All Films

Planet Ocean

1974 • 20 min

Planet Ocean is a 1974 short documentary. It takes us on a beautiful adventure into the strangest domains of our planet – the oceans. The documentary pivots around the relationship between the Earth’s oceans and the entire planet’s ecosystem. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric

1974 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A 1974 documentary in which comedian Dave Allen meets a variety of eccentrics including Alexander Stuart Wortley who lives in a box on wheels, a cowboy vicar and the artist/filmmaker Bruce Lacey showing his set-up where he pretends to fly a Lancaster bomber in his garage.

Man Belongs to the Earth

1974 • 23 min • United States of America

Made for screening at the U.S. Pavilion at the 1974 World's Fair in Spokane Washington, USA, which had a Native-American environmental theme, MAN BELONGS TO THE EARTH depicts the history of air, water, and earth pollution, and how environmentalists are trying to solve these problems using various technologies.

Tall Arches

1974 • 7 min • United States of America

Pan 698

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

The camera pans across a field of flowers at extreme speeds.

The Liberal War

1974 • 33 min • United States of America

The Vietnam War during the JFK years and beyond. Made in 1972 in the filmmaker's apartment, without documentary footage of the war, metaphors are created through the animation of images and objects, and through guerrilla skits. By rejecting the authority of traditional documentary footage, the anarchist spirit of individual responsibility is established. This is history from one person's point of view, rather than a definitive proclamation.

Álbum de Música

1974 • 11 min • Brazil

Portrait of various figures in Brazilian pop music.

1-2-3-4

1974 • 4 min • United States of America

This work shows paradoxical space relations in electonic depths, where the common space coordinates no longer apply and where the images become objects in space. The numerals on the cakes were captured by four cameras and then processed with the Multikeyer.

The Sleeper

1974 • 9 min

Begins with scenes of nature, in which one hears the sounds of birds and water. The final few minutes of the film focus in on a man laying down in the grass.

The Tale of the Shepherd and the Beautiful Princess

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A tale of how, despite all the efforts of a wicked and cruel padishah, his only daughter marries the tenth son of the poorest shepherd.

The Man And The Word

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Five short stories that clearly demonstrate the impact a simple word has on people.

Sísifo

1974 • 17 min • Peru

Adaptation of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, in the deserts of Lima.

Lesbianism Feminism

1974 • 29 min

Sparks: Don Kirschner's Rock Concert 1974

1974 • 24 min

Beacon Theater NY May 1974 > 1) Something For The Girl With Everything 2) Talent Is An Asset 3) Hasta Manana Monsieur 4) Thank God It's Not Christmas 5) B.C. 6) Here In Heaven

Wires Over the Border

1974 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Short film about the upgrades and technological improvements on the British railways.

El Mojado

1974 • 18 min

El Mojado focuses on an undocumented worker from rural Chihuahua whom Lyon came to regard as “a genius.” Every spring Lyon would meet him near the border and smuggle him past the border patrol into the United States. Eddie introduced Lyon to the whole unbelievable world of “illegal aliens.”

Biosphere! Time to Apprehend

1974 • 16 min • Soviet Union

A journalistic story inspired by Volodymyr Vernadsky about the genesis of life in the universe — from the physical elements of the primordial broth to the civilization of intelligent man.

Dark

1974 • 18 min • Australia

“Using footage shot during the first Aboriginal Land Rights demonstrations in Sydney, and when the police tore down the ‘Aboriginal Embassy’ in front of Parliament House in Canberra, Dark juxtaposes this violent struggle with images (taken from a tourist slide) of an old Aboriginal warrior imprisoned, in his mind, in his own country. As an immigrant to Australia I’d understood what it feels like to be a stranger, and had experienced hurtful comments and prejudice (…‘bloody German’). So I thought, this is funny, these people have been here for donkey’s years, and they to go out in the streets to fight for their own land. I used various mechanisms to let this injustice, this anger out…in particular, zooming through a comb onto the image of the old warrior…letting his emotion stream out through the bars.” (Paul Winkler)

Lamerique

1974 • 17 min • France

Short film by Michel Lemoine shot simultaneously to "Les Petites Saintes y touchent."

Boasting

1974 • 9 min • Iran

This film combines elements from Iranian epics, street wit and humor, and is in fact an animation of what Sadeghi considers his main artistic inspiration, namely Iranian folklore and storytelling screens.

Freedom Day Parade

1974 • 11 min

Director Wakefield Poole moved to San Francisco in 1974 and captured the energy and sights of an early San Francisco gay pride parade, set to a campy, eclectic soundtrack.

Breakfast

1974 • 12 min • France

Relentlessly reworking ‘real’ images, using techniques borrowed from painting and animated film, Patrick Bokanowski is an author of stature, capable of creating an insane and cataclysmic universe of unquestionable beauty.

Festa, Trabalho e Pão em Grijó de Parada

1974 • 34 min • Portugal

One of the first films that looks at the Portuguese region of Trás-os-Montes. From the mask called “careto” and the popular festival to the everyday reality.

The Boy With The Bridle

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Screen adaptation of the historical story about a clever shepherd boy who saved his home city Kyiv from the Pecheneg army onslaught in the Х century.