All Films

La reunión

1973 • 55 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Reception Room

1973 • 18 min

Acconci lies naked on a gurney-like table, rocking back and forth as a tape-loop of his voice describes his anxieties about exposing his body and his artwork. Writes the artist: "My voice functions as a scenario that keeps me confined to the bed: once I've exposed my fears and shames publicly, then I might be able to face them in private."

A Story

1973 • 6 min • Japan

16mm to digital, 6'00

The Post Office

1973 • 57 min • India

Amol, a child, is confined to his adoptive uncle's home by an incurable disease. He stands in the courtyard and talks to passers-by and inquires about the places they go to. The construction of a new post office nearby prompts the imaginative Amol to fantasise about receiving a letter from the King or being his postman.

Pat the Pilot

1973 • 1 min • United States of America

Pat talks about the letter P.

Prosto-krzywa

1973 • 7 min

A short film by Ryszard Waśko

La mort du jeune poète

1973 • 15 min

Rome, November 1941. In a pneumology clinic, Ion Bucur, a young Romanian poet, is dying. His friend and compatriot, artist Eugen Dragutesco, faithfully sits at his bedside, drawing pictures of him, thirty pictures in total, which will finally constitute the poignant diary of a pathetic agony.

Wrong Kid

1973 • 4 min

The police, looking for a suspect, question the wrong youth.

Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo

1973 • 22 min

In Mali, women's funeral rite takes place in the village of Bongo, in Dogon country.

Flying Cube

1973 • 1 min • United Kingdom

First polygonal rotating object computer animation

Transmigration

1973 • 6 min

experimental short

Shadow Space

1973 • 6 min • United States of America

A confined space alive and teeming with energy – shapes merge forming new shapes.

Fear

1973 • 5 min • Bulgaria

The hero is afraid of someone whose footsteps are swaying outside. The hero builds a huge tower around himself to protect himself. The footsteps roll outside again, but he laughs at them. When, however, he wants to get out, it turns out that this is not possible.

Visual Alchemy

1973 • 7 min

A poetic document depicting psychological, alchemical, and physical aspects of earlier work in visual "transmutation" at the Visual Alchemy Studio, Vancouver 1973. The work depicted in this film includes early holography at this first art-holography studio in Canada and the projection of real and holographic images in space utilizing lasers and optics. The sound track uses text fragments from my work and quotes from Carl Jung's Psychology and Alchemy. (A.R.)

Power of Dream

1973 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A young partisan imagines himself as a superhero, escaping from German soldiers.

Policeman

1973 • 1 min

Early in the seventies I was involved in the programming of an ABC affiliate TV station in Boston (Channel 5). I was given the opportunity to make what I called "non commercials" to be shown between programs just like a conventional advertisement but consisting instead of a 60 second look at a commonplace social activity. Policeman was one of several such "non commercials" that aired on this station to many peoples' astonishment.

En vinterdag med Emma och Vigert

1973 • 26 min

Emma and Vigert are in their 70s, have no children or other social contacts, and live alone on a farm far into the forest. This documentary follows them during one winter day.

American Summer

1973 • 29 min

“This film documents the experiences of 30 African students from the University of Abidjan, Ivory Coast who spend their summers at various U.S. youth camps as part of the International Students Service Program (ISSP). The university students share their culture with American children, and, in turn, have the opportunity to learn about the customs of the United States. The film was produced and directed by Dick Roberts" (US National Archives).

Centre

1973 • 5 min • Poland

Bendkowski tests in this film the expressive potential of the cinematic medium. The work is based on an attempt, characteristic for this artist, to balance an incredibly colorful, spectacular visual layer with a faithfulness to a rigorous, rationally constructed structure of the work. -1,2,3... Avant-Gardes. Film/Art between Experiment and Archive, ed. Ł. Ronduda, F. Zeyfang, Warsaw 2007.

Gross Fog

1973 • 5 min

Loops. "A four screen film projection onto four vertically placed screens, which span the gallery space from floor to ceiling. The wall surface is transformed into a rippling column of colour, accompanied by a soundtrack of running water. First shown as part of the Film Action and Installation show at Gallery House, London, in March 1973.".

A Trip Across Misty Meadows

1973 • 11 min • Soviet Union

This film details the dismantling of the old railway Siaurukas in Lithuania and the construction of its new modern replacement. The old railway and the new railway become the symbol of the clash between the archaic rural Lithuania and Soviet industrialization. The film was often considered as an expression of the archetypes of Lithuanian character.

Behind the Masks

1973 • 37 min

A fascinating look at the meaning behind some Indigenous masks from the North Pacific coast. Expositor and lecturer is Professor Claude Levi-Strauss of Paris, world-renowned anthropologist and authority on the structural analysis of myth.

Tautological Cinema

1973 • 4 min • Poland

"Tautological Cinema" is a cycle of short films exploring linguistic and cinematic structures

Ringlas ceļojums

1973 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An animation film for kids teaching them to love and protect nature. Based on the story "Čigānmeitēns Ringla".