All Films

General Toptygin

1971 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The formidable clubfoot bear is mistaken for the authorities. A satirical cartoon based on the poems of Nikolai Nekrasov.

Cargadores

1971 • 13 min

Rom 70/71

1971 • 20 min

Werner von Mutzenbecher created Rom 70/71 with an Agfa Microflex super-8 camera, during a residency at the Istituto Svizzero (Swiss Institute) in Rome, from autumn 1970 to spring 1971. As he wanders the city streets in the afternoons, the artist captures, without any preconceived intentions, urbans details, or micro-events that draw his attention. Mutzenbecher describes Rom 70/71 as "reflex cinema" and develops a spontaneous form of filmed diary about a location, in this case a city, without focusing on human presence.

Granny Snowstorm

1971 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Based on fairy tales about an evil stepmother, a lazy daughter and a hardworking stepdaughter.

Gonna Give You My Love

1971 • 6 min • United States of America

Footage of American bombing of Vietnam.

TV Interruptions: Two Figures

1971 • 4 min

Ten works commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council were broadcast, unannounced, by Scottish TV in August/September 1971. Later, seven were compiled as TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces).

Nachrede auf Klara Heydebreck

1971 • 60 min • Germany

Documentary research on the traces of a female pensioner, who committed suicide in Berlin in winter 1968.

TV Interruptions: Burning TV

1971 • 2 min

Ten works commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council were broadcast, unannounced, by Scottish TV in August/September 1971. Later, seven were compiled as TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces).

Home by the Waters

1971 • 22 min • Canada

John Lowry's 1971 Ontario travelogue "Home by the Waters" (featuring a haunting theme song by Tommy Ambrose) was shown at the IMAX Cinesphere in Ontario Place for a short time in September of 1971.

The Sleeping Beauty

1971 • 19 min • Denmark

A feminist film produced in close co-operation between women who - through situations chosen by themselves for the film - partly step out of their anonymous rôle-playing and partly disclose identities that are survivors of all the oppressive tendencies of a normative society. A film about yearning. Women will live on and survive all bloodsheds and they know that with security the culminations will level out. (DFI)

Holding

1971 • 13 min • United States of America

Two young women in love communicate through fantasy and touching in a rhythmic buildup, merging time concepts. Flashes of the past blend with the present and future in a collage of themselves, the hills, the sea and their sexuality.

Real Time

1971 • 33 min • United Kingdom

Real Time is a reflexive documentary essay on time and a personal evocation of the filmmaker’s childhood and her feelings towards ageing and death. Conceived as patchwork of photographs, re-enacted memories and recorded conversations, the film is structured around a car journey from London to the Rees-Mogg family home in Temple Cloud, Somerset.

100 Beauties Per Day

1971 • 32 min • Yugoslavia

One of the three polemical articles in the series "Forbidden" in which there are critically opposed stands on various phenomena in society. The works of Fulgosi offered sarcastic view on everyday life which prompted some to declare him "a genius of his time".

Island Fuse

1971 • 11 min • Australia

"Island Fuse consists entirely of the monochromatic reprocessing of black and white footage that we filmed in the 1960s on the Isle of Stradbroke. Using an analysis projector, Island Fuse is a film that focuses on the interaction of the elements that produced the film: the analysis projector, the camera and its various mechanisms; filters, the projector and its mechanisms; the ribbon and the photograms; the operators."

Kohlen für die Naunynstraße

1971 • 36 min • Germany

A "poor" family who can no longer pay their rent. Together with other "poor people", they think about how poor people can help themselves. The only option they see is to rob a bank...

The Occult: X Factor or Fraud?

1971 • 20 min • Canada

Surveys growing interest, especially among young people, in the occult, black and white magic, mysticism, and witchcraft. Interviews writer Colin Wilson, and shows a self-proclaimed New York Witch, a professor who claims that occultists are frauds and another who taught a course on witchcraft; also includes a high priestess of the New Jersey First Church of Satan.

Iris

1971 • 10 min • United States of America

Women's bodies are presented as ambiguous erotic landscapes, sometimes classically baroque, sometimes cubistic visions in a distorted reflection, depending on the camera angle and shot size. Finally the female flesh frees itself to the accompaniment of electronic smacking noises and, ignoring all gender borderlines, unites with itself in Cronenbergesque growths.

Monkey See, Monkey Do: Verbs

1971 • 10 min

Educational short about verbs.

...And a Table

1971 • 19 min • Netherlands

A man and a woman sit in front of a window and eat breakfast. Through the window, we see the countryside. During the day, they remain seated at the table. The settings, light, and depth of field change: slowly we learn the vocabulary of the medium. In the final shots, the camera is reflected in the windows, and we see lights being cleared away. The film itself, and not the man and woman at the table, has become the subject of the film.

Always Open/Never Closed

1971 • 13 min • United States of America

A woman wakes up, gets dressed, makes breakfast and walks down the street. This daily ritual becomes extraordinary seen in a trance-like structure of continuous lap dissolves and continuous spectral color shifts.

Face

1971 • 11 min • France

Wave Symmetries

1971 • 5 min • United States of America

‘Games of waves, of light and of the camera. The vertical becomes horizontal, the ground rises to the sky as the sky comes to replace it, the sun covers itself with water while the water launches an attack on the sun.’ C. Brunel

Au-delà de cette limite

1971 • 7 min • Belgium

The Sled-Ladder

1971 • 8 min

This film is a poem from Jean-Pierre Thiébaud, one of the workers participating in the Chris Marker-animated Groupe Medvedkine, and who took part in the 1967 Strike. It is a visual lyric, against war and capitalism, a call for emancipation.