All Films

Cross

1974 • 42 min • United Kingdom

John Du Cane’s rarely shown films are amongst the most pure and radical of their period. In Cross, he uses the drawing of a cross (made without lifting the pencil) as a model for the camera movements and a score for the film. “The films are very physical, they are polyrhythmic and they are patterned in a manner designed to create a very definite way of seeing, of experiencing ... The films are silent to the extent that there is no soundtrack ... I believe films’ light capable of creating sound ... the films are there to be listened to. They are there to be felt." (John Du Cane)

Numen Lumen

1974 • 4 min

Meditations on light and a window fan for Jerry Hiler and Nick Dorsky. "Warm regards from the West Coast -- I only wish I had seen your films much sooner than I did because we are so much closer as filmmakers than I ever could have expected." - Jerome Hiler

Woman from Kihnu

1974 • 48 min • Soviet Union

Kihnu is a small island in the Gulf of Riga. Soosaar looks at the islanders from the point of view of an explorer, just like his filmmaking hero Robert Flaherty once did. Their traditional lifestyle unfolds in front of his camera: customary songs and rituals, and heartfelt images of people’s daily lives.

São Luís

1974 • 10 min

Documentary about the capital of Maranhão.

The Boy Who Didn't Listen

1974 • 11 min • United States of America

Jimmy learns to listen

Free Inside

1974 • 12 min • United States of America

8mm/Super 8 early silent short films by the Chiodo Brothers, inspired by Ray Harryhausen, included on the 4K remastered Arrow Video Blu-ray of ‘Killer Klowns from Outer Space’

Two Sides to Every Story

1974 • 11 min

Two 16mm films are projected in a loop on a thin painted aluminum screen hanging in the middle of a room. We can hear the projectors at each end of the room, which project images on the central screen. We can see the same scene on each side of the screen: a woman, seen from the front and front back depending on the side of the screen, painting it with spray paint. A man then tears up the screen and goes through it, followed by the woman. We can see Michael Snow sitting further away, giving instructions to the woman. We can also see the cameras filming the scene from each side. Visitors in the room can walk around the screen and thus watch the scene from one angle or another. Both films are projected in synchronicity on the two sides of the screen.

Götterdämmerung

1974 • 10 min

Kuwait - Kuwait

1974 • 23 min

Documentary on various aspects of Kuwaiti life, the contrasts between a backward society that lives in the desert and a very modern society that lives in the city.

Choosing Life

1974 • 11 min

A pharmacist talks about high blood pressure. Little scenarios with customers. Mutton chop sideburns and platform shoes.

Baby Variations

1974 • 8 min

The film shows vivid close-ups of a liver with the background music of “My Baby” by Janice Joplin.

Purple Hat

1974 • 1 min • Canada

A man makes a bet with himself to stop smoking, but he can't.

You Can't Alter Facts by Filming Them Over with Dead Romances

1974 • 43 min

"It's a film about film, and therefore about everything."

Elemental

1974 • 20 min

experimental film by Dana Gordon

Lady of the Lake

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

Made by Bill and Louise Etra with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer in 1974. "A short piece of Gothic horror."

Look Again

1974 • 10 min

Look Again yes

Landscape Bodydwelling

1974 • 8 min • United States of America

Burckhardt collaborates with artist Simonds to produce a portrait of the artist as a foundation.

Breakdown

1974 • 3 min

A 360 degree pan breaks down as the narrator's memories of the house in which she sits by the fireplace breaks down.

Dervish 2

1974 • 16 min

A film by Amy Greenfield.

Apache Fire

1974 • 46 min • United States of America

This is a dramatic story set in modern times of a Native American man and his friends who run afoul of the law.

The Kidnapping

1974 • 8 min • Finland

Albert the Caterpillar and his girlfriend Albertina visit Filbert, the inventor. During a walk in the woods, Albertina disappears, kidnapped by Olfert the Crook. Filbert and Albert find Olfert’s hiding place and rescue Albertina.

Tea Spoon

1974 • 2 min

Film by Wojciech Bruszewski

Tamás Cseh: The First Photo

1974 • 37 min • Hungary

In March 1974, Hungarian television recorded a concert by Tamás Cseh and Ad Libitum as a live concert for two days (16-17) in the largest lecture hall of the Budapest University of Technology in front of a crowded student audience. The recording was made in black and white on magnetic tape by a car that drove up to the building.

Three Winters

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Poetic and heartfelt documentary about a small rural school and the life around it in Vastse-Otepää, Estonia.