All Films

Cops! Who Needs Them?

1973 • 14 min • United States of America

Two cops lay a very heavy trip on a whiny seventies kid after he treats them disrespectfully and then needs their assistance. The results are not very groovy.

Für Cecile - an der Westküste wartend

1973 • 33 min • Germany

Two men and a woman drive towards a strange ceremony.

Now, You Can Do Anything

1973 • 6 min

A day at the beach in Malibu, at the northwestern edge of what Reyner Banham calls 'Surfurbia.'

Autopsy

1973 • 8 min • Poland

Different shades of responsibility. A mother drowns her blind unhappy child. She wants to spare him the burden of being a cripple. She is absolved by a priest, but the police are waiting for her in front of the church.

Zeroing In

1973 • 31 min

Positioned in an elevated vantage point, Holt uses five apertures in a black board set before the camera to slowly reveal a controlled, abstracted view of an urban landscape. Discussing this New York vista with Ted Castle, Holt strategically transforms passive reception into an interactive exchange.

The Spyglass

1973 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A young boy learns that his parents own a spyglass which allows them to keep track of his every move.

Agonía en la Montaña

1973 • 23 min • Costa Rica

The film is a call of conscience about the disappearance of forests in the country. Great industrial needs have created a greater demand for wood, the necessary expansion of livestock and agriculture is causing the destruction of forests in regions where only forests can provide an acceptable economic return. In view of the irrational progress of tree felling and in view of the slowness with which state institutions intervene in this problem - determining for the future of the country - it was decided to make this film.

Cemetery of the Elephants

1973 • 17 min • Peru

An allegorical story about a young writer who leaves home with his manuscript determined to conquer the world, then returns home after years of struggle as an old man with the world still unconquered.

Festival of Family Classics: Alice in Wonderland

1973 • 22 min • United States of America

Part of the animated anthology series 'Festival of Family Classics' by Rankin/Bass Productions, this adaptation follows a blonde, pig-tailed Alice as she visits the bewildering world of Wonderland. Alice encounters a host of characters including the blue Caterpillar, Mad Hatter, March Hare, Cheshire Cat, the Dormouse, who looks and sounds like a punch-drunk fighter, and the Red Queen, who uses a flamingo for a croquet mallet.

Laughter in the Rosary!

1973 • 7 min • Netherlands

Two schoolgirls act as society ladies, evoking an atmosphere of the roaring twenties. A transvestite tries to read while spaghetti descends on his head.

Hunt's Duffer

1973 • 43 min • New Zealand

After prospector Albert Hunt (Ron Burt) registers a gold claim near Ōkārito, he finds himself accompanied by hundreds of fellow miners — who refuse to let Hunt out of their sights, as he returns to the site via water-logged forests and beaches. The darkly poetic tale of what men can do after they smell gold was partly shot on location on the West Coast. The opening features Sam Neill and Close to Home veteran Tony Curran, among Hunt's fireside colleagues.

Carrefour de la chaussée d'Antin

1973 • 32 min • France

Film by Françoise Janicot & Bernard Heidsieck.

Tefta Tashko Koco Sings

1973 • 30 min • Albania

Documentary about the soprano Tefta Tashko Koço. It uses only photographs of her, as well as short interviews with various friends of her. Although the audio is not perfect, you can enjoy many fragments from her songs.

T for Typewriter, Toe

1973 • 1 min • United States of America

A purple/red figure plays around with a typewriter, until he stubs his toe with the letter T on it.

Islam

1973 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

This short film is part of Karpo Aćimović Godina's experimental and documentary work in 1970s Yugoslav cinema. It extends his interest in regional identities, minorities, and the visual traces left by different cultures on Yugoslav territory. The film offers a journey through examples of architecture, decor, and objects related to Islamic tradition in the former Yugoslavia, such as mosques, ornamental elements, and calligraphy. It explores how this art is embedded in the region's history and in the daily lives of the communities that produced it. It is an observational film, without a dramatic plot, functioning primarily as a "visual essay" on the material culture of Islam in a Balkan context. The tone is analytical and contemplative, closer to a cultural study or a poetic inventory.

Sisters

1973 • 20 min

As people approached the 100th anniversary of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, all people, though somewhat related, became important. The film's heroines are the artist's sisters Jadvyga and Viktorija Čiurlionytė. The verbs were usually concerned with revealing the man, he did not even emphasize the difference between a celebrity and an unknown person in the village. And in "Sisters", the director is interested in the communication between the two sisters of honorable age, their states, relationships, insignificant, seemingly replicas, rather than building a monument to the brother.

Pourquoi t'as les cheveux blancs...

1973 • 55 min • France

Q for Quiet

1973 • 1 min • United States of America

The letter Q keeps the rest of her word QUIET in silence.

Kierdel

1973 • 7 min • Poland

Angels descend from heaven in order to protect their charges. When the day is over, they return to heaven, where they are guarded by a heavenly shepherd, just like sheep.

Kidnap - Extortion: Robbery By Telephone

1973 • 14 min • United States of America

An action packed industrial film about how to handle kidnapping and extortion made by Bill Rebane under his North Star Communications Company for the Citizen's State Bank & Trust Co. in Wausau, Wisconsin. Restored and included on the Arrow Video Weird Wisconsin collection.

Labrador North

1973 • 37 min • Canada

This short documentary looks at the government relocation of the Labrador Inuit and the effects on their culture and social structures.

Going Around in Circles

1973 • 15 min

Going Around in Circles is an early video experiment in which Holt explores perception and point of view. A board in which five circular holes have been cut has been placed in front of the camera. Through the holes, which are covered and uncovered, five subjects are seen moving between five points, turning in circles, and following instructions. The artist and her subjects are heard discussing their experience of the performance, how it is perceived on the ground and through the playback monitor, and the different scales and viewpoints created.

Regina Telebus

1973 • 19 min • Canada

This short film from 1973 offers a report on Regina's successful experiment with dial-a-bus, a flexible service midway between a bus and a taxi. The idea is to provide passengers with door-to-destination transportation at an affordable cost.

Wings and Things

1973 • 21 min • United Kingdom

Award-winning film essay exploring the model airplane phenomenon from the clumsy plastic glider of a child to the sophisticated radio-controlled sea plane of a middle-aged devotee. Details the building of a fragile, acetone indoor flying model lighter than a feather.