All Films

The Box

1973 • 10 min • United States of America

A young boy playing in a large cardboard box imagines himself to be in a stagecoach, an old steam locomotive, a stunt plane, and a space capsule on the way to the moon. Designed to stimulate imagination and creative expression. For elementary grades.

Paddock

1973 • 10 min

Over the course of one year, Narcisa Hirsch left a super 8 camera on a tripod in a paddock near her house in the Patagonia. When she was away, she gave instructions to activate the camera to a local farmer who looked after cows in the area.

Little 8th Route Army

1973 • 46 min • China

The film was produced and released under the term of chairman Mao Zedong when the cultural revolution was still ongoing. The plot backdrop is based on the National Revolutionary Army's 8th Route Army division, when it was under the control of Communist Party of China instead of the opposing Kuomintang. Despite numerous movie adaptations, this is the only animation piece ever produced on the subject. A story book was also released as a companion to the film.

The Urgent Call of Palestine

1973 • 5 min • Lebanon, Palestinian Territory

Ismail Shammout, an artist who is primarily known for his paintings, also served as director of the Cultural Arts Section of the PLO and worked with the organization’s Film Unit in the 1970s. In this short film, Shammout records a solidarity song by the Palestinian Egyptian singer Zeinab Shaath to announce the most urgent call of Palestine. The song and the words of Kamal Nasser that break through the ballad continue to hold striking relevance today. Lyrics by Lalitha Punjabi.

Geliebter Wahnsinn

1973 • 7 min

A fusion of double-exposure and cut-ups that make up this widely experimental oddity.

Mimosa

1973 • 9 min • Poland

The bodies of the lovers become one in the bosom of nature, near their country cottage. The moment is interrupted by the man and his thoughts – he has to go in order to earn money. They spend autumn and winter separately - she yearns alone, he works hard in a mine and a forge. In spring, when the woman runs towards the man in order to welcome him, she sees a dead man walking. She manages to recognize him only by the pendant that she gave him. In her embrace, the man regains his strength. Gold coins fall to the ground and merge with golden rod, the Polish mimosa. Stylistic paintings refer to oil painting and hold the subsequent phases of the figure's movement, which gives the impression of plane movement.

The Creeps Machine

1973 • 9 min

Helps children understand and cope with feelings of fear of the unknown, particularly fear of the dark. For primary grades.

Vasilyok

1973 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animated Soviet propaganda cartoon by S. Aristakesov, about a boy who search for his grandfather who was MIA in WWII.

What Is Nothing?

1973 • 9 min • United States of America

It’s summer vacation! School’s out and you have all the time in the world to hang with your best bud and...ponder the meaning of nothingness? In What is Nothing? we join two youngsters who, as all rascals do, sit around and contemplate the void.

Er stirbt tausend Tode

1973 • 47 min

Documentary about stuntman Rémy Julienne.

Anteon

1973 • 31 min • Romania

Waiting for the rain that never comes, two peasants, father and son, plough the dry land with a horse-drawn plough. The father decides to dig a well, for which he will pay a heavy price.

Women of the Rhondda

1973 • 21 min • United Kingdom

Four women speak movingly to the camera on their experience of the General Strike and life in the 1930s and 40s in a depressed South Welsh mining village.

El Atlantis

1973 • 21 min

This experimental short by New York poet Frank Kuenstler features footage shot in the 1950s of the now-vanished Third Avenue El, set to a soundtrack of Kuenstler playing a toy piano.

Jane

1973 • 38 min • United Kingdom

A documentary on Jane Fonda, featuring an extensive interview with the actress about her upbringing and her activism.

Cali: de Película

1973 • 13 min • Colombia

A 13 minute glimpse of the Feria de Cali celebrated between Christmas and New Year… A carnival of commodity fetishism, red devils and white indians that will be recognizable to anyone who has encountered the surrealist ethnographies of Michael Taussig.

The Stuntmen

1973 • 49 min • Australia

The Stuntmen is a one-hour documentary for Australian TV written and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. It was through this movie that Trenchard-Smith met Grant Page, who he put under a five-year contract and featured in a number of movies. The film also acted as a "calling card" which enabled the director to get finance for The Man from Hong Kong (1975).

Box-A-Rama

1973 • 3 min • Canada

Gary Lee-Nova's comedic, anarchic boxing short.

Trikfilm 3

1973 • 3 min

A hand draws a flipbook of liquid architecture.

Three Transitions

1973 • 5 min • United States of America

"The tape is one of the seminal works in video. In three short exercises, Campus uses basic techniques of video technology and his own image to create succinct, almost philosophical metaphors for the psychology of the self. In these concise performances, he employs video's inherent properties as a metaphorical vehicle for articulating transformations of internal and external selves, illusion and reality."

For Sale

1973 • 2 min • United States of America

A hapless customer purchases Whatever You Want Land, a place that can be anything he wants with the snap of a finger.

Como Nasce uma Cidade

1973 • 11 min • Brazil

A documentary short on the formation of the Brazilian city of Feira de Santana, located on the state of Bahia.

The Burial of the Hogon

1973 • 18 min

Burial of the Hogon of Sanga, Dogon religious leader of Lower Ogol, Mali.

Roy Orbison: Live From Australia

1973 • 51 min

In this rarely seen concert held at the Festival Hall in Melbourne, Australia in 1972, the legendary Roy Orbison takes the stage backed by an entire orchestra in addition to his own band. With standing ovations after every masterpiece, this dynamic performance is filled with his classic hits, great ballads and powerful rockers. See one of the top rock'n'roll singers of all time at the top of his form in this historical must-see performance!

A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night

1973 • 40 min

A live TV special of Harry Nilsson performing his album of standards "A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night".