Cinematic Era: 1973 Vintage

Puiul is a short animated art Romanian movie without dialogue.

Abstract images of flames and fire.

A colored circle on a background of its complementary color. A reverse picture in which the circle and the background exchange. The complementary colors flash alternately as they progress slowly through the color wheel. As each cycle is completed the next cycle becomes faster until the alternating complementary colors change with each frame. An animated journey through a color-wheel of opposites.

“I intend my films to jump out at you from their dark spaces, their gaps, their elisions, to vibrate in your whole being in the very manner and rhythm of felt experience” (John Du Cane) In Variant, objects and spaces (trees, ships in the harbour, a teapot and cups on the table, grassy fields) do appear to jump out at the spectators, moving rapidly towards them. The film’s speed suggests the idea of an impermanent flux, attempting to create a transient, felt experience. Variant “pushes to experiential and formal extremes the deployment of schematic and repetitive structures.” (Federico Windhausen)

Militant Dutch documentary about 1973 protests in the Netherlands against the Chilean Pinochet regime.

A giant brine shrimp attacks Salt Lake City, Utah. The massive creature destroys several famous landmarks and buildings before being carried away and dropped by a giant bird.

In the film, produced for the series "Young Scientists", for the CBC, a group of young people on vacation share the discovery of the application of the lever in some applications of everyday life.

Family, religion, food, sex, death. All the obsessions of Yvan Lagrange in one film.

Dental hygiene: it's "the 'in' thing" for "everybody on the young side of the generation gap!" Or so hopes this desperately hip short, which deploys "acid" rock music, solarized images, freeze-frames and other mod affectations (already dated in 1973) to urge molar awareness on the modern teen scene. Why not expend the same amount of care on your choppers that our floppy-haired high school hero does on his "cream-puff dune buggy" or that his paisley-mini-dressed chick does on her hair and makeup? After all, "Tooth decay can happen even in the loveliest mouth," we're told.

1973. Paris is still a party for the marginalized, the exiles, the "flower children" of a dying era. There is Emil, American actor, Joaquin, exiled from Franco regime with his friends Jose-Luis, Balthazar and many others... Joaquin writes and sometimes drowns in artificial paradises... He loves Emil, who is very attracted to Wendy... Friendship as much as love circulates in this microcosm, but loneliness and reality end up catching up with each other... Shot in ten days, edited in hiding, Une histoire d'Emil et Joaquin is one of the first French films to depict a sexual relationship between two men, long before the decriminalization of homosexuality in France.

Computer generated music and visuals films directly from a color TV monitor.

This is one of those abstract animated films in which colored, richly textured light moves in a black, three-dimensional space. The pictures and the electronic score are unified in a strict structure made of three main sections which progressively develop three subsections. This film may look like it was made using computers or video to the uninitiated, but only animation and much optical printing are to be seen herein. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

Director João Batista de Andrade was filming a documentary about migrants coming from Northeast Brazil to São Paulo in search of a better living. His intention was to give voice to these underprivileged and homeless people. While preparing to interview a man who lived under a bridge, a passer-by interfered, starting an argument about the role of people from other states in the development of São Paulo and the rural problem in the Northeast.

Landscapes, cities and people pass by in a small pile of postcards.

The film that is mostly shot underwater, in a pool, begins with footage of water and a close-up of Nelson from which we move to her body immersed in water in a bath-tub from which yet another transition occurs to a pool with male and female naked bodies swimming underwater. The latter part of the film is almost totally liberated from speech, and has a dreamlike, complex soundtrack consisting of sounds of waves, voices, water and music woven together into a seamless web of sounds.

Short documentary about folk customs in Nigeria.

Directed by Samir Nimer.

A short film from Haro Senft.

A film by Fritz André Kracht

Short documentary.

Policemen intervene when a woman calls to complain that her boyfriend stole forty dollars. The argument soon escalates as the man refuses to admit that he took any money, and the woman, losing her temper, crashes a glass window and cuts her hand. The police try their best to diffuse the situation and eventually take the woman away from the scene.

In winter at Yellowstone National Park, the boiling water of the geysers meets 40-below-zero to create a seam of frozen ice crystals.

The drawings and recollections of Inuit artist Pitseolak, from the book of the same title written by Dorothy Eber. Now in her seventies, Pitseolak is one of the most famous of the graphic artists of the Cape Dorset (Baffin Island) artists' colony and co-operative. Her coloured pencil and felt-pen drawings vividly illustrate her memories of past life in the Arctic, and of the birds, animals and spirits that figured so large in the daily life of the Inuit.

Macedonian TV drama.

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in the apartment of Alban Berg, Vienna

Helps children understand and cope with feelings of fear of the unknown, particularly fear of the dark. For primary grades.

Mathematical functions are the basis for a science film on contour plots and an art film. Both are shown simultaneously at a two screen production for an IEEE conference in NYC. Beauty in Science & Art.

The presence of her mother-in-law (Wolly Sutinah), ends the peace of Martini (Rima Melati), a former prostitute. She is terrorized continuously, until she finally runs away from home and tries to commit suicide.

Artists, designers and engineers extol the virtues of steel.

Just before the massacre of Donkergat during the Anglo-Boer war, Commandant Piet van Kloten buries a fortune in Kruger Rands in the area of the battlefield. So that he would remember where he buried the treasure he draws a rough map. He tears it in half and gives one half to his servant Plaatjies, extracting a promise that he will not let it fall into the wrong hands should he survive the battle.

Docudrama about IRA in Derry's Bogside/Creegan areas - begins with British setting up of Northern Ireland in the 1920s "which made n*ggers out of the Catholic minority" there; mentions the split of the IRA into the Provisional ("Provo") faction, which called for conventional uprising to gain independence, and the Official faction, which was strongly Marxist.

A new glamour girl, Král Bori, comes to the 6/B class, clever and impertinently charming. Oma, the gang-leader, likes the girl very much. He lives under dreary circumstances, but dreams of becoming a conductor or making a circus carrier. He definitely wants to attract attention. Bori, however, ignores him, but is very nice to his best friend, Totyi.

Animation of a large hand toying with a runner, and attempting to stab them with a needle.

This is an omnibus consisting of three stories, all of which deal with deviations of the human psyche. In the story "Waltz", we learn about the first sexual experiences of a man who attends a dancing school in Split. In the story "Ave Maria", a cruel crime destroys a pastoral idyll, and in the story "Seas", we meet a family, living on an isolated island, that goes through an existential crisis ending in murder.

A curmudgeonly resident of a hospital makes trouble for the staff as he plots his escape.

In this episode, the painter and magical realist Carel Willink.

The Coplas por la muerte de su padre, also known as Coplas a la muerte del Maestre Don Rodrigo or simply Las coplas de Jorge Manrique, is an elegy written by Jorge Manrique on the death of his father, the Master of Santiago Rodrigo Manrique. Written, at least in part, after November 11, 1476, the date of Rodrigo Manrique's death, it constitutes one of the most important works of Spanish literature.

Four thousand letters were received by Sergey Vladimirovich Obraztsov after his television appearance, during which he asked the viewers to write to him about who has which animals and why they love them. Various letters—amazing and funny, cheerful and lyrical, and truly tragic—were sent by both adults and children. Kindness and cruelty are not innate to a person; they are shaped throughout a child's development. A person's attitude towards animals, nature, and everything around them should become part of their personal values, and children need to be raised with love for all living things so that they grow up to be kind people…

By pointing one camera at the other, unexpected images emerge that the artist, through extensive work with Rai technicians, shapes to obtain the desired abstract moving forms.

The bible from the viewpoint of literature, including a small dramatization of the account of Job.

The film shows a movie crew who with the help of the people in Mani depict the passions of Christ.

A woman recites, from a massive scroll, sprawling practical and poetic wants.

The hero is afraid of someone whose footsteps are swaying outside. The hero builds a huge tower around himself to protect himself. The footsteps roll outside again, but he laughs at them. When, however, he wants to get out, it turns out that this is not possible.

Seeking to highlight Roma culture and tradition, the film follows an engaged couple who are led to disaster.

Documentary about young bikers hanging out together.

Georges Habash, founder of the PLFP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), gives a speech in 1973.

Directed by Raja Thakur. With Bholaram Athavle, Rajat Bapat, Roohi Berde, Jayant Bhatt.

Two little boys watch how houses are built.

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Documentary of conceptual artist Le Ann Bartok Wilchusky's "Skyworks, The Red Mile," dropped from 7,500 ft. altitude with skydivers, kinetically danced over the Pennsylvania countryside. This "Dropped Object" unrolled in free fall creating a line one mile long which altered the sky space dramatically. Shorter red pieces, held by the skydivers in free fall, spiral in and out as the skydiver as performer is held in G force. A visual symphony of falling lines. – L.A.B.

A story about acquaintance arranged via matrimonial ads in the newspapers. At the same time, it is a story about an attempt to marry and tragicomic ballad about the unusual end of a relationship that arose between the warehouseman Nidza and the potential bride Rada.

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.

Maxi Cat's strange spaghetti.