All Films

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.

The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

1974 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A project assembled to musically support William Plomer's (1903-73) book of poems called 'The Butterfly Ball and Grasshoppers Feast'; in which Alan Aldridge had provided the illustrations. British Lion had secured the rights, and commissioned Glover, through Tony Edwards (the Deep Purple manager), to add the musical dimension that it required if it were to be made into a 26-part animated cartoon series, suitable for TV. (Discogs) This is the music video for the song Love Is All, performed by Ronnie James Dio.

Ce que savait Morgan

1974 • 45 min

The Moreen family hires Pemberton to tutor young Morgan. Pemberton has no money of his own, and the social non-conformity of his employers condemns him to the impossibility of being paid. Yet an emotional relationship develops between master and pupil. Little by little, Morgan becomes an object of blackmail. Having run out of arguments, the parents give their son to his teacher. The child, abandoned by his parents, dies.

Palestinian Women

1974 • 11 min • France, Palestinian Territory

Palestinian women, the often-forgotten victims of the Israeli-Palestinian war, are here given a voice by Jocelyne Saab. The film was commissioned by Antenne 2 (France), but it was censured while still in the editing stage and never shown. This print was specially made for this retrospective by the conservation centre at Cinemateca Portuguesa.

The Magic Egg

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The films depicts how people of various character handle the magic egg.

The Breaker

1974 • 53 min • Australia

Biographical documentary about Harry "The Breaker" Morant, an Australian drover and poet who was court-martialled and executed during the Boer War.

Morning Music

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

How a wise beetle helped a grasshopper find his favorite thing.

Transform Sweden

1974 • 30 min • Sweden

This is what the filmmakers say about the film: We wanted to make a feature film about the class society Sweden. But we were not allowed by the Swedish Film Institute. At least we filmed some and cut it together into a short film. The class society is included. And a lot about the meaning of the work or lack of meaning. Because that’s what it’s about: the power over our work. That can be discussed based on this film. (Filmform)

Christo: Works in Progress

1974 • 54 min • United States of America

“Christo: Works in Progress” takes us around the world on a showcase of the artist’s grand environmental installations. With both critique and praise from members of the communities that have hosted Christo and his works, the film takes a deep look into the process and outcome of pieces such as Wrapped Coast, Running Fence, and Wrapped Walkways. While discussing his inspirations and motives, Christo states, “The work of art is not the fabric, steel poles and cable, the work of art is the hills and the ocean, the sky, the gates, the rocks, the people, the light- this is the work of art.” (Christo Vladimirov Javacheff) Though his work may appear to be visually distracting from the landscapes he creates in, Christo’s aim is to bring attention to the land itself and encourage people to take note of their surroundings.