Cinematic Era: 1974 Vintage

This documentary showcases the woodcut work of the artist José Sabogal (1888-1956), who started the Indigenist School of Peru.

Semana Santa celebrations

The story of worker Yevgeni Moryakov, told by himself and supplemented with lyrical digressions and the author’s commentary.

Hong Kong film

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

A film by Peri Muldofsky made while she was part of the Young Filmaker's Foundation. On her own words about the film "I had unfortunately fallen in love and had my heart broken, and somehow I thought I could make a film about that internal state, which, at eighteen years old, you can't! I had no idea what I was doing. I had a would-be actress, and she changed her hair in the middle of the shoot and didn't understand why that mattered. I didn't know how to direct actors. I never really understood coverage so everything I filmed was a long shot. I didn't even know you were supposed to move the camera. And then when I started to edit [the film], it was impossible. It was really upsetting."

"That hike went to a 1400 ft. peak in the Rockies. I'm not sure of the specific mountain but it may have been Long's Peak. Yes, we had fun making that. When we got to the top Charlie lay down to rest and I sneaked a bunch of rocks into his pack so that we could film his funny struggle lifting the pack up and on! At the summit I was overcome with hypothermia and blacked out. Fred and Charlie hustled me down the mountain and I slowly recovered. We stopped to make a fire and there are shots in the film of Charlie coaxing up a flame. The lower altitude and the warmth led to recovery. I think I did the edit in Charlies' dome studio at Thorn Lake..." - Gene Bernofsky

This NFU film visits the remote Urewera to explore the world of the Tūhoe people. Their independence and identity have been challenged by historical tensions with Pākehā, and now modernity — as ‘children of the mist’ leave for education and jobs (at the mill, in the city). A tribal outpost in Auckland is visited, along with law student James Milroy. At a Ruatoki festival the debate is whether young people should manage tribal affairs.

Studies in repetitive movement.

A Telugu Romance

The story takes place in a boarding high school with many boys and girls. The collective life of students, school activities, daily joys and sorrows, the relationship between teachers and students, school friendship are the main points of the film.

In The Business of Television News, which aired as part of the Changing Channels series, several area television news operations were asked to examine their objectives and their markets. The candid comments of news directors and station managers outline the conflicting forces of entertainment (market share) and information that continue to shape the nature of television news across the country.

Different feelings in several visual formulations.

This film centers on the construction of a traditional style house, their houses being not only very distinctive but also figuring prominently in religious ritual. The houses were rectangular and pole-framed, thatched with Miscanthus or bamboo-leaf; the doorway was protected by a skin or woven hanging and various parts of the house, such as the hearth and a window on the eastern side, would serve ceremonial purposes.

Short movie by Sandro Chia.

... a film of a well-manicured young woman masturbating, caressed by a moving camera until she comes...

The film observes both round and square house construction techniques of the Grand Valley Dani. It shows how the ground is cleared, walls are made from boards, poles lashed together, and roofs being thatched. Though it follows the house-building process from beginning to end, one is left asking the question: What happened after the houses were built?

A moving documentary about a poet not far from being a legend.

Five short stories that clearly demonstrate the impact a simple word has on people.

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.

"Here We Are Polytechnic", the documentary film by Dimitris Makris about the revolt of the Polytechnic, which was filmed in Italy with material that was secretly left from Athens. The narration was done by Alekos Panagoulis...

A film by Willie Varela

A masterpiece of collage and kinestasis commissioned by Mike Getz for his Midnight Movie circuit that works wonders whether it's used to publicize Saturday midnight shows or not. Contains clips from Reefer Madness, Everready Hardon, Popcorn (with Jimi, Otis & Mick) and countless others.

A close-up examination of laborers creating Cuban cigars intercut with artistic advertising labels and postures for those cigars. Silent with musical accompaniment.

Abstract direct animation film made by JoAnn Elam.

Arbitrary Limits is a documentation, and a documentary, of the making of itself, a self-reflexive narrative that encompasses the relationship between film-maker and sound recordist, and their relation to the ongoing film, a commentary on the film’s production, and the gradual exposition, through asides, and partial explanations through the film, of what the film set-up, and its eventual notional outcome should be.

The last thirty-six hours of the life of Fender, a rock star who, out of love for a young woman, killed his lover before being shot dead by the police.

Made for Intercat '73, Pola Chapelle's Cat Film Festival in New York. In the early 70's, a New York cat-lover and film-maker named Pola Chapelle produced a "Cat Film Fesitval:" which was shown in a large downtown NYC auditorium to an audience of more than a thousand cat-lovers. At the time, I lived with my wife Ursula and our daughters Katy and Cynnie, together with many, too many cats. I loved my family but not the cats. -SL. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Travels in Sicily, Stromboli and Vulcano

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement] returns to itself and rushes to catch up with its successor.” (Gadassik) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

The hopes, fears, and aspirations of adolescence are expressed in the close friendship of two Afghan boys. As their acceptance of the filmmakers leads them to express their feelings more and more openly, the film grows rich in fact and themes of universal concern. Filmed in the Balkh Province, an area inhabited by Tajik and other Central Asian peoples. The town of Aq Kupruk is approximately 320 miles northwest of Kabul.

Screen adaptation of the historical story about a clever shepherd boy who saved his home city Kyiv from the Pecheneg army onslaught in the Х century.

Directed by Ian Russell.

Kind-hearted and compassionate, Dr. Vinayak is always willing to lend a helping hand to the poor and needy, often not charging them for any surgery, but instead recovering his fees from his more affluent patients. When he returns from Banaras, he brings home a good-looking young woman, who he introduces to his wife, Prabha, as Madhavi, the orphan of a former employee. Madhavi is accepted by Prabha, who asks her to work as a maidservant, and subsequently gets to meet Vinayak's daughter, Namita, and one of her many boyfriends, Rohit. Romance enters Madhavi's life when Vinayak's son, Vijay, returns from abroad. Both fall in love with each other and Vijay wants to marry Madhavi. His dad, however, wants him to marry Neela Gupta, but Vijay only wants to marry Madhavi. It is then Vijay finds out that Madhavi is really the daughter of a Banaras-based prostitute, and that Madhavi has herself lived with prostitutes and courtesans while in Banaras.

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...

Account of the Battle of Ayacucho, which took place on December 9, 1824, and sealed American independence.

Short film produced to promote Queensland to the world.

Her love tells about gerontophilic relations, all of which was not allowed in Soviet professional movies.

Short film.

A mudslide dammed the Mantaro River, flooding many farmlands and homes; the overflow and breach of the dam would cause a tragedy.

Report on fishing for human consumption.

Tourist report on the town of Oropesa.

Report on mining activity in Peru.

Experimental short by MAJYOLICA

It addresses the topic of old age based on interviews with elderly people who talk about their lives, their memories, and their attitude towards death from the nursing home that houses them.

Arriflesh is a diary film recording a period I spent, very much at loose ends, dividing my time between Vermont and New York City. During those months I was also filming Horseflesh, so they are companion films. Various friends filled my universe in that confused, interim period: Cindy Revel, Margery Cohen, Tony Heath, and a bearded neighbor who was perpetually collecting scrap wood and who eventually made me a very complete astrological chart. In imitation of Jack Kerouac's Ray Smith in The Dharma Bums, I would walk up into the snowy hills every afternoon to meditate alone among the trees, with the same results as Kerouac…nada and a sense of the stony muteness of nature. This whole period was colored by memories of a teenage cousin who’d shot himself in a house just a few miles away, two years before. Like my bearded neighbor I was collecting scraps in the hope that they would someday come together into a cohesive whole.

About the life of schoolchildren in a pioneer camp. The kids enthusiastically joined in a military-pioneer game, restored a partisan dugout in the forest, and created a museum.

Effects and set tests from Wakefield Poole's Bible! (1973)

A consumerist family tries to sway one of their members to take part in mass consumption.

"The Freedom Railway" is a 1974 color documentary directed by Felix Greene that records the construction of the Tan–Zam Railway. Filmed over a two-month period, the documentary focuses on the work of approximately 14,000 Chinese laborers involved in building the railway, presenting an on-site account of the project’s development.

“Cone of Variable Volume was a conical form, which expanded and contracted in volume, like a lung. The rhythmic movement is imperceptible at first, and progressively accelerates in speed.”

Documentary produced by the SPA collective during Franco's dictatorship about the situation of illegal inmigrants from Morocco searching for a job in Barcelona