All Films

Walkabout 1974

1974 • 24 min • Australia

Well-known Australian anthropologist CP Mountford narrates his experiences on a journey through central Australia with a group of Aboriginal people. Mountford's films are an irreplaceable ethnographic record of the life of the Pitjantjatjara people of this area, before extended contact with European culture. It records food gathering and preparation, hunting, fire making and family life as well as scenes near and on the sacred rock formation, Uluru. This film was made from unrestricted footage shot by Mountford in 1940 and 1942 for his two 1946 films, Walkabout and Tjurunga.

Tattoo

1974 • 14 min

A series of men narrate their BDSM fantasies while giving each other tattoos.

Mississippi Delta Blues

1974 • 18 min

Bill Ferris writes…”This film was originally edited by Josette Ferris and me from super-8 and 16mm footage that I shot in 1967 and 1968 in Lorman, Leland, and Clarksdale, Mississippi." A film documenting traditional blues styles in Mississippi.

Feelings: I'm Feeling Alone

1974 • 7 min

What does it mean to feel alone?

On Guard - Bunco!

1974 • 25 min

Alerts and informs the audience about criminals who prey upon the unwary through fraudulent schemes such as those dramatized.

Sonnet

1974 • 7 min

A woman stands up in front of a bay window, walks, turns her back to us, smokes a cigarette, lingers overlooking the view of trees ... She uses a reflection in the window to create a mnemonic trace. The figure weaves the embryo of a story, between surrender to ennui and waiting (for someone who does not arrive?), but the actual aim seems to capture the viewer's interest to the point where the window's mirroring effect can perform its function: here she's beyond the reach of the camera's gaze, but even there she's inaccessible yet present. Sonnet evokes sound, only to deny it. Its literary title sets the tone for a formal appraisal of the work. The expectation of regularity, of density and form that produces meaning is maintained to the extreme brevity of the work combined with its slow pace.

In the Dark

1974 • 31 min

This film came after Arbitrary Limits, and expanded the aspect of the social context of the film’s production to essentially dominate the latter half of the film, and derail the initial formal plan for filming almost completely. Although this was unlikely to have been the initial purpose, it became the narrative subtext.

The Forgetter

1974 • 6 min

A factory worker constantly forgets proper safety procedures. Part of a series of 1970s era workplace safety shorts from the National Safety Council of America.

Super huître

1974 • 20 min • Belgium

A cheeky political pamphlet.

La Opera del Mondongo

1974 • 12 min • Colombia

Elijah Pierce: Wood Carver

1974 • 18 min

Elijah Pierce was born the youngest son of a former slave on a Mississippi farm on March 5, 1892. He began carving at an early age when his father gave him his first pocketknife. As time passed, Pierce found work as a barber and began to carve wood seriously. Through his carvings Pierce told his own life story and chronicled the African-American experience.

V.W. Vitesse Women

1974 • 36 min • France

Claudine Eizykman with VITESSE WOMEN, presents a torrent, dazzling film that intersects several sequences according to various rhythms, sometimes close to the perceptive thresholds, allowing the deregulation of the senses desired by Rimbaud, opening the way to another mode of perception. —Michel Nuridsany, Le Figaro

Asnaviram

1974 • 20 min • France

Le Corbeau

1974 • 17 min • France

When the Film Gets Hot

1974 • 38 min

A film eroticized by prolonged baths in silver salts. Complete exposure of reclining bodies and their lascivious perambulations. Licentious characters in incestuous copulations of carnal metamorphoses and abnormal couplings. The transformations of their bodies in totemic visualizations of a uniquely local rite. Made up of fantastical phallic doublings and entanglements of purely fantastic flesh in dissolution. The entropy of a gymnastic grotesque. A film of smiles and happiness.

Dove incominciano le gambe

1974 • 19 min • Italy

Images of everyday life in the family for Bargellini, his wife Oriana and little Rebecca alternate with others whose meaning is less clear (the crypt of a vampire, a flower that blooms).

Petites têtes, grandes surfaces

1974 • 36 min • France

Work in a supermarket of the Paris region, in particular that of the cashiers, revealing the mechanisms of trade and class relationships.

Romantic Rebellion

1974 • 50 min

This introductory program Kenneth Clark outlines the historical background of the Romantic movement and illustrates the principles of Romantic and Classic art through the work of individual artists. Kenneth Clark's analysis brings insight into the character of the art of this period as well as into the personalities of its leading exponents.

Étude transectale de la plage

1974 • 10 min

To go from the dunes to the seaside, Gette takes on his explorer's clothes: methodically, with the rigor of the scientist, he approaches by successive leaps, regularly rhythmic, and with each bond observes lengthily. Yet these are not scientific studies, but research in the sensory field using methods that are not usually used.

Ligne continue

1974 • 8 min • Switzerland

Ligne continue is a gliding of lines, which stand out and gently overlap, the one giving way to the others - in the exchange or eventually when the film yields to a visual habit, the line stands out as speed perspective relayed by the recognition of road signs, or the strip of asphalt. A play of lines, play of references, play of the eye maintained by a continuous sonority that adheres or pulls away from the picture.

Peddlin' Safety

1974 • 14 min

Riding a bike is fun, but it is important to learn some safety rules, including hand signals, observance of traffic and riding defensively.

Grace Going Awkwardly

1974 • 15 min

Portable cinema in Rome's Campo de' Fiori neighborhood parses the gestures and flows of everyday space as people go about routines of installing, displacing, transforming, and carting away the objects that define such adaptive architectural places as street markets and parking lots.

As We Are

1974 • 29 min

A documentary about autistic children and the difficult and often trying process of their education. While attending special art classes in a small well-equipped studio, several children are seen during the delicate and inspired moments of learning self-discovery. Here the teachers meet, with great inventiveness and sensitivity, some of the special challenges posed by autistic children and achieve some moving breakthroughs.

The Art Of Cake Decorating With Norman Wilton

1974 • 29 min • United States of America

An amazingly catty Norman Wilton shows some basic cake decorating techniques.