All Films

La guarida

1974 • 12 min • Spain

A very impoverished man wanders the cold and hostile city looking for cigarette butts. After being humiliated by rude people at a bar, he comes back to an isolated hut where he lives with a lazy man who refuses to abandon the place, which is more a lair for savage animals than a shelter for human beings.

Joe Zero

1974 • 32 min • Brazil

Man leaves the country and heads for the big city, where in middle of deprivation, he wins a lottery.

I'm Sorry

1974 • 5 min • Canada

The punishment for guilt and remorse is carried out for the video camera through several brisk strokes with a riding crop on bare buttocks.

The Well

1974 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Surveyors calculated that a new road route should be laid through the old well. But the stubborn owner of the well was against it.

Thunderbirds in China

1974 • 57 min

In this documentary, the members of the University of British Columbia's Thunderbirds hockey team travel to China to demonstrate their skills to the new teams in the East. While hockey there still has a long way to go, this film leaves no doubt that the Chinese players are up to the challenge. A film propelled by discoveries, it goes a long way to providing insight into the differences between East and West.

Christmas with the Desert Children

1974 • 8 min • Australia

A short documentary about Father Christmas' annual six-day trek through the Australian desert aboard the Tea and Sugar Train.

The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend

1974 • 8 min • Canada

An owl marries a goose. They have off-spring, but somehow their habits of life are not compatible.

Madseeing

1974 • 21 min • Netherlands

In sequence, we see an acrobat, a nurse, a German officer, and a majorette. They are alone in their own white room, and are wearing lots of makeup: black around their eyes and mouths, almost like a skull. They move tensely, and radiate a sense of desperation and fear, with many soundless screams. They are in a psychiatric hospital. The final shot consists of a pan along an empty, sterile corridor with empty white rooms, from which frightening sounds emanate.

Happy Birthday

1974 • 1 min • Canada

A perceptive young boy attending his uncle's birthday party notices the unfortunate results of the man’s smoking habit.

Painting with Light

1974 • 3 min • Belgium, United States of America

Painting with Light consists of images produced by moving light. Techniques include re-filming slides in an animation fashion. Original slides are time-exposure images of color-filtered light. The experiment questions whether light can be controlled in a manner similar to that of the painter-artist. The use of an optical printed allows some manipulation or extension of certain scenes. Also, unmasked negative printing is intercut to strengthen the "painting" effect.

Les tacots

1974 • 22 min • Canada

Room and Board

1974 • 5 min • United States of America

A child grows into a man, but cannot open the door in his own room trying to figure out what's in it.

Deep Westurn

1974 • 5 min • United States of America

A ‘film wake’. Though celebratory in mood, it has a mournful subtext… death and dying. We dedicated it to Dr. Sam West, departed friend and patron of the arts, trusting that his ghost would approve our hi-jinx and seeming irreverence. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.

Mirage

1974 • 3 min

A self-portrait, Mirage exposes Mendieta's naked body in nature reflected in a mirror. She holds a gourd and stabs it open to let its seeds fly away.

I'm a Voyeur

1974 • 15 min

An ironic flip/flop between voyeur/exhibitionist tendencies, where the subject is the object-they are one and the same person exploring the necessarily cooperative choreography implicit in such a relationship. The tape title, finally, is a misnomer. A tease. It should be called 'I'm an exhibitionist,' however, this is subverted by making the viewer complicit with the 'voyeur' of the title of the tape.

Horoscope

1974 • 20 min • Bulgaria

The film consists of 12 miniatures, each based on one of the signs of the zodiac.

8½ x 11

1974 • 32 min

"Benning's landscape works, with their meticulous, reverential compositions, have been located in the history of American realist painting and photography, and also belong to the tradition of American nature writing...The formal elegance of the compositions somehow becomes surreal over time, as we look into, instead of at, the place. This tendency locates Benning in the history of experimental filmmakers concerned with interrogating visual perception." - Danni Zuvela

Two on Ice

1974 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about the Soviet school of figure skating, focusing on the pair of Irina Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaitsev.

Curse of the Werewolf

1974 • 2 min • United States of America

American horror short from 1974.

Seven Days

1974 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Seven Days invites the viewer to contemplate the complex relationship between the structures we invent in order to observe the natural world and the structure we perceive as a result of those observations. The resulting sequences of images suggest a relationship between technology and nature based on principles other than exploitation and domination.

Hard Way

1974 • 55 min • Yugoslavia

A 1973 Serbo-Croatian-Italian language drama film directed by Matjaž Klopčič, starring Mira Stupica, Radmila Andrić and Dare Ulaga.

Euphoria

1974 • 3 min • United States of America

Consistent stylistic-thematic structures link and merge throughout the bewildering event chain. The distinction between organic forms and human artifacts is blurred by the visual style which is enigmatic without being ambiguous.

Rope Dance Translations

1974 • 20 min

Andrew Horn was technical director on this black-and-white document of Andrew deGroat’s hypnotic, swirling “Rope Dance Translations”, originally performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music by Robyn Brentano, Frank Converso, Charles Dennis, Ritty Ann Burchfield and deGroat himself. It was shot in a single day and lit by Carol Mullins (wife of Jim Neu, who would write DOOMED LOVE and THE BIG BLUE). The introductory text describes the dance as “relying on each individual dancer’s energies and response to the ropes. The ‘choreograph’ for this dance is the geometry of the ropes, the centrifugal force of the spinning from and the strict revolving patterns of solo and chorus.” The music for ROPE DANCE TRANSLATIONS was composed by Michael Galasso, who would go on to provide unforgettable string compositions for Wong Kar-Wai’s IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE.

Pan 2

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

Rain falls and reflects the light.