Cinematic Era: 1974 Vintage

In documentary fashion, drag queens are shown preparing for a performance, of which clips are also shown.

No Interview

Set on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmmaker suggests a mysterious and complex space by using a ‘floating’ camera to film a number of crawling, creeping personages. (MUBI)

Kitty and Inge are two sisters from Amsterdam who are on holiday in Limburg. During their stay they hear about a mysterious criminal on the loose named "the black rider" on the radio. To their surprise, they encounter a man dressed in black walking around in the forest...

The story of how wilts, pests of cotton fields, tried to spoil the Harvest Festival.

About a thoughtful, lonely child making his own discoveries.

Made jointly by the Women’s Film Workshop and some of the inmates of the California Institution for Women, this is a moving analysis of why the women are in prison, what’s happening to them, what’s to become of them. It begins and ends with film taken outside the walls, while the rest is videotape transferred to film of the prisoners talking about race, sex and religion, class, economics and drugs. Occasionally statistics are inserted, but generally the women show such a degree of articulacy and radical thought that what they have to say is explanation enough. A remarkably undated combination of political anger and collective tenderness.

16mm film by Wyndham Wise.

The trace is similar to the index, but there is a more complex relationship to the original referent because the trace is at once a repetition and an erasure. In his 1974 film The Portrait of Père Tanguy, Goldstein traced a reproduction of the famous Vincent van Gogh painting of the same name. While on the one hand Goldstein's presence is affirmed by the mark which he makes on the paper, on the other, his sense of selfhood or individual identity is called into question by the fact that he is merely tracing an image produced by another individual, an image originally intended to assert van Gogh's individuality and sense of selfhood. The repetition is compounded by the fact that the tracing is, in fact, a tracing of a reproduction so that we are faced with a seemingly endless trail of doubling and disappearance.

A journalistic story inspired by Volodymyr Vernadsky about the genesis of life in the universe — from the physical elements of the primordial broth to the civilization of intelligent man.

A regular Sunday in 1970s Budapest.

A service is ordered by the Junta in praise of the Junta. The Cardinal, forced to utter Benedictions, resorts to words for all those who suffer and pray, that they may be freed and consoled. The profaners have to content themselves with psalm 18: “They cried unto the Lord, but he answered them not.”

A continuous, extreme show is held, every year, in Tesla Arena in Prague. The visitors can be impressed by shows of dangerous riding on motorcycles, amazing acrobatics on 4 wheel vehicles, etc…

During the course of our era, a major pre-Hispanic civilization, now called the Moche, developed on the northern coast of Peru, flourishing as the Roman Empire declined, a thousand years before the Inca civilization emerged. The film reconstructs the various aspects of the social and romantic life of the Moche people, based on their rich pottery.

Olav H. Hauge reads his own poems accompanied by fruit trees and Western Norway nature.

About the work of the young ballerina Nadezhda Pavlova and choreographer Nikolai Boyarchikov. Their collaboration on the image of Juliet formed the basis of the film.

Douglas Dunn performs a series of movements with a board found randomly in the street and whose shape is reminiscent of the state of Nevada.

In this documentary from 1974, Alan Price visits the North East of England, including his home town Jarrow, and talks about his musical career. In London he rehearses, records and performs some new songs, which reflect the changes in his life and attitude brought by his ten years as a professional musician.

The origins of Brazilian popular music and the types of scales used, as well as the various currents that emerged and formed different schools. The great composers.

About how the guys went to the mountains, about their adventures.

ca. 1974, color, sound, 5 min.

A documentary incorporating 13 weeks of teaching of film animation by Faith and John Hubley in the School of Art at Yale University including the conception and production of the film entitled Cockaboody. Made in collaboration with film students and faculty of the Yale Child Study Center, the film comprehends the realm of animation from the basic soundtrack of two small children to visualization and then execution in an art form

Melania Kicała lives with her family in Warsaw. A lonely woman, she decides to join the "Wielka gra" game show.

Soundstage Original Series 1974-1985 The man who drove his "Taxi" to the top of the music charts entertains.

Corinne Cantrill’s film At Eltham from 1974 explores her fascination with Australian landscapes and introduces her interest in playing the 16mm camera functions as a musical instrument. In an essay, Corinne notes she subtitled the film ‘A Metaphor on Death’ referring to their despair, at the time, about their future as filmmakers in Australia and their decision to leave the country temporarily.

Using archival photographs, historical footage, and illustrations, this documentary traces the evolution of the feminist movement in the United States from the eighteenth century to the rise of modern women’s liberation.

United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

The glass window being installed - labour - being the subject ostensibly of the film...glaziers and glass having a history within representation from the german novella through Beckett's molloy through Duchamp though at the time none of that was conscious, it was for me about the endless superimpositions of a transparent signifier...five layers of optical superimposition (and as each in the lab darkens the scene, it necessitated lightening....each time one step more for each of five 'same' temporalities....) that alone for a viewer/viewing enough to unsettle any seeing through glass, any transparencies....shown at Knokke EXPRMNTL in 1974 to general incomprehension my own included.

Writes Campus, "My most dryly stated tape, free of insinuation, [R-G-B] is simply the exploration by a performer of the color system in which he is trapped, much like a prisoner pacing off his cell." Campus the performer creates a self-portrait within the technical system, transforming video space as he manipulates color physically, mechanically and electronically. Staring directly into the camera, he first places multicolored gels on the lens, then projects slides of pure color. Exploring video's electronic color system, he points the camera at a monitor and adjusts the color switches, creating a chain reaction, a video "hall of mirrors." Finally, he totally immerses his figure in saturated fields of electronic video color, his body ultimately submerged in the technology.

The wonderful world of skiing is an extremely vibrant and colorful place. Just ask professionals like Junior Bounous, John Hoopengartner, Jerry Warren, Skip Harwood, Tim Cole, John Reveal, Wayne Wong, Al Rain, Nancy Green, and many others as they travel from resort to resort just to show you The Color of Skiing. From Telluride to Pennsylvania, all the way to France and Switzerland, and finally back to Whistler and Sun Valley Warren Miller takes you on a ski trip that's truly full of color.

Warhol-inspired. A parade of the future protagonists of the "Cinéma" and "Cinéma Opéra" theaters in Lyon.

A short animated feature which Fred Burns created with 2,000 inked, painted, and photographed images.

An ant finds a hazelnut. She can't carry it alone and calls the other ants for help. The crow takes the hazelnuts to its tree. The ants are going to fight. They make a pyramid and reach the hazelnut. They transport it at the cost of many sacrifices to the anthill. The hazelnut breaks the anthill, and also breaks. A worm crawls out of it.

Political intervention by Günter Wallraff.

By threatening to enforce Abdollah's checks and promissory notes, the lustful woman causes Abdollah to divorce his wife Zinat and leave his two children, Touraj and Faraj, and marry her. The woman does not get pregnant and they take a girl from the orphanage to raise.

Gholamabbas lives in a house with his father and his old cook. The father is busy with his own small business, and the child is obsessed with the old man's stories, which he listens to at night after reading the Qur'an.

Synthavision was an early computer CGI technology developed by MAGI (Mathematical Applications Group, Inc.), and one of the first systems to implement a ray-tracing algorithmic approach to hidden surface removal in rendering images, using solid primitives with combinatorial operators rather than the polygons or wireframe meshes that most CGI companies use today. This demo sampler was directed by golden age animator Jack Zander and designed by Joanne Mitchell, and showcases the technology and its capabilities through short segments of experimental animation and colorful compositions.

Made by Bill and Louise Etra with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer in 1974. "A short piece of Gothic horror."

A short story about an three-man crew of lodgers and their task of cutting down a single tree.

A borderland village of Trás-os-Montes, 27 km away from Bragança, Rio de Onor preserved - due to its isolated location - the old communitarian practices, of farmers and shepherds, that define it as an important and unmistakable center of this region.

Documentary about innocent people confined to prison on remand. John Pilger reports that more than half of the 500,000 people remanded in custody by magistrates each year are eventually found not guilty, fined or, as in the case of “Helen”, given a conditional discharge. Helen, charged with stealing a pair of slippers but with no previous convictions, recalls her day in Holloway Prison, London, which started at 7am when she joined 96 other prisoners in a rush to use four toilets whose conditions were “disgusting”. Between then and lunchtime, all prisoners were locked up, with just half-an-hour’s walk round a large yard for exercise. Lunch was eaten in cells, with tea at 3.30pm, before they were locked up until the following morning.

Filmed directly from color television controlled by computer programs. Beautifully flowing shapes that overlap and intertwine.

Activities leading up to the launch of a large ship built at the Swan Hunter's Wallsend shipyard.

Short film.

Animated film, made in the form of an interview with an artist of an ironic magazine.

An animated short film that follows Tito, a small elephant who abandons the peace of his home in nature to face the high speed of the capitalist city. It was prohibited by censor Hugo Paulino Tato who qualified its protagonist as a "Marxist elephant".

An unedited film built up from layers of superimposed images. The lit match is the light source and the image; its duration also structures time.