All Films

Horoscope

1974 • 20 min • Bulgaria

The film consists of 12 miniatures, each based on one of the signs of the zodiac.

8½ x 11

1974 • 32 min

"Benning's landscape works, with their meticulous, reverential compositions, have been located in the history of American realist painting and photography, and also belong to the tradition of American nature writing...The formal elegance of the compositions somehow becomes surreal over time, as we look into, instead of at, the place. This tendency locates Benning in the history of experimental filmmakers concerned with interrogating visual perception." - Danni Zuvela

Two on Ice

1974 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about the Soviet school of figure skating, focusing on the pair of Irina Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaitsev.

Curse of the Werewolf

1974 • 2 min • United States of America

American horror short from 1974.

Seven Days

1974 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Seven Days invites the viewer to contemplate the complex relationship between the structures we invent in order to observe the natural world and the structure we perceive as a result of those observations. The resulting sequences of images suggest a relationship between technology and nature based on principles other than exploitation and domination.

Hard Way

1974 • 55 min • Yugoslavia

A 1973 Serbo-Croatian-Italian language drama film directed by Matjaž Klopčič, starring Mira Stupica, Radmila Andrić and Dare Ulaga.

Euphoria

1974 • 3 min • United States of America

Consistent stylistic-thematic structures link and merge throughout the bewildering event chain. The distinction between organic forms and human artifacts is blurred by the visual style which is enigmatic without being ambiguous.

Rope Dance Translations

1974 • 20 min

Andrew Horn was technical director on this black-and-white document of Andrew deGroat’s hypnotic, swirling “Rope Dance Translations”, originally performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music by Robyn Brentano, Frank Converso, Charles Dennis, Ritty Ann Burchfield and deGroat himself. It was shot in a single day and lit by Carol Mullins (wife of Jim Neu, who would write DOOMED LOVE and THE BIG BLUE). The introductory text describes the dance as “relying on each individual dancer’s energies and response to the ropes. The ‘choreograph’ for this dance is the geometry of the ropes, the centrifugal force of the spinning from and the strict revolving patterns of solo and chorus.” The music for ROPE DANCE TRANSLATIONS was composed by Michael Galasso, who would go on to provide unforgettable string compositions for Wong Kar-Wai’s IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE.

Pan 2

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

Rain falls and reflects the light.

Planet Ocean

1974 • 20 min

Planet Ocean is a 1974 short documentary. It takes us on a beautiful adventure into the strangest domains of our planet – the oceans. The documentary pivots around the relationship between the Earth’s oceans and the entire planet’s ecosystem. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric

1974 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A 1974 documentary in which comedian Dave Allen meets a variety of eccentrics including Alexander Stuart Wortley who lives in a box on wheels, a cowboy vicar and the artist/filmmaker Bruce Lacey showing his set-up where he pretends to fly a Lancaster bomber in his garage.

Man Belongs to the Earth

1974 • 23 min • United States of America

Made for screening at the U.S. Pavilion at the 1974 World's Fair in Spokane Washington, USA, which had a Native-American environmental theme, MAN BELONGS TO THE EARTH depicts the history of air, water, and earth pollution, and how environmentalists are trying to solve these problems using various technologies.

Tall Arches

1974 • 7 min • United States of America

Pan 698

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

The camera pans across a field of flowers at extreme speeds.

The Liberal War

1974 • 33 min • United States of America

The Vietnam War during the JFK years and beyond. Made in 1972 in the filmmaker's apartment, without documentary footage of the war, metaphors are created through the animation of images and objects, and through guerrilla skits. By rejecting the authority of traditional documentary footage, the anarchist spirit of individual responsibility is established. This is history from one person's point of view, rather than a definitive proclamation.

Álbum de Música

1974 • 11 min • Brazil

Portrait of various figures in Brazilian pop music.

1-2-3-4

1974 • 4 min • United States of America

This work shows paradoxical space relations in electonic depths, where the common space coordinates no longer apply and where the images become objects in space. The numerals on the cakes were captured by four cameras and then processed with the Multikeyer.

The Sleeper

1974 • 9 min

Begins with scenes of nature, in which one hears the sounds of birds and water. The final few minutes of the film focus in on a man laying down in the grass.

The Tale of the Shepherd and the Beautiful Princess

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A tale of how, despite all the efforts of a wicked and cruel padishah, his only daughter marries the tenth son of the poorest shepherd.

The Man And The Word

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Five short stories that clearly demonstrate the impact a simple word has on people.

Sísifo

1974 • 17 min • Peru

Adaptation of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, in the deserts of Lima.

Lesbianism Feminism

1974 • 29 min

Sparks: Don Kirschner's Rock Concert 1974

1974 • 24 min

Beacon Theater NY May 1974 > 1) Something For The Girl With Everything 2) Talent Is An Asset 3) Hasta Manana Monsieur 4) Thank God It's Not Christmas 5) B.C. 6) Here In Heaven

Wires Over the Border

1974 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Short film about the upgrades and technological improvements on the British railways.