All Films

Dude Defending A Stare-Case

1974 • 2 min • United States of America

A feedback homage to the works of Duchamp.

The Plaint of Steve Kreines as Recorded by His Younger Brother Jeff

1974 • 47 min

Jeff Kreines shot the compassionately humorous The Plaint of Steve Kreines while still living at home with his parents and older brother, Steve, during the summer Steve got a job, bought himself a car, and moved into his first apartment.

Heidi

1974 • 3 min

A young woman sits on a bench in a baroque park. The motion of the wind in the leaves, in her hair, and also the flutter of her eyelashes, the opening of her lips, her imperceptible smile are all made visible with the absolutely static camera. A large baroque birdcage symbolizes a hopeless emotional situation. (Friedl vom Gröller)

Cartoons: It Dawn Down

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

In It Dawn Down an ordinary take-up reel spins to make colorful and delicate patterns even though the film is black and white.

Cartoons: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

1974 • 4 min • United States of America

Flickering flames viewed through air vents of a wood burning pot belly stove resemble the shutter of a film projector.

Ritratti di Rose

1974 • 7 min • Italy

Contrast between different portraits of women, between the public and the intimate.

Spartito Per Cello

1974 • 13 min

Short by Michele Sambin.

Fly

1974 • 9 min • Japan

A Threnody For The Town Of Szydłów

1974 • 10 min • Poland

The lyrical portrait of Szydłów, formerly a town and now a village in the region of Kielce, was yet another step on the filmmaker’s way in search for his own artistic focus and style.

Being Women in Japan: Liberation within My Family

1974 • 30 min

Being Women in Japan documents the recovery of Michishita’s sister from brain surgery, which hospitalized her for four months. Michishita's interest was not only in the personal struggle of her sister to regain her health, but also in how this crisis caused a major rupture in the daily life of her sister's family.

Demonstration '68

1974 • 4 min

Anti-war demonstration, 1968, New York City march to Sheep's Meadow, shows Vets against the war, Yippies, arrests, and flags of a half-forgotten revolution.

Nachtarbeiter

1974 • 13 min • East Germany, Germany

Documentary reports on night workers in the German Democratic Republic in the fall of 1973. The camera provides insights into the difficult and often bleak work during the night hours. Examples of work in a large bakery, in a police call center, in a railroad signal box, in a steel and coking plant and finally in a power station show that the city must continue to live at night. Apart from two short commentaries at the beginning and end of the documentary and a few musical sounds, the atmosphere of the workplace captured in each case is only rarely underpinned with speech.

This Is A Video Monitor

1974 • 15 min

This is a Video Monitor is an attempt to construct a wholly ‘videological ‘ experience, and is built on an initial take of a woman describing the paradox of the real and imagined functions of the monitor on which her image appears…

Aforism

1974 • 5 min • Sweden

Hedman’s first films that are preserved (the early production on Super-8 is lost) are graphic-rich audio-visual studies, eg. 'A Semiotic Study of Unlogic Figure Codification (1973, together with H.P. Andersson) and Aforism (1974). These two, as well as most of Hedman’s films, were made with the support of Filmverkstan. Hedman also came to assist several animators at Filmverkstan, among others. Lilian Domec in her early animation Höghuset. (Filmform)

The Old Man's Ice Present

1974 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Georgian Morozko tried to freeze a boy who came to the forest for firewood. But the hardworking guy passed the test, and in the end he was awarded.

Las calidades de la vida

1974 • 28 min • Spain

An industrial documentary on the Euskadiko Kutxa (Caja Laboral Popular).

I'm Feeling Happy

1974 • 8 min

Presents vignettes which illustrate situations that make people feel happy, encouraging children to talk about and understand their feelings.

Sections for Screen, Performers and Audience

1974 • 8 min

“I was always fascinated by music scores and often imagined how concerts might be changed if performers were not hidden behind music on stands. In the 1960’s, I made several films that used oscilloscope imagery and, in doing so, learned to ‘play’ various synthesizers to generate images. For this film, I used colored gels while filming and chose to optically print a few visual phrases, allowing for repeated sections. I also super-imposed hi-contrast notation over the film. So, Sections became a kind of feedback piece: sound generated the images for the score and performers created new sounds and a new piece from these images.” (Richard Lerman)

Jeux d'Ombres et de Neige dans une Forêt

1974 • 2 min

Experimental film by Jean-Pierre Bertrand.

I'm Mad at Me

1974 • 8 min

Vignettes illustrating situations in which children feel angry at themselves.

Raining

1974 • 3 min

Experimental film by Jean-Pierre Bertrand.

Murales

1974 • 25 min • Italy

Documentary film shot in October-November 1974 on the occasion of the "Freedom in Chile" event promoted by the Venice Biennale.

Bricola

1974 • 2 min • Italy

"I have always been fascinated by this strange object: a sculpture in the middle of the water." (MS)

Carrera de chasquis

1974 • 18 min • Peru

The Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Peru wanted to promote active recreation and sports activities that reclaim the past and project the country towards modernity. Thus, the Chasquis Race was organized to rescue the ancestral figure of the Inca's personal messenger who, through a system of posts, transported information throughout the Tahuantinsuyo.