All Films

Trois exercices sur l'écran d'épingles d'Alexeieff

1974 • 5 min • Canada

Animated short film made in three parts on the pin screen by Alexeieff-Parker. With these three exercises, director Jacques Drouin experiments with the play of light and shadow alone. Original, this experience presents us with a reality that is not truncated although it may appear as follows: the faculty of wonder will be able to create the necessary link between everyday life and the way it was rendered.

From A to B and back to A

1974 • 7 min

Wasko analyses the relationship between space, sound (the microphone), and image (the camera). In this film/performance, the viewer becomes an active participant of the projection by making it possible to translocate sound from the visible space to the invisible space, and back.

La fiancée

1974 • 26 min • France

In an Afghan village, a young Moslem girl gets ready for her wedding.

Ars moriendi

1974 • 13 min • Italy

My video work Ars Moriendi from 1974 came to my mind during a night with a strong storm charged with electricity. Electric discharges and continuous thunder, flashes of lightning in the short term. In the video performance, the electric wire in which I was wrapped was connected to a button that I held in my fist, thus causing the light to turn on and off.

April Carnations

1974 • 28 min

Early in the morning on April 25, 1974 Ricardo Costa is awoken with a phone call from his friend Ilidio Ribeiro, his partner in publishing activities, announcing that a revolutionary coup was just taking place and that he would soon pick him up with his car. Costa owns a Paillard-Bolex 16mm movie camera, running with a manual wound spring motor. He has two color Eastman 120 meters (390 feet) rolls stored in the frig. Their publishing house, MONDAR editores, has in press a book with drawings by the French humorist Maurice Sinet (Siné), entitled CIA.[1] The publishers are watched by the police, the PIDE/DGS, since their books disturb good order and subvert the rules of the fascist regime which has been governing Portugal for about fifty years.

Remous

1974 • 4 min • France

Corpulent, proud and devastating machines... here, mountains are moved.

Super Broccoli

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

Public information film about healthy eating.

Video Inn Feedback

1974 • 12 min

In the unauthored Video Inn Feedback, members of Video Inn explore the cosmic, seemingly limitless potentials of a camera and a monitor, pushing legible images into abstract plays of light and shape.

Against video

1974 • 6 min

This video is the first in the trilogy The Cologne Tapes, which Davis made in Cologne in 1974, and which was realized in cooperation with the Lijnbaancentrum. On the pavement somewhere on a street, a video camera lies on a light cushion. It lies there staring invitingly at the passers-by.

Wiping Cloth

1974 • 2 min • South Korea

Single-channel video, no sound, 2 min 7 sec

Lúcia e Conceição

1974 • 25 min

The Steel-Work in the Cybernetic Era

1974 • 10 min

" The electronic computer - with its many possibilities of fast data processing - is not strictly used in scientific and economic fields anymore, it now plays a direct part in the production process. Filmed at the Galați Steel Mill, the film shows the ways in which the computer conducts the production of steel, making fast decisions in as little time as possible, in raport to the variety of situations which may occur. "

Un jour comme un autre

1974 • 5 min • Switzerland

The day begins. Characters live their lives, animals theirs, a gentleman takes off his hat, a lady smokes a cigarette and the sun sets.

The Antiquated Bride

1974 • 11 min • Iran

An Iranin Film

The Sakuddei

1974 • 52 min • United Kingdom

The Sakuddei are a small and ethnically separate community living on the island of Siberut off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. Their distinctive way of life and elaborate religious ceremonies, centred on the umah (ceremonial house) are under threat from the Indonesian government which wishes to ‘civilise’ the Sakuddei. These people are also threatened by a timber company from the Philippines which has been granted a logging concession in the Sakuddei’s territory.

Creature

1974 • 3 min • United States of America

When a young man drinks a chemical compound liquid, it changes him into a creature.

Perfect Love Letter

1974 • 18 min • Belgium

Presented for the first time in 1974 outside the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Wearing a white suit, a black top hat, and a black blindfold, Byars wrote "I Love You" in the air with his right index finger. The invisible writing of the perfect love letter was performed while modifying the spatial position on several occasions.

Whazzat?

1974 • 9 min

Clay retelling of an 11th-century Arabic folk tale about six blind men

Gubecziana

1974 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

The insurrection of the Croatian peasants and the tragic end of their leader Matija Gubec is represented through paintings and sculptures.

Animation Pie

1974 • 26 min • United States of America

An educational film designed to explain the process of making an animated film, with examples of student work. You might have seen clips of it on the TV special, SPFX: SPECIAL EFFECTS - THE MAKING OF THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980).

Bike-Wise, to Be Sure

1974 • 13 min • United States of America

Bicycling from a contemporary viewpoint. Bike selection, styles, options and prices. Reviews safe riding procedures for a bicyclist. Shows how the individual can go about selecting the safest and most satisfactory bike for his personal needs. Provides specific information on how to equip, adjust, and maintain a bike for maximum safety and utility.

All That Glitters

1974 • 20 min

BBC Schools documentary about the successful British rock band The Sweet, their riches and the price of fame. Charting 24 hours in the life of a rock band that asks the question: "Is the music business really that glamorous?" The show contains live material shot on the 21st December 1973 during their legendary concert in the Rainbow Theatre, London.

Cat's Cage

1974 • 3 min • Japan

We filmed a cheetah roaming around at Tama Zoo. We projected that footage and followed the cheetah's movements on the screen with a camera. The cheetah was in a cage called a screen, so when we followed it, the darkness outside the screen came into the frame.

Dutchman’s Photographs (8mm)

1974 • 6 min • Japan

The 1976 version is the final version, but it is a reworking, with more nesting, of the version made and screened in 1974. It is the final version that I would like you to see, but I have also kept this version with less nesting, because having both seemed to assert the nature of the nesting structure.