All Films

Abastecimiento

1973 • 15 min • Chile

It explores the problem of the shortage caused in Chile during the Unidad Popular. It shows the actions of a minister, a bourgeois housewife and a grassroots group of the JAP (Juntas de Abastecimiento y Precios) promoted by the government to alleviate this crisis.

Xantolo, fiesta de la muerte

1973 • 27 min • Mexico

This film portrays the dead day festival in Alahualtitla, Chicontepec Township in the state of Veracruz, and highlights the dependence of small communities of the town merchants and lenders, who allow the financing of these traditional festivals.

Vandré im Exil

1973 • 23 min

The movies follow the Brazilian artist Geraldo Vandré during his exile on Germany in the 70s.

Audition

1973 • 38 min • Netherlands

Zwartjes made many films without dialogue or sound. The music can however be very important. Zwartjes composes it himself, sometimes together with his brother Rudolf and Lodewijk de Boer. Audition is a fine example of a Zwartjes film with an important soundtrack. It is a visual improvisation of cinematography and acting. There is hardly a ‘story line’. A man and a woman watch another woman singing, predominantly in exciting black and white images.

Marcello, I'm Bored

1973 • 8 min

Marcello, I'm So Bored is a 1966 short animated film co-directed by John Milius and John Strawbridge. An intentionally crude cartoon with a live action epilogue in which Milius appears with Gayle Hunnicutt. The film was made when Milius was a student at the University of Southern California and was a parody of Italian cinema. The film was edited by George Lucas. Milius' first film is important because it was the beginning point for his contribution of a style emphasizing depth and meaning in American popular films.

The Iron Village

1973 • 34 min • United Kingdom

Documentary following life on the Royal Navy ship HMS Ark Royal.

Butterfly R.I.P. 1975

1973 • 3 min • Netherlands

Critique against the increasing urbanization. A static shot depicts the story of a butterfly whose living space is increasingly limited by the construction of houses and factories. New construction rapidly fills the green environment of the butterfly until it ends up on the wall, pinned up and framed.

Action Autoportrait(s)

1973 • 46 min

Hassles and Hangups

1973 • 29 min • United States of America

Emphasizes positive attitudes and constructive solutions to help individuals deal with problems related to sex, drugs, self-image and interpersonal relationships.

The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family

1973 • 59 min • United Kingdom

A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he gets someone whose only credits are two episodes of Coronation Street.

Proud to Be British

1973 • 29 min

Gathering numerous face-to-face interviews with residents of the conservative stronghold of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Broomfield paints an ironic portrait of racist parochial views. Spread throughout the community, from the working class patriot Mr Feltham, to the local MP Ronald Bell and even the vicar, we see a cast of regressive, hypocritical creatures.

Underwater

1973 • 16 min • Soviet Union

This is a fairy tale about two boy-dolls who happen to be in the underwater world in the middle of fish and other habitants of the ocean.

The Last Ones

1973 • 60 min • Yugoslavia

A TV drama about the decline and fall of the Russian middle-class family. Based on the work by Maxim Gorky, a four-act drama first published in 1908.

The Cornet Lesson

1973 • 29 min

A young woman wants to play the cornet in a Salvation Army band. She receives tuition, until the bandmaster questions her commitment to Christianity.

Little Richard: Keep on Rockin'

1973 • 26 min • United States of America

Keep On Rockin', aka Little Richard: Keep On Rockin' (USA video title) is a film of a 1969 Little Richard concert at the Sweet Toronto Peace Festival, originally released in 1970. Richard performs a number of his greatest hits, including "Good Golly Miss Molly," "Long Tall Sally," and "Tutti Frutti." The film is in color.

River Ghost. Hudson River Diary Book: IV

1973 • 9 min • United States of America

"Reflections on a haunted cove along the banks of the Hudson River." –S.D.H.

Parasolka Fishing

1973 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A little man Parasolka again came up with a task that promises him a series of adventures. Now he is going to fish, and prepared a worm especially for that. When Parasolka noticed a beautiful golden fish, he wittily drove all the other catchers and then recklessly got on his own slyness. But the vending fry was not so helpless...

Conversations with Chilean workers

1973 • 50 min • Chile, Netherlands

In this film, residents, workers in the metallurgical industry, peasants and Mapuches, talk about their expectations and their criticisms of the revolutionary process, reflecting in their comments and opinions the tensions that the country was suffering at this historical moment, a few months before the dramatic events of September 11, 1973.

A Woman Who Warns of Death

1973 • 48 min • Japan

A successful lyricist, Sakumaki (Yukio Ninagawa), lives with his partner Kazue (Keiko Fujita) and their daughter, though he has always kept an emotional distance from them. One night, he returns home to find a mysterious woman in black (Yuko Kusunoki) waiting in his apartment. She calmly tells him that he will die the next night at precisely 12:13 a.m. Shaken, Sakumaki flees, only to discover the same woman appearing wherever he goes. As her presence grows more menacing and unexplainable, his fear spirals into paranoia. Directed by Toshiya Fujita, the episode blends domestic drama with supernatural dread, blurring the line between hallucination and reality. With Ninagawa in a rare starring role, supported by Ichiro Zaitsu and Akira Nagoya, the story pushes its protagonist into a psychological nightmare where fate, guilt, and obsession collide.

The Sordid Affair

1973 • 22 min

At the height of the Watergate scandal on April 30, 1973, President Richard Nixon delivered his first major speech broadcast live from the White House, addressing the charges being made against his Presidency. Produced by Dimitri Devyatkin, with Walter Wright on synthesizer, the video is an overlay of mesmerizing computerized animations that reflect upon the speech.

Edge

1973 • 10 min • United Kingdom

An impending gunfight moves from a conventional confrontation to a confrontation with audience expectation as camera action predominates. A film in which the less you see of what you expect - the more there is exposed.

We Are the Palestinian People (Newsreel #65)

1973 • 49 min • Palestinian Territory, United States of America

Filmed in Palestine by Newsreel, WE ARE THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE shows the refugee camps of the Middle East, the rise of the Palestinian Liberation Movement and Israel's relation ship to the Western imperialism. There is footage of the guerrillas in training, and interviews with Palestinian leaders and militants who work in many programs of the liberation struggle of the time.

The Game

1973 • 16 min • Iraq, Palestinian Territory

In 1973, Shirak directed this short film in which the games of Palestinian children increasingly merge with warfare. Remnants of combat, such as bullets and tanks, are the toys of a group of young boys. When one of them finds a casing of a bombshell, their band disperses into a haunting game of hide and seek. This film was recovered as a part of a cache of archival films about various aspects of the Palestinian liberation movements that were found in Tokyo and therefore dubbed the “Tokyo Reels.”

Treasures of the Sunken Ships

1973 • 16 min • Soviet Union