All Films

El Mojado

1974 • 18 min

El Mojado focuses on an undocumented worker from rural Chihuahua whom Lyon came to regard as “a genius.” Every spring Lyon would meet him near the border and smuggle him past the border patrol into the United States. Eddie introduced Lyon to the whole unbelievable world of “illegal aliens.”

Biosphere! Time to Apprehend

1974 • 16 min • Soviet Union

A journalistic story inspired by Volodymyr Vernadsky about the genesis of life in the universe — from the physical elements of the primordial broth to the civilization of intelligent man.

Dark

1974 • 18 min • Australia

“Using footage shot during the first Aboriginal Land Rights demonstrations in Sydney, and when the police tore down the ‘Aboriginal Embassy’ in front of Parliament House in Canberra, Dark juxtaposes this violent struggle with images (taken from a tourist slide) of an old Aboriginal warrior imprisoned, in his mind, in his own country. As an immigrant to Australia I’d understood what it feels like to be a stranger, and had experienced hurtful comments and prejudice (…‘bloody German’). So I thought, this is funny, these people have been here for donkey’s years, and they to go out in the streets to fight for their own land. I used various mechanisms to let this injustice, this anger out…in particular, zooming through a comb onto the image of the old warrior…letting his emotion stream out through the bars.” (Paul Winkler)

Lamerique

1974 • 17 min • France

Short film by Michel Lemoine shot simultaneously to "Les Petites Saintes y touchent."

Boasting

1974 • 9 min • Iran

This film combines elements from Iranian epics, street wit and humor, and is in fact an animation of what Sadeghi considers his main artistic inspiration, namely Iranian folklore and storytelling screens.

Freedom Day Parade

1974 • 11 min

Director Wakefield Poole moved to San Francisco in 1974 and captured the energy and sights of an early San Francisco gay pride parade, set to a campy, eclectic soundtrack.

Breakfast

1974 • 12 min • France

Relentlessly reworking ‘real’ images, using techniques borrowed from painting and animated film, Patrick Bokanowski is an author of stature, capable of creating an insane and cataclysmic universe of unquestionable beauty.

Festa, Trabalho e Pão em Grijó de Parada

1974 • 34 min • Portugal

One of the first films that looks at the Portuguese region of Trás-os-Montes. From the mask called “careto” and the popular festival to the everyday reality.

The Boy With The Bridle

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Screen adaptation of the historical story about a clever shepherd boy who saved his home city Kyiv from the Pecheneg army onslaught in the Х century.

Intermezzo for an Eternal Love

1974 • 9 min • Romania

The little man learns that the Earth is in mortal danger due to pollution.

The Violin

1974 • 30 min

The Violin is a 1974 short film by Andrew Welsh and George Pastic, featuring Maurice Solway. Solway also wrote the original music. The film promotes peace and understanding through the power of music and the exchange of knowledge and friendship between the old and the young. In 1975, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short.

Saugus Series

1974 • 18 min

Short film of 7 sections with each one using a different experimental film technique.

The Sweet: All That Glitters

1974 • 24 min • United Kingdom

In 1973, Sweet were the subject of a documentary All That Glitters for BBC Schools series Scene. Being intended for “educational purposes,” the program had to pose a relevant topic for debate among its teenage audience—in this case, “Is the music business really that glamorous?” Over a period of two to three days, Scene followed the band members Brian Connolly (vocals), Steve Priest (bass/coals), Andy Scott (guitar) and Mick Tucker (drums) as they rehearsed for a Top of the Pops appearance (which led to an outcry over Priest’s Nazi outfit) and their (now hailed as “legendary”) Christmas show at London’s Rainbow Theater.

Dolly Mixture

1974 • 22 min • United Kingdom

A mad doctor (Paul Kirby) has created a woman (Clyda Rosen) from the body parts of various dolly birds, hence 'Dolly Mixture'. Upon being brought to life, she immediately embarks on a threesome with a passing Tax Inspector (Jack Gold) and the mad doctor's hunchback assistant.

Dilli Dalli in Perpendicular's Kingdom

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Dilli Dalli is an adventurous boy who can bring his toys to life. Now, however, he needs to meet his opponent - the evil Perpendicular, who makes everything that's living to disappear. Dilli Dalli goes to the kingdom of the evil Perpendicular to save his toys he brought to life.

Study I.

1974 • 8 min

The candle as light, photography using light, refraction, motion picture, that is, the film poem-like recollection of the magical world of cinematography.

Travail du comédien

1974 • 30 min

We follow the rehearsals and the staging work of Bertold Brecht's play 'Dans la jungle des villes' in 1972 by the company Théâtre de l'Espérance. The three directors: Jean-Pierre Vincent, Jean Jourdheuil and André Engel discuss their joint work of staging and their vision of the play. Interviews with the actors (Gérard Desarthe, Maurice Bénichou, Hélène Vincent), whom we follow at different stages of the work (source: Média Scérén). The film was screened for the 1973 Directors' Fortnight, at the Cannes Festival.

The Summoned

1974 • 40 min

A doctor and his wife come under attack from a vengeful Incubus and his zombie followers in a blood-soaked tale of supernatural horror. Can this man of science stand up against an inhuman creature with limitless power?

Ranina

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The cartoon is based on the motifs of the Georgian folk tale "half-of-handfuler" ("მუჭანახევარა"). How society forces a person to sing the way they think is right.

El Visitante

1974 • 8 min

A woman goes through different emotions in her daily life.

Eguren y Barranco

1974 • 10 min

Through a tour of the streets and houses of Barranco, the presence, biography and poetics of José María Eguren, a fundamental author in the history of Peruvian poetry, are evoked.

Antonio - Wo ist er zu Hause?

1974 • 15 min

Short film about Antonio 'Pinuccio' Morleo, an 11-year-old Italian boy living in Germany.

Prisoner's Dilemma

1974 • 45 min

A two-part tape of a video performance done on January 22, 1974, at 112 Greene Street (as part of the Video Performance Exhibition), structured on a problem in game theory, a non-zero-sum game, in which both players can win or lose at the same time, one can win more than the other, and one can win at the others expense. Serra and Bell have used game theory as a way of dealing with genres of commercial TV: cops and robbers in the first part, and a quiz program in the second.

Gold Struck

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

Everyone chickened out delivering bags of gold to Virginia City because to get there, you have to get past the Bad Land. Hoot decides to deliver it himself to the city. Hoot managed to get past the Bad Lands to a ghost town so Hoot decides to spend the night in the hotel, where a mischievous vampire trying to get the hands on the gold.