Cinematic Era: 1974 Vintage

Although peace has been declared, the Palestinians continue to fight Israel for the liberation of their territories.

The police inspector makes a line up between Petka - a raped girl and three brothers. Petka points out Dimitar. The innocent young man is shocked. Dimitar meets with the father of Petka and offers him money. The father refuses. During the trial, the stories of Dimitar's friends are controversial. He is sentenced to four years in prison. Petka confesses that she has pointed Dimitar out of random. She likes his brother Trifon and she gave herself to him willingly, but his father threatened her and she decided to blame Dimitar.

The Yemen Arab Republic, its people and their day-to-day activities, as discovered on a tour through town and country.

This black-and-white documentary reports on a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in East Berlin from March 24 to 29, 1974.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Documentary film shot in October-November 1974 on the occasion of the "Freedom in Chile" event promoted by the Venice Biennale.

Pál Schiffer's film reports on the injustices of the education system of the 1970s, the lies of the Kádár system, and the everyday life of Roma children.

A film by Paul-Armand Gette.

Experimental film by Jean-Pierre Bertrand.

Experimental film by Jean-Pierre Bertrand.

A lyrical, expressive film history of Asian Pacific Americans on the Sacramento River delta.

The story of salvage operations in the wake of the 1973 Westman Island eruption. The 5.000 inhabitants were evacuated in a matter of hours as lava and ash destroyed a large part of the town. The fight with the encroaching lava; dramatic night shots of the erupting volcano; the massive clean-up task after the eruption. The town is once more Iceland's busiest fishing port.

A guided tour to places to Hallgrímur Pétursson. (A famours Icelandic poet of psalms.) The film includes some staged sequences from his life.

A film about a Ukrainian woman who was an ardent supporter of the Soviet Union. She bakes pirogi and speaks of her life. She was the cook at a popular Ukrainian cafeteria on the Lower East Side for years and later ran a boarding house on the Burlingham Road near Bloomingburg, New York. Music by the Penny Whistlers.

Two pumpkins.

This is a Video Monitor is an attempt to construct a wholly ‘videological ‘ experience, and is built on an initial take of a woman describing the paradox of the real and imagined functions of the monitor on which her image appears…

In the presence of a camera I split from my body, I see myself from the outside

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

The lyrical portrait of Szydłów, formerly a town and now a village in the region of Kielce, was yet another step on the filmmaker’s way in search for his own artistic focus and style.

Indian adaptation of Layla and Majnun

"In 1971, I drew a large mural on the wall of my studio - involving painting, tracing, and photo-silkscreens - which was located on the top floor of an abandoned building in New Brunswick, NJ. In 1974, the building was demolished. One morning, just before the demolition crew moved in, I set up my Bolex and shot 100' of the mural before it was completely destroyed, and here it is. The film is silent; the light is all natural; the film is Ektachrome Reversal 7241, a really beautiful daylight film stock - 2.5 minutes of contemplation." - WWD

Contrast between different portraits of women, between the public and the intimate.

Flickering flames viewed through air vents of a wood burning pot belly stove resemble the shutter of a film projector.

On the buses in Southampton, as this traffic scheme tried to end commuter misery by prioritising public transport

"it continued to rain all day for some reason people started to talk about Delaware no one knew anything about it no one had been there or knew anyone from there..."

In this early formal experiment with analog image processing, the Vasulkas investigate multiple camera set-ups and keyers to articulate spatial, temporal and sound/image manipulation. Solo for 3 is a playful technical exercise in which three cameras were trained on three different images of the number three. Image planes are layered, arranged and sequenced; the result is a multifaceted choreography of numbers.

A feedback homage to the works of Duchamp.

Spectacular images of international snowmobile competitions that are reserved only for expert owners of the most powerful machines.

A child grows into a man, but cannot open the door in his own room trying to figure out what's in it.

Then the sun begins to set in the mirror and the entire screen erupts in violent explosions of orange lens flares. Slowly the background sky goes black leaving only the mirror to show twilight. Then everything is dark. This piece is similar to Hand Held Day. The endurance aspect is especially important because I am entirely visible.

The handsome wine farmer Pieter-Jan van Yssen wants to marry his rich spoiled girlfriend but before he can go on his honeymoon he will nee a manager for his arm. When Jakobus Johannes Lodewikus du Toit arrives at the farm, he realizes its a woman

Soundsize continues the Vasulkas' investigation into the relationship of sound and image. Here a pattern of dots is modulated by sounds generated from a synthesizer, changing size and shape in a visual manifestation of electronic sound.

Documentary concerning Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Adaptation of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, in the deserts of Lima.

Apologue on the theme of power and the strong means to conquer it, wrapped in a yellow structure at the service of political cinema of those years, in a futuristic scenario with vaguely Kafkaesque echoes. "At the time I was interested in a type of metaphorical cinema, but on the one hand in which the metaphor was contained within a conventional structure. […] I basically had two archetypes - existing both in literature and in cinema - on whose variation, revisiting I wanted to work: the theme of the double and the theme of Jekyll & Hyde. By mixing the two, I arrived at the story of the film, one entering the life of another…

The films shot during 1973–74 in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia span a range of interests. Some, like Ship Side Steel Plate Lights and Laredo Sugar Mill, are examinations of visual details. Others, like La Selva, which I completed using a number of complicated yellow and green filters, are portraits of places and their energies.

The imagery and sound in Entering were performed 'live' by Donebauer and composer Simon Desorgher, and recorded in real time, using a colour TV studio at the Royal College of Art. Later Donebauer and Richard Monkhouse developed the Videokalos synthesiser, as an image-sound performance instrument. Entering was transmitted by the BBC in 1974.

Bolex is about a simple experiment with a rented Bolex which resulted surprisingly in a somewhat magical apparition. What sort of magic? It is the magic that every man in some degree experiences during his life at the sight of a young woman. The film talks about Achilles and the daughter of the Priest of Apollo but since then I read an 1841 account of how George Washington was smitten when unexpectedly he saw a young woman sitting under a tree in the wilds of what is now western Pennsylvania reading a poem. He was young, too, and if the story is true he must have forgotten Martha, to whom he was then engaged. But the story of the magic is true - through thousands of years it has been the same surprising story.

Tells the story of a young man who falls overboard and seems to be the only survivor of a shipwreck. The first icelandic stop-motion film.

At a time when the censorship scissors even advanced on amateur films in Super-8, the short film “Isto É Que é” can be seen as an attempt to speak through metaphors and suggestions.

HEALING PROCESS depicts the emotional state I was in the year following the death of my father. The images used include footage of my father as a young man, footage of him in the hospital and footage of a figure under a white sheet representing someone prepared to be wheeled off to an operating room. The sound track is the song "Au Clair de la Lune" sung in a duet. The effects is the mixture of emotions one goes through when losing someone very close. – L. K.

The film was made with successive images of La Pietra’s face realised from 1938 to 1974, all continually compared with his face as was at that moment (1974). Through this sequence we have the sensation that for thirty-six years he has doggedly and slowly tried to reach some “final model” (his face in 1974).

An elegant depiction of landscape and domestic space. One of two films based on David and Diana's life in their house in Colorado, which had just burned down. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

The volcano Eldfell erupts, and destroys much of the town of Heimaey.

Short documentary on the Ladakh.region.

An amazingly catty Norman Wilton shows some basic cake decorating techniques.

A snow storm – Disney World – self important New York – ox-pull in Maine – a special old man – strip tease – an ant in the woods –wild 14th street – a mugging survived – the end.

Documentary about the Portuguese Revolution of April 25th, 1974 which focuses on events like the siege of the Carmo quarters and the release of the political prisoners at Forte de Caxias.

Based on the montage of excerpts from the Luce newsreels, from the March on Rome to the entry into the war, with commentary by Giorgio Bassani, Fascista favors the "cut out and mystified, ridiculous, sinister" relationship between Mussolini and his cheering subjects, underlining the importance of the oratory style of the Duce in his relationship with the masses.

A documentary focusing on Doris Chase's creative process. A pioneering filmmaker of expanded cinema and early computer technology.