1974 Movies

Short movie

Second of the 'Aspects of Kirkwall' films about the changing face of Kirkwall over the years. Filmed in 1974, it features the primary school, various...

Margaret Tait's impression of the interior of her studio premises in Rose Street, Edinburgh. The film consists of slow pans around her studio focussin...

Experimental short.

Marcel Broodthaers’ film and book, both titled A Voyage on the North Sea which were distributed together as part and parcel of the same publishing plo...

In August 1974 Matta-Clark carried out a ‘cutting’ in a house at Niagara Falls, New York. The artist divided the north façade into nine parts. In the...

The hooligan dog Polkan, finding himself in trouble, understands how bad it is when there are no friends and therefore no one comes to his birthday.

Life in Merseyside, showing the role of the region's two newspapers, the Liverpool Daily Post and the Echo. The story of the production of the newspap...

Short film about the upgrades and technological improvements on the British railways.

Aimed at the overseas market (and with one or two references that would not be acceptable as politically correct today) this film extols the virtue of...

The film was shot in one continuous 400 foot take. The camera looks through the blades of the windmill, recording either what is behind or in front of...

"This short film was intended to create a colour field painting based on the flower fields that provided the living for so many, mostly undocumented,...

Set in the arch-American "home movie" context of a sunny suburban yard, Rosler's early Super-8 film Backyard Economy I documents the products of munda...

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Voted for in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll

A Frankenstein Monster made of chocolate cake terrorizes the countryside.