All Films

Mr. Axelford's Angel

1974 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A romantic tale of a scatty secretary and a stuffy boss.

Film Feedback

1974 • 15 min

Negative image is shot from a small rear-projection screen, the film comes out of the camera continuously (in the dark room) and is immediately processed, dried, and projected on the screen.

How Pertef and Leonida Loved Each Other

1974 • 47 min • Yugoslavia

Macedonian TV drama.

Wolf Pack

1974 • 20 min • Canada

This nature film closely observes wolves through late winter into early spring. Wolf Pack shows this creature’s character, behaviour and life cycle. What emerges is a portrait of the wolf as a disciplined hunter, respected leader and committed parent.

Pan 700

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

A series of ghost-like vehicles drive by.

The Fable of He and She

1974 • 11 min • United States of America

The animated story of the Hardibars and Mushamels—whimsical clay creatures who discover that gender stereotypes are not always accurate or useful.

Uenuku

1974 • 37 min • New Zealand

Tells the Māori legend of Uenuku and his affair with the mist maiden Hinepūkohurangi. A story of love, betrayal, and rainbow redemption. Filmed at the Waimarama base.

The Pony Runs in Circles

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The story is about a hard work days of sweet and beloved Tumblepony.

Shokee, the Everglades Panther

1974 • 49 min • United States of America

A Seminole boy spending the summer alone in the Everglades as a rite of passage helps a lost panther cub survive, but the village does not welcome him when he follows the boy home. The boy has to steal an airboat to take the panther deep into the swamp.

The Paradox of Norval Morrisseau

1974 • 28 min • Canada

In this revealing study of Norval Morrisseau, filmed as he works among the lakes and woodlands of his ancestors, we see a remarkable Indigenous artist who emerged from a life of obscurity in the North American bush to become one of Canada's most renowned painters. Morrisseau the man is much like his paintings: vital and passionate, torn between his Ojibway heritage and the influences of the white man's world.

Have a nice day

1974 • 27 min

8mm film by Akira Hoshino.

How Do You Speak, Brother?

1974 • 52 min • Italy

A parody of Manzoni's canonical 19th-century novel "I promessi sposi" (The Bethroded) from the point of view of the villain Don Rodrigo, who, however, in this upended version of the story is the victim rather than the perpretator of the violence.

Monos

1974 • 18 min

A day in the life of a young immigrant teenager.

Sisyphus

1974 • 3 min • Hungary

The film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented in a single, unbroken shot, consisting of a dynamic line drawing of Sisyphus, the stone, and the mountainside.

Straits of Magellan: "Drafts and Fragments"

1974 • 51 min • United States of America

A sampling of forty-nine fragments from Frampton's catalogue of 'actualities', the films from STRAITS OF MAGELLAN: "DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS" are all silent and unedited. Several invoke, directly, the work of the Lumieres, as in Frampton's reworking of DEMOLITION D'UN MUR (1895) in which a dilapidated farm silo is demolished in place of the Lumieres' wall. He makes reference to his own work and plays homage to the work of contemporaries. A complex range of formal issues are raised in other fragments. Finally, Frampton offers a number of analogues for the act of filming and cinematic seeing that includes a series of appropriated 'lenses' ( a stone portal, a wooden silo) and a set of 'screens' a pool of water, curtains, a dusty window).

Behind the Rent Strike

1974 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Kirby, on the outskirts of Liverpool, England, October 1972. A chronicle of the fourteen-month strike by thousands of tenants to protest against the £1 increase in council house rents due to the Housing Finance Act.

Who Shot Alexander Hamilton

1974 • 60 min • United States of America

A portrait of the Watergate Congress at work

The Devil's Triangle

1974 • 52 min • United States of America

A documentary exploring the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle, an area of the ocean between Bermuda, Miami and Cuba into which many boats and planes have mysteriously disappeared over the years.

Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho

1974 • 32 min

X

1974 • 3 min • Brazil

This film brings together blood, skin, and an eye as elements to be glimpsed in detail.

Meeting with the Mona Lisa

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About the exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Mona Lisa" at the A. S. Pushkin Museum.

Algeria 1954, The Revolt Of A Colonized

1974 • 13 min • France

This film presents the point of view of an Arab from Algeria who rebels against colonization. He analyzes the process of awareness, the transition to revolt, to armed insurrection. Algeria and the settlers are seen through this lens and not the way a Frenchman saw the country. He gives voice to the Arabs at a time when this word was not heard: sometimes it was not even produced, at least publicly. The testimonies are based on real propositions, most of them were made to the author during his stay in Algeria from 1948 to 1956, then in 1958 and 1959. The comments are borrowed from the texts of Arab theorists of the revolution Algerian. This film thus completely evacuates the point of view of those who are not insurgents; he does not give the opinion of the colonists. It is the direct expression of what was the revolt of a colonized person: it thus constitutes the very type of the historical document.

A Subhistory of Film

1974 • 2 min • Austria

All of the photos in Eine Subgeschichte des Films (A Sub-history of Film) by Scheugl/Schmidt (Suhrkamp edition 471) one after another, cut inside in the camera using the same scheme as in Gesammelt von Wendy (Collected by Wendy): each therefore 7, 5, 3, 1 frame(s) long. The film of films. (E.S.jr.)

Jaula de todos

1974 • 14 min • Spain

The story of a couple whose relationship is falling apart, with voiceover by two of their friends.