All Films

Hinterland Who's Who: The Snowy Owl

1973 • 1 min • Canada

This very short film from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the snowy owl.

Hinterland Who's Who: Trumpeter Swan

1973 • 1 min • Canada

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

Hinterland Who's Who: The Bison

1973 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who's Who series introduces viewers the bison.

Con-certo rituale

1973 • 18 min

Association of Ideas

1973 • 3 min

Association of Ideas...

A Metric America

1973 • 17 min

Animation to highlight reasons for American metric conversion. Introduces the meter, liter, kilogram and Celsius. Emphasizes prefixes and stresses the decimal nature of the metric system. Points out the benefits of conversion.

About Conception And Contraception

1973 • 11 min

Uses animation without narration to show six methods of birth control. Presents the use, advantages, disadvantages, costs, and effectiveness of the condom, the diaphragm, vasectomy, the intrauterine device, tubal ligation and the pill.

The Three Fools and the Automobile

1973 • 8 min • Bulgaria

11 short stories about the marvelous misadventures of The Three Fools created and directed by the Bulgarian cartoonist Donyo Donev. The first episode was released in 1970 and the last one in 1990.

A Pretty Good Class For A Monday...

1973 • 25 min

Examines the different ways in which three pupils participate in a high school history class.

Waterwork

1973 • 11 min • United States of America

"A single shot (slow zoom) gradually magnifying rapidly-moving blue/white water pattern (rushing river). A sensitive and subtle film for visual contemplation, which inevitably reminds one both of how seldom we see ordinary 'simple' reality; but moreover, how wonderfully transformative is the medium of cinema, to render this reality in a new, optically dazzling, pattern. A hypnotic experience, for the cinema/willing, to drown within – and therein the danger: an art must keep the recipient alive and awake." – John Schofill

Ça ira - The song of the french revolution

1973 • 9 min • Hungary

Short animated by György Kovásznai and musicalized by the popular song "Ça ira" that illustrates through paintings, the events that made up the french revolution and its multiple founders.

Vocabulary

1973 • 4 min

L'Ennui (les rêves d'un somnambule)

1973 • 17 min • Canada

Three different dreams of the city, three perspectives, in black and white with a soundtrack from student of John Cage, Bill Fontana... all in camera editing with a Bolex when experimental films meant something on film, raw, from the street, immediate and experiential... influenced by modern dance and the work of Ed Emshweller.

Playback

1973 • 7 min • Japan

The Great Occasion

1973 • 15 min • Italy

Made on the occasion of the XV Triennale di Milano, the film was shot inside the Triennale which, empty, expresses the tension and expectation of an artist in front of his "big opportunity", finally called to express himself through a great exhibition in an institutional venue.

Feedback

1973 • 8 min • Japan

Photographs of a nude, arranged into stop-motion sequences on the left half of the screen, are juxtaposed with a close-up of the film itself passing in front of a viewer, gradually revealed on the right half of the screen.

Abstractions on a Bedsheet

1973 • 6 min • United States of America

Bill Etra's "Abstractions on a Bedsheet" was made with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer under PDP11-10 computer control. Bill said that the climax took as long as the rest of the piece to compose and program.

Heartbeat

1973 • 1 min • United States of America

An early work by Bill & Louise Etra, with Peter Crown. Made with biotelemetry equipment and video synthesizer at the TV Lab, WNET, NYC.

New York Corres Sponge Dance School of Vancouver at the Blue Horizons

1973 • 3 min • Canada

A 1973 recording of Glenn Lewis' multi-media synchronized swimming performance.

Judy Collins: BBC in Concert

1973 • 33 min • United Kingdom

Folk singer Judy Collins performs to a BBC studio audience in 1973. Songs performed are Joni Mitchell compositions Chelsea Morning and Both Sides Now, Tom Paxton's The Hostage, Leonard Cohen's Suzanne, Sandy Denny's Who Knows Where The Time Goes, and the self-penned, semi-autobiographical My Father.

Estonian Calendar Songs

1973 • 37 min

Fimi is based on 4 parts of Veljo Tormis' choral cycle "Estonian Calendar Songs": 1. Mardi Gras Songs, 2. Swing Songs, 3. Frame Songs, 4. Midsummer Songs.

Utopia

1973 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

Location: a lonely house, crowded with everyday things and one man. Objects live their lives; they rejoice harmlessly, they love, they suffer, but above all they enjoy their own liberation from the chains of objectivity, from the restraint of functionality. They childishly surrender to the frenzy of action, to the motion of movement. New beings, mutants of civilization. Objects seen differently.

Marechal Rondon: Patrono das Comunicações

1973 • 13 min

Biographical documentary about Marshal Cândido Rondon, from his childhood in 1865 until his death in 1958. It highlights his role in the implementation of the Telegraph system in the interior of the country and his first contacts with indigenous tribes.

Sno-White (Crimson)

1973 • 7 min

One part out of three from Edelheit's 1973 video-installation/performance piece, "The Albino Queen and Sno-White in Triplicate," featuring a triple-projection film, originally projected onto the inside of a white silk tent.