Cinematic Era: 1973 Vintage

Educational short about menstruation and human female development during puberty, as brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson corporation.

An experimental film with lesbian themes

Roger Hammond’s silent portraits of film artists from the early 1970s were shot in and around David Larcher’s studio. Some Friends begins with a Polaroid photograph of fellow Co-op filmmaker Mike Dunford held before the camera by the filmmaker as he pans the camera upwards with his other hand. The photograph is held roughly in the centre of the frame, and the general situation in which it is filmed is just seen at the sides of the photograph as the camera pans. The same action is repeated with several photographs, against different backdrops (the river banks, a lawn, a domestic interior).

A filmic homage to the German mime Helfrid Foron, a student of Etienne Decroux who worked with acrobats and tight-rope walkers. He frequently collaborated with contemporary musicians, among them Mauricio Kagel. My intention was to displace his gestures using a form of filmic doubling employing the technique of creating bispecular-asynchronous loops which mime—with extreme visual results—the actions and the objects on stage to make them stand out and to distance them from the action.

A rude and angry parable of woman's disenchantment with men who only want to finger her flower.

An informational short which compares various diet trends popular in the early seventies. There seems to be a particular emphasis placed on debunking the "Atkins Diet Revolution." Dr. Robert Atkins is interviewed and confronted with some mildly damaging figures. Filmed in 1973, the whole short looks gross enough to serve as a temporary appetite suppressant.

The characters touch and separate, dance and stand still, fall asleep and wake up, animated by a game of reflections that lasts longer than ever. Among them are several paintings by Luís Noronha hanging on the walls, especially the famous representation of poor Lusíada floating on the raft with the green and white flag.

Christmas special featuring the Mitchell Singing Boys and others.

Set in Gippsland in 1880 and based on the short story by Barbara Baynton, Squeaker (David Mitchell) and his mate (Myra Skipper) are a primitive, illiterate, poverty-stricken pair, who eke out a miserable living from felling timber in the remote bush.

Filmed in Spain, Finland, Sweden, and West Germany, 'Spanien!' investigates ideas of internationalism and solidarity, using personal testimonies from former members of the International Brigades who joined the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War and from members of the Workers’ Commissions ('Comisiones Obreras').

A surrealist translation of Catholic devotional postcard imagery set into unsettling motion. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Three screen piece. "I was looking for a pure image, an image which was intrinsic to the medium of film. This film is not an abstract film; the subject is the projector gate, the plane where the film frame is arrested in the projected light beam, and the frame whose edges contain and divide the projected illusion from the blacked-out present of the movie theatre. W.R."

Animated drawing in desert sand, Lake Pyramid, Nevada.

Pretty colors.

The entire film was rephotographed and edited into Eniaios Cycle V. Filmed in Mistra, Greece.

"The original was standard 8mm material that I'd shot in a village in Italy. The material had gone through a process of deterioration. I'd used it in performing and taken it through an old Russian slide projector. I took the lens out of this projector so I could pull the film strip through it, and that meant the image could be focused on different surfaces. Instead of the image falling onto a screen, I could direct it around the room with the lens in my hand. In the process it got very torn and scratched, and it was that material I eventually put in the contact printer and made into the 16mm film Frames." – Annabel Nicolson

Immortal Love Life History That all Thai women can't forget about the great woman, Mae Nak Phra Khanong, that is!

El Shahat- the Beggar

First brazilian videodance work.

An amusing story about the origins of statehood of the Slavic tribes on the Vistula. The Slavs’ calm lives are disturbed by strange and violent monsters, which destroy everything they see. On the ruins and ashes, a white eagle is born, the symbol of a rising nation.

Bruce Lacey: 'People used to come and make documentaries about me, but they weren't interested in the day-to-day family life that I found extremely interesting and funny. So I decided to make that film myself. All the members of the family wrote down all the different day-to-day things that they wanted to be seen doing.'

Documentary about a proletarian poet.

Purpose: To show examples of potential and kinetic energy involved in a candle being lighted.

Kren shows the cinema (mentioned in the title) during and after film presentations. He uses single-frame and time exposures 5 to 30 seconds long. Sometimes sunlight comes through the open door into the theater changing the colors in the film remarkably. Black spots appear when the lights inside the cinema are turned off. The film is uncut and was recorded with a shoulder tripod over a period of three weeks.

Gamblers are swallowed by Frankenstein fruit machines.

A documentary about Melbourne's Underground Rail Loop, its effect on the entire metropolitan railway system, and on the future of public transport in Melbourne. Shows the route the loop tracks and tunnels will follow around the city, the sites for the three new underground stations to supplement the present two stations, how passengers will travel from suburban stations when the loop is operating, how the loop is being constructed, and the benefits for train travellers of having five city stations close to shops, theatres and offices. Photographed by Volk Mol, sound by Don Boardman, edited by Geoff Wright, narrated by Michael Pate. Produced for the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority.

The film Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes Free) was conceived after the performance 'And For Today Nothing' which took place at Gallery House Goethe Institute in London in 1972. The words Arbeit Macht Frei were wrought in iron and placed on or above the entrance gates to some if not all Nazi Concentration Camps in the period of Nazi rule in Germany and its conquered territories between 1933 and 1945. The film is conceived as an analogous representation of the objection to genocide.

A tautology is a circular argument. The film is about framing, about the frame and the image framed, and about the framing of the image. About the image filmed, and the image viewed, and the image received and the links between all three.

Directed by Abdellah Masbahi.

LINE DESCRIBING A CONE is what I term a solid light film. It deals with the projected light beam itself, rather than treating the light beam as a mere carrier of coded information, which is decoded when it strikes the flat surface (the screen). It is projected in the normal way, on a 16mm film projector. Though inevitably there will be a wall that limits the length of the beam, a screen is not necessary. The viewer watches the film, by standing with his, or her, back towards what would normally be the screen, and looking along the beam towards the projector itself. The film begins as a coherent line of light, like a laser beam, and develops through the 30 minute duration, into a complete, hollow cone of light. Line Describing a Cone deals with one of the irreducible, necessary conditions of film: projected light. It deals with this phenomenon directly, independent of any other consideration. It is the first film to exist solely in real, three-dimensional, space.

Bollywood 1973

Bollywood 1973

Documentary about the life of a young woman from the countryside who works in a city factory, her hopes and difficulties.

On January 20, 1973, Freddie King and a tight quartet performed at a TV studio in Dallas, Texas. "It was humming in there," recalls director Jim Rowley. "Absolutely cooking." King was 38 and enjoying what he called "the Fillmore circuit" in America as well as the adulation of throngs (including adoring rock stars) in Europe, especially England. This was the second time King had the brass ring firmly in hand, the first being during the early 1960s "dance party" era and his success with Hide Away. It all ended too soon with King's 1976 death but he left us a vibrant musical legacy which includes concert performances like this, a stunning example of a blues master coming to triumphant terms with 1970s African-American grooves and "playing funky."

This documentary chronicles a summer in the life of firefighter and funny car racer Jim Dunn and his family.

In this episode, Rev. J.J. Buskes.

Portrait of Hendrik Algra, Frisian politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party and editor-in-chief of the Friesch Dagblad.

Their cities were carved of stone. Built to last. Their society was unusually advanced. Destined for glory. Then, suddenly, the Mayan and Incan cultures disappeared. In Empty Cities, you'll explore silent citadels left behind on scattered mountaintops. And uncover evidence of remarkable achievements in medicine and mathematics, engineering and astronomy. But more importantly, you'll see how the Mayan and Incan people's mysterious decline symbolizes man's futile efforts to solve life's problems without God. For more than fifty years, the Moody Institute of Science, a division of Moody Video, has been capturing the magic of nature's mysteries on film while showing how the wonders of creation reveal the majesty of God. Your family, friends, church or school will enjoy these award-winning Moody Science Classic videos!

Mineral production in the department of Ilo carried out by the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation.

Construction of the copper refinery in Cerro Verde

Oleksandra Derevskaya was a Ukrainian war nurse and foster mother who, together with her husband, adopted 65 children, of whom she raised 48 to adulthood. She worked as the director of an orphanage, and was posthumously awarded the title of "Mother-Heroine".

Experimental short by Iwata Yūji

Experimental short by Iwata Kazuo

Two lookalike men Kamal a kind hearten and Rocky a fearless henchmen working for gangster.Rocky tries to take identity of Kamal where he will to prove himself in front of everyone.

Joe Fafard is a sculptor living in the small town of Pense in rural Saskatchewan. There isn't much in Pense except for about 300 people and a lot of cows. Joe does small sculptures of the town's human and bovine residents, which have been exhibited and acclaimed in various places around the world.

A four-part visual poem depicting a journey of self-discovery through film that began after a psychedelic experience.

Making of the shooting of the Peruvian film La Muralla Verde, directed by Armando Robles Godoy and filmed in the Amazon with the Mexican actor German July.

Produced by “ediciones tercermundo” of the Center for Art and Communication of Buenos Aires, this film is a “behind the scenes” look at situations that go unnoticed during a modeling session (in this case, the session of the Argentine photographer Juan Carlos Franceschini).

Consisted of a stop-motion trek through the different spaces and objects of Rafael Hastings' house in Lima, prior to it being devastated in the October 3rd earthquake of 1974.

Two boys learn about the nature of light.

An animated corporate video produced by Histadrut. In order to protect its members’ standard of living, Histadrut operates many different initiatives: trade unions, which protect workers’ rights, the Strike Fund (which pays wages of striking workers), nursing homes’ chain Mishan, construction of apartments for the poor, cultural and educational activities for adults, care for working youth, sports club Hapoel, banking services provided by Bank Hapoalim, a chain of affordable department stores, and most of all funding of medical services for members of Kupat Holim Clalit.

10th Antalya Film Festival, Best Short Film Award. 1973 European Short Film Festival Honorary Award