Cinematic Era: 1974 Vintage

Abstract animation film by visual artist Ana Hatherly.

Seven elderly black people share their insight, faith and strength on the subject of aging.

A new city rises next to the Chornobyl power station – Pripyat. “Morning of the Atomohrad” depicts the daily routine of construction as a grand and clockwork process – the birth of a new world to the tune of symphonic music. The typical modern hero character, a “creative type” that sees his work as one of the most wonderful occupations, appears in this film for the first time in the image of the construction worker, Dima Bobrykyi. His working companions are the welders of the highest rank, two Korol couples. Happily posing in front of the camera, the couple confess that they receive “true pleasure” from their line of work.

A documentary describing the successful struggle of millworkers to unionize the Oneita Mill in Andrews, South Carolina, in 1973.

Vengeance unleashes when Sardar and his gang eliminate Dildar Khan, a former ally. With his dying breath, Dildar tasks his son Bahadur with avenging his innocent mother's death, sparking a blood soaked cycle of retribution

A stop-motion animation about a girl made of gingerbread.

Short Yugoslav film.

A lyrical short film (from Artūras Barysas-Baras), with an aura of subversive irony.

The graffiti covered walls and trains of the New York City subway, superimposed on the images of a woman ultimately claimed by the graffiti artists.

Fish is smoke-cured by women while men are away at sea

Fred Astaire hosts this compilation film of highlights from some of 20th Century Fox's best musicals. Among the performers included are Barbra Streisand, Carmen Miranda, Maurice Chevalier, Frank Sinatra and the Ritz Brothers, as well as Astaire himself. Although some of the titles here may not be quite as famous as those released by other studios, there are still lively song and dance numbers from such films as "On the Avenue," "Folies Bergere" and "Daddy Long Legs."

In France, in the early seventies, contraception and abortion are forbidden. Rape is not considered as a very serious offense, and sometimes rapists are released by the court. Meanwhile, the geneticist Jérôme Lejeune and his association "Let them live" triumph in the media. In 1972, minors who had children start a strike in the special school where they lived. Very soon, the MLF supports them. This movie gives the floor to the victims of a society who tries to silence them. These outsiders defend themselves for the first time. A rare document.

Palestinian film in support of Gulf revolutionaries

Paragon's Paragon is a fan film that was initially completed in 1974 and shown at conventions. It is an unofficial adaptation of the TOS novel: Spock Must Die!, changing the identities of the ship and characters.

Presented for the first time in 1974 outside the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Wearing a white suit, a black top hat, and a black blindfold, Byars wrote "I Love You" in the air with his right index finger. The invisible writing of the perfect love letter was performed while modifying the spatial position on several occasions.

Professor Huchuraya is a 1974 Indian Kannada-language comedy-drama film directed by M. R. Vittal and produced by actor Narasimharaju.

A social study of the Seminole and Miccosukee Indians of South Florida. After a brief history of their settlement in the early 1800s, the film presents the problems of housing, education, employment, and medical needs on the various reservations at 40-mile Bend, Brighton, Big Cypress, and Hollywood. Glimpses of schooling and headstart programs are shown, as well as views of the traditional and modern adaptations made by the Indians.

A story about two boys who are on their way to see a tree in a museum, showing that their behavior is indicative of their environment. Set in the near future which is insulated from the polluted outside world and which is run by computers. Made by a Miami filmmaker, Larry Kleinman, this is a starling suspense drama on the future, and ecology. Two young boys are followed through the action of visiting a public building in which is housed exhibits of a vague nature. The time is uncertain, the atmosphere bleak, yet as we follow the two boys our curiosity is aroused as to what they will see at the end of this provocative journey. Useful for discussions on ecology, as well.

Erkki Aalto's TV documentary depicts the activities of the Coitus Int band, consisting of Juice Leskinen, Mikko Alatalo, and Harri Rinne, as well as the genesis of the song "Odysseus" in 1974. The band performs their newly prepared song at the Tampere Student Union House and critically discusses the message of the song written by Leskinen.

Experimental film

Directed by Krishna Patil. With Jayshree Gadkar, Suryakant, Dada Salvi, Madhu Apte.

Directed by Datta Mane. With Baby Anuradha, Nargis Banu, Vatsala Deshmukh, Dhumal. A love story, which is a lesson to the society.

Director - Murlidhar Kapdi. Stars - Nargis Banu, Gulab Mokasi, Arun Sarnaik.

A film by Kai Oka

This documentary, filmed at Christmas 1973, "searches" for the causes of malnutrition in the slums, in the unemployed population, in the living conditions that someone defined as "extreme misery." This approach, novel for the time, produced controversies since the trend then was to define child malnutrition solely as a medical and health problem. However, the inquisitorial camera discovered the malnourished child under the bridge, in the poor neighborhoods... in the arms of the marginalized woman. And the documentary tells us something else: as long as these living conditions persist... the cry of the malnourished child will persist.

In the unauthored Video Inn Feedback, members of Video Inn explore the cosmic, seemingly limitless potentials of a camera and a monitor, pushing legible images into abstract plays of light and shape.

Public information film about healthy eating.

Ray Hicks is a mountain farmer from Beech Mountain, North Carolina, with a genius for telling traditional folktales that have been passed down in his family for generations. This film shows Ray working on his farm, gathering herbs in the woods, and describing his family’s tradition of storytelling and his theories of human and natural continuity. Running throughout the film is Ray telling a tale called “Whickity-Whack, Into My Sack” (also known as “Soldier Jack”). Viewers will be charmed by Ray's tales and wiser to the traditional ways of life still in practice in the 1970s in central Appalachia.

"I have always been fascinated by this strange object: a sculpture in the middle of the water." (MS)

Vignettes illustrating situations in which children feel angry at themselves.

On the artist's face, which lies supine on the ground, white larvae swarm undisturbed on the cheek, pushing into the nasal cavities, the labial commissure and that of the eyelids, sometimes ajar, sometimes moistened by tears.

The psychedelic short is Renzo Kinoshita's contribution to an educational children's program aired on Nippon Television.

Poplar's long tradition of political and social activism is on show in this community film. The East London district has been home to both grassroots and high-profile radicals, from social reformer George Lansbury in the 1920s to the contemporary Teviot Festival Committee. This film was made by Liberation Films, a non-profit company which grew from a group of anti-Vietnam War activists.

Short by Studio 970/2.

About the underwater eruption which led to the formation of the island of Surtsey (1963 & 1966). The film is partly based on an older film about the first half of the eruption (Surtur fer sunnan, Ó.K. 65)

This tape features Kathryn Windham, a noted children's author and librarian from Selma, Alabama, relating a ghost story about "The Jumbo Light" at the 1974 Jonesboro Storytelling Festival.

All goals from 1974 world cup

A work on the attention of the spectator, whose sound is improvised live by the audience on the unpredictable movements of the images.

A portrait of incarcerated women, this film follows the lives of female inmates in the San Francisco County Jail. Produced with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

A black and white documentary in which the director conducts a late-night outdoor interview with a European mod about his life, his imminent deportation from the United States, and his experiences during the decline and fall of 1960s Britain. This scene is intercut at random intervals with vintage Beatles footage.

First short film by Teruo Koike. - "Lost work. Trees standing up vertically. I rolled the camera following what my shaken heart said."

Filmed in Lanzarote.

Docent Śliwiński receives a phone call from a woman announcing her suicide. The man decides to find her.

Pawełek spends his holidays in the countryside where he meets Wisia. Meanwhile, somebody is stealing fruit from the boy's grandfather's orchard.

Paul Sharits short work

An early experiment by Dominique Belloir and Rainer Verbizh on Marcel Dupouy's Movicolor synthesizer, from footage of waves recorded a few weeks earlier from the top of a rock on the pink granite coast in Brittany: "A small research unit had been installed by Marcel Dupouy, CNAV [...] I was responsible for receiving artists or directors interested in this new electronic image synthesizer. Jean-Luc Godard was one of the first visitors..." -Belloir

The location for this film is a small London park which is situated close to the busy centre of the city. The camera faces south east across the park, in the foreground there is an expanse of grass surrounded by walkways and luxurious trees. In the middle distance is a junction of the busy Euston road, trucks busses and commuter traffic surge past halting only for the traffic lights.

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

Agua Salada is born from a dream, where a fish speaks and a cave is the scene of the drama of Passion.

Look Again yes

In this film we are shown the interior of the old Paris apartment where the artist's mother still lives, surrounded by the magnificent pictures by her husband Michel Loffredo, a painter of Neapolitan origin. At the same time we see a crane outside demolishing the house opposite, and the protests – which are often hand-written on the walls by the people living in the neighborhood – against property speculators and the 'renovation' which is being imposed with the violence of a mechanical digger. The camera pauses powerlessly before the equipment and the magnificent portraits in the apartment, then it moves on to look at the inhabitants of the area, the little cafés, and oblique views of Montparnasse which still retains its pleasant bohemian ambiance.

A visceral computer piece using retinal afterimages to make compelling special distortions.