Cinematic Era: 1973 Vintage

The police, looking for a suspect, question the wrong youth.

This film focuses on a black burglary suspect who, during interrogation by police offers his services as an "undercover" informant - providing the police will suppress his charge.

Videogramme, b&w, 1973

As part of the process of political and social transformations undertaken by the military government, a new political model based on the election of corregimiento representatives (505 in total) popularly chosen and that will replace the former Assembly of Deputies controlled by political parties by political parties traditional The majority of the members of this new political experiment are peasants, indigenous, workers and community leaders.

British architect James Stirling discusses his views on architecture, his own and others, and visits some of the major completed projects to talk about the problems and solutions that cause buildings to look the way they do.

A rare film by the legendary filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali, one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit, the first filmic arm of the Palestinian revolution. Shot by a French news team, the footage was edited by Mustafa in Lebanon to produce one of the earliest films on the occupied territory in Gaza. Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza employs experimental editing tech- niques to produce a cinematically and politically subversive film. The film won the prize as best film at the Damascus Film Festival in 1973 and was screened at multiple festivals. It was the only film produced by the Palestine Cinema Group, which in 1974 became the Palestine Cinema Institute.

Waiting for the rain that never comes, two peasants, father and son, plough the dry land with a horse-drawn plough. The father decides to dig a well, for which he will pay a heavy price.

In the clear waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the undulant beauty and violent potential of underwater life are carefully balanced within the reef community. The coral, the fish, the crabs all live within the balance of a delicate web of life connecting all creatures of the deep, from tiny microscopic plankton to the 2000-pound manta ray and the mighty sailfish. This web of life connects all sea creatures and man by his presence beneath the sea, threatens the very existence of life within the oceans.

German TV movie

The princess wants to get married. She wants the groom to be no coward, he must be free from fear and shame, so she orders all the men in the area to join the army. Only the shoemaker Matěj escapes from the recruiter. In the forest, he meets a fairy and other creatures and sews them shoes for free. As a reward, he receives a magical mustache...

An educational film about a new type of trawler which had considerable effects on the fishing industry in its time (around 1947)

An elderly man takes a hypnotic journey through his memories in the moments before his death.

A record of one day in the life of a chronically ill man. It begins and ends with a fragment from a poem by Horace, who recommends to appreciate every dawn.

A report on judo fighting, from warming up and stretching, to exercises of specific grips and "small fights" between participants, provided with commentary from the trainer.

"The MERKABAH is the Vehicle Of Light that comes from the vision of the Prophet Ezekiel. This animated film is a meditation on this vision based on a dream I had in Dec., 1972. This animation was produced at California Institute of the Arts in the Spring of 1973 under the mentorship of Jules Engel. It was made with luminous pigments on jet black paper." -D. Pies

A reportage on the “popular walk of Vignola”, a non-competitive and popular race that challenged the rhetoric of competition and the myth of sport as discipline. The joyful interviews to the participants portray an Italy looking for a sense of community and deep social connection.

Portrays the earth's three personalities: cold and silent in space, tranquil and benign on the surface, and suddenly violent and devastating in natural and man-made disasters. Stresses the importance of personal and community preparation to minimize loss of life and property during disasters.

First film by Mark LaPore.

A picture of life at Le Court, the flagship Cheshire Home near Petersfield, Hants. Describing itself as a “Musical Documentary about the dreams, hopes, fears and difficulties of disabled people”, Maybe Today was made by disabled filmmaker Brian Line (resident of Le Court Cheshire Home) with the support of local arts student Monica Mazure and members of the Le Court Film Unit, who were all residents of Le Court. It shows how residents raised funds to build an extension enabling everyone to have a private room. With its combination of folksong and a homespun (almost home movie) shooting style, it’s a curious but intriguing film.

Set in L.A.’s Chinatown neighborhood, TO BE ME, TONY QUON offers a vivid depiction of Tony’s world, culminating with the food, firecrackers and lion dances of Chinese New Year.

Location: a lonely house, crowded with everyday things and one man. Objects live their lives; they rejoice harmlessly, they love, they suffer, but above all they enjoy their own liberation from the chains of objectivity, from the restraint of functionality. They childishly surrender to the frenzy of action, to the motion of movement. New beings, mutants of civilization. Objects seen differently.

Hiroshi Yamazaki, 16mm, 1'00

A 1973 recording of Glenn Lewis' multi-media synchronized swimming performance.

Made on the occasion of the XV Triennale di Milano, the film was shot inside the Triennale which, empty, expresses the tension and expectation of an artist in front of his "big opportunity", finally called to express himself through a great exhibition in an institutional venue.

Three months of a daily newspaper in one minute.

A boisterously entertaining cartoon demonstrating that in the war between the sexes, nothing is as it first appears.

Illuminated by two blank screens projected from empty slides, four performers read texts drawn from the history of cinema – a dictionary of cinema, the chemical production of film materials and a fragment of a Hollywood narrative film script. The readings are treated as a musical quartet with a gradual superimposition of the four readings on each other. slide-performance

This black and white documentary follows Ewa from Witunia and other girls from Poland, who work at Kabelwerk Oberspreee in Berlin since about a year. The movie tries to find out how the young women feel living in the GDR, working with their german colleagues. Ewa is critical and tries to fight widely spread prejudices about Polish and German people alike and she also speaks out about injustices at work.

A short film about tigers in a zoo.

"Tautological Cinema" is a cycle of short films exploring linguistic and cinematic structures

This tender portrait of Japanese American gardener Elmer Uchida blends documentary and fiction, opening with still photographs and disembodied voices before unfolding in slow-motion scenes of his daily work. Archival material, scripted commentary and intimate voice-over enrich the portrait, while director Jeff Furumura transforms the rhythms of gardening and Suiseki (Japanese rock appreciation) into poetic meditations on dignity and beauty. The result is a film that honors the quiet artistry and depth of a life too often overlooked.

A boy and a tree grow old together.

In this performance tape, Myers constricts her body position to "fit" into the shrinking frame of a gradual camera zoom. In her reflexive use of video and closed-circuit monitoring, Myers explores the interface of real-time technology and human gesture.

A midwife goes to medical school to learn modern techniques.

A man rides a VW Beetle through the plains of Niger.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

A performance with sewing machine and projections.

The documentary discusses the importance of artistic teaching in the elementary school curriculum, showing the role of the arts - be it music, painting, sculpture, theater or cinema - in the training of students.

A quest for symbols from the subconscious, drawn and etched directly onto filmstrip.

Sören Hellgren comes home drunk one night and his wife Tyra is furious because he is boozed up and has spent a lot of money. Sören doesn't understand why she is mad, he thinks she should be happy that he came home at all.

When Henrikas Šablevičius started filming Lithuanian “oddballs” – a professor, a fortune teller, racers, and many others who fell short of the concept of the “model citizen” – he invented a bizarre new genre of documentary biopic. Characteristic of these portraits is a sense of mocking irony directed not at their subjects (on the contrary, the filmmaker’s affection for them is palpable) but at the “Soviet hero” genre. The subject of this film is Apolinaras, a kindhearted policeman who even outwardly looks very unlike the ideological “guardian of morals.”.

The film was made in response to an evening during which a number of male members of Chicago's experimental film scene gathered at JoAnn's house and proceeded to ignore both her and the chocolate cake she made for the occasion. The film consists of a series of shots documenting the making of a chocolate cake, followed by a shot of JoAnn's sandaled foot stepping in the middle of the cake. When JoAnn screened the film in homes or loft spaces in Chicago, she would always serve chocolate cake as an accompaniment. Date of production unknown (likely 1973).

This film celebrates the frenzy of light and color found amid exploding fireworks and the speeding headlights of cars on a nighttime road. In the first half of the film, it appears that JoAnn Elam experiments with projecting film of fireworks and filming it again off the screen, superimposing the explosions. At different parts, the projection zooms in and out, adding pulsating boxes to the other forms and colors illuminating the dark. In the second half, headlights join the fray, and the film builds to chaos before slowing down to capture the streaking lights at the very end.

Traces is a carefully crafted and seductive examination of conflicted female identity in which Linkevitch presents stylized tensions and conflicts of the process of growing up. She appears briefly in the last scene.

Bert, a young Belgian advertiser, is forced to carry out his military service, a long and painful journey for him. He strongly feels the absence of Jonquille, his fiancée. On the other hand, he clashes with everybody else, whether his superiors like Captain Luxembourg and Commander Stella or the other officer cadets. He has only one friend, Michel, a communist...

A parable about the failure of interpersonal communication.