Cinematic Era: 1974 Vintage

A Silver Bear award winning short drama about the relationship between a father and his daughter.

8mm film by Akira Hoshino.

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

Nitrato expresses the ambiguities and contradictions of the Cinemateca Brasileira. The film deals with the richness of its collection, the recognition of international entities, and explores what its relationship to the general public was like. Nitrato also portrays the neglect with which the institution is treated, as seen in how precarious its building infrastructure is, how politicians neglected to communicate with the institution’s staff, and the aftermath of another fire in the building.

A Hector Heathcote animation.

Documentary reports on night workers in the German Democratic Republic in the fall of 1973. The camera provides insights into the difficult and often bleak work during the night hours. Examples of work in a large bakery, in a police call center, in a railroad signal box, in a steel and coking plant and finally in a power station show that the city must continue to live at night. Apart from two short commentaries at the beginning and end of the documentary and a few musical sounds, the atmosphere of the workplace captured in each case is only rarely underpinned with speech.

"HER" to me is always Jane, in the first place, but also Hera: "goddess of women and marriage," naturally enough. Then, too, as it is a hymn of light, and as he/me feels the self that way, it sings of and to itself.

A short documentary about Father Christmas' annual six-day trek through the Australian desert aboard the Tea and Sugar Train.

Documentary short about the nomadic puppeteers of Rajasthan.

When two scrappy boys show up at Mrs. Cope's farm, she doesn't quite know what to do.Only boys, how much damage can they do? When Mrs. Cope finally tells the boys they must leave, they hide and then in a fit of anger set fire to her woods.

Due to being unemployed and facing urgent economic circumstances, Benyamin agrees to be a handyman to repair an old, dilapidated house, which is about to be occupied by someone newly returned from studying in England. It turns out that the house is haunted by many ghosts. These ghosts are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Prince Dracula and his son, who is to be married to the child of one of the ghosts in the house.

Grain trader Hamdi lives with his two sons Mahmoud and Hussein and his niece Wafaa. He treats Hussein differently because his mother had a disgraceful past. Hussein finds out that his mother is the dancer Fawzia Rushdie, he goes to meet her and she denies him at first.

One of the late documentarian Jane Morrison’s super 8mm films, Lipstick documents the rituals of a woman applying makeup and getting ready for her day.

By the time Slavomir Popovici filmed this documentary, his protagonist was already famous for the museum of history and folk art he had established in his house in Arbore village. His museum was visited by thousands of tourists each year, while the journals that he had kept for four decades had been published in 1972 as The Chronicle from Arbore. Hrib was a peasant autodidact from Bucovina, North Romania. Although he was an eccentric, he was also the perfect film protagonist for 1970s Romanian documentary.

With Tony Morgan and his fools It was the time when the hair was becoming shorter and the skirts became longer again.

short of a woman mowing a lawn

Mister Rossi goes to Venice.

The film is an adaptation of a play written by the celebrated Canadian author and playwright W.O. Mitchell. It follows the lives of three very different women who have recently been released from a mental institution named Beulah. They move into a psychiatric halfway house together and struggle to maintain their independence while managing their personal conflicts and keeping their authoritarian psychiatrist, Dr. Anders, at bay.

A television film dedicated to the work of People's Artist of the USSR, Anastasia Platonovna Zueva.

Together with the authors of the film, we will visit the different parts of the RSFSR: Dagestan and Primorye, Kamchatka and Moscow, Leningrad and since. High Ryazan region, Novosibirsk Akademgorodok and the All-Russian Central Committee of the Young Communist League summer camp "Eaglet".

Argentine film shot in color directed by Pedro Stocki from a script by Oscar Balducci, produced in 1974 but not authorized for exhibition at the time and remains unpublished

On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the so-called atomic spies of the 1950s, were executed at Sing Sing Prison. Their death only fostered the belief of many Americans that the Rosenbergs were innocent, victims of the anti-Communist paranoia of the 50s, rather than spies who had stolen atomic secrets for the Russians. In this landmark documentary, Alvin Goldstein looks at the facts and procedures of the Rosenberg case, as well as the climate of the times, interviewing jurors, FBI agents, lawyers for both sides, and the two sons of the Rosenbergs. Using documentary and newsreel footage, Goldstein creates a moving human drama.

The script is inspired by a true event from the Second World War: an appeal to the Serbian people to collaborate with the occupier. Each of the characters decides according to the appeal inherent in his being and his personality. In this case, the basic conflict is between father and son.

A documentary made by Cuban journalists about the Portuguese revolution in 1974 that overthrew the dictatorship of Salazar

Colour cut-out animation inspired by the shape of snowflakes and touched with the airy magic of these fragile designs. While music tinkles invitingly, snowflakes roll and whirl, pulse and glitter, shining with the many hues of twinkling lights. Made without words, this is a joyous film to please the fancy and captivate eye and ear.

Based on a story by Alexander Batrov. A film about the relationship between schoolboy Gleb and his grandmother, which starts off very coldly but changes dramatically. The grandmother, a war veteran, comes to visit her grandson for the first time, but he is not at all happy about her arrival, as he was planning to go camping with his friends. However, his tireless and energetic grandmother changes his attitude towards her. And they become best friends.

Inês Etienne Romeu was an opponent to the Brazilian's dictatorship. She was kidnapped, tortured and raped in jail, where she stayed for almost 100 days. She was later sentenced to life imprisonment. She stayed ten years in prison, from 1971 to 1979. Delphine Seyrig directed this film in 1974, when Inês was still in prison, protesting against this imprisonment and in support to Inês.

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.

"This short film was intended to create a colour field painting based on the flower fields that provided the living for so many, mostly undocumented, workers in the area. When the camera closes in on the beautiful colour-striped hillside, the laborers in the field can be seen. Later, in a run up Highway 5, we see the immigration police at their mobile roadblock."

Arntsen takes things and people around him too seriously, and has therefore been awarded a disability pension. And he is not exactly clairvoyant either. But that may come, and often with female help from, for example, Vaskemutter, for whom he does the laundry, or Mette, who has her own problems and accepts him as he is – even without clothes.

Confessor, a city-dweller who has “bugged” several telephone lines, hears the stories of: a woman who wishes for a white knight but realizes the man is sterile upon his arrival; a woman living with a mannequin that takes the place of a husband; and females who attend parties in the nude. A proxy for the Vietnam War is staged in a supermarket, and the Confessor, or one of the subjects he has surreptitiously monitored, dies amid an assault of mass media imagery. "...an American underground effort by Edward Bergman and Alan Soffin shown in the Film Market. Despite some portentous attempts at structure, this is closer to a collection of shorts than a feature, and often amateurish shorts at that, pivoted around the general theme of media overload (another version of Future Shock?)" - Jonathan Rosenbaum

The participants of a séance end up participating in an orgy.

As a young girl living in an institution for girls where the nights are restless, Iphis decides to accompany her godfather who is going on a cruise on a yacht. To avoid the problems that would be caused by the presence of a young woman on board, Iphis, dressed as a boy, pretends to be the nephew of the man who is actually her godfather. Seeing her advances rejected by her uncle, Iphis, thanks to her disguise, seduces in turn the sailor, the son of a friend, a pretty girl hired as second mate and the real sailor. This removes all scruples from the uncle for the rest of the voyage.

Hans Børli reads his own poems against the backdrop of the eastern forest worker environment.

Surfers discover Tamarind Bay in Maritius.

A 1974 film from Ishmael Bernal about a man with seven wives.

South African Film

A jack in the box gives a lesson about the alphabet by having all the letters come forward and speak.

Time-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot entirely through a glass ashtray. "'All that is is light.' – Dun Scotus Erigena. 'To see the world in a grain of sand.' – William Blake. These are the primary impulses while working on this film. It is dedicated to Jim Davis who showed me the first spark of refracted film light." - S.B.

Sasha Kazarinov, an oil college student, is undergoing an internship at one of the drilling rigs in the northern taiga. At first, his relationship with drilling foreman Leushin did not work out. Leushin does not trust the city boy and does not put Sasha on the winch, although it is the topic of his thesis. But gradually, with his diligence, the intern wins the trust of the master.

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

The second Libyan feature-length film.

Clouds roll by in a static haze.

The drama of a young military pilot whose illness prevents him from flying and condemns him to a hopeless existence. Major Grela hoped to become the head of the test pilots' group. However, the higher command appointed Horycki, his former colleague and friend. They had both once been in love with Krystyna, Grela's current wife. A sharp conflict arises between them, both professionally and privately.

A failed marriage takes in a young niece while the wife tries to take away her inheritance.

In this personal film made during when Idemitsu went back and forth between Japan and USA, the subjective gaze is depicted in the abstract images with high contrast.

Examines the plight of battered wives. In particular, looks at the experiences of a group of women who with their children were receiving temporary refuge in a house run - without official help - by a woman from Chiswick Women's Aid.

Portrays, through animation, the adventures of four American folk heroes: John Henry, Stormalong, Paul Bunyan, and Pecos Bill. Describes John Henry's steel-driving abilities, Stormalong's adventures as a great sailor, Paul Bunyan's accomplishments as a lumberjack, and why Pecos Bill was considered king of the cowboys.

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.

Fortunately, a very short play of light. I had a crush on the nature of projectors. Bill Judson detected a suspicion that a demon was truly contained in the machines. –D. L.