All Films

Fly with the RAF

1971 • 20 min

A short documentary of the various personnel roles, and types of aircraft used, within the RAF.

Winchester Martin

1971 • 22 min • Argentina

It is a fictional film directed by the amateur director in Super 8 Dr. Jorge N. Mario in 1971. It is a western that takes place in a hypothetical region of Mexico, and narrates the adventures of a man seeking revenge.

O Incrível Luiz de Barros

1971 • 10 min • Brazil

A retrospective of Luiz de Barros's life in cinema, illustrated with photos of his first films, still silent. He talks about the creation of synchronization, a process he created to make films sound. Then, through a sequence, some scenes from his most famous films are presented, such as "E O CIRCO CHEGOU" and others.

Flicker Love No.1

1971 • 4 min • Japan

After seeing Velvet Underground perform in Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitables in New York, Tanaami became interested stroboscopic effects. This flicker film was conceived as the first of many but this was the only one that was realized. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

From Dawn to Sunset

1971 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

A short film about ants and their everyday activities. The audio of the film is currently lost.

In Lusio

1971 • 6 min

The illusion of the present-day with the time signal. Prix d'or 1971, APA Film Festival, Tokyo.

What Happens in the Suburbs?

1971 • 16 min • Italy

A Super8 of desecrating and captivating animation, made by one of the greatest representatives of the Italian "art film".

Orbitas

1971 • 10 min

"Used as creative writing stimulus, elementary and high school. Has been likened to a journey into inner/outer space." -RS

69 Cr 180

1971 • 59 min

An artist report by Franklin McMahon about the infamous Chicago 8 conspiracy trial of the eight (later just seven) defendants arrested during the protests of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. From 1969-70, McMahon was the courtroom artist for the trial, which lasted 5 months and resulted in almost 500 courtroom drawings by McMahon. This film, or "artist report," features these drawings alongside the voices and comments of McMahon and others involved with the trial.

Wonder Walks: The World of Up Close

1971 • 9 min • United States of America

Magic glasses allow kids to see the world up close

Self Portrait of a Nude Model Turned Cinematographer

1971 • 4 min • United States of America

Sharon Green's short film Self Portrait of a Nude Model Turned Cinematographer (1971) represents a collision of incipient cinefeminism and autobiographical filmmaking. Containing a blend of still photographs and subjective moving-image shots of her body, the work has largely been overlooked because of a reductive framing of it as mere homage to male avant-garde artists such as Stan Brakhage, for whom Green was a nude model.

Compression—Relation of Matters

1971 • 15 min • Japan

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

Everything by Design

1971 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A look at the design and production of various products.

Whitesburg Epic

1971 • 8 min • United States of America

In this small town “epic,” the people of Whitesburg, KY speak directly to the camera about unemployment, student unrest, and the Vietnam War. The down-home candor of the exchanges presents a revolutionary alternative to the voice-over narration then common in commercial productions. Stripped to the basics, the documentary has an energy and immediacy only possible in a film made by the participants themselves.

Comitati politici - Testimonianze sulle lotte operaie in Italia nella primavera del '71

1971 • 50 min • Italy

Made in 1971, "Comitati Politici" encircles some exclusive witness of the union spokepersons, the employees and the factory workmen at the time.

Glory of the Bull

1971 • 13 min • Poland

Award-winning film about the work of Franciszek Starowieyski, one of Poland's most outstanding artists, painter, stage designer, graphic artist and creator of the theatre of drawing.

The 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam

1971 • 29 min

A history of the Big Red One in Vietnam, 1965-1970. Part of "The Big Picture" series.

My Brother the Little Ostrich

1971 • 17 min • Soviet Union

A little chick dreamed of having a little brother to walk with and have fun playing. One day, the chick finds a huge egg...

III/71 Aktionen

1971 • 15 min

Things (and their treatment) are shown repeatedly - a loaf of bread, a sausage, an egg cracked open on the rim of a cup: everyday actions with irreversible, one might say vitally destructive consequences. In the second part, the actions are directed at people, and the anxiety changes because the situations are created deliberately and uncritically. Part three, which could be read as a sober protocol of a relationship, loses the proximity to actionism and performance. Images of a man and a woman alternate with images of windows, mirrors, sofas, and the interior.

Progress?

1971 • 6 min • Sweden

Sven Elfström (1927-2017) was a full-time manual labourer who started off as a welder at the shipyards in Uddevalla. Eventually he moved to the industrial city of Nynäshamn, south of Stockholm, to work at the manufacturing workshops of the state telecommunications company, Televerket. Elfström began shooting 8mm films at an amateur film club in Uddevalla. When moving to Nynäshamn he acquired a 16mm camera. Most of the eleven films that he made in this format are shot in Nynäshamn; the actors in these films were friends and family. The films were self-financed, shot and edited by himself, often on reversal film stock as this was the cheapest way to make a film. This means that usually neither negatives nor additional copies exist of these films, but merely one original print. UTVECKLING? starts with a fierce critique against capitalism, consumerism and man’s exploitation of the world.

The Peach Tree

1971 • 21 min • Iran

The short movie "Peach Tree"

A Nail

1971 • 4 min • United States of America

16mm film, color, sound.

There / Roomdefinition

1971 • 21 min • United States of America

16mm film, black and white, sound.

The Events at Garabandal

1971 • 45 min

This documentary by Richard Everson marked the first groundbreaking attempt to depict the events of Garabandal in color 16MM film.