All Films

Fairy Flower

1973 • 12 min • Japan

A photograph of Aihara’s grandmother, overlapped with a tranquil documentary style animation of her life ending at her funeral scene.

Rendez-vous romantiques

1973 • 25 min • France

When the objectified woman strikes back... Michka receives and secretly films men who approached her on the street. How do men of different ages and backgrounds react to their dream: being welcomed by a woman they like, who is wealthy and willing?

Another Shot

1973 • 4 min • Netherlands

A structuralist film in which the filmmakers uses the capabilities of the optical printer. The processing of the image surface emphasizes the materiality of the medium, and turns the medium of film itself into a subject. This film even undermines the essential characteristic of the medium – the sequence of single images that suggests movement – by also showing the filmstrip itself. The cinematic illusion is broken, and at the same time it is shown as film.

Puiul

1973 • 9 min • Romania

Puiul is a short animated art Romanian movie without dialogue.

Apolinaras

1973 • 10 min

When Henrikas Šablevičius started filming Lithuanian “oddballs” – a professor, a fortune teller, racers, and many others who fell short of the concept of the “model citizen” – he invented a bizarre new genre of documentary biopic. Characteristic of these portraits is a sense of mocking irony directed not at their subjects (on the contrary, the filmmaker’s affection for them is palpable) but at the “Soviet hero” genre. The subject of this film is Apolinaras, a kindhearted policeman who even outwardly looks very unlike the ideological “guardian of morals.”.

The Irish Tapes

1973 • 50 min

The Irish Tapes is the first major documentary shot on portable 1/2 inch videotape. Directors Irish-Americans John Reilly and Stefan Moore filmed over a three-year period in the early 1970s with the support of the National Association for Irish Freedom, a US group associated with the Official IRA. Originally shown as a three-channel, twelve-monitor video installation, it was later edited for broadcast on television in the US in 1975.

Metamorphosis

1973 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

A quest for symbols from the subconscious, drawn and etched directly onto filmstrip.

Boy-Taste

1973 • 12 min • Japan

In an esoteric temple, grown men return to their boyhood and play innocently. Model aeroplanes, paper butterflies, vehicles, tin toys... the things that boys like emerge from the darkness. A short film that visualises dreams of a distant boyhood with a unique aesthetic.

Azoth

1973 • 20 min • Japan

This work produces complex flicker patterns by splicing together four types of footage, consisting of shots of the exterior of a factory during the day and at night, in positive and negative versions. Nakai created a masking film with a calculated pattern of black and white frames into which he inserted positive and negative images and made a print out of two separate rolls of film. “Images of an industrial zone in constant operation day and night are utilized with the sense that it encapsulates both the beginning and the end. Scenes shot from morning to evening and then from evening to morning are divided into negative and positive frames, resulting in four types of images that intersect, manipulating the effects of film processing on perception.” (Tsuneo Nakai) Two versions of the film exist: 13:40 mins at 24 fps and 20 mins at 16 fps.

Group Error

1973 • 12 min • Italy

The film shows a woman mysteriously wandering, pistol in hand, through the streets of Lourdes, France. It is a portrait of Patrizia Vicinelli, the great poet active in the avant- garde Gruppo 63, who worked with the leading magazines of the time, close to both the theatre and the experimental cinema of Alberto Grifi and Gianni Castagnoli. —Tate Modern

The Moon Show

1973 • 2 min

A delightfully and cleverly animated film similar in style to Kathy Rose's other films

Place de l'équation

1973 • 31 min • Canada

A Day with the Builders

1973 • 13 min • India

With only music and images, this film captures the grim struggle for existence of a family of unskillled labourers working on the construction of a new building.

Surprise Attack

1973 • 2 min • United States of America

A pair of one person's hands toss a block of lead back and forth.

The Meaning of Various News Photos to Ed Henderson

1973 • 15 min

Baldessari introduces eight news photos to Ed Henderson — ranging in subject matter from geese at the zoo to an accidental electrocution — and asks him to identify them. Henderson's associative responses suggest the projection of unconscious desires and fears onto these arbitrary images, which are removed from their original contexts. The implied narratives that emerge from the seemingly random juxtapositions and sequences of photographs give rise to questions of manipulation, inference and meaning.

Méliès Catalogue

1973 • 7 min • Canada

Hark! Hork!

1973 • 19 min

Taking its title from a scene in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, in which Finnegan awakens from a dream, Hark! Hork! evokes natural and subconscious landscapes. Infusing the work with Joycean language and imagery, Gillette creates a visual and aural parallel to Joyce's stream-of-consciousness text. Melding abstracted, organic forms with dreamlike, beautifully composed still lifes, he creates a collage of thoughts, gestures and objects that contemplates the sensuality of nature and the fleeting nature of memory. This work reveals a complexity of formal strategy and a sophistication of editing exceptional for its time.

Pedreira

1973 • 7 min • Brazil

The film addresses the problem of occupational accidents in Brazil, based on the lack of safety in quarries where workers are constantly victimized by the explosions.

Negotiating a New Canadian Constitution

1973 • 3 min • Canada

A visually fascinating and mildly ironic look at the Canadian people, this three-minute film is an animated version of a poem by Lionel Kearns. It is experimental in nature and well-stocked with brilliant graphics and an unusual sound track.

Proximity

1973 • 4 min • United States of America

An experimental film by Jim Jennings.

Bondage Boy

1973 • 6 min • United States of America

“A quiet evening at home with a little twine....” (Langdon)

Hinterland Who's Who: The Musk Ox

1973 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who's Who series introduces viewers to the musk ox, relative of the sheep and goat. They live in the most remote regions of the far North, and are now considered a protected species.

Boxing Match

1973 • 15 min • France

A boxing match that turns into an erotic dance and lovemaking between two boxers, while the spectators watching become hysterical.

Hinterland Who's Who: The Willow Ptarmigan

1973 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces you to the willow ptarmigan.