All Films

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.

Film Print

1974 • 40 min • United Kingdom

The film deals with levels of reproduction. The repetitious camera movements over successive photographs are intended to function as distancing devices relatable to mechanical repetitions such as film loops. The 'subject' of the film is the material operation or, rather, it is a film in its own right and an explication of the mechanisms and technique inherent in its making. It is not a documentary of those mechanisms and techniques. Film as anonymous production, wherein (exhaustively) certain techniques are utilized, does combat with film that represents the (absent) subject, the filmmaker (forever repressed ever-present, ever-represented). Film as presentation, not re-presentation.

Dreams and Nightmares

1974 • 54 min • United States of America

A study of Spain during the years 1936-1973, focusing on the involvement of the United States in the affairs of that country.

Sandy in Disneyland

1974 • 60 min

Sandy Duncan hosts an all-star Hollywood cast as she takes us on a tour of Disneyland. But not just any tour, Sandy Performs inside It’s a Small World, The Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, and more. She finds Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. Additional performers include Ernest Borgnine, Ruth Buzzi, Ted Knight, John Davidson, Lorne Green, Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina, The Jackson Five, Doc Severinsen, Marty Ingels and Alan Sues among others.

Stella Chase

1974 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A moody, pastoral sci-fi tale about Stella Superstar and her travels across the universe. Vaseline around the camera lens and other early cinema techniques turn it into something truly beautiful.

A College Girl's Affairs

1974 • 51 min • Japan

1974 Toei movie.

Tree Over the Valley, Eaton

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

Potr' and the Girl of Water

1974 • 12 min • France

Popular tale. Through love and awkwardness, a fisherman and a mermaid try to bury their differences…

They Kill Me If I Don't Work and If I Work They Kill Me

1974 • 21 min • Argentina

Documentary on the situation of INSUD factory metalworkers, who, because of lead and poor working conditions, suffer from sickness and death by lead poisoning.

Body Politics

1974 • 3 min • Austria

Tethered to one another by a rope, two figures standing on parallel escalators perform five ways of being together—“against each other,” “with each other,” “to each other,” “for each other,” and “each other”—challenging expectations of how people can and should coexist in public space.

We

1974 • 3 min • Canada

In a world where communication has grown into big business, the lack of it between individuals is almost a paradox. We live in tight little compartments that are not easily penetrated. Individual differences are regarded with suspicion or scorn. This animated film parodies the human condition in a few quick, colourful sketches, amusingly, without words, yet leaving food for thought.