All Films

Moutier-d'Ahun

1974 • 11 min

Experimental documentary that takes its source on the banks of the Creuse and we discover the baroque sculptures of the abbey in a fantastic atmosphere.

A Kiss of Death

1974 • 9 min

A film by Toney W. Merritt.

Shut Up Barbie

1974 • 14 min

The film is a reaction to the obsession a seven-year-old girl has with her many Barbie Dolls. The world of Barbie is pushed to its innocuous and tragic conclusions. Ann Knutson plays the role of the mother. "Shut Up Barbie" was pixilated in Tiburon, Ca.

Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells ‎– Messin' With The Blues

1974 • 50 min

Electric Blues, Chicago Blues

Apalachee

1974 • 13 min • United States of America

Apalachee is a beautifully impressionistic study of a couple interacting with the foliage of the forest and the water of the stream. They touch and embrace each other, "neither making love nor not making love."

Judith

1974 • 11 min • Norway

A young girl perishes in a life of drug use

Isolation

1974 • 5 min • United States of America

"I feel that some of the silent pieces might be seen as visual music. Perhaps a bit pretentious to say that, but such pieces as ISOLATION are something of the sort. This is a film that every time I see it I want to re-edit it, just for fun. Its like a jazz improv, and could be different during the next set – the rhythms, the pauses, perhaps with longer passages and variations in visual tonality, theme and variation, recapitulations – all sorts of musical terms might be applied. There is no real narrative development here. The film suggests that a boy in a rowboat sees glimpses of the world around him. The boy whose image you see is our son, Darmon, and long ago I was a similar boy as well." –Abbott Meader

Phonoptic

1974 • 8 min • Canada

Roll 'em Lola

1974 • 5 min • United States of America

A short animated feature which Fred Burns created with 2,000 inked, painted, and photographed images.

Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)

1974 • 20 min

Filmmakers Tom Palazzolo, Jeff Kreines, and Bernie Caputo attend the annual Chicago Senior Citizens Picnic hosted by the Democratic Party. Shot in the style of direct cinema, they spend the afternoon in a Chicago park following the seniors as they have a musical revue, hula dance, listen to speeches, play organized games and generally seem to have an all around fabulous time.

Babalorixá Mário Miranda, Maria Aparecida no Carnaval

1974 • 29 min • Brazil

An interview with Babalorixá Mário Miranda, a black religious leader in recife, Brazil, who enjoys carnival dressed as a woman.

Right to the city

1974 • 25 min • France

Lefebvre's Le Droit à la Ville as visualised by Jean-Louis Bertucelli

Full Circle: The Work of Doris Chase

1974 • 15 min

A documentary focusing on Doris Chase's creative process. A pioneering filmmaker of expanded cinema and early computer technology.

Caminhos da Liberdade

1974 • 45 min • Portugal

Documentary about the Portuguese Revolution of April 25th, 1974 which focuses on events like the siege of the Carmo quarters and the release of the political prisoners at Forte de Caxias.

City Pasture

1974 • 38 min

A snow storm – Disney World – self important New York – ox-pull in Maine – a special old man – strip tease – an ant in the woods –wild 14th street – a mugging survived – the end.

Ladies Wear the Blue

1974 • 29 min

A documentary short about women in the U.S. Navy.

Sidi Family Christmas

1974 • 7 min

Not surprisingly, this is not your usual amateur movie of a family at home at Christmas from Leeds’ most inventive amateur filmmaker, Alan Sidi. Here Alan both introduces and postscripts his film in his characteristic relaxed manner, with a liqueur and sherry in hand. This is a family that has got Christmas off pat, with all the usual trappings, making it a highly civilised affair.

Mobile Lab...Any Questions?

1974 • 7 min

Describes the curriculum of a mobile science laboratory traveling from high school to high school in Washington, DC. Shows how the program demonstrates that science is relevant to urban living.

Talking To Your Teenager About VD

1974 • 20 min

Shows parents effective ways of communicating with their children. Includes teenagers discussing communications with adults in general and the subject of VD in particular. Features a leading public health official who presents information about venereal disease. Half of the film is an encounter group with teenagers talking about how they can't communicate with their parents. The other half is interspliced interview with a doctor who describes VD transmission, symptoms, treatment.

Double Feature

1974 • 7 min

16mm fim transfered to digital video disc

Industriearbeiter in Deutschland – Industriearbeiter in Brasilien

1974 • 25 min • Brazil, Germany

A parallel of the life and work of two Volkswagen workers, one in Brazil and the other in Germany, who perform identical functions in assembling the VW Beetle.

At Santa Monica 1

1974 • 6 min

A woman’s image as a mind-scape, after she had plastic surgery.

O Sidarta

1974 • 11 min • Belgium

Short documentary about the creative process of the French illustrator and writer Philippe Druillet, best known for his comic book series Lone Sloane and co-founding Les Humanoïdes Associés and Métal Hurlant magazine.

Excavation

1974 • 5 min • United States of America

Excavation demonstrates James Cagle’s engagement with structural filmmaking. More specifically it's an example of a "flicker film". Composed of both still photographs and live footage, Excavation employs extremely short-shot juxtapositions to create disorienting collisions of imagery.  For Cagle, this film symbolized a personal exploration of, in his words, “techniques and ideas that have accumulated over the years, but had been without expression for one reason or another.” A dynamic visualization of his thoughts, it “excavates” both the private workings of his inner world, and also the material components of filmmaking.