1974 Movies

The Vietnam War during the JFK years and beyond. Made in 1972 in the filmmaker's apartment, without documentary footage of the war, metaphors are crea...

A short film by Derek Jarman.

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

Maryam, her friend Parvaneh who is a nurse and her cousin Morteza go on a leisure trip to the north of the country. In the hotel where they are stayin...

Made by Kiyoshi Nishimoto in March 1974 when he was a student of Musashino Art University.

Live-action, real-time, recreations of actual postcards.

Script is the opposite of an improvisational exercise. Seven couples, all amateurs, are handed pages from random movie scripts and instructed to enact...

The short movie "Hassani"

shows visual and metaphorical representation using rope as a motif through various rope images and meanings.

A doctor and his wife come under attack from a vengeful Incubus and his zombie followers in a blood-soaked tale of supernatural horror. Can this man o...

A film about the Carnation Revolution.

Kung-fu movie.

Computer generated dance and camera moves

An early film work influenced by structural filmmaker Michael Snow and minimalism in sound (Reich/Glass). Camera is fixed on a tripod and is tracking...

Gamblers are swallowed by Frankenstein fruit machines.

Writes Kawanaka, "Video is a medium of image as well as sound. Walking on a gravel road with a camera, the crunch sound is captured in real time. Such...

Seen through thee eyes of a visitor, Fiskur undir steini describes the limited cultural life of an Icelandic fishing village.

A collage film, a dialogue between mother and the unborn child, the film can be seen as a personal self-analysis by René Paquot, who dreamily delivers...

Explanation of the 200-nautical-mile thesis defended by the military government.