All Films

Flying Lesson

1973 • 5 min • Poland

A Andrzej Krauze Cartoon

Watercolor Painting: Creative Color Collage with Edward Betts

1973 • 17 min • United States of America

Follows artist Edward Betts as he seeks a new design motif among familiar monoliths of stone. Shows how he develops his sketches into a cohesive design.

The Wall

1973 • 8 min

The Wall is a document of local people (among them the filmmaker and his family) mobilized during the 1970s to protest the city’s policy of demolishing housing in order to make way for big commercial buildings. They decided to paint a wall…

Repövning

1973 • 29 min

There has been war in Sweden again. And Sweden won as usual. Fokus was involved in the Battle of Östergötland - one of the toughest front sections. But how would we have coped - if it had been a real war?

Star Dust

1973 • 10 min • Bulgaria

The Flower

1973 • 6 min • Poland

A lonely man notices an exotic flower in the cracked, dry ground. He begins to take care of it. He systematically brings a handful of water to water the flower. The flower grows tall and green.

Oh, No

1973 • 3 min

"...contains a cacophony of visual imagery, taken from personal life and imagination, set to the Mother's of Invention Song which is cynical about love. An early film containing hints fo later imagery and concerns." P.Z.

A Couple of Dons

1973 • 59 min

A comedy special combining movie parodies and other skits and stand-up comedy from Don Adams, Don Rickles and friends.

Aqua Summer

1973 • 14 min • United States of America

Visitors frolic on Priest Lake

50 Happy Years

1973 • 46 min

A look at the first fifty years of Walt Disney's work and the Disney company's productions.

Dedicated to the One Eye Love

1973 • 17 min

Dedicated to the One Eye Love is a Chaplinesque meditation on silent film, and a rather apocalyptic view of Chicago in the early 1970s. A homeless man roams the streets of an empty downtown. The sky keeps flashing as though bombs were dropping, or perhaps the BIG one. He meets a woman in an abandoned building. They dance and part company.

Four 78's Played at Normal Speed

1973 • 5 min

Daily life in an alien city. This is an early diary film trying to formalize my sojourn in cold, naked Chicago in four chapters, presented as four 78 rpm records dropping one by one.

Rex The Painter

1973 • 10 min • Poland

Rex wants to become a painter. The dog’s painting showing an abstract cock is appreciated by a strange painter. He takes Rex to a gallery. The doggie gets a diploma and sells the painting for a sausage. As a great painter, Rex is kidnapped! He will break free... using a brush.

Inukshuk

1973 • 3 min

Stones move through the landscape and take on the likeness of a human. Created in the Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset) Film Animation Workshop on Baffin Island, a workshop established to teach animation skills to local artists. This is part of a collection of films by Inuit artists released by the NFB in 1973.

Sexual Fantasy Party

1973 • 13 min

Shot at a party sponsored by N.O.W. Conference on Sexuality in New York in June of 1973, numerous party goers talk about their sexual fantasies. Many are adorned in outlandish costumes that represent their fantasy, and they explain their reasons for choosing this particular fantasy or representation of fantasy.

Our Day Will Come

1973 • 12 min

My only scripted dramatic film using actors, heavily influenced by Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls, though nowhere near as obscene. A fairly typical study of a man and a women living together, using a male actor to stand in for myself with my old girlfriend Jill Carlson playing herself.

Fröhlich, the Fifth - Family Fröhlich

1973 • 7 min • East Germany

East German animated film.

Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love

1973 • 15 min • United States of America, Cuba

Based on the news of a sexist crime, the director and her husband stage the moments before the death of a prostitute. A film on love and making love.

A Game in Cities

1973 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The children's game reflects the global problems of the adult world.

Pléh-boy

1973 • 6 min • Hungary

A Béla Vajda Cartoon

Good Deeds

1973 • 6 min • Hungary

A Béla Vajda Cartoon

Anthem

1973 • 2 min

Short film photographed by Robert Gardner

The Black Jews

1973 • 25 min

Explores the lives and beliefs of a group of Black Jews living and worshipping in a New Jersey suburban community while they plan to emigrate to Israel. Rabbi Respes, a spokesman of the Black Jewish movement, explains and defends their objectives and goals.

Bombora Begins to Study

1973 • 8 min • Soviet Union