All Films

Circus World

1974 • 25 min • United States of America

A vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the Big Top, the Greatest Show on Earth as presented by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey. Seen from the performers’ point of view, Circus World is a wonderfully human look at the tensions and harmony of families living in a circus environment, complete with The Flying Gaonas, exhilarating highwire acts, clowns, and the amazing feats of Gunther Gebel-Williams, the famous wild-animal trainer. "Circus World" was shown exclusively at the 600-seat IMAX theater at the Circus World theme park in Central Florida.

Alan Price: Between Today and Yesterday

1974 • 58 min

In this documentary from 1974, Alan Price visits the North East of England, including his home town Jarrow, and talks about his musical career. In London he rehearses, records and performs some new songs, which reflect the changes in his life and attitude brought by his ten years as a professional musician.

The Snare

1974 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary written, directed and edited by Aleksandar Ilić. It won the Special Jury Prize at the Krakow Film Festival.

Boomerang

1974 • 11 min

Originally broadcast on public television in Amarillo, TX, Richard Serra’s BOOMERANG features Nancy Holt framed in a medium shot with a pair of headphones on her ears. We observe her as she speaks and then hears her words relayed back to her through a delayed transmission. Remarkably eloquent for one caught in such a feedback loop, Holt provides a monologue on experiencing time, thought, and oneself through technology. She remarks, “I have a double take on myself. I am once removed from myself … we are hearing and seeing a world of double reflections and double refractions.”

Gebet für die Linke

1974 • 28 min

Voted for in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll

Vila Boa de Goyaz

1974 • 19 min • Brazil

Oral memory, artists from the region and expressions of popular culture tell stories about Vila Boa, in Goiás, and its transformations over time.

The Egg

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

A young woman eats raw eggs.

Ivan Lins: MPB Especial

1974 • 53 min • Brazil

Ivan Lins performing at TV Cultura in 1974.

Memory of the Summer of ’74

1974 • 9 min • Hungary

Screenplay Written by, Painted and Directed by György Kovásznai Music Compilation and Sound Editor: Péter Bársony Music Performed by Gábor Presser, Levente Szörényi, Zsuzsa Koncz, Kati Kovács, Máté Viktor, the LGT and the Hungária Bands Collaborators: János Czipauer, András Osvát, Miklós Papp, Béla Zsebényi, Katalin Kaim, Klára Kassai, and Frigyes Janotyik A subjective interpretation of the everyday life of the 1970s’ Budapest . It is an intriguing mixture of popular culture (music) and high art (composition of images). Kovásznai is not interested in telling a story; there is no linear narrative, the structure of the film is defined by the movements and transformations of the paintings to the rhythm of the music, generating a fundamentally audiovisual sensory experience.

Pan 4

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

A series of papers flutter in the wind.

There Was A Tram The Tenth Number

1974 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Mom

1974 • 38 min

“My mother decided to go back to school when she was 47 years old. Her four children had all left for college, and she felt now was the time to re-start her career in fashion design, so she enrolled in the Fashion Institute of Technology. I was auditing a film class at MIT’s Film & Video section and made this documentary about her. […] This film turned into a double portrait of her and of me.” –Mark Rance

Adventure in Venice

1974 • 23 min • United States of America

This film presents aspects of day-to-day life in Venice, a city that is most renowned for its historic sites and large tourist trade. It tells a story about a boy who loses a prized model ship on the waterways of his city.

Martha

1974 • 57 min • Netherlands

Martha overhears Bernard and John talking about blackmail. Jacob has come up with a plan that includes a mysterious key. Brothers Bobby and Arnold, eternal rivals, both fancy Martha, but also have a soft spot for Leonie. The latter gets tasked to learn more about Jacob's plan. A dead man is discovered lying in Bernard's office late at night by somebody else searching the premises. When the main conspirators all gather at the Zevenhuis villa, John declines to cooperate...

Willi, Wally, Werner und das Schweinchen Wurstel fahren zu den Weltfestspielen

1974 • 42 min • East Germany

Three kids from a small village in Mecklenburg decide to sneak away to East-Berlin in order to gift Angela Davis a lucky pig.

Grease

1974 • 47 min • United States of America

A noir street film shot on the east side of Cleveland in the Collinwood District where i grew up and and went to High School . Influenced by Cassavete"s SHADOWS ...and Italian Neo-Realism,... it shows a world with an undercurrent of violence and racism...inhabited by people with an animalistic ambience.

The Lost Son

1974 • 15 min • United Kingdom

The Parable of the Lost/ Prodigal Son as told by Lotte Reiniger.

Tapiola

1974 • 15 min • Finland

A hunter brings a feathered bird as an offering to the goddess of his ancestors. Tapiola is a film-poem in defense of nature and humanity. It is also a documentary that tells the story of modern man's loss of contact with the environment and its transformation into a commodity.

Black Feet in the Snow

1974 • 55 min

Written and narrated by Jamal Ali, this impressionistic, innovative drama shows how Britain – ‘The Promised Land’ – offered only frustration and rejection to Caribbean settlers in the 1950s.

From Hattis to Hitites

1974 • 24 min

Approximately 3300 years ago, on a cuneiform tablet, the Hittite King Muvatalli begged the Storm God. However, a hundred years later, severe storms blew over Anatolia, and the "Land of Hatti" and what we call the "Land of the Hittite" today became a pile of stones and earth, from one end to the other. But this civilization still lives on the traces they left in Anatolia and will continue to live for centuries. The documentary "From Hattis to Hittites", produced by Suha Arın in 1974 with the support of the Turing and Automobile Association, as the first film in the "Traces of Anatolian Civilizations" series, is restored 45 years later from original negatives and magnetic sound tapes.

A portrait of Meredith Monk

1974 • 25 min • United States of America

‘Mark Berger’s years of work as a representational painting can be found here, in this film portrait. Mark Berger was an actor in the Meredith Monk company and the House, from 1971 to 1974, and he uses an improvisation technique in this vision of interaction painter/subject, filmmaker/actor, artist/artist. Mark Berger’s camera records and interviews a relationship between himself and Meredith Monk, in the same way that Meredith Monk’s music as soundtrack, is a fundamental and structural aspect of film material editing. The shooting, like the painting of a portrait, was executed in a number of sessions, over a period of several weeks.’ A. Sichel.

Snow White

1974 • 2 min • Romania

Cutout animated advertisement for the make-up products made at the Farmec Enterprise, Cluj.

In White-Collar America

1974 • 51 min • United States of America

This film concentrates on a few of the many workers at a life insurance company in Atlanta, Georgia. It examines their job satisfaction, working conditions, as well as relationships with other workers.

Noisefields

1974 • 11 min

This is an attempt to process abstract images without the use of camera. The central circle divides the creen into two parts that continually vibrate hypnotically and change colors to the accompanying rumbling of modulated sound.