All Films

Chico Buarque MPB Especial

1973 • 49 min • Brazil

Chico Buarque and MPB-4 performing live at TV Cultura.

Klaverihäälestaja tuleb kolmapäeval

1973 • 15 min • Soviet Union

The film ridicules stereotyped thinking through an absurdist lens.

The Hole

1973 • 10 min • South Korea

One of Han Ok-hee’s renowned pieces called The Hole uses the flicker, oblique angles, the cross-cutting of reality and fantasy to express inner entrapment and the desire for liberation. Han Ok-hee’s The Hole, The Rope and Untitled not only experimented with cinematic forms of expression, but also played an important role in the protest against forms of expression in experimental films and the artistic protest against the social suppression and censorship in 1970s Korea. (Art Cinema OFFoff)

The Bob Hope Mardi Gras Special

1973 • 60 min

Bob Hope presides as Bacchus over the New Orleans Mardi Gras parade, and provides highlights of the parade's bands and animated floats, outdoor dancing scenes on Bourbon Street, and visits to nightclubs featuring Pete Fountain and Al Hirt.

Epiphany

1973 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The Loves of a Dilettante

1973 • 50 min • Hungary

Hungarian scientist and man of letters and leisure János Bátky (Iván Darvas) enjoys sparkling society life, spending his evenings in the company of various ladies. Ilonka, his long-suffering secret companion of several years, manages to make the bachelor almost truly fall in love – however, he is afraid of marriage and prefers to push her away.

A Sound of Thunder

1973 • 20 min

Film based on the 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury.

Solarflares Burn for You

1973 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Arthur Johns' 10-minute experimental film is a personal essay on colour effects, set to a hypnotic soundtrack by Robert Wyatt. Although his initial art training was in painting, Johns quickly realised that his favourite medium was film. He made Solar Flares in the early 1970s, shortly after graduating from London's Royal College of Art, where he had already made a number of award-winning experimental shorts.

Colored Pencils

1973 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A story about three friends—a red, yellow, and blue colored pencil—and a quarrelsome black pencil stub whose mischief causes frustration for the others.

Element

1973 • 12 min

Like female artists in other forms - Carolee Schneeman, Versuchka, Charlotte Moorman- who covered their bodies with earth and paint and chocolate, Greenfield in Element reveals a femaleness both transgressive and erotic. She unites complex associations of death and birth in a visceral mud-caked performance.

Learned Spontaneous Movements

1973 • 10 min • Austria, Hungary

The Sealhunters

1973 • 11 min • New Zealand

Three young people set off on a road trip from Wellington to find a seal colony.

Days of Destruction

1973 • 27 min • Iceland

The film begins in the early hours of the morning of January 23rd 1973. A mile long fissure had ripped itself open on the outskirt of the fishing village on Heimaey, a small island of the Vestmannaeyjar group, off the South Coast of Iceland. Glowing ash and molten lava was spewed over the sleeping town. We see the evacuation of the 500 inhabitants, both by air and by sea. We witnes unbelievable scenes of bellowing craters, flowing lava, burning and collapsing buildings. We learn of the agony and uncertainty of people made homeless, and of the measures taken by the Civil Defence to deal with a disaster of an enormity rarely faced by so small a nation.

Background

1973 • 20 min • United States of America

Background is a 1973 American short documentary film directed by Carmen D'Avino. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The original version was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Broken Glass

1973 • 1 min • United Kingdom

As part of a wider anti-litter message, this film addresses the problems of rubbish left on beaches.

Love It, Leave It

1973 • 14 min

A 14-minute almanac of Midwestern America and its funky Americana at the end of the Love Generation, Love It / Leave It begins with proudly naked people parading about for all the world to ogle at the annual Naked City beauty pageant in Roselawn, Indiana, before returning to Chicago, where families literally draped in American flags are found wilting under the heat of the sun along a downtown parade route.

Sign

1973 • 43 min • United Kingdom

Du Cane describes his cinema as “as close as I can get to an immediate transference onto celluloid of my flux-like process in response to being here now, filming.” Sign is a “room film”, shot entirely in what appears to be the filmmaker’s studio: film cans, reels and other cinematographic can sometimes be distinguished amongst the rapid camera movements. Du Cane’s rarely shown films are amongst the most pure and radical of their period. Instinctive yet formal, structured and organic, the physical world is turned into a screen-based labyrinth that is both surface and depth, through the retinal rush of incremental superimpositions and delicate cameral control.

Sem Título II

1973 • 43 min • Portugal

The characters touch and separate, dance and stand still, fall asleep and wake up, animated by a game of reflections that lasts longer than ever. Among them are several paintings by Luís Noronha hanging on the walls, especially the famous representation of poor Lusíada floating on the raft with the green and white flag.

Kråkbegravningen

1973 • 5 min • Sweden

What to do if you happen to stumble upon a crow, who is really dead.

Leaves & Trees

1973 • 13 min

L.S. Lowry: The Industrial Artist

1973 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Matchstick men and so much more. The work and world of Lawrence Stephen Lowry, recorder of the industrial North.

Apollo 17, on the Shoulders of Giants

1973 • 28 min • United States of America

A documentary about the Apollo 17 mission to the Taurus-Littrow on the moon, the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo program, December 1972. Produced by A-V Corporation for NASA. The film was distributed both as an ephemeral film (shown to an audience via a 16mm film projector), and was also shown on TV (and was shown on both public and commercial stations per a search of vintage newspapers).

Avrum et Cipojra

1973 • 10 min • France

A day spent by an old Jewish couple of Polish origin in the Parisian district of Belleville…

Pitch-Black

1973 • 48 min • Japan

Set in Chikuho amid the closing of the region’s coal-mining industry, this film recounts the histories of miners and their families in a narrative that unfolds in a mixture of fact and fiction.