All Films

Exu Mangueira

1974 • 45 min • Brazil

Synchronousoundtracks

1974 • 32 min • United States of America

Swing Shift

1974 • 5 min • United States of America

Mike’s 1974 short film Swing Shift, where a department store security guard on the night shift tries to fend off a bunch of clothes that spring to life as the clock strikes midnight. Featuring Dan Collins as the guard, and scored with Bernard Herrmann’s Oscar-winning music from The Devil & Daniel Webster (1941).

Inês

1974 • 19 min • France

Inês Etienne Romeu was an opponent to the Brazilian's dictatorship. She was kidnapped, tortured and raped in jail, where she stayed for almost 100 days. She was later sentenced to life imprisonment. She stayed ten years in prison, from 1971 to 1979. Delphine Seyrig directed this film in 1974, when Inês was still in prison, protesting against this imprisonment and in support to Inês.

The Dracula Business

1974 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Dan Farson, the great nephew of Bram Stoker, travels to Transylvania to investigate the facts, the legend and the business interests which surround Dracula.

Leaps to Dance, Loves to Sing

1974 • 11 min • Soviet Union

The director shows us an unofficial Lithuania, an indestructible village, old traditions and impressive faces. In the films of Shablevičius, the village, the land, the lonely tree standing outside are often filmed in winter, when everything gets the shade of a fairy tale and a miracle, and a rider on the road brings an unexpected message. The old mythical rural worldview seems to come alive in the eyes of the audience.

The Bridle On The Neck

1974 • 15 min • Italy

Roman township of San Basilio: Fabio, 7 years old, in Italian a "character", is assigned to a differential class. How the family reacts, what the neighbors say, what the teachers, the principal, the psychologist of the elementary school think: the doubt is that there is no re-education of a child at stake, but the green light for social homologation.

Untitled Silueta

1974 • 2 min • United States of America

A film by Ana Mendieta

IV International Film Festival

1974 • 11 min • Mexico

In 1974, the Cine Roble housed the International Film Festival. In this excerpt, the actors Enrique Novi and Sonia Furió offer their opinion on this special event while the public overflows with the passions provoked by the seventh art.

Text Door

1974 • 3 min

The language of the door that this film captures is the result of a Latin-written text being translated into a material alphabet composed of the angle and direction of movement of the creaking door.

Les Palestiniens continuent

1974 • 22 min

Although peace has been declared, the Palestinians continue to fight Israel for the liberation of their territories.

Oblivion Way

1974 • 15 min • Canada

A film by Kai Oka

Anor

1974 • 15 min • Soviet Union

...Pre-revolutionary Turkestan. The hardships and deprivations endured by the laborers — Turab and his wife — whose lives passed in joyless and oppressive toil.

African Carving: A Dogon Kanaga Mask

1974 • 19 min

The Kanaga mask is used in deeply sacred rituals by the Dogon people of Mali. Carving this mask is as important a ritual as the ceremonies in which the mask is used. The carver, a blacksmith, finds the proper tree and, in a secret cave outside the village, he shapes the mask with gestures which repeat the movement of the dancers who will wear it. When a dancer wears the Kanaga mask he becomes the Creator symbolically. He touches the ground with his mask and directs a soul to Heaven. Although these dances are now frequently performed for the public, the meaning of Kanaga is retained by the Dogon who fear, respect and depend on the power of the mask.

We Can Only Help Ourselves

1974 • 50 min • Germany

Gardi Deppe’s film follows women completing a six-week course of treatment in a health clinic (unique in West Germany at the time) for ‘working girls and women between the ages of 15 and 21.’ The film shows striking differences between the perception of the patients and the approach of the clinic and its exclusively male doctors. The women attribute their health problems to social and labour policies. The health clinic responds with medication, sports programs and occupational therapy. The film underlines the need for self-organization and ends with the realization that these women must develop their own strategies.

Agua Salada

1974 • 10 min • Peru

Agua Salada is born from a dream, where a fish speaks and a cave is the scene of the drama of Passion.

They Do Not Exist

1974 • 25 min • Palestinian Territory

Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his "Ici et Ailleurs" ("Here and Elsewhere") - this film was shot on the same 16mm camera - and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. "They Do Not Exist" is a stylistically unique work which explodes at the intersection between the political and the aesthetic.

Summer Solstice

1974 • 33 min

"The operations that dislocate a film like Summer Solstice– I hope irreparably– from being a movie about the locomotion and eating habits of cows, a dairy farm document, or what have you, are finally of a whole lot less concern to me than the following things: how it looks, the sense that probably it was done deliberately, the pleasure or displeasure– the intrigue, possibly– of attempting to retrieve the manner in which it was done while one is watching." -HF

Pokol - Inferno

1974 • 56 min

Dante goes down to Hell with the guard of Vergilius.

Baton Lounge

1974 • 16 min

Footage documenting a toy drive – “Toys for Tots” – held at a leather bar / motorcycle club in Chicago, called the Baton Lounge. The club was originally located at 436 N. Clark St., but moved to 4713 N. Broadway in 2019. The owner is Illinois native Jim Flint, who along with Irv Kupcinet helped to inaugurate the club’s most well-known tradition, “The Top of the Nation Revue,” which popularized the art of female impersonation and lip syncing – some of which can be seen in this film.

Propaganda Message

1974 • 14 min • Canada

A cartoon film about the whole heterogeneous mixture of Canada and Canadians, and the way the invisible adhesive called federalism makes it all cling together. That the dissenting voices are many is made amply evident, in English and French. But this animated message also shows that Canadians can laugh at themselves and work out their problems objectively.

Pispisa-khanum and Mouse-bey

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The animation was based on Abdulla Shaig's "Tig-tig khanum" fairytale published in 1910.

J. Roy: New and Used Furniture

1974 • 11 min • United States of America

Buba introduces us to a Braddock entrepreneur who has failed at twelve businesses and is busy teaching would-be entrepreneurs self-confidence.

C-Trend

1974 • 8 min