Cinematic Era: 1974 Vintage

The animation was based on Abdulla Shaig's "Tig-tig khanum" fairytale published in 1910.

A humble farmer turned town chief takes on the whole province either the authorities or bandits.

A junkyard full of smashed cars hints at the fate of their reckless drivers.

A murderer has strangled four pretty girls. Joan Nichols and her police officer fiancé come to the conclusion that the wrong man has been imprisoned for the crime. Joan’s cousin Carla is a medium. In a vision she sees the face of the real killer, the face of someone they know.

How young people were manipulated to join the war during the Imperial Era.

Ghose’s first major film is a documentary about the 1974 Bengal famine, analysing how famines come about and chronicling their impact in the cities and the villages of India. Made on a Paillard Bolex by a group calling itself the ‘Joris Ivens collective’, it was one of the first Indian documentaries to face censorship under the Emergency. Much of the footage reflects Ghose’s preoccupation, later developed in his features, with people surviving on the margins of society.

Pun on "light" intended - that short preceding expulsion of breath perhaps the "subject matter" of this film which centers in consideration of death. It is the third tone poem film and did much surprise me by thus completing a trilogy of the "4 classical Elements." (SB)

In this revealing study of Norval Morrisseau, filmed as he works among the lakes and woodlands of his ancestors, we see a remarkable Indigenous artist who emerged from a life of obscurity in the North American bush to become one of Canada's most renowned painters. Morrisseau the man is much like his paintings: vital and passionate, torn between his Ojibway heritage and the influences of the white man's world.

A Half Basket of Peanut

When the driver is late to fetch Boni, from school on her birthday, she is kidnapped. This only child from a rich and harmonious family has a faithful dog, Nancy. While the father asks for police help to prepare an ambush, in the end, the true saviour is the smart Nancy. The film combines the genres of a musical, a family film, and a thriller.

A sequel to the big hit "เกาะสวาทหาดสวรรค์" (Paradise Island), the marrage between Padermpong and Napaporn is now shaking from his womanizing behaviour and her workaholic obsession. Four months into their marriage, husband and wife aren't really live as a loving couple, now she's filing for legal separation.

The film emphasizes the critical role of lifeguards in preventing accidents and ensuring safety at swimming facilities. It outlines essential lifeguarding practices, including constant vigilance, effective communication, and the importance of preventive measures. Lifeguards must enforce rules, monitor hazards, and maintain proper equipment to handle emergencies. The film also highlights the need for a buddy system among swimmers, proper training, and regular breaks for lifeguards to maintain alertness.

Portrait of Zurich's sex worker, mother, model, singer and actress Irene Staub. Better known as Lady Shiva.

The immortal story of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout.

Based on a novel by Amos Oz. A couple in Jerusalem before the six day war in 1967, fall in love, get married, have a child and drift apart. With Michael away at war, his wife starts fantasizing about twin Arabs she used to play with as a child.

Short film.

Filipino horror movie from 1974.

A Ruthless gang along with the assistance of their leader's girlfriend Monica, make a heist into an spirits factory's vault and they take 20 millions. On their way out after closing back the vault the alarm goes off and the police is after them. During a shootout all of the member are killed or wounded apart from the gang leader Peter, who makes it, to his girlfriend's car, with all the money in a bag, and he also takes hostage a high rank police officer. The peculiar fellowship is now running away from cops, escaping from road blocks, helicopters and car chases, stealing and changing vehicles constantly in an effort to cross all over Greece and make it to the northern borders.

The NFB filmed the table tennis competitions between teams of young Canadians and Chinese that took place in the People's Republic of China in the summer of 1973, the first time in twenty-five years that such filming was made possible. Shown are highlights of play at the China-Canada Friendship Meet, as well as some of the sightseeing taken in by the young Canadians--a visit, for example, to the Great Wall of China. Film without words.

A story about a little penguin and a big whale who live on an icy island and maintain order on it. Their life credo, which became a catchphrase outside the animation: "Cleanliness is the key to health! Order is the first thing!" One day they were noticed by a person who brought crowds of visitors with him. They left heaps of garbage and destroyed the cleanliness and order on the white iceberg.

Produced in Italy in 1974, Anna Baldazzi’s Greta Garbo is a 30-minute color short that embarks on a singular quest: a journey through the streets of New York in search of the legendary screen icon. Far from a traditional documentary, the film serves as a personal exploration of the filmmaker’s own relationship with the city, navigated through a lens of irony and farce. Baldazzi engages in a playful, dialectical game with the concept of stardom; her stated objective is to "destroy the myth" of the diva, yet she achieves a striking paradox. By maintaining the total absence of Greta Garbo for the entire duration of the film, the legend is not erased, but rather powerfully re-established through its own void.

With the help of drawings, Nestler provides a historical overview of the types of work associated with industries that are crucial to Scandinavia, particularly those related to ore mining.

Mehdi (Mohammad Reza Fazeli), a taxi driver, lives with her son Afshin (Afshin Zolfaghari) and Abbas (Mansour Sepehrnia), her husband's brother, after the death of his wife...

Excavation demonstrates James Cagle’s engagement with structural filmmaking. More specifically it's an example of a "flicker film". Composed of both still photographs and live footage, Excavation employs extremely short-shot juxtapositions to create disorienting collisions of imagery.  For Cagle, this film symbolized a personal exploration of, in his words, “techniques and ideas that have accumulated over the years, but had been without expression for one reason or another.” A dynamic visualization of his thoughts, it “excavates” both the private workings of his inner world, and also the material components of filmmaking.

A story about a rich heiress, Estella, who disguises as a lowly washerwoman in order to find out for herself the true meaning of love that she found in Berting.

Once upon a time, since a head of a village is killed mysteriously, nobody wants to take that post. At that time Won-Seok whose wife is so beautiful voluntarily takes the post and makes efforts to solve the case. Since he doesn't believe in superstition, he firmly believes that the murder is committed by somebody not by an evil spirit. However outline of the murderer is not cleared while mysterious things happen one after another.

The figure of wax to which the title alludes is that of philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), one of the founders of the University of London. The film was shot over a period of two days in three locations: the hall of University College, London, where Bentham’s wax figure sits in a glass-fronted case; Oxford Street; and the City of London. Subtitles indicate a dialogue between Broodthaers and Bentham, in addition to a spoken commentary delivered by Charlotte Hardman. The film is accompanied by Broodthaers playing scales and music by Beethoven and Chopin on the piano.

Botticelli's Venus emerges from the waters, that of Yvan Lagrange, is she shipwrecked?...

A story about a boy who was dreaming about the sea...

A black mass spoof that entices the audience to visit the theater snack bar during intermission

A man swims in the sea. This brings back memories. They are all connected to water, from his early childhood to his adult life.

A hospital in a shabby provincial town in Tsar Russia swarming with spies, traitors and secret police. Doctor Ragin worries about his patient Gronow in Ward Six. Gronow is a former civil servant who talks about the future.

Persian (Iranian) Movie

In his last and only long-form film, Hans-Jakob Siber tells the tale of a hunting accident in the Alps, involving two old shepherds. Accompanied by psychedelic music of pop group The Mandrake Memorial and purely visually narrated, Siber's Xeudi is a hypnotic trip to the inner world of the old men and the mountains in which they have made their home.

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.

The back of Acconci's head is seen in tight close-up. He hums to himself, first lyrically, then aggressively, violently. Suddenly he wheels around to face the camera, his face filling the screen in extreme close-up, squinting at the viewer and speaking breathlessly. When finished, he turns and continues to hum, repeating this cycle again and again.

South African Movie

A contemplative, seemingly timeless record of the years Hutton spent in Southeast Asia while working as a merchant seaman. Jon Jost writes, "The film is rich with truly wonderful visions: a thick, white porcelain cup perched on a ship's rail, the tea within swaying gently in sync with the ship while the sea rushes by beyond…the faces of crewmen posing awkwardly but also movingly for the camera; a cockfight on ship; scenes from a bucolic pre–Pol Pot Phnom Penh. Images has the haunting elegiac resonance of Eugène Atget's Paris, the echo of a time and place that was." - MoMA

About the poet Eguren

Claudine Eizykman with VITESSE WOMEN, presents a torrent, dazzling film that intersects several sequences according to various rhythms, sometimes close to the perceptive thresholds, allowing the deregulation of the senses desired by Rimbaud, opening the way to another mode of perception. —Michel Nuridsany, Le Figaro

Jamie Gillis and Tina Russell as she plays dead in a coffin.

Five ex-political prisoners meet secretly in a country house one afternoon in 1974 on the same day that Salvador Puig Antich is executed, to talk about their experiences in prison.

Since 1967, Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have lived under military occupation, creating, according to Avram Bornstein, a carceralization of their society. In the meantime, pan-Arabism has waned as an aspect of Palestinian identity. The Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and West Bank triggered a second Palestinian exodus and fractured Palestinian political and militant groups, prompting them to give up residual hopes in pan-Arabism. They rallied increasingly around the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which had been formed in Cairo in 1964. The group grew in popularity in the following years, especially under the nationalistic orientation of the leadership of Yasser Arafat.

Alfy is 30 and on the dole. So what does he want with a stuffed tern, a shooting stick, a Harris Tweed suit and a shotgun?

A man tries to legalize prostitution in Victorian era New Orleans.

This film was directly produced on a diverted computer without the involvement of any film equipment. Originally, this film was not in black and white, but in absolute black and full light. Indeed, initially, the screenings were only made with originals in which absolute black was achieved through the use of a totally opaque tape, while absolute white was generated by computer perforation (thus allowing all the light to pass through without the slightest opacity of film material). This film is not the transcription of a movement, but a succession of constructed composite facts which the projection device translates for the eye into impression of movements. It does not refer to any external reality, but is meant to be its own reality.

Nestler highlights visits by several German entrepreneurs to oil facilities. In the 1970s, Peter and his wife, Zsóka Nestler, collaborated on a series of educational films for television that focused on craft-making. These “biographies of objects” are rigorous investigations into the history of working techniques, production processes, and materials.

Weaselly bad guy wants to get in good with a woman he's hot for, so he frames the hero for a murder and then organizes a lynch mob against him... all to further her plans.

Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location of the water, then focuses in very tight on the abstract reflections and shadows.

15-year old Klaus Kambor, called Kurbel, is living in a village in Lusatia and already thinks of himself as an adult. He can hold a lot of rhubarb wine and has already kissed a girl. But with his new method of lawn mowing, which he thinks is brilliant, Klaus makes a big mistake: He causes a wild fire in the forest. Then he does not react adult-like at all, but shirks the responsibility, which leads to the break-up with his girlfriend Daniela. Furthermore, Klaus does not realize that several of the places he likes the most in his environment are now going to be sacrificed to mining. When Klaus becomes friends with the teacher Konzak and with the construction worker Jule, he feels understood for the first time and starts to take more responsibility.

Andi is a newspaper hawker who is honest and kind-hearted. One day he was helping a sick grandfather. The grandfather gave Andi a magical necklace. When the necklace was kissed, Andi turned to Rama who has superhuman strength and can fly. One of the customers of the newspaper Andi is Lia. Lia's father was a professor who invented a new explosive. Black Dragon group trying to steal the explosives formula. Lia and her father helped Rama to capture kingpin Black Dragon. (via Google Translate)

In a surreal, bureaucratically rigid society where ending one’s own life requires an official government permit, depressed florist Stefan Pielek makes the mistake of attempting suicide without the proper paperwork. Under police supervision, he submissively files his official application and closes his shop while waiting for the approval. However, during his aimless wanderings through the city, he meets a young woman who calls herself Ophelia. After falling deeply in love and rediscovering the joy of living, Stefan receives the ultimate bureaucratical blow: his suicide permit is approved, meaning that by law, he no longer exists.

A man sits by a window, meditating on loneliness, fear and confusion.

Dramatic testimony of Gregorio Condori Mamani, who works as a porter in Cusco, Peru. Despite the huge effort they make everyday for a few coins, porters fall and find death in the streets.