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Wednesday

Wednesday

1974 • 17 min
Jack Lemmon stars as a talk radio DJ who runs into some serious trouble live on the air.
A Spring

A Spring

1974 • 22 min • Soviet Union
Before moving to a new village, the elderly Vano and Mariam give a gift to people - they carry water from a spring to the highway...
Bim, Bam, Bom And The Wolf

Bim, Bam, Bom And The Wolf

1974 • 17 min • Soviet Union
Bim, Bam, Bom and the wolf met at the construction site of a house where the piglets were building their homes. The wolf, of course, was hungry and decided to make his way to the pig, who had weak locks on the doors.
Carlo the Sierra Coyote

Carlo the Sierra Coyote

1974 • 48 min • United States of America
A coyote tries to escape the encroachment of man onto his territory and is befriended by the wife of a couple monitoring the environment for the government. The husband is suspicious of the coyote, but Carlo helps lead rescue dogs to him when he is lost.
Papusza

Papusza

1974 • 32 min • Poland
A documentary film that presents the customs and life of the Roma community. Features Bronisława Wajs and Jerzy Ficowski.
Vertical and Receding Lines

Vertical and Receding Lines

1974 • 6 min
As in Bringing Lights Forward, Haxton makes use of negative images and restricted lighting to emphasize the actual flatness of the film image over the illusion of three-dimensionality that it conveys. Five black strings, hanging from a black rod close to the top of the frame and parallel to it, are spaced at fairly regular intervals. A woman comes into the foreground, picks up the five strings one at a time and pushes them each into the background, her image gradually becoming more indistinct as she does so. At the end of this process, only the tops of the strings attached to the black rod are left visible on screen. The woman then returns, picks up one end of another string and attaches it to the floor; she repeats this movement so that the strings are secured at five different points. The final composition of the frame consists of one set of black lines extending downwards vertically from the top, and another set receding at an angle into the background from the bottom.
Kigeki poruno: Taxi hanjôki

Kigeki poruno: Taxi hanjôki

1974 • 60 min • Japan
Pink film by Kan Mukai.
Princeton: A Search for Answers

Princeton: A Search for Answers

1974 • 30 min • United States of America
Princeton: A Search for Answers is a 1973 American short documentary film, directed by Julian Krainin and DeWitt Sage, and produced for the Princeton University Undergraduate Admissions Office as a recruiting film. In 1974, it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 46th Academy Awards.
Fuji

Fuji

1974 • 8 min • United States of America
A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as it leaves the station sets the mesmerizing tone for the film's abstract panoramic survey of an Ozu-esque Japanese landscape of electrical power lines, passing trains, railroad tracks, and the gentle slope of obliquely peaked, uniform rooflines as Breer distills the essential geometry of Mount Fuji into a collage of acute angles and converging (and bifurcating) lines .
La guarida

La guarida

1974 • 12 min • Spain
A very impoverished man wanders the cold and hostile city looking for cigarette butts. After being humiliated by rude people at a bar, he comes back to an isolated hut where he lives with a lazy man who refuses to abandon the place, which is more a lair for savage animals than a shelter for human beings.
Joe Zero

Joe Zero

1974 • 32 min • Brazil
Man leaves the country and heads for the big city, where in middle of deprivation, he wins a lottery.
I'm Sorry

I'm Sorry

1974 • 5 min • Canada
The punishment for guilt and remorse is carried out for the video camera through several brisk strokes with a riding crop on bare buttocks.
The Well

The Well

1974 • 8 min • Soviet Union
Surveyors calculated that a new road route should be laid through the old well. But the stubborn owner of the well was against it.
Thunderbirds in China

Thunderbirds in China

1974 • 57 min
In this documentary, the members of the University of British Columbia's Thunderbirds hockey team travel to China to demonstrate their skills to the new teams in the East. While hockey there still has a long way to go, this film leaves no doubt that the Chinese players are up to the challenge. A film propelled by discoveries, it goes a long way to providing insight into the differences between East and West.
Christmas with the Desert Children

Christmas with the Desert Children

1974 • 8 min • Australia
A short documentary about Father Christmas' annual six-day trek through the Australian desert aboard the Tea and Sugar Train.
The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend

The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend

1974 • 8 min • Canada
An owl marries a goose. They have off-spring, but somehow their habits of life are not compatible.
Madseeing

Madseeing

1974 • 21 min • Netherlands
In sequence, we see an acrobat, a nurse, a German officer, and a majorette. They are alone in their own white room, and are wearing lots of makeup: black around their eyes and mouths, almost like a skull. They move tensely, and radiate a sense of desperation and fear, with many soundless screams. They are in a psychiatric hospital. The final shot consists of a pan along an empty, sterile corridor with empty white rooms, from which frightening sounds emanate.
Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday

1974 • 1 min • Canada
A perceptive young boy attending his uncle's birthday party notices the unfortunate results of the man’s smoking habit.
Painting with Light

Painting with Light

1974 • 3 min • Belgium, United States of America
Painting with Light consists of images produced by moving light. Techniques include re-filming slides in an animation fashion. Original slides are time-exposure images of color-filtered light. The experiment questions whether light can be controlled in a manner similar to that of the painter-artist. The use of an optical printed allows some manipulation or extension of certain scenes. Also, unmasked negative printing is intercut to strengthen the "painting" effect.
Les tacots

Les tacots

1974 • 22 min • Canada
Room and Board

Room and Board

1974 • 5 min • United States of America
A child grows into a man, but cannot open the door in his own room trying to figure out what's in it.
Deep Westurn

Deep Westurn

1974 • 5 min • United States of America
A ‘film wake’. Though celebratory in mood, it has a mournful subtext… death and dying. We dedicated it to Dr. Sam West, departed friend and patron of the arts, trusting that his ghost would approve our hi-jinx and seeming irreverence. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.
Mirage

Mirage

1974 • 3 min
A self-portrait, Mirage exposes Mendieta's naked body in nature reflected in a mirror. She holds a gourd and stabs it open to let its seeds fly away.
I'm a Voyeur

I'm a Voyeur

1974 • 15 min
An ironic flip/flop between voyeur/exhibitionist tendencies, where the subject is the object-they are one and the same person exploring the necessarily cooperative choreography implicit in such a relationship. The tape title, finally, is a misnomer. A tease. It should be called 'I'm an exhibitionist,' however, this is subverted by making the viewer complicit with the 'voyeur' of the title of the tape.