All Films

Museu Goeldi

1974 • 11 min • Brazil

A documentary short on Museum Emílio Goeldi, located at Belém do Pará, Brazil.

Who Are We?

1974 • 10 min • Canada

Canadians in search of the national identity will not find it fully fleshed in this film. An animated cartoon, it sees Canadians as pragmatists, adaptable to whatever climate or history place in their way. It is a boisterous, bubbling analysis of the Canadian character and, although it may not answer the question of the title, it does leave the feeling that being Canadian is not so exhausting as one might expect.

Self Service

1974 • 10 min • Italy

Hungry mosquitos, in search of a meal, find that fruit, flowers and other such fare doesn't satisfy. One enterprising bug hits the jackpot - a human! However, the victim vigorously resists joining the food chain, causing a number of winged casualties. The little buggers wait until the man falls asleep, then set up a number of enterprises: cafes, bars, filling stations, all serving blood. Things are going well, but then the mosquito Cosa Nostra moves in, and ramp production into high gear.

Hotspot

1974 • 9 min • United States of America

Descend into the crater of the Nyiragongo Volcano (in Zaire, Africa) to witness the terrifying yet spellbinding explosion of molten lava at its very source. Set to the Toccata and Fugue of J.S. Bach, the film is at once stunningly beautiful, yet plunges us into the very depths of hell. The extreme beauty of the visuals, together with the power of the music, creates an unforgettable experience.

Stop Potapov!

1974 • 29 min

A film based on the story of the same name by Grigory Gorin. An employee of a certain SRI Potapov is a liar and an opportunist. But he does not even know that he is committing low things.

Apple Summer

1974 • 24 min

Camping in Down East, Maine with artist friends evolved into a spurt-framed portrait of artist Donn Moulton. Footage of Moulton in Maine, his studio in Cambridge, and installation of his fiberglass apple paintings at Kornblee Gallery, NYC, is intercut with edited-in-camera expressionistic sequences from our camping trip.

Death of the Movement

1974 • 5 min • Italy

A work on the attention of the spectator, whose sound is improvised live by the audience on the unpredictable movements of the images.

The Deer - White Horns

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A boy, after reading about the tundra, deer and northern lights, decided to create a deer out of the snow. As a result, he got a beautiful animal that became alive at night under the shining stars. The boy was sorry that his unexpectedly acquired pet can melt, so he decided to go to distant lands, where there is constant cold. This should help save the life of the new friend.

Pan 697

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

A butchered cow is decapitated in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

Maritime Climates

1974 • 34 min • Soviet Union

The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power hadn’t got worried by the rushes they saw, which lead them to terminate the production. In 1992, Rolands Kalniņš made this edit of the remaining material – an elegy to lost hopes and illusions.

Simparelé

1974 • 30 min

SIMPARELE is history interpreted through people's art. The film synthesizes the primary forms through which the Haitian people have expressed themselves in the centuries since the island's colonization by the French and the massive importation of African slaves to fuel its plantation economy. It is a composite of dance, theatrical tableaux, poetry, song, folk painting, legend and religious ritual. SIMPARELE acknowledges the powerful role which Afro-Haitian culture has played in these people's political struggle as both repository for people's history and the raw material from which that history can be reconstructed and transformed.

Winter of a slacker

1974 • 10 min • Romania

At the beginning of the 70s, Sahia Studio produced a number of social investigations commissioned by the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, intended to expose the so-called "social parasitism". The decision was taken after the theses of July 1971, which provide that "one of the main objectives of political work, especially among the youth, is the firm fight against the tendencies of parasitism, of an easy life, without work, the cultivation of responsibility and the duty to work , in the service of the country, the people, the socialist society". The most famous films, made with the competition of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice, are Să treacă vara and Iarna unor pierde vară

Bullock Cart

1974 • 10 min • Brazil

Ox carts are still part of the landscapes of the Brazilian badlands, in a mixture of usefulness and poetry. Filmed in Volta Grande, in the Zona da Mata mesoregion of Minas Gerais, it was Mauro's only film in color and also his last.

The World of Ghosts

1974 • 6 min • East Germany, Germany

A six-minute DEFA short that montages lurid covers from West German sci-fi pulp—especially the Perry Rhodan series—over an electronic/musical collage (including “Glory, glory, hallelujah”) and a polemical voiceover. Framed as a warning against a U.S.-style, militarized “future,” the film critiques capitalist sci-fi imagery (spaceship battles, soldiers vs. aliens/robots) and counters with the claim that “this is not our future.”

Diamond Dogs Demo Video

1974 • 5 min • United States of America

During his stay at New York’s Pierre Hotel, David Bowie and cameraman John Dove made a short concept video for a proposed Diamond Dogs film. The video was shot in black and white with a single RCA video camera. It included a title screen, opening credits, and shot of Bowie standing among cardboard-cutout denizens of Hunger City. Although the idea of a larger (presumably) film production was dropped, this demo video offers a tantalizing glimpse of what Bowie had begun to plan.

Filmmaker's Holiday

1974 • 39 min • Netherlands

The film is put together as a collection of autonomous images which, once combined, make up van der Keuken's mental universe: family happiness, fragments of some of his earlier films, a homage to the saxophonist Ben Webster, two poems by the great contemporary poets Remco Campert and Lucebert, a portrait of the director's grandfather, who taught him photography at the age of twelve... 
"One of those small masterpieces one encounters by surprise..." Jean-Paul Fargier, Cahiers du Cinéma, 1975

It's Snow

1974 • 5 min • Canada

Colour cut-out animation inspired by the shape of snowflakes and touched with the airy magic of these fragile designs. While music tinkles invitingly, snowflakes roll and whirl, pulse and glitter, shining with the many hues of twinkling lights. Made without words, this is a joyous film to please the fancy and captivate eye and ear.

How the Lion Cub and the Turtle Sang a Song

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The Tortoise composed a song and the Lion cub learnt it by heart and they sang it together.

From the Window

1974 • 10 min • Japan

The image captured by moving the camera left and right moves left and right on the screen. The screen was then re-shot by moving the camera left and right. When the image movement and the camera movement are in the same direction, there is no movement, and when they are in the opposite directions, the movement accelerates.

The Best Musical in the World: Ingmar Bergman on 'The Magic Flute'

1974 • 29 min • Sweden

An interview with film director Ingmar Bergman, conducted by journalist Sigvard Hammar, originally broadcast on Swedish television.

37-73

1974 • 56 min • United States of America

As powerful and complex as is AKRAN, 37-73 is more taut, richer in associative meaning .... 37-73 is about dreams, about memory and its associations with nightmare and magic.

The Mischievous Boy

1974 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

An episode from a series of fairy tales tells the story of correcting the behavior of a mischievous and devilish boy. When the boy gets glued to a bucket, he finally understands how he's harmed the animals in the yard and woods.

A Boy Named Panayotis

1974 • 30 min • Cyprus

The true story of a young boy who was one of 250,000 victims of the invasion and illegal occupation of Cyprus that began on July 20, 1974 and continues to this day.

Tale About The Apple Tree

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A great apple tree bloomed and gave its fruits to everyone. Its branches bent by liquid ripe fruits, which were thankfully thwarted by passers-by. But once a greedy man fenced the tree off from outsiders, boldly making it its own. The built stone fence reached the very top of the apple tree blocking the light, birds, and people...