All Films

Para qué tractores sin violines

1974 • 34 min • Costa Rica

The film gives us an idea of how the Youth Symphony Orchestra operates, which was created taking into account a young member and a future violinist named Iván, who alternates soccer with violin exercises.

Vellberg

1974 • 22 min • Germany

In addition to historical facts based on the presentation of monuments, the short film primarily points out today's lifestyles of the medieval town of Vellberg, Germany

Arrow Game

1974 • 6 min

A short documentary film by ethnographic filmmaker Tim Asch that shows young members of the Yanomamo Indian tribe sharpening their arrow-shooting skills.

Sob as pedras do chão

1974 • 23 min

Liberdade, located in the center of São Paulo, is better known as "the Japanese neighborhood". The film shows immigration, the first Japanese settlements, the daily life of the community and the relationship between tradition and cultural assimilation.

Reel Success

1974 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Amateur film about a young man who joins the Edinburgh Cine Society to improve his film-making skills, which he achieves with prizewinning success.

Till frågan om kvinnans rösträtt

1974 • 8 min

In the spring of 1939, AB Radiotjänst was hit by one of its first public storms. A woman, Astrid Kindstrand, had read the daily news for the first time.

Intermission

1974 • 2 min

A black mass spoof that entices the audience to visit the theater snack bar during intermission

White Houses

1974 • 22 min • Soviet Union

A lyrical story about builders and a pianist.

Breeze

1974 • 16 min • Japan

It was a moment in the apartment I lived in at the time. The breeze was coming in through the window every now and then. I shot the footage on 8mm film, stopped it, and reshot each frame. I changed the camera direction and zoom for each frame, so while the people's movements are continuous, the screen is cropped for each frame.

Sleep Comes

1974 • 26 min • Japan

In order to see that a sequence of photographs is a film, I made various experiments within a single uninterrupted film. This work was the starting point for my work from "Dutchman's Photographs (8mm version)" which I made after interrupting this work, to "Emotion Boat" in 1976.

Cane

1974 • 20 min • Japan

I took this photo in Uraga. I was carrying a tripod with an 8mm camera on it, so it was a selfie from behind. The tripod is always in the frame, so it has a strong presence. The film was then projected and each frame was re-shot at different zoom ratios, allowing viewers to alternate between looking at the entire screen and the center, frame by frame. In the second half, I re-photographed the screen so that the tilted landscape on the screen was returned to a horizontal position, expressing the idea that the landscape is stationary and it is the viewfinder that moves.

Rex The Detective

1974 • 9 min • Poland

Hens ask Rex to investigate the case of their missing eggs. The dog catches a fox red-handed. He follows the traces of the fugitive. It turns out that the fox breeds chicks in its cave. Rex finds the pit and frees the chicks.

Terek the River of Friendship

1974 • 54 min • Soviet Union

A documentary film by North Ossetian television about how a river flowing through several republics of the North Caucasus unites people living in them. Together they build bridges, work in production, create the famous Tersko-Kuma irrigation canal, and a state farm where grapes are grown.… This is a film about the friendship of many generations of peoples inhabiting the shores of the buiny Terek, and about the benefits that the river gives to man.

Valentina Tereshkova

1974 • 31 min • Soviet Union

Valentina Tereshkova's journey from a peasant girl to the first woman in space. After factory work and technical studies, her parachuting hobby led to joining the cosmonaut program, making her a Soviet hero.

Fernando21

1974 • 21 min • Cuba, United States of America

The graffiti covered walls and trains of the New York City subway, superimposed on the images of a woman ultimately claimed by the graffiti artists.

What Are You Doing Tonight?

1974 • 19 min • Soviet Union

About mass forms of youth recreation. The object of the film was one of the evenings of rest in a working dormitory.

Isolation ist transparent

1974 • 39 min

"Isolation ist Transparent" manifested the concept of my video performance work. The video camera hung from the ceiling and transmitted the action from above into the auditorium, which was separated by a transparent wall. The audience saw me acting and, at the same time, they saw the camera's video recording from above. From a perspective they certainly couldn't capture in person – two simultaneous and different views of one action. I maintained this concept for my performance actions until the early 1980s. https://www.ulrike-rosenbach.de/lebenslauf/texte/videokunst-und-performance-aktion-im-werk-von-ulrike-rosenbach/

Police Attack — People Fight Back

1974 • 17 min • United States of America

Activist documentary by the Atlanta Anti-Repression Coalition on Black resistance to police violence. Includes footage of police beating striking meat-packing workers in Atlanta in 1971, the police killing of Brandon Gibson in 1974 and protests in its wake, and South Boston school busing desegregation. The narrators call on progressive white and working people to join with Black people in revolutionary resistance to the ruling class.

Adopción

1974 • 5 min • Argentina

Documentary short about the adoption process and its benefits to society.

ACE Number 5

1974 • 8 min

The one called ACE Number 5 was the first, made when I was a grad student at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was the breakthrough which led to the rest of them. -Bruce Wood

The Good Photo

1974 • 15 min • Iran

A young photographer who took a picture of a father and son returns to them to give them the photo, only to find the son alone.

The Quiet Land

1974 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A rare portrait of Northern Ireland in a time of conflict as "a land where the pace of life is more friendly, where everybody cares and nobody minds". Travel from dawn until dusk and delight in the rhythms of nature and traditional crafts. The only hint of dispute is an architectural battle between a classical husband and gothic wife, giving birth to Castle Ward.

Pan 1

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

A pendulum swings by until it comes to a complete stop.

The Great Canadian Puberty Rite

1974 • 21 min • Canada

This lyrical film diary chronicles a westward “pilgrimage” Stephen made, together with her partner John Cressey, at the end of her studies in Montreal, in the summer of ’74. As she contemplates the impetus for the journey, her camera surveys a variety of side-of-the-road attractions, snowy mountain vistas, and grassy knolls studded with cheerful fellow roadtrippers.