All Films

Journey to the Moon

1973 • 6 min

A crew of astronauts land on the moon.

Filmmaking and the Way to the Village

1973 • 54 min • Japan

This film was directed by a member of the Ogawa collective, Fukuda Katsuhiko, while they were finishing the documentary Sanrizuka: Heta Village. Fukuda left the collective after this film and continued making documentaries in the village of Heta. Credit: ICA London

Time Takes a Cigarette

1973 • 4 min • Netherlands

A photo animation of a woman standing in a cube. Through the windows of the cube, we see an aquarelle dune landscape. To the music of the pop song Time Takes a Cigarette, the woman smokes a cigarette as the camera makes a 360° rotation.

Fracture

1973 • 10 min • Canada

Variously relaxed, apprehensive, or relieved, the fractured gestures of a woman and a baby are played backward and forward, frame by frame, like a musical phrase. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

Shaki

1973 • 25 min • Niger

Alassane considers the mingling of traditions during the coronation of the new Shaki king of the Oyo state of western Nigeria.

The Politics of Perception

1973 • 30 min • Canada

Following an introduction which establishes the social context of the film, ‘The Politics of Perception’ presents a one-minute promotional film advertising a popular Hollywood thriller. This section then repeats itself: a print is generated from the one-minute segment, then a print from the print, and so on as the image and sound slowly disintegrate with each new cycle, until the visual and sound information have completely evolved to white light and white noise. The most original film from the Northwest area. ‘The Politics of Perception’ explores conceptually the paradoxes of communication and the very nature of film itself, progressing from movie reality to its utter abstraction. A maddeningly stimulating work!

The Fad Diet Circus

1973 • 10 min

An informational short which compares various diet trends popular in the early seventies. There seems to be a particular emphasis placed on debunking the "Atkins Diet Revolution." Dr. Robert Atkins is interviewed and confronted with some mildly damaging figures. Filmed in 1973, the whole short looks gross enough to serve as a temporary appetite suppressant.

Green Men, Yellow Woman

1973 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A rude and angry parable of woman's disenchantment with men who only want to finger her flower.

Door Piece

1973 • 4 min

Winterfarbe II

1973 • 6 min • Germany

The cabin in Sweden in winter

Chant

1973 • 5 min • United States of America

Creates a reorientation of vision in a union of sights and sounds which suggest a different way of appreciating and understanding the fundamental integrity of experience.

Glass Puzzle

1973 • 17 min

This complex and enigmatic work, which is performed by Jonas and Lois Lane, explores female gestures, poses, the body and narcissism. Mirroring each other with synchronized movements as they perform as alter-egos, Jonas and Lane reference archetypal female gestures and poses from popular and traditional cultures. Throughout the performance, space is dislocated and altered as a formal device — segmented by a swinging bar, superimposed in layers, transformed by subtle changes in light and shadow, or flattened by the video screen. With its evocative personal theater and idiosyncratic vocabulary of gestures, ritual and symbolism, Glass Puzzle is a quintessential Jonas work.

Sensitométrie I

1973 • 3 min

The fist movie of the series "Sensitométrie" is an animated film. Animation techniques offers incredible possibilities of de-structuring an image. Even in classical animated films, there is no pre-existing "real". One must reconstruct something based on the study of forms and movements.

The Gypsy Cried

1973 • 3 min • United States of America

“When one likes something very much, or someone, it is hard to do anything but like it. I didn’t want to take anything away or add anything to this song because I like it a lot.” --Chris Langdon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

L'écran transparent

1973 • 20 min • France, Germany

1973 video by Bernard Parmegiani with accompanying musique concrete score.

Focus Live at the Rainbow

1973 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Live concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London, on May 5, 1973.

Lens Hand Foot

1973 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Lens Hand Foot is part of the Light Occupations series, in which Gill Eatherley performs simple investigations of the filmic equipment, particularly the camera and the projector, in short films that are each three minutes in length – corresponding to the length of a 100-foot roll of film. In films like this one, she explores the relationship of her own body to the filmmaking apparatus, playfully attempting to overcome the unbridgeable distance between them.

Variant

1973 • 17 min • United Kingdom

“I intend my films to jump out at you from their dark spaces, their gaps, their elisions, to vibrate in your whole being in the very manner and rhythm of felt experience” (John Du Cane) In Variant, objects and spaces (trees, ships in the harbour, a teapot and cups on the table, grassy fields) do appear to jump out at the spectators, moving rapidly towards them. The film’s speed suggests the idea of an impermanent flux, attempting to create a transient, felt experience. Variant “pushes to experiential and formal extremes the deployment of schematic and repetitive structures.” (Federico Windhausen)

Lens and Mirror Film

1973 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Lens and Mirror Film is part of the Light Occupations series, in which Gill Eatherley performs simple investigations of the filmic equipment, particularly the camera and the projector, in short films that are each three minutes in length – corresponding to the length of a 100-foot roll of film.

Don Cherry

1973 • 16 min

Don Cherry walks around and plays music

Кто пасётся на лугу?

1973 • 1 min • Soviet Union

Warty, the Toad

1973 • 13 min

The inhabitants of a woodland pond get to know a special toad by the name of Warty.

Chess

1973 • 6 min

This animated slapstick is set on a chessboard. Kubal’s film is an allegory on society without freedom in which our every step is governed by strict rules and “kings and queens” who prevent us from disobeying the clear rules of the game.

Pilobolus and Joan

1973 • 58 min

Pilobolus and Joan is a dance/narrative journey of transformation, a theatrical search for self and love based on Carol Emshwiller's story Metamorphosed. In this inversion of Kafka's Metamorphosis, a cockroach awakens as a man — actually a four-man being, as enacted here by members of the Pilobolus Dance Theatre. Within this serio-comic narrative format, the sculptural configurations of the antic Pilobolus dancers find their video correlative in Emshwiller's inventive imaging juxtapositions and surrealistic manipulations of time and scale. Emshwiller achieves a video theater of the imagination, applying the transformative properties of the electronic medium as a visual counterpoint to the literary text, the gymnastic choreography of Pilobolus, and the musical performances of Joan McDermott.