All Films

Colourbird

1974 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A bored future society starts to come alive with the addition of primary colors, as its world gradually becomes a groovy hippy paradise.

Crossings and Meetings

1974 • 27 min • United States of America

A lone man walking across the video screen is the starting point for this dynamic formal exercise. This image and its accompanying sound are subjected to increasingly complex and proliferating configurations to arrive at what Emshwiller calls a "visual fugue" in time and space, structured like musical or mathematical sequences. The walking figure and its de-synchronized footsteps are multiplied, slowed down, accelerated, reversed, syncopated, overlapped and otherwise altered in multifarious variations on a theme, building in a kinetic, almost narrative progression of compositional relationships. The screen is finally transformed into a dance of motion by male and female figures in an abstracted, colorized space. Rather than an analysis of movement a la Muybridge, Crossings and Meetings is a celebration of the potential for representing movement in time and space through video.

Star Garden

1974 • 22 min • United States of America

The "star", as it is singular, is the sun; and it is metaphored, at the beginning of this film, by the projector anyone uses to show forth. Then the imaginary sun begins its course throughout whatever darkened room this film is seen within. At "high noon" (of the narrative) it can be imagined as if in back of the screen, and then to shift its imagined light-source gradually back thru aftertones and imaginings of the "stars" of the film till it achieves a one-to-one relationship with the moon again. This "sun" of the mind's eye of every viewer does not necessarily correspond with the off-screen "pictured sun" of the film; but anyone who plays this game of illumination will surely see the film in its most completely conscious light.

Wampirou

1974 • 20 min

A satire on the relationship between the artist and the art market.

Its Ugly Head

1974 • 13 min

A married couple - the man a closeted homosexual, the woman bed-ridden - struggle with their relationship.

The Flight of Icarus

1974 • 3 min • Switzerland

Loosely following the Greek myth of the Flight of Icarus, Georges Schwizgebel opens his directional career with Le vol d'lcare, a short animation of LED lights.

Bold Face: Condensed

1974 • 30 min

' Waiting for pages half my life ' - but this time the printer is drunk and the editor has a deadline to meet.

Song of acupuncture treatment

1974 • 41 min • China

Li Zhihua is an anesthetist at the hospital

The Head

1974 • 21 min • Yugoslavia

We begin with a fragmented portrait of Činča, between the stories she tells and the thoughts of those surrounding her. In The Head, a girl is confronted with the possibility of dying. Intermezzo focusses on the moments of abstraction amid the hustle and bustle of a city. In Our Stock Exchange, unemployed people seek work. Second Floor, Basement shows us a hospital where only two floors separate birth and death.

Blood Writing

1974 • 3 min

United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

Ancient America Speaks

1974 • 24 min

Archeological evidence from pre-Columbian South America is compared to artifacts from the Mediterranean region as well as passages from the Book of Mormon

The Boy and the Cat

1974 • 10 min • United Kingdom

The first complete animation produced by Sheila Graber and set in her native South Shields. The film follows the adventures of a small boy and his cat as they walk through the snowy landscape, chase a Robin down onto the River Tyne and meet Father Christmas. The character of the boy is based upon Sheila’s nephew Nigel and the cat is based upon her own cat Whitey.

A Steam Train Passes

1974 • 21 min • Australia

Generally regarded as Australia's finest railway film and winner of many awards the world over, A Steam Train Passes is a nostalgic, imaginative essay on one of the majestic C38 class steam locomotives, 3801. The locomotive has recently returned to service and is currently operating out of the NSW Rail Museum at Thirlmere, south of Sydney.

Print Generation

1974 • 50 min • United States of America

J.J. Murphy’s feature length experimental film is a meditation on light, chemistry, and the properties of photographic emulsion and can therefore be identified as a structuralist film. Beginning with points of red light, the film takes a single minute of film and reprints in over and over, moving through several levels of abstraction, then returning to them. Winner of several experimental film festival awards. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Black Soul

1974 • 51 min

1974 documentary about Ali.

Searching

1974 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A haunting fire prevention film about keeping matches out of the hands of children.

Icarus

1974 • 7 min • Romania

"A planet of beings learning to crawl, walk and eventually fly." (YouTube user Kevinedge)

Mahatma and the Mad Boy

1974 • 27 min • India

In the time frame of a single day (from dawn to dust), the film records the wanderings of an Indian youth who sleeps on the beach, holds conversations with a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, and scavenges for food with his monkey. By afternoon, a little ceremony is held by well-to-do Gandhi-ites, at which a speaker delivers a sermon on "godly love"; but when the boy comes too close, he is told to move on by a guard, one of a series of exclusions of this onlooker-outcast.

Experimental

1974 • 12 min • United States of America

We briefly visit a vast array of various flying objects.

Le charme de l'ambiguïté

1974 • 58 min • Belgium

From transvestites to transformers, we will follow the trail that will lead us in different and famous Parisian music-halls, such as the mythical Alcazar of Paris, La Grande Eugène. Whether they are below or beyond their character, often these men who are looking for themselves look at life with the humor of despair. Why this need to "transform" themselves? Why is it always the men who cross-dress and not the women? Why did the public flock to these shows in the 1970s and 1980s? Interpretations of famous characters such as Diana Ross, Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, the Peter Sisters, the Andrew Sisters, Zizi Jeanmaire, Judy Garland, Sarah Bernhardt, among others, contribute to making this musical document an essential testimony of this era.

As the Tumbleweed Turns

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

Hoot Kloot is ordered to evict Widow Watley from her house so they can build railroad tracks, but Hoot can't seem to get past her aggressive dog.

Traces

1974 • 10 min • Poland

During the day, we could see traces of passersby and the couple of protagonists on the white and soft snow. They go to a dinner party. The evening will end tragically, but the next day begins with the milkman's footsteps, as usual.

A Political Cartoon

1974 • 22 min • United States of America

Two guys run a cartoon character for President.

Sea Creatures

1974 • 13 min • United States of America

Depicts the larger sea creatures inhabiting the Red Sea. An imaginative sound track accompanies hermit crabs, jellyfish, parrot fish, sea urchins, crown-of-thorns starfish, sea cucumbers, clown fish, and Manta Rays - to mention only a few - as they parade before the camera in stunning color and movement.