All Films

Intern

1974 • 21 min • Soviet Union

Sasha Kazarinov, an oil college student, is undergoing an internship at one of the drilling rigs in the northern taiga. At first, his relationship with drilling foreman Leushin did not work out. Leushin does not trust the city boy and does not put Sasha on the winch, although it is the topic of his thesis. But gradually, with his diligence, the intern wins the trust of the master.

Claude Gauvreau - Poète

1974 • 57 min • Canada

A moving documentary about a poet not far from being a legend.

I'm Painting a Red Forest

1974 • 16 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale for little ones about the adventures of a kitten artist.

Mirror

1974 • 5 min

Then the sun begins to set in the mirror and the entire screen erupts in violent explosions of orange lens flares. Slowly the background sky goes black leaving only the mirror to show twilight. Then everything is dark. This piece is similar to Hand Held Day. The endurance aspect is especially important because I am entirely visible.

Harriet At Butlins

1974 • 27 min

Documentary about Butlins

Chornobyl Nuclear Station

1974 • 11 min • Soviet Union

A documentary film about the construction of the first atomic power station in Soviet Ukraine in Chornobyl. In the film, schoolchildren, public servants and inhabitants of villages of the Chornobyl region try to answer the question "What is the atom?" Their naive and unsure answers illustrate the vague but decidedly trusting perception of the atomic phenomena. In Soviet cinema of the 1970s, the "production of drama" is popular, a genre in which factory or office routines are presented in a romantic light. The film uses all of these new aesthetic trends in a documentary approach. The ambitious construction plans of the power station are shown through a number of personal stories, one of them is about an engineer's dream of a river port in the "atomohrad", and river shuttles which will travel from Pripiat to Kyiv.

Niagara Gorge

1974 • 8 min • United States of America

A filmed "landscape bodydwelling" by Charles Simonds.

Situation

1974 • 11 min • Japan

A static image of a rock next to a curb is overlaid with the deformed reflection of light and shadows from pedestrian and vehicular traffic. An alternatively whispy and shrill, irregular slide whistle soundtrack is occasionally punctuated by a male voice saying "this is," culminating in an insistent string of "this is, this is, this is." Once the soundtrack falls silent, the camera begins to haltingly zoom out, revealing the reflection to have been caused by the slick surface of the glossy photo of the curb, and the picture itself to have been one of a series of photos of urban details placed in a grid in an exhibition space.

España de los contrastes

1974 • 39 min • Spain

A luminous journey through Spain in search of the sun and the many commonalities and differences that for millennia have united and divided the inhabitants of that land of many landscapes, many cultures and many ideas.

Harambee: Pull Together

1974 • 19 min

Harambee is a traditional Swahili chant meaning heave-ho or pull together the slogan for a united Kenya. Harambee Day or Independence Day is celebrated in this small town in North Kenya with political speeches and an auction at the native school. The film shows how North Kenya- isolated for years- tries to adapt to the new concept of nationhood. Government officials from South Kenya are appointed as ambassadors to spread the idea of national unity to a people unaccustomed to it.

Green Willow for Delaware

1974 • 15 min • Canada

"it continued to rain all day for some reason people started to talk about Delaware no one knew anything about it no one had been there or knew anyone from there..."

Día de México

1974 • 12 min • Mexico

During the six-year term of President Luis Echeverría, a Mexico-United States coexistence day was organized in Washington. American children and adults flocked to the cathedral, where Mexican dancers performed regional dances. It was a day of folk music, dances, Mexican crafts and food exhibitions.

Inimeste maja

1974 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Portrait film about Šarl Piel, a brigadier of builders who is demanding a lot both from himself and others and who is able to overcome the difficulties encountered at work.

Being Women in Japan: Living with the Ocean

1974 • 51 min

A part of Michishita’s two-part series Being Women in Japan, Living with the Ocean alternates between footage of men and women fisherman harvesting kelp, and interviews with both about their lives and their work.

Évolu

1974 • 7 min

Uses animation without narration to show the painting of a man's face--a face that is continuously metamorphosing into different types. The film's title indicates an artist's evolution, as well as the evolution of man in relation to society and to his innate potential.

Pointing To

1974 • 3 min

Short film.

Pieces of a Dream

1974 • 30 min

A lyrical, expressive film history of Asian Pacific Americans on the Sacramento River delta.

Le Transect

1974 • 11 min

A film by Paul-Armand Gette.

Calicula Machine

1974 • 7 min • Japan

The psychedelic short is Renzo Kinoshita's contribution to an educational children's program aired on Nippon Television.

Velvet Water

1974 • 5 min • United States of America

May 7th, 1974, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chris Burden relentlessly dunks his head in a filled-up sink, trying to breath water.

The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue

1974 • 18 min • Japan

A traditional Japanese fable telling of a kind old man, his avaricious wife and an injured sparrow. The story explores the effects of greed, friendship and jealousy on the characters.

Heraldic View

1974 • 4 min • United States of America

Short experimental film by Steina, Woody Vasulka

Tom Thumb and the Germs

1974 • 6 min

Janko Hraško is saving people from flu germs.

Blood Bones and Spirits

1974 • 38 min

A 1974 8mm documentary by Gary Seaman on spiritual practices in Taiwan ("Po Soul" ritual) where spirits of ghosts are drawn out into a ritual chair, then the bones of the person who determined to be offended are dug up, the body restored in clay, and a shaman performs other rituals to appease the spirit. 8mm film transferred to video, possibly narrated by the author. Originally from the University of Kansas film library collection.