All Films

We

1974 • 3 min • Canada

In a world where communication has grown into big business, the lack of it between individuals is almost a paradox. We live in tight little compartments that are not easily penetrated. Individual differences are regarded with suspicion or scorn. This animated film parodies the human condition in a few quick, colourful sketches, amusingly, without words, yet leaving food for thought.

Tops and Roots

1974 • 12 min • Soviet Union

A working man went to the forest garden to plant a turnip, where he met a very lazy and, as it later turned out, foolish bear. The man managed to outwit the beast twice without giving him a single gram of the crop.

The Little Mermaid

1974 • 26 min • Canada, United States of America

Hans Christian Andersen's tale of the Little Mermaid who gave her life for the one she loved is brought to life with beautiful animation and narration by Richard Chamberlain.

Miracle of Flight

1974 • 5 min • United Kingdom

We're given the history of man seeking flight, however not by the channels of 'do-it-yourself': men jump off of cliffs while trying to flap their arms, be them in armor or other outfits.

Football Stars

1974 • 18 min • Soviet Union

In Search of Ancient Mysteries

1974 • 53 min • United States of America

An examination of mysteries of the ancient world and their connection to the possibility that aliens visited Earth.

Katy

1974 • 17 min

A young girl encounters sexual discrimination when she takes over her brother's paper route.

Renegades: Fragments from a Diary of Three Years' Experience 1970-1973

1974 • 18 min • Australia

A fragmented film, largely following street performer George Shevtsov at the 1970 Vietnam Moratorium, the Odyssey Pop Festival at Wallacia in 1971, and street theatre sneezing for lunchtime crowds. The film then takes a darker turn, contrasting audio from a court case with footage of police.

What Resembles What

1974 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A curious dog dipped in his imagination, coming up with interesting comparisons to the surrounding things. And a dandelion scattered in the wind is hundreds of snowflakes, a bumblebee is an angry tiger. Having met other little animals that lose heart and can not come up with something for their liking, the dog decides to cheer them up and carry away with his game.

November Gymnasium

1974 • 45 min • Japan

Fan-made "Dynavision" (kamishibai style) adaptation of Hagio Moto's November Gymnasium

The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard

1974 • 48 min • Soviet Union

The action takes place in Paris in the 1860s and 1880s. The main character is an old scribe, obsessed with a noble passion for ancient manuscripts. One day, he helped a poor woman who lived next door by sending her a cup of broth and a log for the fireplace. Bonar soon forgot about his deed. Eight years later, he received an old manuscript as a gift, which he had long dreamed of, and was surprised to learn that the giver was the woman he had helped in a difficult moment.

Flash Back

1974 • 21 min • India

Made a year before the Emergency, Flashback was commissioned by Films Division to commemorate its 25th anniversary. Sastry, with his ever-surprising style, turns this ‘history of’ film into a joyous mix, bringing archival film footage, documentation of Films Division’s infrastructure, and the musings of John Grierson, Ezra Mir, S Sukhdev and himself together, to tussle with the role of documentary cinema. Today, the unprecedented access to archives like that of Films Division is an open invitation to ‘flashback’ and reassemble the past.

Retrato de Marta Minujín

1974 • 16 min • Argentina

"Academia del fracaso" is a speculative aesthetic fact of a polemic nature, as Marta Minujín explains when she talks about her work. Portrayed in this film explaining the functioning of her participatory performance in 1974, the artist extends herself to reflect and talk about some things, many things, that make up the world and its ideas.

Cuba and Fidel

1974 • 24 min • United States of America, Cuba

The documentary explores the life and political influence of Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution. Through interviews and archival footage, the documentary offers an in-depth look at the events that brought Castro to power and his impact on Cuba and the world.

Cipher in the Snow

1974 • 21 min

Asking to leave a school bus, Cliff, a young teenager, collapses and dies in the snow near the roadside. His math teacher is asked to notify the parents and then write a short obituary. Although he barely knew him, his teacher is intent on unraveling the mystery of the untimely death.

Flanagan

1974 • 11 min

Flanagan is an early film by Thaddeus O’Sullivan, devised when he was a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art.

Naughty Words

1974 • 2 min • United States of America

Naughty Words is a 3 min experimental film by Curt McDowell, covering the gamut of cinematic profanity.

Tiger on a Tight Leash

1974 • 7 min

Cathy, mother of three, is a university department head in a Maritime city. She speaks of the insecurity she experiences because of unpredictable day care arrangements, and of the reflection of the same difficulty in the work of her married students. 'They don't work as creatively as they could.' Part of the Working Mothers series produced by Kathleen Shannon as part of the Challenge for Change program at the National Film Board of Canada.

Vándorünnep – Emlékezés Hemingway-re

1974 • 32 min

With this 32-minute short film, based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published book A Moveable Feast, György Fehér commemorated the author, who died 75 years ago. In the film, Tamás Cseh - one of his earliest film appearances - sings live the lyrics of the song, which are only sung in this film. This was the first time György Fehér and he worked together.

Put Yourself in My Place

1974 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Comedy about bourgeois marriage dream as perpetuated by the media, and the result when a husband and wife change roles.

The Newest City in the World

1974 • 52 min • Albania

Little Fatmir, whose parents have worked in a construction site, dreams of building himself a town. In his efforts to make his dream a reality, the kindergarten teacher and a workman who brings in working tools for all his friends, assist him. Within the courtyard of a kindergarten, the newest town in the world is thus erected, where children's dreams and characters are revealed.

Problems of Living

1974 • 27 min • Canada

Is it possible to live a life without constant battle? To really understand this you have to see what your life is. Don't escape from it, just watch. In the very act of attention the struggle comes to an end.

A Song for Dead Warriors

1974 • 25 min • United States of America

A Song for Dead Warriors examines the reasons for the Wounded Knee occupation in the spring of 1973 by Oglala Sioux Indians and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM). The film captures the conflict between AIM, the Sioux militants, the government’s Bureau of Indian Affairs and those allied with the US government.

TV Garden

1974 • 1 min • United States of America

TV Garden is Paik’s imagined future landscape where technology is an integral part of the natural world. Placing television sets amongst live plants, he creates an environment in which the seemingly distinct realms of electronics and nature coexist. His approach follows the Buddhist philosophy that everything is interdependent. It also suggests that technology is not in conflict with nature but an extension of the human realm.