All Films

Maltamour: Slips in Time With Random Selections by Eduardo Paolozzi

1973 • 23 min

Artist Eduardo Paolozzi explores idiosyncratic aspects of the culture and history of Malta in this unique experimental tourist film.

The Emperor's Bed

1973 • 28 min • Albania

In the first day of liberation, partisan Meke enters the palace where the king used to live.

Genesis - Live on Midnight Special

1973 • 16 min

Genesis performed on The Midnight Special January 25, 1974

Ataulfo Alves

1973 • 10 min

Film about Ataulfo Alves, directed by Afranio Vital

The Hum of the Forest

1973 • 9 min • Poland

A man experiences a scary night in the old forest. The trees resemble monsters that have been frozen in time, the clock faces melt as in a surreal painting and the revolving door grinds them into pieces as in an expressionist film.

Easy to Be Free

1973 • 52 min

A documentary about Rick Nelson on tour with his Stone Canyon Band in 1969

The Innocent Door

1973 • 29 min • Canada

A short documentary about urban planning and the harmonisation of old and new building elements in Jerusalem of the 1970's, led by the architect Moshe Safdie.

Solidarity

1973 • 11 min • Canada

About a strike in which women are involved, but told in a very different way.

Second Class Passenger

1973 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

One train journey between two stations: the first one and the last one. In a second class compartment, a traveler meets all kinds of people with all kinds of fates but fails to find a friend. As alone as at the beginning of the journey, he takes his suitcase, gets off the train, and disappears in the night.

Heads, Bodies and Legs

1973 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Experimental cutout piece

Despondent Yearning

1973 • 15 min

A one night stand leads to romantic obsession and murder.

Oswaldo Cruz

1973 • 14 min • Brazil

The film documents the old Rio de Janeiro and its great focus of diseases. Stresses the decisive importance of Oswaldo Cruz who creates Experimental Medicine in Brazil, believing that without sanitation, no undertaking could succeed. Rodrigues Alves then started the urbanization of Rio, against great interests.

British Landing on the Moon

1973 • 3 min • United Kingdom

The Lacey watch British astronauts landing on the moon

Catch the Sun

1973 • 22 min • Canada

A fast-paced collage of Ontario life. Highlights include a rollercoaster ride, a hair-raising speedboat skim along Ottawa's Rideau Canal, a downhill ski run through the trees on a Thunder Bay trail, and the sleek beauty of a small fleet of ice boats whistling over a gleaming lake.

Franco Harris: Good Luck on Sunday

1973 • 47 min • United States of America

George Romero's television documentary on Pittsburgh Steelers legend Franco Harris. Part of "The Winners," a series of Romero-produced and -directed sports documentaries.

The Legend of the Silver Fir

1973 • 54 min • Czechoslovakia

According to one Beskydy Mountains legend, if you do a good deed you will see silver trees. Little Ondra knows trees like that. In his family's cottage hangs a picture showing silver firs, a person falling from a height and a watch. In art lessons Ondra paints trees of the same kind. - One day Lojzek Hojgr, a man who climbs fir trees to gather the seeds, comes to see Ondra's parents. Long-ago Ondra's father has had such a job and Lojzek is his long-time friend. Hojgr moves into a half-ruined wood cabin. Ondra's father takes him on a visit to Lojzek and both demonstrate the beautiful but dangerous work of seed-gathering to the boy.

Joe and the Sleeping Beauty

1973 • 60 min • France

The Queen Bee, Honeyflower is placed under a spell by One Sting Maude, a witch from the tsetse family, jealous of the Queen Bee’s beauty. Bzz, the Bee-guide enlists the help of Joe to help save the Queen. He is given an injection to shrink him to the size of an insect and enters the parlor of the sleeping beauty, Honeyflower.

Squares

1973 • 7 min • United States of America

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through each other. Colors and forms multiply and divide against a beautiful symphonic score by George Kleinsinger.

Echoes

1973 • 23 min

Filmed with a camera in a waterproof housing strapped to Greenough’s back, the sequence is composed entirely of slow-motion footage shot inside the curl of waves, edited to the 23-minute song "Echoes" by Pink Floyd. The group reportedly allowed Elfick and Greenough to use the music in their film in exchange for the use of Greenough's footage as a visual background when they performed "Echoes" in concert. This short film is known to close the documentary "Crystal Voyager" (1973).

Anansi Spider and the Magic Wand

1973 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Short film by Ideya Garanina

The Flame Burns Bright

1973 • 43 min • India

The Film is on Subhash Chandra Bose, who founded the Indian National Army (INA) or the Azad Hind Fauz , of which he assumed personal command on 25th July, 1943 to fight the British imperialists. Its Supreme Command Headquarters was established at Rangoon.

When the People Awake

1973 • 59 min • Chile

Documentary that explores the construction of socialism in Chile: we see the difficult transition from capitalism to socialism attempted by Allende's Popular Unity Government in 1970-73, tracing its historical background, developments and impending tragedy.

Bukowski

1973 • 60 min • United States of America

Charles Bukowski is filmed going to a poetry reading in San Francisco.

The Last Lighthouse

1973 • 42 min

Perched on a tiny outcrop of rock at the edge of the Atlantic, 'the Bishop' has something special about it for the Trinity House officers who man Britain's light-houses. It's the last lighthouse for westward-bound ships, and the last still operating almost as it did under Queen Victoria's patronage. Tony Parker talks with the men who still maintain their lonely vigil in the ' Ships' Graveyard,' off the Isles of Scilly.