Cinematic Era: 1974 Vintage

Useful film featuring a firefighter robot.

ABC's Saturday morning tapes have been stolen by members of PSSST, so Lee Majors calls in The Six Million Dollar Man to help get the videos back.

Children's nursery rhymes in a film.

An animated short film on the food industry.

This film is a performance that the artist undertook at Old Man’s Creek, Sharon Center, Iowa City, Iowa. The performance was recorded on Super-8 film and 35mm slides. The film shows Mendieta standing naked on the sandy bank on one side of the creek, in front of flowing water and a steep mud bank on the other side. After looking directly at the camera, she raises a flask to shoulder level and begins pouring blood down her chest, legs and stomach. She then reaches over her shoulders to include her back, and covers her arms before casting the empty vessel aside. Dropping to the ground, she plunges face-first into a heap of white feathers where she slowly rolls back and forth, adhering the feathers to the sticky blood on her skin. Finally, she rises slowly to stand with her arms held away from her body but bent at the elbow as though she is imagining being a bird with wings. She holds this position for a few seconds before the film ends.

Boys and girls can't play together? Yes, they can. And they can do so for an entire day.

The candle as light, photography using light, refraction, motion picture, that is, the film poem-like recollection of the magical world of cinematography.

Uses animation without narration to show the painting of a man's face--a face that is continuously metamorphosing into different types. The film's title indicates an artist's evolution, as well as the evolution of man in relation to society and to his innate potential.

Stop motion animation using various melons singing along to the Rivingstons "Papa Oom Mow Mow".

The Kanaga mask is used in deeply sacred rituals by the Dogon people of Mali. Carving this mask is as important a ritual as the ceremonies in which the mask is used. The carver, a blacksmith, finds the proper tree and, in a secret cave outside the village, he shapes the mask with gestures which repeat the movement of the dancers who will wear it. When a dancer wears the Kanaga mask he becomes the Creator symbolically. He touches the ground with his mask and directs a soul to Heaven. Although these dances are now frequently performed for the public, the meaning of Kanaga is retained by the Dogon who fear, respect and depend on the power of the mask.

The Central Finger (16mm, silent, 5 1/2 minutes, 1974).

Raffi and Silva are a married couple with a son. After struggling to make ends meet, the couple have a fight. Silva and the baby son runaway leaving Raffi behind. Raffi is heartbroken and struggles with his dream to be a musician. After some time, he gets the big break and goes from an Armenian singing idol into a worldwide superstar

Kathy worked as a nurse in Greece and then came to Canada. She and her family live in northern Alberta, where they are developing a farm. Kathy works outside the home as a nurse, sews for the children, maintains the house, and helps with the farm work.

IMPLOSION is an optical film (printed by the film-maker himself) of contra-gravitational images in space. The film was made in Amsterdam at the Dutch Filmmakers Koop. The sound track was composed by the film-maker specifically for the film for a synchronous sound and sight display. –R. L.

About Karl Rune Oskarsson 380925-2335, alcoholic - Kåge Jonsson directed this odd drama documentary based on the participants' own experiences and authentic journal entries about Karl Rune "Nollan" Oskarsson who "yo-yos" in and out of several detox centers and forced care. A hard-hitting piece of black and white Swedish social realism from the dark alleys of the welfare society, populated by the homeless outcast of Stockholm.

Tanzania's first feature-length film.

A parallel of the life and work of two Volkswagen workers, one in Brazil and the other in Germany, who perform identical functions in assembling the VW Beetle.

In the next episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin talks about the capital of the United States of America - Washington. There are bigger and more beautiful rivers in America, if not the Potomac River meandering among the plains of the Atlantic coast of the country, but for many reasons: geographical, economic and political order, at the end of the 18th century, it is here, at the junction of the industrial north and the plantation south, not far from places where the waters of the Potomac disappear without a trace in the vast bulk of the Atlantic, a city named after George Washington was founded.

Documentary on various aspects of Kuwaiti life, the contrasts between a backward society that lives in the desert and a very modern society that lives in the city.

Mexican feature film

This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens.

Anthropological drama that tells the story of Juan Belmonte's family and their fight against vineyard contractors in Mendoza.

Introduces the work of Alan Lomax and his colleagues in developing choreometrics, a cross-cultural method of studying the relationship of dance style to social structure. Shows how the group, including Forrestine Paulay and Irmgard Bartenieff, analyzed dance films from all over the world and established a connection between patterns of movement and patterns of culture.

Scenes of a woman, here- taking great pride in caring for her hair, there- taking great care of the land.

United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 1 min

Acconci's open mouth is framed by the camera in an extreme close-up, bringing the viewer uncomfortably close. A desperate sense of strained urgency comes across as Acconci gasps, "I'll accept you, I won't shut down, I won't shut you out.... I'm open to you, I'm open to everything.... This is not a trap, we can go inside, yes, come inside...." Acconci continues to plead in this way for the length of the tape, his mouth held unnaturally wide open. The pathological psychology of such enforced openness betrays a desperate struggle to accept and be accepted by others. The sustained image of Acconci's open mouth also evidences a sinister, vaguely threatening streak that is more or less evident in much of Acconci's work.

1974 Bas Jan Ader video work

A radical Christian group's lecture tour of US colleges was filmed in the cinema verité tradition, with hand held camera, sync and wild sound. To avoid making a conventional documentary, the filmmaker created a dynamic collage by stroboscopically editing together pairs of scenes using a rapid rhythm of three-frame units.

Short video art piece.

Short film.

A film about the work and persona of the artist Yaacov Agam, using a display of movement, form, and rhythm.

Early pink film directed by Sôjirô Motoki.

Documentation about the so-called “social training”, a new model in the penal system.

Is it possible to provide the amenities required by modern life without destroying the socio-cultural heritage of past generations? In this film two historically preserved cities present contrasting examples of contemporary growth.

" The electronic computer - with its many possibilities of fast data processing - is not strictly used in scientific and economic fields anymore, it now plays a direct part in the production process. Filmed at the Galați Steel Mill, the film shows the ways in which the computer conducts the production of steel, making fast decisions in as little time as possible, in raport to the variety of situations which may occur. "

Feature-length documentary film about the California counter-culture movement, which toured college campuses in various film festivals of the time. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

A sound comedy where the action of the performers is directed by strange sounds.

Turkish Comedy

In July and August Lehman filmed 150 individuals in and around Brussels, and he himself was filmed by the same persons. Like in a kaleidoscope relatives as well as friends and strangers pass the eye of the camera. Album 1 is a silent film shot in super 8 that is intended to be screened with live sound: a piano improvisation and several voices that read texts by William Burroughs, Henri Michaux and the filmmaker himself, all these things make this screening a unique event.

BRAINWASH tells the story of two men (the establishment) who control the lives and thoughts of a whole town.To their annoyance they discover a happy musician (representing the younger generation/or the hippie movement). He will have to be absorbed into society and brainwashed like the rest.

After the Agrarian Reform enacted in 1969 by the government led by Juan Velasco Alvarado, the Andean communities recovered their land, obtained fundamental rights such as access to public education and the possibility of working for themselves. From then on, life alternatives opened up for the children of the Andes who, unlike their predecessors, could attend school, although they still had to face many scarcities. This film looks at the lives of these children, who, together with their communities, are trying to move forward.

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

This film tries to interlace Mahatma Gandhiji's thoughts with the developments in India as seen by the two Gandhi Darshan Trains which traversed the whole country during the Gandhi Centenary Year.

A collection of classic bloopers from radio and television.

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

A young man lives constantly in a fantasy world, until he starts working for a railroad company.

Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a man and woman engaged in surreal, erotic contortions. Their bodies are in a constant state of metamorphosis, as if to indicate psychological states or inner reflection as they contemplate their connection; they are being transported, transcending, merging and melting. - Pamela Turner. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with iotaCenter, in 2009.

A mind-blowing film which borders on the structural but which manages to avoid being so. A study of colour, stasis, and different modes of multiple-exposure. The film slides from a doctored reality towards fantasy. A large part of the film takes place in one single image that continually changes aspect: the buildings on the square, Place d'Italie, seen from my window from when I used to live in that district in Paris on the eighth floor of a kind of council housing block.