All Films

Flanagan

1974 • 11 min

Flanagan is an early film by Thaddeus O’Sullivan, devised when he was a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art.

Naughty Words

1974 • 2 min • United States of America

Naughty Words is a 3 min experimental film by Curt McDowell, covering the gamut of cinematic profanity.

Tiger on a Tight Leash

1974 • 7 min

Cathy, mother of three, is a university department head in a Maritime city. She speaks of the insecurity she experiences because of unpredictable day care arrangements, and of the reflection of the same difficulty in the work of her married students. 'They don't work as creatively as they could.' Part of the Working Mothers series produced by Kathleen Shannon as part of the Challenge for Change program at the National Film Board of Canada.

Vándorünnep – Emlékezés Hemingway-re

1974 • 32 min

With this 32-minute short film, based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published book A Moveable Feast, György Fehér commemorated the author, who died 75 years ago. In the film, Tamás Cseh - one of his earliest film appearances - sings live the lyrics of the song, which are only sung in this film. This was the first time György Fehér and he worked together.

Put Yourself in My Place

1974 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Comedy about bourgeois marriage dream as perpetuated by the media, and the result when a husband and wife change roles.

The Newest City in the World

1974 • 52 min • Albania

Little Fatmir, whose parents have worked in a construction site, dreams of building himself a town. In his efforts to make his dream a reality, the kindergarten teacher and a workman who brings in working tools for all his friends, assist him. Within the courtyard of a kindergarten, the newest town in the world is thus erected, where children's dreams and characters are revealed.

Problems of Living

1974 • 27 min • Canada

Is it possible to live a life without constant battle? To really understand this you have to see what your life is. Don't escape from it, just watch. In the very act of attention the struggle comes to an end.

A Song for Dead Warriors

1974 • 25 min • United States of America

A Song for Dead Warriors examines the reasons for the Wounded Knee occupation in the spring of 1973 by Oglala Sioux Indians and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM). The film captures the conflict between AIM, the Sioux militants, the government’s Bureau of Indian Affairs and those allied with the US government.

TV Garden

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

TV Garden is Paik’s imagined future landscape where technology is an integral part of the natural world. Placing television sets amongst live plants, he creates an environment in which the seemingly distinct realms of electronics and nature coexist. His approach follows the Buddhist philosophy that everything is interdependent. It also suggests that technology is not in conflict with nature but an extension of the human realm.

Only for Adults III

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About the peculiarities of keeping children in summer camps.

Male masturbation

1974 • 5 min • United States of America

Very short educational film made for exclusively educational purposes. The film illustrates male masturbation from the beginning to ejaculation. A production of MEDIA SERVICES HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SUNY - STONY BROOK.

Tomorrow's Merseysiders

1974 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Life in Merseyside, showing the role of the region's two newspapers, the Liverpool Daily Post and the Echo. The story of the production of the newspapers is interwoven into the lives of the Merseysiders.

TV Buddha

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

One of Nam June Paik’s most iconic works, TV Buddha expresses the contrasts and parallels between East and West and between technology and spirituality in a very simple and direct way. A CCTV camera films a Buddha statue, which Paik bought from an antique store. Its static, silent image appears live on a round TV set, inspired by popular sci-fi imagery. Here the Buddha is both the viewer and the viewed image, mirroring our own experience as mass media consumers.

A Circle in the Fire

1974 • 50 min

When two scrappy boys show up at Mrs. Cope's farm, she doesn't quite know what to do.Only boys, how much damage can they do? When Mrs. Cope finally tells the boys they must leave, they hide and then in a fit of anger set fire to her woods.

Ослик-огородник

1974 • 13 min • Soviet Union

The Virgin Sacrifice

1974 • 9 min • United States of America

“Before ‘Virgin’, I never put much stock in the idea of a ‘cursed’ production. Take a film like ‘Incubus’. Just cause the director’s nephew died, the production company went belly up, and Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate attended the premiere....Those could all just be coincidences. Shit happens. But with ‘Virgin’, you could just smell the vapor of evil clouding the set. It didn’t help that our chief investor was a ranking member of the Church of Satan. In the end, we tallied three OD’s, a maimed-for-life set designer, bankruptcy, and a car bombing (sort of). Even the film itself disappeared. Not just the prints. The film lab burnt down and we lost the negative. All I’ve got left is the nine minute opening to the main feature and the sound-sync is fucked.” —JXW

Shameless

1974 • 13 min

Cut-out puppet animation. Not recommended for gentle sensibilities.

New England Our Way

1974 • 51 min • United States of America

The program is a fascinating look some at the key people involved with JAWS before it was released. It contains interviews with the “big three” of Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw, Steven Spielberg, and Martha’s Vineyard local Craig Kingsbury, who played Ben Gardner.

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

1974 • 37 min • United Kingdom

The Reverend Justin Somerton, a scholar of medieval history, and his protégé Lord Peter Dattering are visiting an abbey library. While studying a stained glass window, they uncover clues leading to a treasure hidden by a disgraced abbot.

Deviled Yeggs

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

A take off on The Godfather with canines in the roles of the Corleone family.

Trial by Jury

1974 • 35 min • United Kingdom

Set around a classic case of broken vows – the defendant having literally left the claimant at the altar – the trial bubbles over with emotion, humour, and downright chaos, leaving the jury divided.

Spring

1974 • 47 min • Soviet Union

Nurse Aigerim fell in love with herdsman Ablai, a kind and brave man... It was these qualities that helped Ablai defend his love and win a moral victory over his rival, the handsome Baranbai.

Farewell, Inesa!

1974 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A popular actor, Alonso plays the role of a noble knight on stage, but in real life, in the face of hooligans, he turns out to be a coward.

The Walls of Sana'a

1974 • 16 min • Italy

The capital of Yemen, the city of Sana'a, holds an important part of history within its walls filled with medieval architecture and culture. But that same culture was about to disappear with the country's modernization which came after the civil war in the 1960's. To impeach such modern invasion, director Pasolini pledges to UNESCO for the recognition of Sana'a as a World Heritage Site.