Cinematic Era: 1974 Vintage

An episode of the children's series about a little Mole. This story tells how the little Mole became a great experimenter in the field of chemistry for a while.

Crash is a 1974 Norwegian drama film written and directed by Rolf Clemens, starring Jan Solberg and Hanne Krogh. A motorcycle accident leaves the young Jan (Solberg) paralysed. This new situation challenges his attitude towards life, and his relationship both with his parents and with his girlfriend Marianne (Krogh).

The communist party UZ celebrates on the meadows of the Rhine one of the biggest folk festivals that Düsseldorf, Germany, has ever experienced.

In "psychanalyse", a two part documentary, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan answers to questions submitted by his son-in-law Jacques-Alain Miller under the direction of Benoit Jacquot. The Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise (ORTF, the french public TV) broadcast this program. This documentary and its text became famous because this is the only televisual experience practiced by Lacan. A fair amount is made of the fact that Lacan was renowned for his powers of seduction and what effect this had on transference in the clinical setting. According to some of the interviewees, he could be irresistibly seductive, so much so that some thought him "monster".

A little boy celebrates his frog catch.

A documentary film about the construction of the first atomic power station in Soviet Ukraine in Chornobyl. In the film, schoolchildren, public servants and inhabitants of villages of the Chornobyl region try to answer the question "What is the atom?" Their naive and unsure answers illustrate the vague but decidedly trusting perception of the atomic phenomena. In Soviet cinema of the 1970s, the "production of drama" is popular, a genre in which factory or office routines are presented in a romantic light. The film uses all of these new aesthetic trends in a documentary approach. The ambitious construction plans of the power station are shown through a number of personal stories, one of them is about an engineer's dream of a river port in the "atomohrad", and river shuttles which will travel from Pripiat to Kyiv.

Percy works in the maintenance department of Crumbs Custard Factory. He likes custard so much that he has his own private custard-making machine at home. One evening, Percy fails to notice that his vat has sprung a leak, and is spurting custard on a courting couple outside his apartment. A mob breaks into his room, smashing up his vat. Driven to revenge, Percy decides to flood the city with custard.

In the Brussells suburb known as "Bear Cage," a poor grocer is at odds with his sexually hyperactive and fashionably Maoist son, who is also a college student. When the students at the college stage a protest in which his son is involved, his exasperation mounts.

Before moving to a new village, the elderly Vano and Mariam give a gift to people - they carry water from a spring to the highway...

Moving On is a 1974 Australian film about a sheep farmer George Collier who moves to a county town. It was made by Film Australia to help draw attention to the problems the rural poor.

Artists Nancy Holt and Charlemagne Palestine attempt to have a conversation with one another while their voices are distorted.

The mole finds a telephone.

Two 16mm films are projected in a loop on a thin painted aluminum screen hanging in the middle of a room. We can hear the projectors at each end of the room, which project images on the central screen. We can see the same scene on each side of the screen: a woman, seen from the front and front back depending on the side of the screen, painting it with spray paint. A man then tears up the screen and goes through it, followed by the woman. We can see Michael Snow sitting further away, giving instructions to the woman. We can also see the cameras filming the scene from each side. Visitors in the room can walk around the screen and thus watch the scene from one angle or another. Both films are projected in synchronicity on the two sides of the screen.

Susan Sontag scrutinizes the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and the growing divisions within Jewish thought over the question of Palestinian sovereignty. Shot in Israel during the final days of the Yom Kippur War. Promised Lands is less straight documentary than visual collage. There are images of combat zones and soldiers, but also everyday street life, desert landscapes, funerals, supermarkets, the Wailing Wall. The soundtrack is snatches of radio, bursts of church bells and gunfire, and an extended voiceover from two politically opposed Israeli thinkers.

In the victorious year of 1945, the Belarusian women of the village of Vyoletovo planted birch trees in memory of those who did not return from the war. These women preserved the memory of their dear and beloved husbands—who had gone off to war still so young and never came back.

This short film provides an opportunity to take a closer look at the Met's seven beloved "Unicorn Tapestries." Produced for the 1974 exhibition “Masterpieces of Tapestry,” it recounts the tale depicted in the works and explains the symbolic meaning of these mythic creatures, including their purifying and restorative powers.

Vittorio Cottafavi's television film Gente delle Langhe, consisting of three episodes, L'eremita (from the Cesare Pavese story of the same name), La torta di Riccio (from a chapter of Una questione privata by Beppe Fenoglio), Incontro con il padre (from the book Come e perché by Davide Lajolo).

Crime movie.

Ifas y Tryc is a mechanic as well as a writer, in trouble. After delivering three pigs to a market, he visits the pub, and is summarily evicted after a brawl with his non-official worker, Jo, and the staff.

A vehicle for the talented Mrs. Kathleen Hohalek, as the tenant of the Pyramid Penthouse, with George Kuchar and Bob Hohalek as the burglars, "Slug," and "Boom Boom," John Thomas as "the Copper" and Ainslie Pryor as "the maid."

A fun-filled hour with the Lundstrom family presenting the Gospel in music and message.

The fair is coming soon, and all the animals in Puppet Valley are excited to enter their produce in the big contest. But Bruce Goose won't tell anybody what he's entering, and McKelvey the Scotty Dog suspects Bruce might have a trick up his sleeve. A lesson in honesty and bearing "fruit" in your life by your deeds.

"…such varied delights as noted film critic and theoretician Laleen Jayamanne performing a Sri Lankian ritual dance on a tenement rooftop after polishing off a 32-oz. beer in 'Yaknetuma From the Lower East Side'…" -- Bruce Bennett, the New York Sun

Repeating, erratic zooms on Gusella's face.

The experimental film, an allegory about the meaning and significance of human life, conveys a message about man as a bridge from the past to the future. The film received a silver medal at the Latvian SSR Amateur Film Society's annual screening and participated in the Baltic Amateur Film Festival in Vilnius in 1976. The film was digitally restored in 2010 by Uldis Lapiņš.

Originally showcased in the "Cinema Differente" section of Kinomata retrospective, Yannick Arnault’s Orbe is a mesmerizing experimental study of visual perception and light. The film delves into the interplay of reflections, where the "real" is constantly deferred and modified, gaining a life of its own through the surfaces it inhabits. Arnault explores the fluidity of appearance, bridging the gap between external reality and an inner, more abstract truth. By liberating the object from traditional narrative constraints, Orbe creates a unique sensory experience that challenges how we see and interpret the world around us—a quintessential example of 1970s avant-garde filmmaking.

A cartoon character falls victim to various traditional pratfalls for no particular reason.

Omsa Sud workers’ struggle to keep the factory occupied. The documentary was partially realized within a project financed by the city of Fermo, which initially included the idea of teaching video shooting techniques as part of a laboratory. Omsa Sud was shot only in one week, an unusual occurence for the Videobase group, and features as part of their methodology the "video within the video" approach.

A group of schoolchildren, having decided to congratulate their mothers on the 8th of March, go to the mountains for snowdrops. Various adventures await them on the way, they have to overcome many difficulties. But despite this, the guys come home with flowers.

Report on the goldsmithing work carried out in pre-Columbian Peru.

Rit (Mit), a wealthy young man, and Lin (Miss Margaret Lin), a peasant girl, are a couple from vastly different social classes. They overcome various obstacles together to build a married life. But life is like a spinning windmill; Lin becomes pregnant and suffers an accident that causes amnesia. Meanwhile, Rit has to travel abroad, giving his mother, who despises poor daughters-in-law, an opportunity to get rid of Lin in order to make Duangporn (Petchara) her daughter-in-law, as she had always hoped. But will the power of love, gratitude, and goodness have an impact on the turbines of their lives?

The new plant manager at a popcorn factory, an Air Force Reservist, learns that the CEO is a great admirer of the Reserves' work.

Iraqi writer and director Kassem Hawal’s 24 minute film Our Small Houses is one of the few surviving works made by the cinema group Hawal founded and led under the Central Information Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Badly damaged and often overlooked in histories of revolutionary film, it combines lucid Marxist-Leninist analyses with striking montage techniques.

After the declaration of Bangladeshi independence, the war of liberation begins. West Pakistani troops detain Captain Asad and a soldier but Asad escapes from the local prison. West Pakistani troops searching for Asad arrive at his house with Razakar Daliluddin and snatch his sister's friend Rikta from his mother. Asad returns home and learns everything from his mother. Asad joins with Major Hassan and they conduct a military operation to liberate his village and rescue the tortured Rikta from West Pakistani troops. They win the battle. For nine months Asad fights with the freedom fighters and liberate Bangladesh from West Pakistan, undergoing for many hardships.

Two children prove to be the most courageous circus performers of them all.

The Parable of the Lost/ Prodigal Son as told by Lotte Reiniger.

Part II of Andrew Noren's The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse

This farmer comedy is about a completely normal and very average cat who the nasty neighbor claims has chosen his purebred chicken chicks as his favorite food. The neighbor responds with a sharp shot from a hunting rifle. As a result, the cat is fatally shot and the cat owner is deeply wounded. The argument begins, there is talk of murder and crime, the dispute escalates through three acts until the - naturally conciliatory - conclusion: it turns out that everything was "for nothing".

Clay retelling of an 11th-century Arabic folk tale about six blind men

Kung-fu movie.

Dedeheiwa the shaman weeds his manioc garden and clears the leaves around his plantains. Tired and sore, he rests while he is massaged and groomed by his wife and numerous children, with whom he plays affectionately.

A documentary film by North Ossetian television about how a river flowing through several republics of the North Caucasus unites people living in them. Together they build bridges, work in production, create the famous Tersko-Kuma irrigation canal, and a state farm where grapes are grown.… This is a film about the friendship of many generations of peoples inhabiting the shores of the buiny Terek, and about the benefits that the river gives to man.

An epic struggle to tie a knot in a length of fabric using the feet.

At dawn a nomad caravan descends on Aq Kupruk from the foothills of the Hindu Kush. In their camp, and in commerce with the townspeople, the Maldar reveal the mixture of faith and distrust that has kept nomads and sedentary people separate and interdependent over the centuries. The theme of the film focuses on political and religious beliefs. The film and accompanying instructor notes in this series embrace five different and complex units of analysis concerning how political change occurs; individual attitudes, ethnic identity, national loyalties, institutional affiliations, and ideological beliefs.

A documentary about autistic children and the difficult and often trying process of their education. While attending special art classes in a small well-equipped studio, several children are seen during the delicate and inspired moments of learning self-discovery. Here the teachers meet, with great inventiveness and sensitivity, some of the special challenges posed by autistic children and achieve some moving breakthroughs.

The film is about the disease tuberculosis and the methods used to fight it. The film discusses the achievements of Azerbaijani medical workers in treating this disease and the new methods they have developed.

I made a single video that by the way I never saw, in 1972 or maybe 1973, in Florence, with Maria Gloria Bicocchi, it was a fixed image for fifteen minutes, by the way an absent image, the shadow of an image. Again still a no to both the image and the photographic and dynamic function of the instrument, it was probably a reaction to an exaggerated actionism and contortionism at that time, for me it was the equivalent of Duchamp's "silence." - C. Parmiggiani

A man runs through city streets, followed by a figure darkly dressed, always on his heels. He gets something to eat, reads a paper, smokes a cigarette, but never stops running, going through a city park, an amusement park, and finally ending the pursuit on a beach.

In the tradition of Sunn Classics and Pacific International ; a new company , American National Enterprises, released a true life adventure of their own that didnt quite reach the heights of Grizzly Adams or The Wilderness Family

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.

Ângelo de Sousa documents a protest five months and four dates after the carnation revolution.

A boy in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico learns about the miracle of Baby Jesus.