All Films

The Jellyfish

1973 • 8 min • United Kingdom

The Jellyfish employs a variety of experimental approaches, combining stop-motion and pixilation techniques, freely mixing black and white photography of beach landscapes, objects and people – along with some drawings – to build a poetic, very textured montage, eliding the real and the surreal, the beautiful and the eerie, the spirited and the deadly. Figures and objects are isolated, linked together only by their presence on a beach, all exposed to direct or indirect threats. The different jellyfish are as much at threat – washing up dead, stranded in the desolate landscape – as they are a threat – appearing suddenly and making people vanish.

Demolition of a Wall

1973 • 27 min • United States of America

DEMOLITION OF A WALL takes six frames of the falling wall from the 1896 Lumiere film and reorders these six frames in all their permutations. With a score for piano that follows a similar pattern the film resembles change ringing, a musical form developed in England in the 17th century where the tuned bells of a church tower are rung in a series of mathematical patterns called "changes". Here, we see 718 additional variations on the original "theme".

Laugh

1973 • 12 min • United Kingdom

"Duncan Morris is asked to laugh as long as he is able...." Another early videotape made when I was exploring the creative possibilities and affordances of the Sony Portapak, recently introduced into Britain. As an artist and filmmaker, the new medium encouraged spontaneity of execution (for little cost compared to film). The ability to see the results immediately afterwards propelled concepts and ideas towards a completed outcome.

Piano on Fire

1973 • 8 min • Japan

Famed Japanese jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita expresses his burning passion for music by setting his piano on fire. "I think though it is just a ten minute of performance, it holds an essence of artistic expression because he risked his life and career and took a serious approach to a project which is very ephemeral and unperfectible" (Ken Awazu).

Melody

1973 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Film-parable about the significance of beauty in human life, about the need for a caring attitude towards nature.

Sentimental Story

1973 • 6 min • Poland

A teenage fan takes a photo of her idol Tadeusz Ross from a display case in the cinema and hangs it in her room. The next day, the idol arrives at her place in a sports car.

Delaware Park

1973 • 4 min

Soundtrack: Ed Sanders. Filmed in Buffalo, 1969, completed in Chicago, 1973. Acid in the park, broken images, danger symbols of the fleeting moments.

Estigma de Terror

1973 • 30 min • Argentina

Produced independently and filmed on a low budget, Estigma de Terror was released in 1974 on the independent circuit, the film was never commercially exploited. Transylvania, in contemporary times, is the setting where a man with a curse and his wife must face a priest who tries to exorcise by the sword rather than by word (literally).

Little Sentinels of the East Sea

1973 • 20 min • China

Somewhere along the coast, the little red soldiers Xiaohong and Xiaolong were standing guard. Three spies disguised as People's Liberation Army came to ask them for directions. So, Xiaolong went back to report the letter, and Xiaohong climbed to the horn of the horn where the enemy was going first. While fighting the enemy, she blew the conch to call the police. The People's Liberation Army and the militia arrived in time and wiped out the enemy agents.

Land of Smiles: Thailand

1973 • 26 min

Thai folk songs and dances - such as the beautiful fingernail dance and the precision bamboo dance - are filmed in performance, as is a segment from the classical the epic poem/dance, the Ramayana. The program also looks at Thailand's rural cottage industries and river trade, explores temple ceremonies, architecture, and religious art as well as the Buddhist way of life in the monasteries and villages.

Ett hus i min famn

1973 • 37 min • Sweden

Documentary about the Swedish artist Anders Åberg and the depopulation of his childhood countryside. As jobs in industry fade away many houses are left empty for nature to reclaim. Anders makes scale models of these houses so they will be remembered.

Vision Take 1

1973 • 3 min

'Vision Take 1' combines the use of Super 8 and video formats to play with the image of the sea.

Viva Dirk

1973 • 15 min • United States of America

A deformed prince is forced into a life of sexual servitude and then becomes the rising symbol of the sexual freedom movement.

Untitled

1973 • 25 min

The only video work Kounellis has ever made: His vision, in the small exhibition itinerary, takes place beyond a black curtain, in a small room created inside the exhibition space for visitors to enter one at a time. It is alone that one goes to interrogate the oracle. From a monitor, placed higher than usual, the mask of Apollo appears in its unshakeable immobility. Kounellis holds it in his right hand, while in his left he holds a lit oil lamp. There is the measurable time of the video, the 25 minutes of its physical duration: The historical time exists in which the artist offered himself to the fixed shot of the camera. Lastly, there is perennial time, the incorrupt cycle of the ancient Divinity who has always presided over the manifestation of light and art and of which Kounellis is but one of the infinite epiphanies.

Mysterious Cabin

1973 • 31 min

A group of kids discover that an abandoned cabin has suddenly come alive with a mysterious person whom they suspect is a drug pusher. They discover that even though they were fooled by the identity of the intruder, God is never fooled, and knows our hearts, our sin, and our need of His Son.

The Day

1973 • 9 min • Poland

Created with many techniques, an animated reflection on the passing of time, youth and fame.

One Fine Evening in 2000

1973 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Problems of Futurology, the film is an experience of recreating the future on the example of some scientific discoveries and phenomena of today's social life.

A Semiotic Study of Unlogic Figure Codification

1973 • 6 min • Sweden

An attempt to show how illogical movement patterns are possible in a two-dimensional space. (Filmform)

Film Scramble

1973 • 8 min

Early experiment by Ko Nakajima.

Bob

1973 • 10 min

Made with the help of Richard Landry, the camera scans in extreme closeup, the face of Bob Israel, which at no time is seen in its entirety.

Methods of Egg-viewing

1973 • 17 min

Experimental short by Yoichi Nagata.

Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza

1973 • 13 min • Palestinian Territory

A rare film by the legendary filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali, one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit, the first filmic arm of the Palestinian revolution. Shot by a French news team, the footage was edited by Mustafa in Lebanon to produce one of the earliest films on the occupied territory in Gaza. Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza employs experimental editing tech- niques to produce a cinematically and politically subversive film. The film won the prize as best film at the Damascus Film Festival in 1973 and was screened at multiple festivals. It was the only film produced by the Palestine Cinema Group, which in 1974 became the Palestine Cinema Institute.

Ah verda!

1973 • 20 min • Mexico

Daffy, psychedelic fantasy about a hippie idyll interrupted by straights and a scheme to lace the water supply with LSD; prodded by the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

The Rifles will not be Silent

1973 • 25 min • Palestinian Territory

An important documentary based on a speech by Comrade George Habash, the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine on the first anniversary of the Martyrdom of Comrade Ghassan Kanafani. Through this speech the film shows the political position of the Front and the position of the masses towards the question of proposed settlement, as well as the role of the masses in pursuing the armed struggle against the imperialist-Zionist-reactionary enemy.