All Films

Mejbi

1974 • 15 min

Animation short.

Cells and What They Do

1974 • 11 min • United States of America

Examines cells in plants and animals, explaining that each cell has a different job to do. Uses drawings and microphotography to observe the details of cell structure. Shows the process of cell division for both growth and reproduction.

The Flag of Stars

1974 • 11 min • Australia

The battle of Eureka Stockade was an event of great significance in Australian history, in which gold miners from around the world rebelled against an unfair Miners' Tax and the way in which it was administered by the colonial government. In 1973, to commemorate its 119th anniversary, the original Eureka flag was unveiled by the Prime Minister Gough Whitlam at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in Victoria. In his speech Mr Whitlam identified the Eureka Stockade with the birth of democracy in Australia and Immigration minister Al Grassby read verses by the people's poet Henry Lawson in honour of the occasion.

The Austrian Tapes

1974 • 17 min

In his video »The Austrian Tapes«, Douglas Davis examines the medium of television. It was realized for a video symposium and the exhibition »Art as Living Ritual« curated by Horst Gerhard Haberl at the P.O.O.L Gallery in Graz.

Soldiers

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

In the victorious year of 1945, the Belarusian women of the village of Vyoletovo planted birch trees in memory of those who did not return from the war. These women preserved the memory of their dear and beloved husbands—who had gone off to war still so young and never came back.

Naine täna

1974 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The film tries to make sense of the role of women in 1970s Estonia. The activities of men and women in different spheres of life are compared, the woman as a mother, caregiver and worker is examined, as well as the woman's aspirations for beauty and goodness.

Italiques: Roland Topor

1974 • 54 min • France

Roger Boussinot directed this episode of the French television show Italiques, which features an overview of the art and career of Fantastic Planet illustrator Roland Topor. It aired on August 8, 1974.

Atlantis

1974 • 9 min • Germany

Travels in Sicily, Stromboli and Vulcano

Baroque Statues

1974 • 16 min • Austria

In an associative montage statues of saints in rigid and rapt poses are cross cut with those of real actors until the two can no longer be told apart. Gradually the real bodies break away from the constraints of their wooden models through increasingly improvised dance. A successful act of liberation from (Catholic) convention, which the material celebrates in an acstasy of multiple exposures and psychedelic colors.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi/Heraklea

1974 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

The film introduces the history of one of the oldest towns in Macedonia: Heraklea Linkestis, which has been built in the IV century B.C.

Sleepers

1974 • 20 min

A succession of images, overlaying, repeating, banging together around the figure of the filmmaker who crosses his work like a conductor over his orchestra. He brillantly conducts a concerto for a pasted life in a divine future!

Brighton Belle

1974 • 12 min • France

The real life and the parallel life of two women. A delirium that results from their confusion and their expectation. The mixture of reality and imagination ending in emptiness.

Good Old-Fashioned Cartoon Violence

1974 • 2 min • United States of America

A cartoon character falls victim to various traditional pratfalls for no particular reason.

Simiterio do Adão e Eva

1974 • 20 min • Brazil

A Film for Log Hill Dogs

1974 • 2 min • United States of America

An elegant depiction of landscape and domestic space. One of two films based on David and Diana's life in their house in Colorado, which had just burned down. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Men's Lives

1974 • 43 min

A documentary film about the men in our culture: denying their fears, playing tough, performing—performing not just in order to provide, own, consume, but in order that these activities signify manliness.

Paragon's Paragon

1974 • 30 min • United States of America

Paragon's Paragon is a fan film that was initially completed in 1974 and shown at conventions. It is an unofficial adaptation of the TOS novel: Spock Must Die!, changing the identities of the ship and characters.

Canadian Pacific I

1974 • 9 min • Canada

Canadian Pacific I is made up of a series of slowly dissolved shots done from the same framing over several months. The camera frames a window with a railway yard in the foreground, a bay in the space behind it, and misty mountains in the extreme distance. Trains occasionally pass by in the foreground. Huge ships move across the bay. Blue mists hover over the mountain heads.

Interspersions

1974 • 15 min

Two girls are living and a hippy lifestyle in a country house.but soon the walls between reality and fantasy start to blend until no one is sure what’s really happening.

At Eltham, a Metaphor on Death

1974 • 24 min • Australia

Corinne Cantrill’s film At Eltham from 1974 explores her fascination with Australian landscapes and introduces her interest in playing the 16mm camera functions as a musical instrument. In an essay, Corinne notes she subtitled the film ‘A Metaphor on Death’ referring to their despair, at the time, about their future as filmmakers in Australia and their decision to leave the country temporarily.

Ultrarouge-lnfraviolet

1974 • 30 min • France

The movement in this film only consists of variations in color operating on a fixed image based on a Pissaro painting, Les Toits Rouges.

Der Turm

1974 • 10 min • Germany

Farewell to Steam

1974 • 10 min • Poland

A young man lives constantly in a fantasy world, until he starts working for a railroad company.

These Savage Cowboys

1974 • 10 min • Poland

Bill and John, two old cowboys, try to fight a duel. They are still distracted by many different things: a sneeze, a beautiful smell from the kitchen, a lady’s voice. The duel is postponed.