Cinematic Era: 1974 Vintage

A family on the brink of disaster awaits the return of one who’s rumoured to have made a fortune abroad.

The film's theme is the attitude of adults towards the adoption of minors.

An adventure movie directed by Rolf Olsen.

In the summer of 1944, a Hungarian soldier commits a murder to earn a short leave from the front, but instead of returning, he chooses to desert. He flees into the desolate Carpathian Mountains with his elderly grandmother, searching for a hidden cave where his parents are rumored to be hiding from the war. Convinced that the world is ending, the pair struggles through the brutal, wintry landscape in a desperate attempt to find sanctuary and outrun the consequences of his actions.

In this short film by animator Evelyn Lambart, a handsome frog courts and wins a mouse for his bride. The colourful animation does full justice to the events that take place during and after the wedding breakfast. Sung by Derek Lamb to lute accompaniment.

experimental film by Dana Gordon

As Socrates is abroad for treatment, Elina's young woman falls in love with the painter Hector whom he has installed. Louisa, a girlfriend who lives with her, poses for Hector and is in love with him. He plans to murder Elina.

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.

"In the early 1970s I filmed compact versions of a series of films that came on television and interested me, which should lead to revealing at least essential parts of their structure. In 1974, 30 of those experiments were mounted in sequence - so more or less chronologically - forming a film entitled Elementary Filmhistory. This film was intended to make a broad reading of the direction in which the cinema grew from 1960." (Klaus Wyborny)

Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a four-minute, hippie wonder consisting of frolicking naked women in the countryside, broke new ground for its exploration of lesbian identity, desire and aesthetic.

The work shows how the tragedy of the "undeclared war" in Khalkh river in 1939 affected the hearts of ordinary herders without fighting. The story of the film revolves around the relationship between the young warrior Chuluunkhu and his love interest Densmaa and the deep life of his father and mother who are overwhelmed by grief.

Traditionally confined to the roles of life-givers, nurturers and homemakers, Boran women of Kenya are slowly realizing the importance of education and the difference it can make in their lives. They attach great importance to the traditional role of women in a herding society and perform dawn to dusk tasks with little deviation from customary ways. Remarkable though is the obvious independence they demonstrate in performing tasks which normally would fall under the male domain, like building their own houses. The film is principally observational with occasional segments in which the women speak directly to the camera.

This film is still a close part of me. I don’t think I could make another one like this again. It deals with space on many levels within a single movement, a movement that has a circular form that involves each viewer within the film itself.

Two women, one from Boston and one from Germany, flee their empty lives to seek fulfillment in Mexico. The Black Angel is a transitional film; on one hand, it is a companion piece to Willow Springs, featuring two Schroeter regulars as characters far from home and in extremis; on the other hand, it is a film essay about Mexico and as such a harbinger of Schroeter’s nonfiction work to come. While he clearly shares his characters’ fascination with Mexico, the filmmaker also savages touristic exoticism – the otherworldly appearances of his protagonists and their rapturous reactions to new surroundings contrast sharply with the sober perceptions of Mexican history and economics featured in the documentary segments and in the prosaic presence of a non-professional cast of locals. - Harvard Film Archive

An experimental film where a particular space is constantly "present" : there is a complex usage of superim- position, and of split-screen effects. The place shown is a part of a house in the country. Doors and windows are continually shown, emphasizing the film's concern with framing. Other images are present: city-scapes of a particularly sinister nature, implying a sense of ruin, and shots of a chorus on a stage. These shots begin and end the film which is accompanied by a vocal chant on the soundtrack.

A Turkish version of Straw Dogs (1971), set in a small Cypriot village in the days before the 1974 Turkish invasion.

The collection consists of 2 cartoons: "Newlyweds". The story is about young spouses who, in pursuit of external comfort, lose both themselves and their love. "Portrait". The film is about a man who, in order to admire his photograph, destroys the house in which he lives.

An autumnal celebration of colorful fall leaves, brooks and bathing, chanting circles and tree goddess rites. Shot on witch's land in Northern California, it is a woman celebrating woman and nature film with the poetry of Elsa Gidlow accompanying.

The manager of a leading stockbroking firm is found dead in his car. On inspection, an audit team find that one-and-a-half million pounds worth of shares are missing.

Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain tells the tale of the Western Shoshone of Nevada and their fight to regain 24 million acres of land stolen by the U.S. government.

The country is portrayed before and after the storm of the military to the government palace “La Moneda” when Salvador Allende is killed and the directors discover the implications of American companies that were involved in the political developments.

hong kong film

Portrait of comic book artist Marcel Gotlib.

One-Eyed Men Are Kings [Les... borgnes sont rois] is a 1974 French short film directed by Michel Leroy and Edmond Séchan. In the film, a sad middle-aged man in Paris man and his dog go for a walk, which turns into an ordeal. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Rolf and Susanne visit an indoor swimming pool. They learn how to buy tickets at the ticket office, how to find and use the changing rooms and showers and how to behave correctly in the pools for swimmers and non-swimmers.

A reflection on the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet captured in its economic and social causalities. Originally shot for a TV youth program but canceled before broadcast.

The film covers the oppression of Jews under the Nazis and features rare historical footage of concentration camps. The title is derived from a comment by a witness at Adolf Eichmann's trial. According to his testimony, he was whipped 80 times by the Nazis, but was not believed by Israelis after the war; this final doubt of his own people was the "81st blow". The 81st Blow is the first film in the Israeli Holocaust Trilogy by Bergman, Ehrlich and Gouri. It was followed by The Last Sea (1980) and Flames in the Ashes (1985).

Short film by artist Kosai Hori

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.

The film that caused Sheri Millbradt to lose 40 pounds.

short of a woman mowing a lawn

A man makes a bet with himself to stop smoking, but he can't.

Deda, an enthusiastic young worker, is trying to fix a cut telephone line during the harsh winter, so that people can wish each other a happy New Year.

Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.

Two lovers, Qais Aamri and Laila Bint Sarwar, from Nakhlistan, are unable to unite as Qais face opposition from Meet Sarwar, Laila's Father. However, when fate intervenes, Laila gets married to Shehzada Bakht while Qais goes to wanderness.

The parable of a simple watering Bot, who discovered the gift of an artist. Real creativity brings its own joys and its own torments...

This ballet film based on a classic poem by Abdul-Qādir Bedil tells the tragic love story of an Indian dancer and a Tajik singer and musician.

Brief portrait of a conformist.