All Films

Flesh Flows

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement] returns to itself and rushes to catch up with its successor.” (Gadassik) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

Krasner, Norman: Beloved Husband of Irma

1974 • 6 min

Norman Krasner, to all appearances an average businessman, finds himself taxed to his breaking point by a simple trip to a public restroom. Is it merely a combination of bad luck and incompetence, or has fate itself taken a hand? Will Norman even survive?

Dog

1974 • 3 min

United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

Body Tracks

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 1 min

Silueta del Laberinto (Laberinth Blood Imprint)

1974 • 3 min

United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

Ocean Bird (Washup)

1974 • 4 min

United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 4 min

Sensitométrie II

1974 • 11 min

First film made outside of pure animation, with all that it is possible to put and omit in a first film essay, which contains authoritatively - and without knowing it at the beginning - images made by others long before and not the least, with trifles that make a whole.

Tonübungsfilm

1974 • 12 min • Germany

Neumann made this film as a young lecturer with some students in the visual communication department at the Hamburg Art University. A film about the areas of application of the various microphones.

My Friends in My Address Book

1974 • 3 min • Japan

A conceptual film in which Ando has assembled plans, and duration of his friends as they are listed in the address book. This is a gallery of happy friends of the filmmaker.

Catfilm for Katy and Cynnie

1974 • 3 min • United States of America

Made for Intercat '73, Pola Chapelle's Cat Film Festival in New York. In the early 70's, a New York cat-lover and film-maker named Pola Chapelle produced a "Cat Film Fesitval:" which was shown in a large downtown NYC auditorium to an audience of more than a thousand cat-lovers. At the time, I lived with my wife Ursula and our daughters Katy and Cynnie, together with many, too many cats. I loved my family but not the cats. -SL. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A Lesson in Astronomy

1974 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A young man and a young woman spend the evening by the campfire. The girl asks about the starry sky and the photometric paradox, and the young man answers her with lyrical statements of great people about the infinity of the Universe. Frustrated, she rides off on a motorcycle with another young man.

The Tenancy Rights of Safer the Miner

1974 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

The film's subject is the distribution of workers' housing. The right of residence, which Safer Korlatovic, salt-mining champion, received, is reason enough to make a poetic document from a moment of ordinary everyday life. Short, human joys are recorded, even in the moments when the main characters are unaware of what is happening around them.

Arbitrary Limits

1974 • 30 min

Arbitrary Limits is a documentation, and a documentary, of the making of itself, a self-reflexive narrative that encompasses the relationship between film-maker and sound recordist, and their relation to the ongoing film, a commentary on the film’s production, and the gradual exposition, through asides, and partial explanations through the film, of what the film set-up, and its eventual notional outcome should be.

Palmistry

1974 • 10 min • United States of America

a) a fat girl singing about not wanting to get thin just to please men. b) the first time for her and him. c) at the fortune-teller. A confrontation of horrible science and horrible superstition.

The Hothead

1974 • 6 min

A welder has an explosive temper. Part of a series of 1970s era workplace safety shorts from the National Safety Council of America.

Zöglinge

1974 • 37 min • East Germany, Germany

The documentary focuses on a children's home in East Berlin. In 1953, the largest children's home in the GDR was established in Königsheide. Initially built to house war orphans, the educational institution quickly became the GDR's model home and was given the name "Kinderkombinat A.S. Makarenko." From the mid-1960s onwards, "state children" were to be raised here according to the slogan "Ideal home in an ideal state."

Black and Light

1974 • 8 min • Canada

This film was directly produced on a diverted computer without the involvement of any film equipment. Originally, this film was not in black and white, but in absolute black and full light. Indeed, initially, the screenings were only made with originals in which absolute black was achieved through the use of a totally opaque tape, while absolute white was generated by computer perforation (thus allowing all the light to pass through without the slightest opacity of film material). This film is not the transcription of a movement, but a succession of constructed composite facts which the projection device translates for the eye into impression of movements. It does not refer to any external reality, but is meant to be its own reality.

Tree

1974 • 4 min

The camera was placed on the flexible branch of a tree in a strong wind. The composition included both stationary and moving trees (a wooded landscape). The relationship of this landscape to the vertical and horizontal plane was maintained as much as possible. The camera ran continuously until all the film was exposed. The world is seen from the point of view of a tree as its branches sway to the rhythm of the wind.

Corduroy

1974 • 3 min • United States of America

Abstract direct animation film made by JoAnn Elam.

F2

1974 • 45 min • France

Spirals

1974 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A film made without a camera in which both image and sound are the result of the same chemical process. Raw film was spooled onto a spiral and partially submerged in developer, so that only half the film is developed, leaving the trace of a time spiral in the image and (optical) sound. The film can be projected in either direction. Outwards, from the centre of the spiral, we hear a decelerating sound like someone regaining their breath. G.S.

Düsseldorf - Balanced Urban Growth

1974 • 56 min • Canada

Individualized for profit, yet harmonious in its whole, Düsseldorf has met and largely conquered the conflicting demands of economic growth and human environment.

To Be Aware of Death

1974 • 14 min

Young people take a look at death and give observations and personal insights from their experiences with death in their families, school, and neighborhood.

Sun-A-Mul

1974 • 16 min

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.