All Films

Cessna

1974 • 20 min • Japan

Cessna consists of a series of short takes, alternating the visual pace through the movements of subjects and camera, which reveals Nakajima's studio space and later the process of making the film.

Video Weavings

1974 • 9 min • United States of America

Video Weavings is a link between the modern (video) and the ancient (weaving) technologies. Video Weavings are based on poetic mathematical rhymes, or algorithms, visualized in real time on the warp and weft of video's horizontal and vertical scanning electron beams, color phosphors, plasma cells, and LCD pixels.

Enough for Today!

1974 • 10 min • Italy

The film expresses the difficulties artists come up against whenever they try out ‘paths’ that are outside the ‘system’. All this is represented through this project and, therefore, through the realisation and use of a tool (Il Commutatore, 1970) with which it is possible, in successive phases, to supersede the physicality of the city and to project oneself towards the ‘void’.

Anima

1974 • 9 min • United States of America

Abstract computer animation set to autoharp solo music composed and performed by Jordan Belson

Alfabet

1974 • 2 min • Poland

Moving Still

1974 • 14 min • United States of America

This film is still a close part of me. I don’t think I could make another one like this again. It deals with space on many levels within a single movement, a movement that has a circular form that involves each viewer within the film itself.

Boston Transference

1974 • 10 min

A film by Dana Gordon

James Last Live in Germany

1974 • 60 min

James Last Live in Germany (Berlin)

Healing Process

1974 • 4 min

HEALING PROCESS depicts the emotional state I was in the year following the death of my father. The images used include footage of my father as a young man, footage of him in the hospital and footage of a figure under a white sheet representing someone prepared to be wheeled off to an operating room. The sound track is the song "Au Clair de la Lune" sung in a duet. The effects is the mixture of emotions one goes through when losing someone very close. – L. K.

Lullaby

1974 • 3 min • Hungary

The sky has shut its eyes of blue, the house has shut its many eyes, the meadow sleeps with quilt up too – sleep nice now, sleep, little Balázs. An animated adaptation of the poem “Lullaby,” writtenby the poet Attila József.

The Pioneer

1974 • 5 min

Tells the story of a young man who falls overboard and seems to be the only survivor of a shipwreck. The first icelandic stop-motion film.

The Tank Hunter

1974 • 18 min • Egypt

First film directed by Khairy Bishara.

Spring Thing

1974 • 7 min

Created with an optical printer, frozen moments of budding in nature evoke the beginning of spring.

Andrea Acting Out

1974 • 11 min

"An experimental portrait of the filmmaker's ten year old daughter. Based on footage collected over a two year period, the film explores the inner and outer consciousness of the child and develops the nature of her fantasy life in abstract terms. Although the film deals with the reality of her world as shown by the documentation of sensitive relationships with her animals, it supercedes reality by creating its own rhythms and new images. Her joy and moodiness are contrasted by the superimpositions of color and black and white footage; and we are also aware of the subtle changes that have begun to take place as she matures. The free spirit of the child is revealed by the sound track based on recordings of her favorite music box layered over her interpretive zither playing and the reciting of Andrea's original poetry." - RS

Articulation

1974 • 13 min • Japan

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

Earthworks In Harmony

1974 • 32 min • Canada

Based on four ancient elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, this four-tape, multi-monitor piece was presented on sixteen monitors at the Burnaby Art Gallery’s Video Bag show and was the main installation.

Circles of Confusion

1974 • 15 min

In this film, circles of colored light (red, green, blue) pulsate and flicker as they move around the frame. Where they intersect, they display a variety of secondary colors. The term, circles of confusion belongs to the physics of the lenses. Here it has to do with the focus of light. Here it refers to the focus of mental and emotional energies as an irrational system for composing a film.

Fluides

1974 • 8 min • France

An early experiment by Dominique Belloir and Rainer Verbizh on Marcel Dupouy's Movicolor synthesizer, from footage of waves recorded a few weeks earlier from the top of a rock on the pink granite coast in Brittany: "A small research unit had been installed by Marcel Dupouy, CNAV [...] I was responsible for receiving artists or directors interested in this new electronic image synthesizer. Jean-Luc Godard was one of the first visitors..." -Belloir

Hand

1974 • 3 min • Poland

A male figure on the screen is lost in thought. He hides his head in large hands clasped in the foreground. Suddenly, one hand moves towards the viewer and grabs a small figure from the other side of the screen.

Lady Shiva, oder: “Die bezahlen nur meine Zeit

1974 • 40 min • Switzerland

Portrait of Zurich's sex worker, mother, model, singer and actress Irene Staub. Better known as Lady Shiva.

Excursion on a Bright Sunny Day

1974 • 26 min • Iran

Gholamabbas lives in a house with his father and his old cook. The father is busy with his own small business, and the child is obsessed with the old man's stories, which he listens to at night after reading the Qur'an.

A Film About Film Editing

1974 • 15 min • United States of America

A primer on the craft of editing a film workprint. Techniques used by professional editors are highlighted while examples are shown in the form of a slapstick silent comedy.

Stampedoo

1974 • 10 min

Spectacular images of international snowmobile competitions that are reserved only for expert owners of the most powerful machines.

Playing Catch and Playing Catch Again

1974 • 2 min • United States of America

Two early experiments from Ernest Gusella.