Cinematic Era: 1973 Vintage

Tri-colored cycle of a dance movement set to a prelude from Bach's well-tempered clavier.

A marriage swindler ends up in jail.

A family portrait in blue.

Through books and their illustrations, the film provides an overview of the more than 400 year-old history of Estonian-language original and translated literature. The film gives an idea of Estonian publishing activities and book culture in general.

Birgit and Wilhelm Hein

OPERA MORTEM is a medium-length film with strong surrealist/dadaist influences where distorted and disturbing images are shown without a real narrative thread which could be a visual dream of death that intersects the story of a suicidal girl and a necrophiliac killer. According to some theological scholars, the film hides a metaphorical evocative code of a satanic ritual. But perhaps David Fleas only followed the manifesto of the Dadaist movement, between anarchist, nihilistic and sarcastic ideas, giving voice to the search for that absolute freedom that art demands.

Revenge rears its ugly head when a husband finds out that his wife has been unfaithful.

Super 8 film by Derek Jarman

An experimental short film by Derek Jarman the depicts the crush of flesh at an art-world event.

An industrial drama centered on the false reports submitted to higher supervisory authorities by the management of a factory, which had previously secured the protection of a high-ranking party official. These deceptions are accompanied by efforts to suppress the initiatives of a young engineer who proposes replacing mechanical excavators with hydraulic ones. The protagonist fights for his ideas and ultimately succeeds in imposing them when the First Secretary of the County Party Committee intervenes, leading to the exposure of the factory’s failures, the triumph of the “new,” and a proper understanding of the concept of “socialist property.

In Underground Movie Tim Bruces camera takes a ride on the London tube to Euston station. The viewer has a spectators eye view of the passengers on this journey as the image rocks with the trains movement. As it progresses, however, it becomes clear that this apparently simple piece of documentary footage is not as straightforward as it first appears…

Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunystraße features the war-widow Frau Kutzer, the philosopher-guest worker Niyazi, as well as other characters passing through the street. The street itself bears silent witness to the deferred good life of the laborer. If Germany is “a little America,” as the narrator tells us, could there have been a “German Dream” for the migrant worker? Or is Berlin-Kreuzberg rather the site of an ongoing nightmare filled with the specters of Germany’s past? How do stories of place and of people converge on Naunystrasse? And how does this documentary speak to us today?

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.

Self-shot: a film shot without a camera operator. Sole witness: the movie camera. Fixed, directed at a single expanse, obedient to the orders of wires that I manipulate: characters splitting in two through the asymmetrical filtration of the comings and goings of self-irony. Composed of various extracts of historical films, such as the Eisensteinian battleship, intercut with stairways of various sorts; the unceasing use of negatives persecuted by positives and vice versa; a cinematic-theatrical dialogue between philosophical doubling and filmic doubling.

Bunga Mas film starring Ed Osmera, , Sharifah Hanim , Tony Azman , & Zamilla . Directed by Achnas Nac. Produced by Merdeka Film in 1973

Two agents investigate missing ammunition from the Chinese military. Not a single shot is fired and it is all kung fu fighting start to finish.

The story of a couple set during the summer before the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec and after it, and how they are affected by that fateful event.

Cleaning snow 20 meters thick from the road through the Anzob mountain passage that the south with the north of Tajikistan. Thinking aloud by Kulumurod one of the eldest of the workers.

Pier Farri's Futurist Europe focuses on Futurism as the first avant-garde film movement in history.

The film shows a woman mysteriously wandering, pistol in hand, through the streets of Lourdes, France. It is a portrait of Patrizia Vicinelli, the great poet active in the avant- garde Gruppo 63, who worked with the leading magazines of the time, close to both the theatre and the experimental cinema of Alberto Grifi and Gianni Castagnoli. —Tate Modern

In Filiatra, a half deserted township of Messinia, the remaining farmers face a constant struggle to pay off their debts to the Agricultural Bank.

Walter Matthias Diggelmann (1927-1979) was one of Switzerland's most famous and also most controversial writers. Although his novelistic work is strongly auto-biographical, he always engaged in Swiss politics. In this movie, he says: "Although I am writer, my existence is that of a human, a contemporary, a witness, a believer, a doubter, a desperate, an accepter, a refuser, one who loves and wants to be loved, a hater, a creative, an ambitious, a good and a bad mensch". Filmmakers Walter Marti and Reni Mertens offered Diggelmann one hour of time in order to explain and to defend himself, to accuse, to apologize, to reconsider his judgments.

Linda, eldest of the Mulyadi family, wants to continue her studies at a university in Yogya because she realises her potential. Her father approves this even though they are struggling financially as he is just a low-ranking staff in a bank. But her mother disapproves. Then her friend, Nancy, introduces her to Lukman, a playboy who likes her. Lukman becomes a bad influence and she is carried away by the lifestyle of the rich and forgets how hard her parents work to pay for her studies. The father drives a motorized rickshaw after work while her mother becomes a street vendor. One night, Linda and her friends are driving a car recklessly and hit the motorized rickshaw that her father drives. Linda’s friends run away while she stays to help her father. Suddenly, the scene changes to the school’s graduation where words of wisdom are given and Linda graduates thanks to her parents’ hard work.

In this episode, a portrait of politician and businessman Mr. Dirk U. Stikker.

A story about a guerilla hired who is tasked to liquidate collaborators and Japanese forces.

Short animated by György Kovásznai and musicalized by the popular song "Ça ira" that illustrates through paintings, the events that made up the french revolution and its multiple founders.

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.

Speaking Directly is an essay-film making for a kind of State of the Nation address, from the perspective of someone other than the President of the United States, circa 1973-5. This film addresses both the political and cultural situation of the US at the height of the Viet Nam war, Watergate and its aftermath, and likewise addresses the personal life, in this context, of the filmmaker, at that time thirty years of age, recently out of two plus years in federal prison for refusal to accept military service.

A series of 19 short parables concerning modes of representation, language and cognition. Often conveyed through conscious misinformation, Baldessari's witty puns and jokes play off the relation of word, image and meaning; the intersection of what is heard or written, what is seen, and what is understood. For example, he shows us an image of a duffel bag and proceeds to describe, in detail, an object bearing no resemblance to a duffel bag, which is eventually revealed to be a stool. In A Sentence with Hidden Meaning, he writes the phrase, "A sentence with hidden meaning" on a legal pad, hiding the word "hidden" so that it reads, "A sentence with meaning."

In this Omnibus film, Andre Previn asks the question, 'Who needs a conductor?' 'Conducting,' said Leonard Bernstein, 'is the only profession in the world where you get paid for having a fit in public!' Previn debunks many of the conventional myths that surround the subject, exposing the foibles, prejudices, insecurities and backstage dramas that the general public knows little of. The London Symphony Orchestra, led by John Georgiadis, plays excerpts from some of the most popular pieces in the concert repertoire, including Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, Bartok's Dance Suite and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.

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.

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

A documentary about the poems and poetic life of Heydar Yaghma, the brickmaker from Neyshabur

An early film about transgender people. A production of the Documentary Film Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications.

Mario Lago performing at TV Cultura in 1973.

Disguising himself as a geisha and introducing himself as Madame Mufiko, a certain Max Fox opens a school in Paris where he proposes to teach the Japanese art of love. He recruits a few students, boys and girls, to whom he teaches to imitate the positions represented on old prints. The young people set themselves to it with such ardor that soon the girls are pregnant. In addition, the school is put under police surveillance and the false Mufiko sees her true identity revealed.

1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with Howe.

A brother and sister share an unusually strong bond that faces many ups and downs owing to the many challenges they face.

The story: the death of a dog, filmed subsequently, a violent death because it is caused in a veterinarian’s clinic; a man in a white coat injects the strychnine… The film: afterwards there’s a moment when the animal’s eye emit violet-blue flashes, then nothing, but only apparently. Now everything is sweetness, what continues is death: the voyage into death – the transfiguration – the images that return, only to disappear from memory, emerge from the recollections in a purifying vortex that take them back to their essence. It’s the gradual breaking down of the image into form and then into colours and then into light and finally it’s the beginning: the vibration that is the matrix of sound of light of life. It’s the cosmos that makes that meat good to eat for a million years.

This sensitive and ironic film points up two girl-faces: Vera is happy, but cold, while Borika is tired, but warm-hearted.

The story of three siblings who lost their parents at a young age and went their separate ways. Known as Baby Face, Murat has been working for a gang since childhood. Tahir, the gang leader who uses Murat for ransom jobs, becomes a millionaire this way. When Murat decides to leave the gang to start a new life, his relationship with Tahir deteriorates. The situation is further complicated by the suicide of his brother, who was killed by gang members, leading to a deepening enmity between Murat and Tahir. Meanwhile, a police officer named Turgut, who aims to dismantle the gang, is tracking Murat. One night, the paths of Murat, Tahir, and Turgut will cross.

Two actors wandered from house to house in the countryside in the roles of the photographer and the retoucher business man offering their photographic services to the people.

Platos allegory of the cave as told by Orson Welles

In the wake of the husband's infidelity, a mature marriage faces separation. But his daughter, in complicity with the boyfriend and the father, hatch a plan to make friends with them.

A group of students discuss their experience of further education and the benefits gained.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

A look at life in Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides.

The tale of Lilith, first wife of Adam.

The Yafar live in the province of western Sepik in Papua New Guinea, practicing an itinerant slash-and-burn agriculture. Here the inhabitants of the village make a new clearing in the forest.

A structuralist film in which the filmmakers uses the capabilities of the optical printer. The processing of the image surface emphasizes the materiality of the medium, and turns the medium of film itself into a subject. This film even undermines the essential characteristic of the medium – the sequence of single images that suggests movement – by also showing the filmstrip itself. The cinematic illusion is broken, and at the same time it is shown as film.

The ultimate documentary on harvesting, cultivation and smuggling of marijuana on the North American continent. Filmed in the Bluegrass Fields of Kentucky, the Kaw Valley of Kansas, the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, San Diego, California, and the golden hills of Acapulco and Tijuana, Mexico.

A film about Maurice Legeard who run a cineclub in Santos.