All Films

Carpenter Andersen Meets Santa Claus

1973 • 11 min • Norway

Norwegian short film about a carpenter trading places with Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.

19 Bygone Sweethearts

1973 • 33 min

An impressionist investigation of past relationships and true love.

Fforest Bay II

1973 • 5 min • United Kingdom

From LUX: "Welsby adopts a system of camera movements to chart the movement of tides, waves and sky".

Some Friends

1973 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Roger Hammond’s silent portraits of film artists from the early 1970s were shot in and around David Larcher’s studio. Some Friends begins with a Polaroid photograph of fellow Co-op filmmaker Mike Dunford held before the camera by the filmmaker as he pans the camera upwards with his other hand. The photograph is held roughly in the centre of the frame, and the general situation in which it is filmed is just seen at the sides of the photograph as the camera pans. The same action is repeated with several photographs, against different backdrops (the river banks, a lawn, a domestic interior).

Cineforon

1973 • 11 min

A filmic homage to the German mime Helfrid Foron, a student of Etienne Decroux who worked with acrobats and tight-rope walkers. He frequently collaborated with contemporary musicians, among them Mauricio Kagel. My intention was to displace his gestures using a form of filmic doubling employing the technique of creating bispecular-asynchronous loops which mime—with extreme visual results—the actions and the objects on stage to make them stand out and to distance them from the action.

Naturally... A Girl

1973 • 14 min

Educational short about menstruation and human female development during puberty, as brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson corporation.

Runan Caycu

1973 • 32 min • Peru

Illustrates the life of Saturnino Huillca, a peasant union leader, and the motivations that lead the Quechua peasantry to undertake the struggle for their social activists. The events that came to constitute a force of pressure that moved the country and made it see the importance of carrying out the agrarian reform.

What Are Letters For?

1973 • 11 min

Explaining how letters are used.

Scratch

1973 • 20 min

Scratch begins as a standard 8 film fragment, originally filmed in our 60’s basement kitchen, and reprojected as a loop 5 times with a repeated coda of junk and glitch footage, onto a ground glass screen, refilmed in black and white on 16mm film stock.This sequence then begins a series of repetitions that run through negative image, reversed image, solarized, solarized and double exposed, colourized, and finally solarised and reversed with a colour sequence for each process. The central colour section repeats and starts to reverse the procedure through the sequences to the first iteration.At this point a scratch appears, a rich white line that appears momentarily on the image...

Celebrated Royal Fireworks

1973 • 12 min • United States of America

This film celebrates the frenzy of light and color found amid exploding fireworks and the speeding headlights of cars on a nighttime road. In the first half of the film, it appears that JoAnn Elam experiments with projecting film of fireworks and filming it again off the screen, superimposing the explosions. At different parts, the projection zooms in and out, adding pulsating boxes to the other forms and colors illuminating the dark. In the second half, headlights join the fray, and the film builds to chaos before slowing down to capture the streaking lights at the very end.

Chocolate Cake

1973 • 4 min • United States of America

The film was made in response to an evening during which a number of male members of Chicago's experimental film scene gathered at JoAnn's house and proceeded to ignore both her and the chocolate cake she made for the occasion. The film consists of a series of shots documenting the making of a chocolate cake, followed by a shot of JoAnn's sandaled foot stepping in the middle of the cake. When JoAnn screened the film in homes or loft spaces in Chicago, she would always serve chocolate cake as an accompaniment. Date of production unknown (likely 1973).

Country Mile

1973 • 4 min • United States of America

Experimental filmmaker JoAnn Elam guides (or limits) the viewer's eyes down a rural, wooded path.

Favorable Conditions

1973 • 15 min • United States of America

‘A fixed shot of a courtyard whose immense outer chimney stands out against the sky. A landscape that Lowell Bodger films image by image at different times of the day, highlighting differences of light and the play of shadows. Different treatments (solarization, filtering and superimposition) are some of the ‘variations’ of the initial fixed shot.’ C. Brunel

La lotta non è finita

1973 • 20 min

A documentary made by the feminist film collective to witness the moments of struggle, reflection and debate of the feminist movement during the 70's. The film highlights the issues and agenda of the feminist movement such as sexual liberation, abortion. , violence and work, alternating with images of the demonstrations of 1972 and 1973.

Cortometraggi realizzati dai pazienti dell'ospedale psichiatrico di Trieste

1973 • 28 min

Short films made by patients of the psychiatric hospital of Trieste.

Lovetape Film

1973 • 8 min

"The film may suggest the fear of losing a loved one. Desire. Yearning. Anger. Doubt. A female nude. A reiterated breast. A child with a bicycle. The dead stump of a great tree. A blood- red sundown sky. A stick washed back and forth by the sea. And also, near the ending, an old 'Rhythm and Blues' song in which the male voice sings of his fear that he may lose his beloved. He finally closes with 'I wonder …if we’ll ever be…married…..I sometimes wonder…if you still love me?…. or if you’ve let me go?'. I use multiples of several shots. Perhaps it gives a feeling that life is both always the same and yet never the same? I superimpose different material over those shots each time, so that the actual imagery and their impact are always different. It challenges, perhaps, the well known French observation that 'Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose'." –Abbott Meader

Absürd

1973 • 2 min • Netherlands

An absurd short film in which music - a mix of Beethoven symphonies and German poetry - is the starting point. There are also fragments of Real Fine Tea from Berlin.

Impressions

1973 • 4 min • Poland

“Impressions” provides an image of conscious corporeality – an image that was rare in the art of Poland under Communism. The work is a joyful spontaneous story about female subjectivity, a film self-portrait of the artist.

Hinterland Who's Who: The Canvasback Duck

1973 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland’s Who’s Who series is an introduction to the canvasback duck.

Hinterland Who's Who: Killdeer

1973 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the killdeer.

Hinterland Who's Who: The Polar Bear

1973 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who's Who series introduces viewers to the polar bear, one of the largest bears in North America. See first-hand how they swim, hunt, and raise their cubs.

Boredom

1973 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

A short film about tigers in a zoo.

Marcha sobre Ezeiza

1973 • 18 min

A documentary about the popular demonstration that took place during Perón's return to Argentina in November 1972

Contemplation of the Rose

1973 • 8 min

Michael Lee uses various techniques with a Bolex 16mm camera to observe a vase of flowers. The film is silent.