All Films

Intermezzo for an Eternal Love

1974 • 9 min • Romania

The little man learns that the Earth is in mortal danger due to pollution.

The Violin

1974 • 30 min

The Violin is a 1974 short film by Andrew Welsh and George Pastic, featuring Maurice Solway. Solway also wrote the original music. The film promotes peace and understanding through the power of music and the exchange of knowledge and friendship between the old and the young. In 1975, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short.

Saugus Series

1974 • 18 min

Short film of 7 sections with each one using a different experimental film technique.

The Sweet: All That Glitters

1974 • 24 min • United Kingdom

In 1973, Sweet were the subject of a documentary All That Glitters for BBC Schools series Scene. Being intended for “educational purposes,” the program had to pose a relevant topic for debate among its teenage audience—in this case, “Is the music business really that glamorous?” Over a period of two to three days, Scene followed the band members Brian Connolly (vocals), Steve Priest (bass/coals), Andy Scott (guitar) and Mick Tucker (drums) as they rehearsed for a Top of the Pops appearance (which led to an outcry over Priest’s Nazi outfit) and their (now hailed as “legendary”) Christmas show at London’s Rainbow Theater.

Dolly Mixture

1974 • 22 min • United Kingdom

A mad doctor (Paul Kirby) has created a woman (Clyda Rosen) from the body parts of various dolly birds, hence 'Dolly Mixture'. Upon being brought to life, she immediately embarks on a threesome with a passing Tax Inspector (Jack Gold) and the mad doctor's hunchback assistant.

Dilli Dalli in Perpendicular's Kingdom

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Dilli Dalli is an adventurous boy who can bring his toys to life. Now, however, he needs to meet his opponent - the evil Perpendicular, who makes everything that's living to disappear. Dilli Dalli goes to the kingdom of the evil Perpendicular to save his toys he brought to life.

Study I.

1974 • 8 min

The candle as light, photography using light, refraction, motion picture, that is, the film poem-like recollection of the magical world of cinematography.

Travail du comédien

1974 • 30 min

We follow the rehearsals and the staging work of Bertold Brecht's play 'Dans la jungle des villes' in 1972 by the company Théâtre de l'Espérance. The three directors: Jean-Pierre Vincent, Jean Jourdheuil and André Engel discuss their joint work of staging and their vision of the play. Interviews with the actors (Gérard Desarthe, Maurice Bénichou, Hélène Vincent), whom we follow at different stages of the work (source: Média Scérén). The film was screened for the 1973 Directors' Fortnight, at the Cannes Festival.

The Summoned

1974 • 40 min

A doctor and his wife come under attack from a vengeful Incubus and his zombie followers in a blood-soaked tale of supernatural horror. Can this man of science stand up against an inhuman creature with limitless power?

Ranina

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The cartoon is based on the motifs of the Georgian folk tale "half-of-handfuler" ("მუჭანახევარა"). How society forces a person to sing the way they think is right.

El Visitante

1974 • 8 min

A woman goes through different emotions in her daily life.

Eguren y Barranco

1974 • 10 min

Through a tour of the streets and houses of Barranco, the presence, biography and poetics of José María Eguren, a fundamental author in the history of Peruvian poetry, are evoked.

Antonio - Wo ist er zu Hause?

1974 • 15 min

Short film about Antonio 'Pinuccio' Morleo, an 11-year-old Italian boy living in Germany.

Prisoner's Dilemma

1974 • 45 min

A two-part tape of a video performance done on January 22, 1974, at 112 Greene Street (as part of the Video Performance Exhibition), structured on a problem in game theory, a non-zero-sum game, in which both players can win or lose at the same time, one can win more than the other, and one can win at the others expense. Serra and Bell have used game theory as a way of dealing with genres of commercial TV: cops and robbers in the first part, and a quiz program in the second.

Gold Struck

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

Everyone chickened out delivering bags of gold to Virginia City because to get there, you have to get past the Bad Land. Hoot decides to deliver it himself to the city. Hoot managed to get past the Bad Lands to a ghost town so Hoot decides to spend the night in the hotel, where a mischievous vampire trying to get the hands on the gold.

Lolo Mégalo blessé en son honneur

1974 • 20 min • France

Lionel Soukaz opens a wooden panel to discover the sky and comes across Italian workers singing. He longs for them and, when they leave in the evening, finds himself alone, watching television. This video mirror sends him back to his own time: Nixon, Giscard. So he dances like a cry for help: "Love me!”. The cross-dressing scenes are like a coming out, revealing the feminine side of the filmmaker at just twenty years of age.

Whatever Happened To Green Valley?

1974 • 53 min • Australia

Green Valley was a housing commission estate in western Sydney, much maligned by the media of the day. The residents were hurt by the criticism but lacked access to the media to respond. Supplied with equipment by Film Australia, they used this film to present a different image of themselves and their daily lives. In so doing, they answered the question of "Whatever happened to Green Valley?" The core of this film is the work of half a dozen residents, co-ordinated by acclaimed filmmaker Peter Weir in one of his earliest film projects. Weir also acts as the moderator at a public forum that is included in the film.

A Fistful of Pasta

1974 • 15 min

Comical Cowboys set off on a perilous journey, climaxing in a three-way gun duel

The Jack in the Box

1974 • 54 min • Germany

A hitchhiker, carrying a suitcase full of toys, is given a ride by a wealthy businessman in his 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 Convertible. The two first talk about the businessman's life and the hitchhiker's hobby of collecting toys. Then everything gets out of hand.

New York City Diary ’74

1974 • 15 min • United States of America

"Guttenplan uses the term 'diary' in a way that is unique to him. In fact, the term can be confusing. There is no doubt that this film is not a diary like those made by Jonas Mekas. It contains little, if any, imagery with an emotional or autobiographical message. Its interest lies in the static objects that tell us nothing about the life of the filmmaker. The NEW YORK CITY DIARY '74 is filled with color and texture, mostly abstract. (...) Guttenplan dislocates the viewer's vision by a perpetual permutation of surfaces. The film's field of vision can unpredictably change from a small area of bricks to a cloudy sky covering several kilometers. The intensity of colors and patterns remains constant while the photographed space changes completely. Such fluctuations amplify the feeling of disjuncture that we get from fleeting visions of things." —Scott Hammen.

Belchior: MPB Especial

1974 • 55 min • Brazil

Recorded in 1973, during the laborious attempt to issue his first album, one of Belchior's various appearances was in the TV Cultura's intimate program "MPB Especial". In it, a still very young, open and relatively angry Belchior (as in the testimonial seen at the end of the program) presented himself to the public through an autobiographical dialogue, proving that the new always comes.

Pan 699

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

A little boy celebrates his frog catch.

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

1974 • 28 min

Documentary about innocent people confined to prison on remand. John Pilger reports that more than half of the 500,000 people remanded in custody by magistrates each year are eventually found not guilty, fined or, as in the case of “Helen”, given a conditional discharge. Helen, charged with stealing a pair of slippers but with no previous convictions, recalls her day in Holloway Prison, London, which started at 7am when she joined 96 other prisoners in a rush to use four toilets whose conditions were “disgusting”. Between then and lunchtime, all prisoners were locked up, with just half-an-hour’s walk round a large yard for exercise. Lunch was eaten in cells, with tea at 3.30pm, before they were locked up until the following morning.

Tetrahedron

1974 • 14 min

"That hike went to a 1400 ft. peak in the Rockies. I'm not sure of the specific mountain but it may have been Long's Peak. Yes, we had fun making that. When we got to the top Charlie lay down to rest and I sneaked a bunch of rocks into his pack so that we could film his funny struggle lifting the pack up and on! At the summit I was overcome with hypothermia and blacked out. Fred and Charlie hustled me down the mountain and I slowly recovered. We stopped to make a fire and there are shots in the film of Charlie coaxing up a flame. The lower altitude and the warmth led to recovery. I think I did the edit in Charlies' dome studio at Thorn Lake..." - Gene Bernofsky