All Films

Potemkine 3

1974 • 14 min • Belgium

Recovering all of the intertitles of the Battleship Potemkin, Jean-Marie Buchet substitutes for the images of the film various views that he himself shot and which are unrelated to the initial work, thus joining the technique of diversion widely recommended and applied by the Situationists.

Two Whores, or a Love Story That Ends in a Wedding

1974 • 10 min

A prostitute who works on the countryside complains about her loss of work because of the free love of the hippies. A fairy appears and promises to help her. Out on the motorway she stops a couple of cars with her magic wand. This way she manages to recrute a lot of boys for the bitch, who are queueing to wait for the prostitute beginning her services. A little bit later the queue starts disappearing, is shrinking, until the prostitute notices that another bitch has appeared, which is stealing her clients.

Soundstage Blues Summit In Chicago: Muddy Waters And Friends

1974 • 59 min • United States of America

In July 1974, a group of Chicago based blues artists who had already achieved legendary status gathered together with some of their younger "blues brethren" from all over the country to pay tribute to the man most responsible for bringing blues from the Mississippi Delta upriver to Chicago, Muddy Waters. Appearing with Muddy that night were his contemporaries Willie Dixon, Koko Taylor, Junior Wells and Pinetop Perkins, and from the next generation of blues lovers and performers, Mike Bloomfield, Buddy Miles, Johnny Winter, Dr. John, and Nick Gravenites -- all artists who were on their way to becoming legends themselves. What resulted from that joyous teaming was a truly historic session that not only presented some of the greatest blues classics ever written, but a never-to-be-forgotten hour that truly demonstrates the love of music by one generation for another.

Dwellings Winter

1974 • 13 min

Since 1970 Simonds has created Dwelling places for an imaginary civilization of “Little People” who are migrating through the streets of neighborhoods in cities throughout the world; New York, Paris, Shanghai, Berlin, London, Dublin among many others. Below is a selection of films of Simonds constructing Dwellings on the Lower East Side of New York.

The Island

1974 • 25 min • Germany

A commissioned work for a television series on WDR, A House for Us. FROM THE FAMILY OF REPTILES and THE ISLAND are a complete program in two episodes. Monika manages to convince Mr. and Mrs. Hagedorn that their daughter is not mischievous or insidious but that her parents should consult a Psychotherapist with her. But as usual all the therapists are booked out and have a long waiting list for patients. So Ute is left alone once more with her helpless parents and she is more and more drawn to the zoo and her beloved crocodiles. Thanks to Monika’s sense of responsibility and her commitment, Ute manages to break free from her isolation.

Man, Monsters & Mysteries

1974 • 26 min • United States of America

Man, Monsters and Mysteries is a 1974 Disney educational animated featurette. It explains about man's intriguing questions about monsters, mysteries and even the enigmatic Loch Ness monster.

Montréal: The Neighborhood Revived

1974 • 57 min • Canada

This full-length documentary from the Challenge for Change program addresses housing issues affecting Montreal in the mid-1970s. As the city is restoring older apartments through direct action and government subsidies, new, low-rent housing is being integrated into old neighborhoods.

Adventures of The Finger Five

1974 • 28 min • Japan

Movie about idol group called "Finger Five"

The Thread and the Kitten

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Late at night, when all household members had gone to bed, a kitten woke up and felt that it overcohasmes insomnia. How to have fun? The playful kid went to investigate. It turned out that coiled balls of yarn did not sleep too, and there was a sky-blue thread, cheerful and kind, which, like the kitten, wanted to play. Will they make friends with the kitten?

The Adventures of a Man in Search of a Heart

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

A short animated PSA, starring Tin Woodman from the land of Oz. The Tin Man tells his story of looking for a heart and tells the viewer how to have a healthy heart.

Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)

1974 • 12 min • France, Niger

In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard, the followers from the possession cult symbolically break the dead priest's ritual vases and cry for the deceased while dividing up the clothes of the divinities.

The Actual Woman

1974 • 30 min

A winter's day out is a treat for all, but it isnt' quite what Uncle Alec wanted.

Castor and Pollux

1974 • 42 min

Two brothers from two very different lifestyles, one is a hippy the other a bikie, are examined in this short film. They share a common attitude though: to question or rebel against conventional living.

Puppeteers of Rajasthan

1974 • 19 min • India

Documentary short about the nomadic puppeteers of Rajasthan.

Pasaka par Sisi Vijoļkāju

1974 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An animation film based on a poem by Vitauts Ļaudēns.

Colourbird

1974 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A bored future society starts to come alive with the addition of primary colors, as its world gradually becomes a groovy hippy paradise.

Crossings and Meetings

1974 • 27 min • United States of America

A lone man walking across the video screen is the starting point for this dynamic formal exercise. This image and its accompanying sound are subjected to increasingly complex and proliferating configurations to arrive at what Emshwiller calls a "visual fugue" in time and space, structured like musical or mathematical sequences. The walking figure and its de-synchronized footsteps are multiplied, slowed down, accelerated, reversed, syncopated, overlapped and otherwise altered in multifarious variations on a theme, building in a kinetic, almost narrative progression of compositional relationships. The screen is finally transformed into a dance of motion by male and female figures in an abstracted, colorized space. Rather than an analysis of movement a la Muybridge, Crossings and Meetings is a celebration of the potential for representing movement in time and space through video.

Star Garden

1974 • 22 min • United States of America

The "star", as it is singular, is the sun; and it is metaphored, at the beginning of this film, by the projector anyone uses to show forth. Then the imaginary sun begins its course throughout whatever darkened room this film is seen within. At "high noon" (of the narrative) it can be imagined as if in back of the screen, and then to shift its imagined light-source gradually back thru aftertones and imaginings of the "stars" of the film till it achieves a one-to-one relationship with the moon again. This "sun" of the mind's eye of every viewer does not necessarily correspond with the off-screen "pictured sun" of the film; but anyone who plays this game of illumination will surely see the film in its most completely conscious light.

Wampirou

1974 • 20 min

A satire on the relationship between the artist and the art market.

Its Ugly Head

1974 • 13 min

A married couple - the man a closeted homosexual, the woman bed-ridden - struggle with their relationship.

The Flight of Icarus

1974 • 3 min • Switzerland

Loosely following the Greek myth of the Flight of Icarus, Georges Schwizgebel opens his directional career with Le vol d'lcare, a short animation of LED lights.

Bold Face: Condensed

1974 • 30 min

' Waiting for pages half my life ' - but this time the printer is drunk and the editor has a deadline to meet.

Song of acupuncture treatment

1974 • 41 min • China

Li Zhihua is an anesthetist at the hospital

The Head

1974 • 21 min • Yugoslavia

We begin with a fragmented portrait of Činča, between the stories she tells and the thoughts of those surrounding her. In The Head, a girl is confronted with the possibility of dying. Intermezzo focusses on the moments of abstraction amid the hustle and bustle of a city. In Our Stock Exchange, unemployed people seek work. Second Floor, Basement shows us a hospital where only two floors separate birth and death.