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Nearly completing his painting, the artist takes a walk outside, where his creativity manifests itself in the life around him. This experimental work captures the ritualistic spirituality of art and the art in the everyday. Paintings in the film are by Paul Mason.
Documentary about people who live and work in the Sahara Desert, with a look at the means of transport used to travel across the vast wilderness.
Around the time Uematsu was making a photo work titled Mirukoto—fūkei (1974), he was interested in touching an object with shadow. This work is an expression of that exercise on video.
The adventurous boy, **Aladdin**, lives in a big city with his monkey friend. When he falls in love with **Jasmine**, he finds himself in all sorts of trouble and embarks on a journey to find a mysterious magic lamp for an evil man named **Jafar**.
"Il n'y a pas d'abonné au ..." mixes sensations, images and sounds while claiming to paint a picture of a possible history of cinema.
This feature-length Super 8 film, shot at 18 frames per second, was made by workers and student activists from Millau, a village at the foot of the Larzac plateau, who spent five years, week after week, filming the struggle of an entire region against the expansion of the Larzac military camp.
Film about various aspects of the Irish fishing industry and its overall benefit to the public.
This short educational film focuses on canteen catering in larger industrial companies, presents a model company and appeals to other companies to remedy existing shortcomings and improve canteen catering for workers. The VEB Zahnradwerk Pritzwalk is presented as an exemplary company.
A film about the construction of a monument to the heroic defenders of Leningrad on Victory Square in St. Petersburg.
A short film by Peter Bundy
Notes on the city of Federation documents the city before its transfer.
An early Super 8 film by Philippe Grandrieux
A silent film shot mostly on high contrast 16mm film, attempting to tell a story mostly with titles. Put together during a particularly bad time when I had just moved to the East Village and was living in a storefront on Sixth Street just off the Bowery. In the film I was reaching out for verbal and moral support from William Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell and visual support from Harry Smith’s Heaven and Earth Magic. I’ve hardly ever projected this or shown it.
Human eye movements are similar to the way pigeons and chickens shake their heads. I wanted to capture that restlessness in a video. I held an 8mm camera in my hand, placed it on my head, and filmed while walking down the street. I projected the film on a screen, cut out the image to capture the movement of the eyes, and re-filmed each frame. I also made a blinking mask to use in the re-filming.
Venezuelan comedy by Julio César Mármol, featuring Joselo.
Super 8 special effects sci-fi horror short by Dick Taylor, featured in issue 4 of Cinemagic, 1975
Bulgarian animation film
A mindful portrait of the factory worker Ossian Johansson in Gimo (north of Stockholm) who is retiring after a long working life.
Two giant circles forming semicircles, carved with a self-made instrument.
A short film following a healer from Maramureș region, Romania.
A study of the works of the Scottish architect Robert Adam.
In 1974, when famine hit the country, Pilger returned to Bangladesh to make An Unfashionable Tragedy. It contains harrowing scenes of starving children but also puts the horrors into a geopolitical context. This is Pilger’s first documentary to highlight his theme of expendability, whereby countries with no oil, strategic value or military power are considered unimportant to the superpowers. Bangladesh, he points out, is not one of the United States’s “client states” on a priority list to receive its surplus food.
Director - Prabhakar Manajirao Nayak Stars - Master Abu, Usha Chavan, Yashwant Dutt
Directed by Krishna Patil. With Madhu Apte, Nargis Banu, Shambha Era, Anandrao Jadhav.
Using text from Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, but with subtle alterations, Gary Adkins gives us "A Parable of the Endless Recurrence. A dream that deliberately attempts to exhaust its possibilities and borders on its own parody, the duplication of space and the memory of time. In the recognition of a caged leopard. An image of human thought. The apparent contradictions of illusion. Dante dying in Rochester (at Eastman Kodak?)." (G.A.)
Labelle make their first appearance on British TV in 1975 as they perform a selection of their songs in concert.
A fable about a dragon mercilessly oppressing an unfortunate kingdom.
Begins with back of airplane seat, ends with horizontal streaks of bold light.
An experimental short film by Lee Jeong-hee
Abstract, direct animation consisting of triangular shapes that flow past the frame. Apparently the source for "Filmabuse" (F.2011-01-0262) and "Filmabuse Loop" (F.2011-01-0263), this original painted material is presented in an edge-to-edge scan to replicate the look of the unslit double 8mm object. Although no date information is available, it was likely produced circa 1975 ahead of the other "Filmabuse" elements.
Examines psychological findings in the areas of conformity and independence. Includes a number of important field and laboratory findings by Sherif, Asch, Milgram, Kelman, and others.
This records the anecdotal light between lovers. The film entraps a humorous truth: its cuts are self-inflicted.
It is the attempt to initiate an analytical discourse on the image, alternating visual events with written words which reflect on the image [...] and which, on the screen, become images themselves. The relationship between word and image here is often reversed, sometimes juxtaposed, always slightly shifted. In this film, the feeling of the image as a "phenomenon" returns.
In his essay film Shadow of a Doubt, Rolf Orthel – who married into a Jewish family, his mother-in-law survived the camps – probes what this means to him, as he goes in search of the past. “I tried to imagine how it was for those people, both prisoners and guards," he said in a 1975 interview with the NRC Handelsblad newspaper. To comprehend how on earth someone could participate in unprecedented mass murder, Orthel enters into candid discussions with SS veterans who were in Auschwitz during the war. These are not the top-level war criminals, but ‘ordinary’ men who often ended up there, rather than choosing this path.
Counterintelligence film from communist Romania.
"My Mother, who had immigrated from Australia, always wanted to see the North. Mom suggested we go on a trip to Moosonee and Moose Factory. Jim and David Anderson came along too. One roll of film was loaded into the camera twice, creating superimposed images... a happy accident."
Count Basie Jam Session at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975, also referred to as Basie Jam, is a live album by pianist/bandleader Count Basie recorded in 1976 and released by the Pablo label.
Capturing the all-American fervor of parade competition, CHINATOWN 2-STEP profiles the Los Angeles Chinese Drum and Bugle Corps, an important fixture of the Chinese American community.
Shows the movement of water from a small bottle to a larger one, viewed as if the transfer is occurring in a horizontal direction.
A film about a revolutionary road-protection system from the Icelandic inventor Einar Einarsson. This film won the audience award at Techfilm-Czechoslovakia 1976 and received an honorable mention certificate at The International Film Festival in Moscow 1977.
The five thousand inhabitants of the Westman Islands were evacuated during the 1973 volcanic eruption and relocated in various towns on the mainland. This film deals with the social implications of this natural catastrophy.
The Great LEGO Train Crash Disaster is a 1975 brickfilm about a collision between a train and a car. It was shared online in 2007 by YouTube user "f1lby", and was filmed by his father, with story input from himself at age 8. It is the earliest known brickfilm filmed in the UK, as well as one of the very earliest known brickfilms in general. It prominently features the 1972 LEGO set 171 Train Set without Motor.
Craftsmanship in the Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, researched by Professor Saul Martins. The film shows the work of various artisans, with their testimonials about their difficulties in life and influences (religion, customs, beliefs) that are reflected in their ceramics.
8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.
“Tai Chi II,” similarly to Elam’s “Tai Chi Bowling” and “Tai Chi,” focuses on movement. Through a sequence of close-ups, Elam coyly records portions of several individuals practicing tai chi, primarily focusing on the practitioners’ extremities as they float about. Distinct from its affiliates, “Tai Chi II” finds the action taking place outside.
Snow What? is a short documentary depicting a ski resort’s use of artificial snow to create a picture perfect slope. Reeve shoots this film like it is a nature documentary, framing the floodlights like the sun shining through the branches of bare deciduous trees. The film is filled with wide shots of the mountain being covered up by the snow machine with humans shown as small figures in the distance. The focus of the film is undoubtedly the snow machine, which is presented as a majestic tool that covers up the imperfections of the slope, constantly fighting —and besting— the naturally-occurring snow that falls from the sky. The film’s accompanying piece, Syrinx’s 1971 song, December Angel, further reflects the incongruity between the film’s shots and humanity’s desire to re-shape nature. The song’s relaxing tempo broken with disorderly machine-like sounds is a reflection of Reeve’s attempts to show the ski resort as a natural part of the mountain.
The titular “obrazki” (ENG: pictures) are both prison tattoos and wounds inflicted on sons by their abusive fathers and stepfathers. Such a son is the protagonist of the film. After many years, he meets his biological, previously unknown, father.