Cinematic Era: 1973 Vintage

"The Big Boredom" is first of all a modern film, and then it is everything else - adventure, intelligence, spy, etc. Compared to the novel in the film, everything is condensed in a condensed dramatic form, the situation is exacerbated, the two main characters are in a direct battle of life and death, they have put everything on a decisive card and there is no possibility of retreat. I do not want to tell the story to keep the curiosity of the audience, but I emphasize that the film is completely in line with the genre. However, our aim is not to stay in the standards, but to fill the action with other content, and it gives meaning to everything else. " Metodi Andonov

Over the course of 38 minutes, Allen Downs’s Making Mixtec Pottery intimately captures the process of creating clay pottery in Oaxaca, Mexico. Along with the Zapotecs, the Mixtecs are considered the most culturally and artistically advanced group of people of Oaxaca, dating from 2000 BC. The film begins by following a single man from start to finish as he shapes a red clay pot. He extracts the clay from a mountainside, combines it with water and mica (a binding agent), and slowly forms the vessel with his hands. Downs documented this process intimately, using extreme close-ups to meditate on the artist’s hands as he works. As the film progresses, various establishing and mid-range shots are interspersed before transitioning to footage of other men creating their own pottery with their own techniques. Downs’s gentle, personal portrait of the work of the Mixtec potters reveals the process behind an ancient art form.

Produced independently and filmed on a low budget, Estigma de Terror was released in 1974 on the independent circuit, the film was never commercially exploited. Transylvania, in contemporary times, is the setting where a man with a curse and his wife must face a priest who tries to exorcise by the sword rather than by word (literally).

A warning against the harmful effects of smoking cigarettes on the lungs of a smoker. A parody of a health education film made in Antonisz's non-camera animation technique.

Filmmaker Albert Kish revisits Montreal's St Lawrence Boulevard in the '70s. The street, also known as "The Main," is a little Europe with many languages, foods and small courtesies that make a stranger feel at home.

Reclined underneath a bedsheet, Louise Etra reads an excerpt from chapter 3 of Legman's "Oragenitalism: Oral Techniques of Gential Excitation". Visual effects done on the Rutt-Etra synthesizer.

This very short film from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the snowy owl.

Spanning 40 years of aviation through feature clips wrenched from their cozy narrative settings, the film switches perspectives relentlessly. Pilots gaze out of windows to static shots of the earth. Air Force captains inspect the sky for enemy death machines. Desert nomads (Hollywood style) look expectantly for the winged messiah.

A re-edit of Bosnick's "Imago", it starts out as the story of the personal conflict of a young girl whose traditional upbringing gives her such sexual hang-ups that she must seek psychiatric help. But, it gradually and unexpectedly evolves into another story of a fraudulent psychiatrist into whose hands she has the misfortune to fall.

August 1973, after the police move into the Lip factory in Besançon, one of the female workers, Monique Piton, talks about the four months of struggle, the place of women and the lessons she has learnt. She is also critical of the role of television.

Mexican feature film

March to the Front depicts the Resistance War Against America (Vietnam War) through the lens of romance.

Scenes of the Lesser Antilles.

The director documents the working and living conditions of assembly workers on the "Nordlicht" natural gas pipeline. Like the "Drushba pipeline," this pipeline was one of the major projects of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), and many workers, especially young East German workers, were involved in its completion. Good pay and the hope of a less regimented life were the main attractions.

a) a fat girl singing about not wanting to get thin just to please men. b) the first time for her and him. c) at the fortune-teller. A confrontation of horrible science and horrible superstition.

A single close-up shot records the artist stroking her abdomen, at full term, as the unborn baby moves.

The story of two girls. Saadia was raped after fierce resistance, which allowed her to take revenge by killing her attacker, but the village men's council felt she had been provocative and sentenced her to death. She is shot and the women of the village, transgressing the tradition, follow her funeral procession. As for Selma, who loved Hedi, she sees her father forcing her to marry another man. His lover comes back hastily but drowns. Became crazy, she succumbs in turn.

Complex but compelling investigation of sound/image relationship shot in Berlin. Top prize at Knokke-le-Zoute film festival l975.

The Government of India granted Rs.50,000/- to Prof. Harbanslal (A. K. Hangal) to conduct a study in the mountains bordering Tibet with India, called the Nangla Project. Harbanslal is sure that within these ice-capped mountains lies an entire temple made of pure gold. When Vikram Singh (Ajit) and his son, Bahadur (Prem Chopra), find out about the Nangla Project, they abduct Harbanslal in order to force him to reveal the exact location of this temple, in vain though and end up killing him.

A man's head is seen in silent close-up using single-frame shooting and time exposure.

Workers from a maintenance crew hammer railroad ties along the Louisville and Nashville line, filmed by Tav Falco. Music: “Bourgeois Blues,” by Tav Falco & Panther Burns.

A short documentary capturing the vibrant daily life, merchants, and cultural atmosphere of the traditional bazaar in Mashhad.

In this episode, the politician Prof. P. Lieftinck, former Minister of Finance in the period 1945-1952.

Portrait of former Prime Minister Dr. Willem Schermerhorn.

Portrait of J.M.A.H. Luns, Secretary-General of NATO in Brussels. Interviewer Max van Rooy.

A centennial film about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The portrayed Turkish guest worker guides the viewer through everyday realities such as poor working and living conditions, predominantly through interviews with fellow guest workers.

1973 Toei film.

Archive of the Chilean National Stadium being used as a Concentration Camp during the coup of 1973

Soviet documentary from 1973 about the Lunokhod 2. Panoramas taken from the rover are shown, along with models depicting its progress on the lunar surface.

A report on Canada's progress in space telecommunications technology. The film reviews developments from the first Alouette satellite to the Anik II and the projected solar-powered satellite designed to be the forerunner of a new generation of powerful communications satellites. What these satellites look like, how they are lofted into orbital position, and how they function to give Canada reliable, broad-range transmission, are clearly illustrated and explained for all audiences.

Uses surrealistic animation in presenting Thurber-like sketches of a woman's body which undergo a series of changes into various shapes, including that of a man whose head becomes a large piece of cheese.

Short film.

A tour that accompanies the artist Carlos Delfín

This nature documentary focuses on the American West, looking intently on the mountains, deserts and redwood country on display.

Report on the electoral elections

A report on the new craze of jogging that has just hit Scotland - interviews with various people of different ages to see their reactions to this new form of fitness.

This documentary looks at the famous efforts to clean up the Willamette River, and the introduction of Project Foresight to preserve the environment. Panoramic views of the river are juxtaposed alongside an audio narrative of its history and commentary from then-Governor Tom McCall.

When her parents struggle to make ends meet in Saigon, a young woman quits school to work as a nightclub dancer and is later banished from home for losing her virginity. Slowly, she descends into hedonism and self-destruction.

Snoopy Ice Special

The “Sai Jhu Gong” (賽豬公, Sacred Pig Competition) is a major annual ritual associated with the Sansia Ancestor Master Temple (三峽祖師廟), held each year on the sixth day of the first lunar month. This film documents the ceremonial proceedings of the 1973 “Sai Jhu Gong” (賽豬公) observance. Dispensing with narration altogether, the film’s soundscape consists exclusively of Beiguan (北管) music and liturgical recitation (祭儀口白). In terms of audiovisual construction and thematic orientation, the work may be understood as a transitional piece within the folklore-oriented documentary practice of Chang Chao-Tang (張照堂), situated between the more conventionally structured The Homecoming Pilgrimage of Dajia Mazu (大甲媽祖回娘家, 1974) and the more formally experimental The Boat Burning Festival (王船祭典, 1979).

A film school assignment supposed to demonstrate a circular and repeatable action.

The story of three brothers who visit their parents for their 40th wedding anniversary. According to the playwriter, their characters are based on aspects of himself: one was a very passive nature, the second was a kind of conformist nature, and the third was a kind of bolshie nature.

Second short film by José Álvaro Morais.

On the creative collaboration and friendship between the staff and students of a youth music school in Leningrad and organ master Justinas Pronckietis (Юстин Пронцкетис).

The little donkey shows everyone that anyone can succeed, regardless of the doubts of those around them.

Her head's a nose—her legs are toes. She's a sexy stripper with an end that can't be beat.

An excerpted segment from a film, Other Than Art's Sake by the Australian artist Peter Kennedy, this is a hilarious documentation and interview by Peter on my Mythic Being street performances. It shows me getting into and out of drag, rehearsing my mantra, and roaming the streets muttering it, followed by crowds of curious onlookers who are attracted by Peter's film equipment and technicians. Other Than Art's Sake also includes work by and interviews with Ian Breakwell, Judy Chicago and Arlene Raven, Hans Haacke, David Medalla, Charles Simonds, and Stephen Willats.

The interweaving of the book (Chłopi, "Peasants") and the actual reality of the time in Lipce Reymontowskie. What transformations occurred in the villagers under the influence of their participation in the realization of the series "Peasants" (1972), an adaptation of the book?

This is a film portrait in which the words are mostly Peter Hannaford's, an eighty-year-old Dartmoor smallholder and cattle doctor, living with his first cousin, Ruby French. The last of his kind, he talks of toads and tractors, mixing common sense with superstition, showing how Dartmoor and its people have shaped his life.

“This film documents the experiences of 30 African students from the University of Abidjan, Ivory Coast who spend their summers at various U.S. youth camps as part of the International Students Service Program (ISSP). The university students share their culture with American children, and, in turn, have the opportunity to learn about the customs of the United States. The film was produced and directed by Dick Roberts" (US National Archives).

A cinematic interpretation and literary adaptation of a text by Charles Baudelaire. "I had intended that each of the roughly 60 shots would be static, without even the imperceptible correction pans normally used in such cases. Every shot was to be a tangent, of which one must put an infinite number around a circle if it is to be calculated incrementally. One cannot represent a circle with straight shots, the most one can do is make it imaginable – this could be a righteous insight into the limitations of our means, although hopefully not self-righteously presented."