Cinematic Era: 1973 Vintage

Experimental animated short about a man returning by train.

Live concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London, on May 5, 1973.

Another well-known children's story. Jiří Brdečka made it on commission for his friend, Italian producer Max Massimino-Garnier, as part of a European animated fairy tale project.

“When one likes something very much, or someone, it is hard to do anything but like it. I didn’t want to take anything away or add anything to this song because I like it a lot.” --Chris Langdon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

A tale of intolerance and where it all ends, told in an animated cartoon about a king and his kingdom, and bigotry that had its day. The illustrations and dialogue are light and amusing, but that does not mask the moral of the story: that unless we tolerate individual differences--even the king's nervous twitch--peace may only come when all are behind bars.

Alassane considers the mingling of traditions during the coronation of the new Shaki king of the Oyo state of western Nigeria.

Captures students at Henry Sabin Elementary School in Iowa City holding a circular parachute and pulling down to catch the air's resistance.

10 well-educated ladies of the royal court are charged with the care of the young prince. When a visiting minister falls in love with one of these women, the others agree to help smuggle the lovers out of the palace.

Shin and Suk have become well-known as singers but Shin misunderstands their professional relationship to be an emotional commitment. Hurt that Suk has fallen in love with Ji-seung, Shin decides to confront his rival and fight for the woman he loves

Choreographed by american choreographer, Lucinda Childs, the film explores complex patterns that are created with the simple action of walking

A slow-motion dive at 3,000 frames per second.

In this film of one of his most daring performances, Matta-Clark climbed to the top of the Clocktower in New York and washed, shaved and brushed his teeth while suspended over the streets in front of the huge clockface.

How knowledge helped the hare and his friends.

Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?"

"Near the end of 1973, Frampton realized that he had not finished a single film over the course of a year. He promptly conceived and executed LESS, a doubly punning work in which a minimalist Frampton generates a twenty-four frame (one-second) loop of the incremental blacking out of a nude image by photographer Les Krims." - Bruce Jenkins

Different shades of responsibility. A mother drowns her blind unhappy child. She wants to spare him the burden of being a cripple. She is absolved by a priest, but the police are waiting for her in front of the church.

All part of a series called LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS. The simple aim of this series was to didactically select several elements of film naturalism, which work to create the illusion of representation on screen, and make each the subject of a self-descriptive film using that element as subject and demonstration. So Lip sync is about sync sound and the disruption of it, Deep Space is about camera stability and invisibility of the camera apparatus, and Lens Tissue is about clarity of the image and focus. Each of them works by disrupting the element and foregrounding the effect on film, and flattening the representation from image to projected filmstrip.

This surface and Edge [also being screened in this programme] are two of 5 Films (View, This surface, Actor, Edge, Between) made by David Hall and Tony Sinden in 1973. These works investigated the primal conditions of cinema itself. The films explore the relationship between screen image and spatio-temporal illusion – the materiality of the screen in relationship to the image as representation. Ideas that each artist would continue to explore after collaboration. But further to these concerns, these films mark a vital phase in the process of both artists as they sought to create a body of work with intellectual rigour without sacrificing the imaginative and aesthetic qualities of art.

Flanked by a crew of young musicians, legendary drummer and bandleader Buddy Rich shows off his formidable talent in this 1973 concert filmed inside the Top of the Plaza nightclub in Rochester, N.Y., at the peak of his storied career. The memorable set list includes "Love for Sale," "Time Check," "Basically Blues," a cover of the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" and a medley of songs from composer Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story."

Produced in collaboration with the BBC, Gordon Carr's documentary recounts the exploits and prosecution of the Angry Brigade, the British libertarian communist group responsible for a rash of property-targeted bombings between 1970 and 1972. After their arrest, the central members of the group became the defendants of one of the longest trials in English history, spanning nearly six full months in 1972.

This is not so much a film about a park, or a record of the people passing through the park. Here the camera is not a passive observer, nor is it used as a surveillance device. Rather, the camera in Park Film, like the passers by who trigger its shutter, is an active participant in the interaction between a park and the city which surrounds it.

Experimental short film from Yugoslavia.

In the early seventies, the painter and Lettrist poet Gabriel Pomerand, one of Debord's first companions alongside Isidore Isou, let the filmmaker Ode Bitton record on film the ritual of taking opium.

A collaborative performance, Image of Seeing--Seeing investigates the meaning of television watching. This work was created for television broadcast on the Nippon Broadcasting Corporation's program "Hyōgo no jikan" (Hyōgo Time).

A woman taking a trip encounters a nightmarish landscape juxtaposed against scenes of classical beauty.

Devudu Chesina Manushulu (Telugu: దేవుడు చేసిన మనుషులు) is a 1973 blockbuster Telugu drama directed by V. Ramachandra Rao and produced by Ghattamaneni Krishna under the banner of Padmalaya Studios. It was remade as Takkar in Hindi in 1980.

Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen is a three-minute black and white film which begins with a portrait of Karen Blixen taken from a photograph.

Barking is infused with a sense of mystery, the anticipation that something is about to happen. A car is parked outside a house in a rural Nova Scotia landscape. A dog barks into the distance. A woman enters the frame, looks for the object of the dog's barking, and leaves. The camera pans the landscape, revealing nothing. With its intimations of an off-screen narrative, this simple scenario carries an unsettling implication of the limit of vision and the power of what is not seen. [Overview courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix]

Thai horror film.

Under this title are three reports made in the suburbs of Amiens on immigration in France: 1. Le Droit d'aimer - 10 min 2. In the series Les Cris du pigeonnier supervised by Vautier: Brigitte, José et les autres by Marilise Frasson-Marin 3. La Fine Equipe

Borzoo is in love with Maryam and they want to get marry while his niece Zohre is in love with another guy Amir. Borzoo gets marry with Maryam but the troubles begin for all when other people too intervene between them.

Analysis of the educational revolution in Cuba.

In the final phase of the Vietnam War, in the summer of 1973, former ZDF correspondent Peter Scholl-Latour and his team were temporarily arrested in an area of South Vietnam controlled by the National Liberation Front. After checking their identities, they were allowed to film for a few days in Vietcong territory to document the harsh daily life of the jungle fighters.

Short by Studio 970/2.

The lives of Franklin and Jefferson are used as prisms through which to evoke colonial America. With a dynamic timeline and a wealth of images drawn from architecture, science, and politics, the film brings alive the way American history shaped, and was shaped by, these two men. Benjamin Franklin, standing for the best in colonial wisdom, and Thomas Jefferson, representing the opportunities and ambitions of a new nation, together offer a compelling approach to this richly textured area.

A tribute to Brakhage's MOTHLIGHT. While making SWIMMER I perfumed The Pittsburgh Filmmakers' with my bucket of fish gills. –D. L.

The first Brazilians who engaged in aviation, from Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão with his hot air balloon to Alberto Santos Dumont, giving Brazil a prominent place in aviation. The creation of the Military Air Mail (CAM) and the Brazilian aviation industry. Commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Santos Dumont. The house where Santos Dumont was born; Bartolomeu Gusmão (Santos - SP); small hot air balloon Júlio César Ribeiro de Souza; 1881: his Victory balloon flies in Paris; Augusto Ribeiro; Santos Dumont: the balloon in the Torre Eifel, the 14 bis, the 'Demoiselle': real scenes of the time. Edu Chaves flies the Rio-Buenos Aires route in the 1920s. Current era: manufacture of the Bandeirante (assembly line). President Médici flies in the first Bandeirante; Xavante and Ipanema, Universal, rego elo and other models manufactured by Embraer in São José dos Campos.

In this documentary, the various aspects of being a housewife or working mother are contrasted with the "glamour-girl" look a cosmetics demonstrator tries to give one of them.

Using satire as a method of criticism, the film aims to show the ideological constitution of the television stations. Television programs are examined in terms of their mode of operation: Educational programs, family programs within an advertising framework, news, entertainment shows, political magazines are identified as instruments of domination that direct our awareness of social interests without the public itself having access to express opinions in the medium.

An overview of the group Zemlja’s socially conscious and artistic work.

In an ancient legend, it tells of a cloud-girl who comes to the aid of people by bringing life back to the cracked and parched earth caused by drought.

In 1973, Philadelphia’s Chinatown was threatened by a proposed freeway ramp that would have choked off the neighborhood from the rest of the city. A contingent of spiritual leaders, community organizations, youth and elders successfully organized a campaign to save Chinatown from destruction. Pioneering filmmaker Jon Wing Lum followed the successful campaign using his groundbreaking style of catalytic cinema in which the role of the film is not only to witness, but also to be an agent of change.

A sympathetic and slightly poetic look at work, life, and religion in Khaf, Khorasan, in the distant past.

Documentary on the 1970s teenybopper and weenybopper phenomenon, mostly focusing on twelve-year-old North Londoner Darren Burn and EMI's attempts to launch his career, which ultimately proved unsuccessful.

As though one gradually becomes aware of the music of the universe, the Dead break into consciousness as their images merge with the oneness of light, becoming discrete momentarily, then dancing away to the cosmic rhythm that permeates reality. A film composed in the camera in the heat of intuition frame-by-frame, and then recomposed frame-by-frame in the optical printer.

A lonely man notices an exotic flower in the cracked, dry ground. He begins to take care of it. He systematically brings a handful of water to water the flower. The flower grows tall and green.

The Lacey watch British astronauts landing on the moon

This film treats the problem of "loitering." In a number of sequences, police warn youths, police administrators discuss enforcement of loitering laws, officers are insulted, and several youths are arrested.

Report shot with workers laid off from the Hennebont ironworks in Morbihan. Speaking to other working-class communities, they tell the story of how they were cheated by government and management promises. Workers at the L.I.P. plant in the Besançon area broadcast the film throughout France.

A story from Victoria, British Columbia, of one young man who, despite a crippling malady, is determined to experience as many of life's offerings as possible. Brian Wilson is spastic, confined to a wheelchair, but he works at a job, looks after himself, and moves about from place to place on his own. Every day has its challenges and victories, and sometimes defeats. With this example of personal courage, the film provides insight into the private and daily struggle of the disabled.

A child tells the nativity story to his dog on Christmas Eve.

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).