Cinematic Era: 1973 Vintage

Three young friends travel round Poland, making a living by acting out religious scenes at fairs and selling photographs. Problems arise when a mysterious man joins them.

Egon and the gang is about to commit their biggest heist – stealing 6 millions from an undercover operation at a freight company. The money is stored in the most advanced security vault ever constructed, guarded by professional gorillas.

The vagrant Noel is immortal and doomed to roam the world from the Stone Age to the present day.

Students take an examination.

Chicago. In the first part of the film, the author tries to answer the question: "Did the African Americans who traveled to the north, including to Chicago, succeed in finding human conditions of existence and human rights?" To the song of the American blues musician George "Buddy" Guy, the streets of the American metropolis of Chicago, black residents are shown. Dick Gregory, one of the best actors in America of the time, commenting on the conditions of life for blacks when they first moved to Chicago. Comments by African American Families on Current Conditions. Video footage of a huge Negro ghetto. Directed by Anatoly Semyonov. 1973 year.

Cowboy uses the images from American cinema to expose the country’s settler colonial structure and its ability to depict genocidal acts through camera framing. The film, directed by the renowned Egyptian film critic Sami Al-Salamoni, reflects his theoretical critique of Hollywood through heavily edited scenes and shots from mainstream motion pictures. Al-Salamoni manages to take the audience through the history of commercialized image production towards a transnational solidarity image production as a response.

Variously relaxed, apprehensive, or relieved, the fractured gestures of a woman and a baby are played backward and forward, frame by frame, like a musical phrase. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

The film presents a description of Puerto Rico of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It shows some of what the island had to offer at that time and explains that Puerto Rico is "American in every respect", except for its "360 days of sunshine", due to the results of Operation Bootstrap.

Loops. "A four screen film projection onto four vertically placed screens, which span the gallery space from floor to ceiling. The wall surface is transformed into a rippling column of colour, accompanied by a soundtrack of running water. First shown as part of the Film Action and Installation show at Gallery House, London, in March 1973.".

In November 1971, Ginger Baker, the legendary drummer of Cream and Blind Faith, decided to set up a recording studio in Lagos, then the capital of Nigeria. Baker was one of the first rock musicians to realize the potential of African music. He also decided that it would be a rewarding musical experience to travel to Nigeria over land across the Sahara desert - a journey that would lead him into a number of adventures. This film by Tony Palmer follows Ginger Baker's odyssey as he makes his journey and finally arrives in Nigeria to set up his studio, which would run successfully through the seventies as a facility for both local and western musicians (Paul McCartney's Wings recorded "Band On The Run" there).

Made clandestinely by a group of exiled filmmakers known as Morena Films, The Last Grave at Dimbaza is an unflinching document of Apartheid at its height.

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.

A day on the farm with the David and Ada Schwartz family in the Indiana Amish community.

In this experimental short, four naked men are touched by death.

Actor Michael Kane stars in this brief winter romance filmed partly in the dazzling outdoor splendor of a Laurentian ski resort and partly in the cardiac wing of a city hospital. It is the story of a man's second youth, the time in his middle years when he overstrains his passion for life and love. A stolen weekend, and the inevitable reckoning; between these two, the hills themselves serve the drama like members of the cast.

During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made with Dan Ochiva, who acted as cameraman on about half of the footage. I shot the rest, and then edited the film. It is a record of a conference held at the State University of New York at Buffalo on March 22-25, 1973. Among the participants filmed were Gerald O'Grady (who organized the conference), Will Hindle, Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Creeley, Bruce Baillie, Scott Bartlett, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, Ed Pincus, Stan Vanderbeek, Ed Emshwiller, Sally Dixon, James Cox. This footage will eventually become part of my film PEOPLE, PLACES, THE 1970S. –R. H.

An experimental, autobiographical documentary presented by Alan Garner

The daily routine in the village of Yugla is broken by the statistician clerk Asenov, who comes with a mission to count the hare population in the locality. He makes the village mayor Bay Georgi mobilize the local men in realization of the absurd task. Same day all the village men are in the field - the mayor, the teacher, the veterinarian… Naturally all the efforts failed in fulfilling the mission since not a single hare was seen.

The desperate love of a moonstruck clown for a young lady inside a stopped clock.

A failing and ageing vaudeville pageant decide to hire a nefarious strip-tease act from Sydney. The stripper (Gretel Pinninger) enlivens the small but loyal elderly audience.

Anu joins the Criminal Investigations Division of the Indian Police when her father is killed, and her mother is brutally assaulted by a woman named Sonu. She meets a wealthy male named Saajan, who she is attracted to, and who also finds her interesting, but at the same time is seeing another woman. Anu does not know that Saajan leads a double life. Anu finds out that it was one Bhawani Singh who had killed her father, and she does come across such an individual, and takes him home for her mother to identify. But her mother does not identify him, instead chastises Anu for wasting their time. Then their world is turned upside down when Anu's mom is abducted by Bhawani and Sonu, the very woman who had assaulted her, and this time she and Bhawani will ensure that she does not live to tell the tale.

The story follows the hilarious antics of "Jeera," a street-smart character who uses his wit and humor to navigate life's social troubles and romance. A massive Golden Jubilee hit.

Documentary with fragments and records about the boundaries between art and counterculture, based on a debate held at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, in October 1968.

A meeting between the famous post-war safecracker Arnošt Šimerda and "his" inspector František Nový, who put him behind bars 25 years ago. In the meantime, Mr. Šimerda has become a responsible guard at the Karlovy Vary porcelain factory, where, paradoxically, he watches over employees to make sure they don't take valuable products home in their bags. He also started a family and became a grandfather. There is no animosity between the two aging men; on the contrary, it seems as if they are long-time friends reuniting after a long separation. After all, for Mr. Šimerda, his misfortune during the robbery of the Loket cash register was ultimately the first step toward a happy and contented life.

The first of many film adaptations of the classic children's book by Margery Williams, this version by novice filmmaker Leonard S. Berman is a unique time capsule of live action (and puppetry?) seen by countless schoolchildren.

Cut-up, mixed techniques. A story of a passenger travelling up with a lift. Disconnected memories, devoted from emotions confront with the emptiness of the urban landscape.

The grocer Karsten Kray, a widower in his prime, is being hunted: four women have set out to steer him into the harbor of a second marriage. His drinking companion Asmus Broihan, a coffee broker and bachelor with an in-depth knowledge of the establishments of "Sankt Liederlich", is completely against it. Both day and night, he is ready and eager to chase his friend Kray through the amusements of the world-famous entertainment district. He is prepared to use almost any means to thwart the plans of the boisterous ladies.

Shot during Mary Stephen's time in Canada, Labyrinthe is an experimental spellbinder. Two girls, one Caucasian and the other Asian, are dressed in identical attires, loitering in, bumping along and leaping up and down labyrinth-like cross-cutting corridors where religious and social contexts overlap. Traversing between art and intellectual spheres of East and West, Stephen and her co-directors put their finger on the pulse of the paradoxes that underlie a dual cultural identity.

Directed by Sir Humphrey Burton, this 90-minute powerhouse features Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernstein at Ely Cathedral in 1973.

“A quiet evening at home with a little twine....” (Langdon)

After getting involved in a brawl with three brothers, Ali accidently kills one of them and runs for his life.

The distant sixties – a time of romantic impulses, deep feelings, and pure thoughts. In one of the quiet, cozy alleys of old Moscow lives a talented puppet master, Fyodor Kuzmich. He has a loyal friend, Christophor, a son named Kuzya, and many puppets. Suddenly, a sweet and tender girl named Viktosha appears in the house, and she is loved by both the father and the son, and even by the puppets…

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

A sex-repulsed sailor is infuriated when his adopted daughter falls in love with a local fisherman. In order to continue fueling his shopping addiction and to get back at her, he decides to sell her into sex slavery.

A portrait of a Slovak farmer living in Kovacica in Vojvodina, who is known for his naive art work.

Mahmoud and his wife Parvin do not have children after eight years of their marriage. Gol Andam - Rajab's concubine wife, Mahmoud's servant, leaves her baby in front of Mahmoud's house...

Experimental short overlays footage of buildings and fields with that of a spiral galaxy.

Raghava Rao is a wealthy businessman who values money and reputation above everything else. When his daughter Sita marries an orphan, Ramu, against his wishes, he ends his relationship with her.

A rare recording of Stevie Wonder in his prime. One of his best!

The film depicts, in an anecdotal, quasi-anthropological style, the efforts of a group of men in a desert to achieve some kind of social organisation. An opening title locates the action in Morocco, in 1911, the date evidently refers to the work of D.W. Griffith.

Rome, November 1941. In a pneumology clinic, Ion Bucur, a young Romanian poet, is dying. His friend and compatriot, artist Eugen Dragutesco, faithfully sits at his bedside, drawing pictures of him, thirty pictures in total, which will finally constitute the poignant diary of a pathetic agony.

In 1973 Yorkshire public television made a short film of the Nobel laureate while he was there. The resulting film, Take the World from Another Point of View, was broadcast in America as part of the PBS Nova series. The documentary features a fascinating interview, but what sets it apart from other films on Feynman is the inclusion of a lively conversation he had with the eminent British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle.

The elderly inhabitants of a village in Vojvodina look back on the war and the partisan battles. The film also examines how collective memories and myths enter the individual consciousness.

Rano (Rano Karno) was separated and lost his father at Jatinegara Station in Jakarta when he got off the train. Luckily, he met a kind-hearted fryer. Amin (Benyamin S), who then took him home.

Showing a boy running on the sand, and abruptly ending before he steps on a broken glass bottle, the film urges people to use a bin or take their litter home ...