1974 Movies

Documentary.

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

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, Byar...

Experimental filmmaker Roger Jacoby animates his muse, Ondine, as the villainous Scarpia in snippets from Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca." Freely mixing mel...

In France, in the early seventies, contraception and abortion are forbidden. Rape is not considered as a very serious offense, and sometimes rapists a...

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

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

A collection of classic bloopers from radio and television.

In this feature-length silent film, Acconci uses hand-written title cards to present an "interior monologue" about speaking, language, and silence. Th...

This film is a performance that the artist undertook at Old Man’s Creek, Sharon Center, Iowa City, Iowa. The performance was recorded on Super-8 film...

The trace is similar to the index, but there is a more complex relationship to the original referent because the trace is at once a repetition and an...

Bollywood 1974

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

A Teresa Badzian Cartoon

Animated short film

Early video-installation by Dalibor Martinis, where the artist turns the TV set into a still life and info news into "circulus vitiosus".

A film actress is drawn into a fantasy world by a mysterious stranger who wears a mask to hide his ugliness.

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