All Films

The Sounds of the Northern Forests

1973 • 16 min • Finland

A waterfall, a moose, a marsh. Graceful swans, owls and woodpeckers. A change of season and, finally, the invasion of human civilization, the sound of chainsaws and gunfire. From the perspective of the animals, the film explores the ecological disaster and man's conception of nature bent to the sole purpose of serving him.

S.S. France

1973 • 28 min • United Kingdom

An onboard documentary following the passengers and crew of S.S. France on a trip from Southampton to New York and back. The film includes a look behind the scenes at what it takes to operate all that goes on during a voyage.

The Old Woman

1973 • 2 min • United States of America

A cheerful short about a sprightly old woman who refuses to obey Death when he comes to call.

Keep Your Business Moving

1973 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Encourages the prospect of hosting an intercity exhibition on rails, with the potential to travel all across Europe.

Milton Keynes - A Village City

1973 • 8 min • United Kingdom

"The most exciting thing going on in Europe, if not the world": welcome to Milton Keynes circa 1973.

Barking

1973 • 2 min

Barking is infused with a sense of mystery, the anticipation that something is about to happen. A car is parked outside a house in a rural Nova Scotia landscape. A dog barks into the distance. A woman enters the frame, looks for the object of the dog's barking, and leaves. The camera pans the landscape, revealing nothing. With its intimations of an off-screen narrative, this simple scenario carries an unsettling implication of the limit of vision and the power of what is not seen. [Overview courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix]

Petrica the Braggart

1973 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A story about a rural liar boy who constantly deceived his comrades and was punished for it.

Magic Lavash

1973 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Naghash grows up in a village. When he reaches the age when he can already work, Naghash decides to travel and understand what he really loves in this life. Lavash is a traditional bread that forms an integral part of Armenian cuisine.

The Kettle-Drum

1973 • 7 min • Bulgaria

An artist's hand tries to draw a drummer with various tools and techniques, but he cannot do it for some reason. Finally he pinches his index finger and draws the drummer with his red blood. The drummer starts hitting the drum and the artist tries to erase it with no success. At the end the artist's hand remains white and motionless while the blood-drawn drummer keeps drumming.

My Holidays

1973 • 23 min • Soviet Union

The adventures of a teenager who came from the city to the village for his summer vacation.

Nebula

1973 • 8 min

The light from the projector lens was projected through a sheet of ice, and the 8mm film was then immersed in a solution of diluted bleach and stirred to scratch it. After that, the dried film was peeled off. Traces of peeled emulsion were visible in the shape of perforations.

1・18

1973 • 19 min

It depicts a day in a somewhat poor apartment life, where I eat and edit 8mm film. I was criticized for the terrible way I washed rice, but anyway, I edited many shots taken at each step of the movement together to recreate a certain time of day through the movement of my eyes.

Duhallow Home

1973 • 29 min • Ireland

A Lady raised in the idyllic Cork countryside returns from London to her former childhood home, and deal with the unresolved trauma of her upbringing

Holly Woodlawn

1973 • 13 min

Holly Woodlawn interview, 1973.

Magic Man

1973 • 2 min

This film by Salomonie Pootoogook features a pixilated performance by Timmun Alariaq. Created in Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset) Film Animation Workshop on Baffin Island, a workshop established to teach animation skills to local artists. This is part of a collection of films by Inuit artists released by the NFB in 1973

The Way We Do Art Now and Other Sacred Tales

1973 • 28 min

A series of 19 short parables concerning modes of representation, language and cognition. Often conveyed through conscious misinformation, Baldessari's witty puns and jokes play off the relation of word, image and meaning; the intersection of what is heard or written, what is seen, and what is understood. For example, he shows us an image of a duffel bag and proceeds to describe, in detail, an object bearing no resemblance to a duffel bag, which is eventually revealed to be a stool. In A Sentence with Hidden Meaning, he writes the phrase, "A sentence with hidden meaning" on a legal pad, hiding the word "hidden" so that it reads, "A sentence with meaning."

Farmer

1973 • 1 min

While active in the programming of ABC affiliate Channel 5 in Boston, Gardner was permitted to make a few short one-minute vignettes illustrating the working lives of relatively ordinary people. These vignettes were meant to be used by the TV station as ‘non commercials’ or unexpected looks at ordinary lives.

Home Movies

1973 • 32 min

In this powerful "meta-document," Acconci sits in the dark with his back to a screen, onto which are projected slides of his past works, in chronological order from 1969. He describes each piece briefly. At times he turns to one side and speaks to an absent person in a conspiratorial whisper: "They couldn't possibly know these pieces the way you do... you know how I took what was happening with us and transferred it into the work." At other times he stands in front of the slide projections to face the viewer and addresses his art-making strategies, including the process of making this tape: "There's too much action here, my interest is language. Language can over-analyze things, break things down, over-complicate things."

Coffee With Powdered Milk

1973 • 10 min

Experimental Super-8 film documenting the making of André Luiz Oliveira's "The legend of Ubirajara" (1975). Shot in the Araguaia River Basin in central Brazil.

Eva

1973 • 1 min • Romania

Cutout animated advertisement for the Eva Perfect cologne, commissioned by the Farmec Enterprise, Cluj.

Repertory

1973 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Repertory consists of one continuous tracking shot, during which the camera completely circles the outside of a locked and empty theatre, whilst a voice describes a three week programme of daily ‘imagined presentations’ inside the theatre.

Light

1973 • 8 min • United States of America

Based on the continuity of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is a ride through space and light.

Off Gauge Temperature

1973 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The centerpiece of A. Grikevicius's film is Tomas Petreikis, the chief engineer of the machine factory in Kaunas F. Dzeržinskis. Rather than creating a regular, conjunctural narrative about the hero of socialist work that exceeds production norms, the director captures another personality of his film's hero. After work, Tom is an entertaining dancer, teacher and contest judge. "Construction and dancing? No, they don't not have any relation," T. Petreikis answers the question posed by the journalist. However, the film observes the parallels that reveal the precision of the constructor-dancer, the perfection of the goal, both by controlling the work of the machine tools and by teaching pairs of dancers to rotate on the parquet, imply another answer.

Cowboys in the City

1973 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A popular science cartoon in a cheerful, eccentric form, parodying cowboy films, reminds viewers to obey traffic rules.