Cinematic Era: 1974 Vintage

A portrait of the people and places of the Tayside region of Scotland.

Short fiction film from the "Toulmonde parle français" series, telling the amusing story of a man who gets caught at his own game after stealing hares from his neighbor.

Surveyors calculated that a new road route should be laid through the old well. But the stubborn owner of the well was against it.

This film is a declaration of love for the old town in Stockholm and tells how Samfundet St. Erik intervened in the major clean-up and succeeded in carrying out an exemplary restoration of an entire block.

Achieves a precise structure within the action which has two women as protagonists, one seen from behind, the other on the phone. The repetitive immobility of the images extends over the duration and thickens the structure of a physical restlessness beyond the screen.

Live in Europe is an album by soul singer Billy Paul. The album was produced by Bobby Martin and arranged by Billy Paul and Caldwell McMillan. It was recorded at Hammersmith Odeon, London and Central Hall, Chatham, England in December 1973. Released in 1974, this album reached #10 on the Billboard Soul Album chart and #187 on the Billboard Pop album chart.

Director - Bhai Bhagat. Stars Lata Arun, Kunda Bhagat, Kusum Deshpande.

An experimental dance film featuring members of the Ballet Rambert, one of the world’s most renowned dance companies, performing to the music of Gavin Bryars.

Two little boys watch how to fix leaky faucets.

A single-channel video (transferred from Super-8 film), color, silent, where we watch the artist from behind as she traces a rough outline of her body in blood against a white wall.

Grotesque. The filmmakers point to the adverse health effects of new inventions.

An experimental short film made by Kaidu Club

In an Afghan village, a young Moslem girl gets ready for her wedding.

"Carding Estrebel" is a noteworthy Filipino film directed by the highly acclaimed Romy T. Espiritu, starring Ricky Rogers, Rosemarie Gil, and Van De Leon. This film is a great example of the quality that can be found in Pinoy movies, showcasing brilliant storytelling

Executed by students at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, under the careful supervision of Curt McDowell. Guest appearance by Ainslie Pryor.

A pond with marsh grass and a cloudy sky overhead are photographed in a variety of ways: normal speed, slow motion, and pixillated motion, to produce an impressionistic and poetic study of nature that is both contemplative and joyous.

Presents vignettes which illustrate situations that make people feel happy, encouraging children to talk about and understand their feelings.

Tethered to one another by a rope, two figures standing on parallel escalators perform five ways of being together—“against each other,” “with each other,” “to each other,” “for each other,” and “each other”—challenging expectations of how people can and should coexist in public space.

Life and work of the composer Daniel Alomía Robles (1871-1942).

A film made on the 1100 year anniversary of the settlement of Iceland which gives an overview of Icelandic society and the natural kingdom which Icelanders have made part of their heritage.

A being without a face goes through infinite stairsteps.

A part of Michishita’s two-part series Being Women in Japan, Living with the Ocean alternates between footage of men and women fisherman harvesting kelp, and interviews with both about their lives and their work.

A portrait of the Watergate Congress at work

Made as part of Cripps' BA degree graduation work.

Adopting the movements of various animals, Forti begins the performance by walking hypnotically in circles. She falls to the floor and begins a cycle of walking and crawling that becomes an open metaphor for evolution and aging. Through the course of the performance, the camera follows Forti's circling motion at increasingly close range, creating an interactive dance between camera and performer. While "rustic" in respect to the quality of the video image and sound, Solo No. 1 serves as an engaging document of Forti's dedicated study of natural movement.

Anti-war demonstration, 1968, New York City march to Sheep's Meadow, shows Vets against the war, Yippies, arrests, and flags of a half-forgotten revolution.

Frothy sexy interpretation of Fred Astaire's Putting On The Ritz. An animated cabaret performance with a chorus line of dancers.

Being Women in Japan documents the recovery of Michishita’s sister from brain surgery, which hospitalized her for four months. Michishita's interest was not only in the personal struggle of her sister to regain her health, but also in how this crisis caused a major rupture in the daily life of her sister's family.

Short movie by Joan Jonas.

‘A cook can’t just mix things up’, says a woman with a typical Brooklyn accent while the camera shows sophisticated images from food and travel magazines. In this black-and-white video, her first in this format, Martha Rosler explores the relationship between gastronomy, class and breeding. A silhouetted woman hiding her face from the camera describes her efforts to improve her status and that of her family through gastronomy. With a deadpan voice and accompanied by the strains of a violin concerto, the woman explains why she wants to become a gourmet. The text comes from one of Rosler’s ‘postcard novels’ entitled Budding Gourmet – also written in 1974 – in which in eleven chapters the artists tells the story in the first person of a woman wanting to learn haute cuisine to climb the social ladder.

A 40-year-old man lives out his long-time dream: a motorcycle trip through eight European countries, with several romances along the way.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating how the particular characteristics of friction are used on a new braking system to give greater control and greater safety when driving.

Martial arts comedy teaming the acrobatic "Dog King" against a "Snake King." Together with their dogs and snakes, they are invincible.

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

A documentary film about the men in our culture: denying their fears, playing tough, performing—performing not just in order to provide, own, consume, but in order that these activities signify manliness.

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

A man carries with him a wonderful flower which arouses the curiosity and the mistrust of the medical profession, the army and the police. Only women and children dare to breathe its fragrance.

This work produces complex flicker patterns with positive and negative footage of shimmering reflections on the surface of water. Nakai created a masking film with a calculated pattern of black and white frames into which he inserted positive and negative images and made a print out of two separate rolls of film. The sound consists of the electronically processed noises of insects. “The film depicts the alchemy of light wriggling on the surface of waves, using a negative-positive flicker technique in a structure where darkness can be seen lurking behind the light.” (Tsuneo Nakai)

B&W, The "female" waiting for her "train", in 19th century and art deco nude poses. Filmed on a single set, with humor, tenderness and yearning.

A dance film, one of a series of three, based on the kinetic sculpture designed by Doris Chase for ballet and commissioned by the Seattle Opera Company. Filming was done in the Avery Court of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. The film explores new dimensions in color and space.

The punishment for guilt and remorse is carried out for the video camera through several brisk strokes with a riding crop on bare buttocks.

"It's a film about film, and therefore about everything."

"Guttenplan uses the term 'diary' in a way that is unique to him. In fact, the term can be confusing. There is no doubt that this film is not a diary like those made by Jonas Mekas. It contains little, if any, imagery with an emotional or autobiographical message. Its interest lies in the static objects that tell us nothing about the life of the filmmaker. The NEW YORK CITY DIARY '74 is filled with color and texture, mostly abstract. (...) Guttenplan dislocates the viewer's vision by a perpetual permutation of surfaces. The film's field of vision can unpredictably change from a small area of bricks to a cloudy sky covering several kilometers. The intensity of colors and patterns remains constant while the photographed space changes completely. Such fluctuations amplify the feeling of disjuncture that we get from fleeting visions of things." —Scott Hammen.

James Last Live in Germany (Berlin)

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.

Cessna consists of a series of short takes, alternating the visual pace through the movements of subjects and camera, which reveals Nakajima's studio space and later the process of making the film.

Tanzania's first feature-length film.

This film explores innovative ways in which "standard English" can be taught to dialect speaking children. Filmed on location in Louisiana at a U.S. Department of Education teacher-training project.

A frivolous look behind the scenes of a sex film shoot. In the Barny Studios a sex comedy is to be shot, but already at the casting things go haywire. During turbulent love games, naked chaos reigns in front of the camera, and behind the scenes the actors don't miss any opportunity to get closer.