All Films

Blood Writing

1974 • 3 min

United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

Ancient America Speaks

1974 • 24 min

Archeological evidence from pre-Columbian South America is compared to artifacts from the Mediterranean region as well as passages from the Book of Mormon

The Boy and the Cat

1974 • 10 min • United Kingdom

The first complete animation produced by Sheila Graber and set in her native South Shields. The film follows the adventures of a small boy and his cat as they walk through the snowy landscape, chase a Robin down onto the River Tyne and meet Father Christmas. The character of the boy is based upon Sheila’s nephew Nigel and the cat is based upon her own cat Whitey.

A Steam Train Passes

1974 • 21 min • Australia

Generally regarded as Australia's finest railway film and winner of many awards the world over, A Steam Train Passes is a nostalgic, imaginative essay on one of the majestic C38 class steam locomotives, 3801. The locomotive has recently returned to service and is currently operating out of the NSW Rail Museum at Thirlmere, south of Sydney.

Print Generation

1974 • 50 min • United States of America

J.J. Murphy’s feature length experimental film is a meditation on light, chemistry, and the properties of photographic emulsion and can therefore be identified as a structuralist film. Beginning with points of red light, the film takes a single minute of film and reprints in over and over, moving through several levels of abstraction, then returning to them. Winner of several experimental film festival awards. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Black Soul

1974 • 51 min

1974 documentary about Ali.

Searching

1974 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A haunting fire prevention film about keeping matches out of the hands of children.

Icarus

1974 • 7 min • Romania

"A planet of beings learning to crawl, walk and eventually fly." (YouTube user Kevinedge)

Mahatma and the Mad Boy

1974 • 27 min • India

In the time frame of a single day (from dawn to dust), the film records the wanderings of an Indian youth who sleeps on the beach, holds conversations with a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, and scavenges for food with his monkey. By afternoon, a little ceremony is held by well-to-do Gandhi-ites, at which a speaker delivers a sermon on "godly love"; but when the boy comes too close, he is told to move on by a guard, one of a series of exclusions of this onlooker-outcast.

Experimental

1974 • 12 min • United States of America

We briefly visit a vast array of various flying objects.

Le charme de l'ambiguïté

1974 • 58 min • Belgium

From transvestites to transformers, we will follow the trail that will lead us in different and famous Parisian music-halls, such as the mythical Alcazar of Paris, La Grande Eugène. Whether they are below or beyond their character, often these men who are looking for themselves look at life with the humor of despair. Why this need to "transform" themselves? Why is it always the men who cross-dress and not the women? Why did the public flock to these shows in the 1970s and 1980s? Interpretations of famous characters such as Diana Ross, Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, the Peter Sisters, the Andrew Sisters, Zizi Jeanmaire, Judy Garland, Sarah Bernhardt, among others, contribute to making this musical document an essential testimony of this era.

As the Tumbleweed Turns

1974 • 6 min • United States of America

Hoot Kloot is ordered to evict Widow Watley from her house so they can build railroad tracks, but Hoot can't seem to get past her aggressive dog.

Traces

1974 • 10 min • Poland

During the day, we could see traces of passersby and the couple of protagonists on the white and soft snow. They go to a dinner party. The evening will end tragically, but the next day begins with the milkman's footsteps, as usual.

A Political Cartoon

1974 • 22 min • United States of America

Two guys run a cartoon character for President.

Sea Creatures

1974 • 13 min • United States of America

Depicts the larger sea creatures inhabiting the Red Sea. An imaginative sound track accompanies hermit crabs, jellyfish, parrot fish, sea urchins, crown-of-thorns starfish, sea cucumbers, clown fish, and Manta Rays - to mention only a few - as they parade before the camera in stunning color and movement.

Museu Goeldi

1974 • 11 min • Brazil

A documentary short on Museum Emílio Goeldi, located at Belém do Pará, Brazil.

Who Are We?

1974 • 10 min • Canada

Canadians in search of the national identity will not find it fully fleshed in this film. An animated cartoon, it sees Canadians as pragmatists, adaptable to whatever climate or history place in their way. It is a boisterous, bubbling analysis of the Canadian character and, although it may not answer the question of the title, it does leave the feeling that being Canadian is not so exhausting as one might expect.

Self Service

1974 • 10 min • Italy

Hungry mosquitos, in search of a meal, find that fruit, flowers and other such fare doesn't satisfy. One enterprising bug hits the jackpot - a human! However, the victim vigorously resists joining the food chain, causing a number of winged casualties. The little buggers wait until the man falls asleep, then set up a number of enterprises: cafes, bars, filling stations, all serving blood. Things are going well, but then the mosquito Cosa Nostra moves in, and ramp production into high gear.

Hotspot

1974 • 9 min • United States of America

Descend into the crater of the Nyiragongo Volcano (in Zaire, Africa) to witness the terrifying yet spellbinding explosion of molten lava at its very source. Set to the Toccata and Fugue of J.S. Bach, the film is at once stunningly beautiful, yet plunges us into the very depths of hell. The extreme beauty of the visuals, together with the power of the music, creates an unforgettable experience.

Stop Potapov!

1974 • 29 min

A film based on the story of the same name by Grigory Gorin. An employee of a certain SRI Potapov is a liar and an opportunist. But he does not even know that he is committing low things.

Apple Summer

1974 • 24 min

Camping in Down East, Maine with artist friends evolved into a spurt-framed portrait of artist Donn Moulton. Footage of Moulton in Maine, his studio in Cambridge, and installation of his fiberglass apple paintings at Kornblee Gallery, NYC, is intercut with edited-in-camera expressionistic sequences from our camping trip.

Death of the Movement

1974 • 5 min • Italy

A work on the attention of the spectator, whose sound is improvised live by the audience on the unpredictable movements of the images.

The Deer - White Horns

1974 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A boy, after reading about the tundra, deer and northern lights, decided to create a deer out of the snow. As a result, he got a beautiful animal that became alive at night under the shining stars. The boy was sorry that his unexpectedly acquired pet can melt, so he decided to go to distant lands, where there is constant cold. This should help save the life of the new friend.

Pan 697

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

A butchered cow is decapitated in this short film by Hollis Frampton.