All Films

Labyrinthe

1973 • 5 min

Shot during Mary Stephen's time in Canada, Labyrinthe is an experimental spellbinder. Two girls, one Caucasian and the other Asian, are dressed in identical attires, loitering in, bumping along and leaping up and down labyrinth-like cross-cutting corridors where religious and social contexts overlap. Traversing between art and intellectual spheres of East and West, Stephen and her co-directors put their finger on the pulse of the paradoxes that underlie a dual cultural identity.

Monique - LIP I

1973 • 25 min

August 1973, after the police move into the Lip factory in Besançon, one of the female workers, Monique Piton, talks about the four months of struggle, the place of women and the lessons she has learnt. She is also critical of the role of television.

Siah parandeh

1973 • 8 min

8 minute animation by Morteza Momayez, an Iranian graphic designer, illustrator and animator closely associated with Kanoon. He created many iconic film posters during this era, along with a number of animations.

Empirical Midwife in Milpa Alta

1973 • 23 min • Mexico

A midwife goes to medical school to learn modern techniques.

Portrait of the Artist (as Narcissus)

1973 • 9 min

Experimental interpretation of the Narcissus myth.

H

1973 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

A 16mm experimental short.

Animation from Cape Dorset

1973 • 18 min • Canada

This collection assembles the first animated films to be made by Inuit artists at the NFB. Featured is work by Solomonie Pootoogook, Timmun Alariaq, Mathew Joanasie, and Itee Pootoogook Pilaloosie—all participants in the Cape Dorset (Baffin Island) Film Animation Workshop, established to teach animation skills to local artists. The soundtrack features performances by Aggeok and Peter Pitseolok. Commentary is provided in a blend of Inuktitut and English.

First Friends - Years Of Growth: Studies In Development

1973 • 22 min

Shows the transitions the preschool child goes through in becoming a member of a group. The child usually comes into pre-school just having a sense of autonomous self. The film shows how a group of children, with the usual individual differences, learn to relate to others, adjust to the needs of others, and discover gratification in the process. like a nature film but with preschool kids. Lots of hitting and crying.

How to Draw a Cat

1973 • 3 min • United States of America

The short film humorously explores the process of drawing a cat. Blending playful visuals with a satirical tone, the film serves as both a parody and homage to artistic instruction, capturing the enigmatic allure of feline subjects.

I Know What I Like

1973 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Bernard Cribbins appears as himself, and various characters in the brewing trade, in a lighthearted look at the beer making (and drinking) process, from the picking of hops and barley to the various different kinds of pubs.

Songdelay

1973 • 19 min

Wind and Songdelay are two of Joan Jonas’s early performances filmed in the open air, in either natural or industrial environments. Fourteen performers struck together pieces of wood, drew shapes on the ground with props, and used mirrors to refract sunlight while an audience watched them from afar.

C'era una volta un Re

1973 • 26 min • Italy

Abstract work by Eugenio Carmi

Arbatax

1973 • 16 min • Germany

Equinox

1973 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

An experimental short film.

Urbana

1973 • 11 min • Italy

The theme of subjugation in an experimental (and political) film by an artist who looks to Dziga Vertov and the historic avant-garde.

Luminous Zone

1973 • 21 min

Exploration of the possibilities of light – ephemeral, dazzling, ravishing. Its flames and explosions, its swirls and glimmer, its interactions with matter and celluloid.

Pour faire un bon voyage, prenons le train

1973 • 20 min

The railway advertisement To Have A Good Trip Let’s Take The Train, had given me the idea of a speedy violent film with plenty of information, the intensity and speed of which cannot be perceived complacently by the spectator. All this gives an aggression to the film not unlike the actual transport system… the train was a pretext and I started to shoot as though I were using a gun-machine, trains and pseudo amusements becoming all mixed up.

The Framing of Perception

1973 • 33 min • Canada

"I saw the light..." Sun, light, darkness, shadow -- from time immemorial all weighted with significance and wonder. What mastery over nature, over others, to grasp the sun, control light itself! Know its speed, its heat, its colour, its radiation, its nature - is this not the power of the gods? Cinema is messaging with light and shadow. Figure and ground. Light, onto which we project significance, now transports our information. Perception shaped by our experiences, our interpretations, our projections, our illusions. Frames of drama and comedy, journalism and documentary, propaganda and advertising, all combined daily and edited, reproduced for mass consumption. What is the message?

Vau seis

1973 • 10 min

"The film as a whole tries to ensure that the image has no sound and the sound has no image so that the viewer is the one who re-elaborates in his mind the fusion of both." Javier Aguirre

Kunstnik Peeter Linzbach

1973 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Theater and film artist Peeter Linzbach in Kadriorg Park in Tallinn, at an art exhibition, drawing. Ants Eskola, Ivar Kosenkranius and Veljo Käsper talk about the artist.

Images du carnaval de Bâle

1973 • 22 min • France

It was in 1973 that this film, the first film shot in Super 8 mm with magnetic sound, was broadcast on television. The Carnival of Basel is famous for the music of its fife-and-drum military bands. The imaginary quality of the carnival comes face to face with musique concrète.

Cosmic Love

1973 • 40 min • Sweden

A portrait of electronic composer, musician, experimental filmmaker and multi-artist Ralph Lundsten shot in his spectacular Andromeda studio outside of Stockholm. Apart from his music the film also features parts of Lundsten's cinematic works.

A Very Very Good Worm

1973 • 4 min

A Very Very Good Worm

60

1973 • 1 min • Japan

Hiroshi Yamazaki, 16mm, 1'00