italian Neo-Realism,... it shows a world with an undercurrent of violence and racism...inhabited by people with an animalistic ambience.

The Lost Son

1974 • 15 min • United Kingdom

The Parable of the Lost/ Prodigal Son as told by Lotte Reiniger.

Tapiola

1974 • 15 min • Finland

A hunter brings a feathered bird as an offering to the goddess of his ancestors. Tapiola is a film-poem in defense of nature and humanity. It is also a documentary that tells the story of modern man's loss of contact with the environment and its transformation into a commodity.

Black Feet in the Snow

1974 • 55 min

Written and narrated by Jamal Ali, this impressionistic, innovative drama shows how Britain – ‘The Promised Land’ – offered only frustration and rejection to Caribbean settlers in the 1950s.

From Hattis to Hitites

1974 • 24 min

Approximately 3300 years ago, on a cuneiform tablet, the Hittite King Muvatalli begged the Storm God. However, a hundred years later, severe storms blew over Anatolia, and the "Land of Hatti" and what we call the "Land of the Hittite" today became a pile of stones and earth, from one end to the other. But this civilization still lives on the traces they left in Anatolia and will continue to live for centuries. The documentary "From Hattis to Hittites", produced by Suha Arın in 1974 with the support of the Turing and Automobile Association, as the first film in the "Traces of Anatolian Civilizations" series, is restored 45 years later from original negatives and magnetic sound tapes.

A portrait of Meredith Monk

1974 • 25 min • United States of America

‘Mark Berger’s years of work as a representational painting can be found here, in this film portrait. Mark Berger was an actor in the Meredith Monk company and the House, from 1971 to 1974, and he uses an improvisation technique in this vision of interaction painter/subject, filmmaker/actor, artist/artist. Mark Berger’s camera records and interviews a relationship between himself and Meredith Monk, in the same way that Meredith Monk’s music as soundtrack, is a fundamental and structural aspect of film material editing. The shooting, like the painting of a portrait, was executed in a number of sessions, over a period of several weeks.’ A. Sichel.

Snow White

1974 • 2 min • Romania

Cutout animated advertisement for the make-up products made at the Farmec Enterprise, Cluj.

In White-Collar America

1974 • 51 min • United States of America

This film concentrates on a few of the many workers at a life insurance company in Atlanta, Georgia. It examines their job satisfaction, working conditions, as well as relationships with other workers.

Noisefields

1974 • 11 min

This is an attempt to process abstract images without the use of camera. The central circle divides the creen into two parts that continually vibrate hypnotically and change colors to the accompanying rumbling of modulated sound.

Cat's Cradle

1974 • 10 min • Canada

This short animated fable stars witches, cloaked riders and other Gothic characters, in a tale about the hungry natural world. Here the artist plays cat's cradle with ideas, especially the notion that one thing leads to another and that lives lead from one to another. Without words but featuring a witch's brew of sounds.

Gerettetes Venedig

1974 • 12 min • Germany

Documentary short by Ottokar Runze.

Karl Martin

1974 • 13 min

An “artist film” that crosses Karl Martin, Martin Heidegger and the Communist Party’s Manifesto.

Moto

1974 • 16 min

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

At Yukigaya 1

1974 • 3 min • Japan

At Yukigaya 1, 1974, film, 3 min, color. A comical mindscape, the film stars Sam Francis who was Idemitsu’s ex-husband.

Watermelon

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The sun and the moon team up with a hardworking watermelon farmer to teach a lesson to a lazy person.

شهر خاکستری

1974 • 7 min

A man carries with him a wonderful flower which arouses the curiosity and the mistrust of the medical profession, the army and the police. Only women and children dare to breathe its fragrance.

Wolf-Zooming

1974 • 5 min

Repeating, erratic zooms on Gusella's face.

The Big Clubs

1974 • 39 min

Documentary focusing on the two most successful football clubs in Scotland; Celtic and Rangers. This film outlines the origins of the clubs, their accomplishments and the socio-economic importance of the clubs to their home city; Glasgow, Scotland.

Safety: Harm Hides at Home

1974 • 16 min • United States of America

A story about children who are rescued from accidents at home to create an awareness of home safety and provides examples for accident prevention.

The Little Raccoon

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A story about a little raccoon who needs to prove to his mother he's brave enough to go to the pond to gather herbs at night, on his birthday.

Mr. Symbol Man

1974 • 50 min

Examines the system of symbol communication devised by Charles Bliss for use by speech handicapped and deaf individuals. Profiles the life and work of Bliss and shows how his system is used by speech handicapped children at a Canadian center for crippled children

Hungry Autumn

1974 • 29 min • India

Ghose’s first major film is a documentary about the 1974 Bengal famine, analysing how famines come about and chronicling their impact in the cities and the villages of India. Made on a Paillard Bolex by a group calling itself the ‘Joris Ivens collective’, it was one of the first Indian documentaries to face censorship under the Emergency. Much of the footage reflects Ghose’s preoccupation, later developed in his features, with people surviving on the margins of society.

The Vocation

1974 • 30 min • Sweden

Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missionary in Kongo in the early 20th century. The story of his father Gustav Natanael Nykvist is told through his own photos, letters, and films. Director & cinematographer: Sven Nykvist. Narrators in the English dubbed version: Liv Ullmann & Sean Connery. Produced by Ingmar Bergman (Cinematograph AB). Digitally restored in 2022.

We Have To Live With It

1974 • 32 min

A community video made by Tom Zubrycki and the residents of Balmain and Rozelle that documents concerns held by residents and local businesses about the impact of an existing port terminal on their community. Residents give their perspectives on the issues of noise, pollution and safety which arise from trucks laden with shipping containers rolling down Mort Street, Balmain towards the terminal. The community’s protests and lobbying efforts are also recorded.