1974 Movies

Voted for in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll

Footage documenting a toy drive – “Toys for Tots” – held at a leather bar / motorcycle club in Chicago, called the Baton Lounge. The club was original...

A continuous, extreme show is held, every year, in Tesla Arena in Prague. The visitors can be impressed by shows of dangerous riding on motorcycles, a...

A short, surrealist journey through shapes and bodies.

The film was shot during the period of the dictatorship and is an attempt to criticize in a veiled, suggestive way, for understandable reasons, the Am...

This story of a Soviet soldier who was killed during the liberation of Prague in May 1945 combines Zdenek Seydl's animated drawings with documentary f...

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

ca. 1973-4, b/w, silent, 9 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Squatters used video to record street life, police atrocities and evictions. The video shows squatters of 93 Prince of Wales Road peacefully defending...

Examines cells in plants and animals, explaining that each cell has a different job to do. Uses drawings and microphotography to observe the details...

24 minute short featuring clips of Japanese old-time movie songs.

Bill Ferris writes…”This film was originally edited by Josette Ferris and me from super-8 and 16mm footage that I shot in 1967 and 1968 in Lorman, Lel...

A documentary about homosexuality.

Young people take a look at death and give observations and personal insights from their experiences with death in their families, school, and neighbo...

Optical sound by Guy Sherwin

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