All Films

Turya - the Land of Polissya

1971 • 50 min • Soviet Union

An innovative Soviet documentary film directed by Rafail Nakhmanovich. Most of the film was shot with a hidden camera, and the characters' lines were recorded live without staged scenes. The film tells the story of one of the most successful collective farm chairmen in Ukraine, Oleksandr Myaz, who introduced elements of market relations.

Silent Invasion

1971 • 14 min • Italy

Valentina Berardinone is an artist who favors the use of particular kinds of resin in her paintings and 'assemblages' which often represent the freezing in time of a falling drip–at other times it is a whole flow of liquid pouring over a staircase to be frozen in its slow advance. But even in their fixed state all these images refer to movement, either past or potential, for their manner of presentation. And this movement, which is necessarily frozen in the paintings and sculptures, is restored to its origins by Berardinone through the cinema. From her first work, Silent Invasion, she has reconstructed on film the impending descent of a mass of resin down a flight of stairs, this movement being repeated and emphasized through the use of a magnifying glass.

Low Deposit, Easy Terms

1971 • 2 min

Sue Ford was one of the first feminist photographers and filmmakers in Australia, initiating her practice during the early 1960s in Melbourne. An active member of many feminist film co-operatives, her works explore Australian identity and feminism, excavating the effects of Australia’s colonial past through playful, innovative and experimental films. In Low deposit, easy terms, Ford interrogates Australia’s obsession with car culture, but instead of open Outback roads, the viewer tours inner-city car dealerships, home garages and junkyards where life struggles to grow. — ACMI

One Man, One Dog

1971 • 13 min

Filmed at Scotland Yard. An insightful film on the police dogs and their handlers, and what was the state of crime in London and surrounding areas in the 1970s.

Réaction 26

1971 • 5 min

With the help of “electronic feedback”, it is the crazy round of images that come, return, surpass each other, overlap and dance on the screen. Under the gushing flow of abstract geometry that fascinates the retina, extremely sensitive music by Michel Hinton occupies a special place.

The Boy and the Bridge

1971 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Diving off the Old Bridge as a rite of passage for a boy in the city of Mostar.

Somewhere on a Given Day

1971 • 21 min

An account of the preparations for the staging of Régis Debray’s Notes on Gramsci directed by Stanisław Tym. A group of international students gathered at Warsaw’s 'Stodoła' club discuss philosophy and politics accompanied by the music of Włodzimierz Nahorny’s quartet.

Improving Your Posture (Second Edition)

1971 • 10 min • United States of America

Four teenagers exhibit good posture in standing, sitting, and walking positions, and demonstrate exercises for posture improvement.

Creating With Textures

1971 • 10 min • United States of America

This educational film illustrates various textures as students create different kinds of textured art by using ordinary objects and materials.

Hana

1971 • 19 min

Early 8mm filmwork by Masanobu Nakamura.

B.A.Rock 1971

1971 • 3 min

A Super 8 film by Claudio Caldini, focused on a progressive music festival

Sheep in Wood

1971 • 11 min • United States of America

Ukrainian American artist Jacques Hnizdovsky demonstrating the process of creating his classic woodcut “Two Rams” – from sketching the concept to producing the artist’s proof print.

Switzerland Today

1971 • 17 min • United States of America

An emphasis is placed on the urbanization of a population traditionally skilled in manipulative abilities, and the adaptation of industry to the necessity of importing almost all raw materials. The film also shows the resultant changes in agriculture and the highly organized tourist industry.

Impressions, Reveries

1971 • 30 min • Yugoslavia

Dance movie by Maja Bezjak.

Our Round Earth: How It Changes

1971 • 9 min • United States of America

An educational film from the early 1970s about geology and how the Earth changes.

Sisyphus

1971 • 3 min • United Kingdom

An animated cartoon of the Greek legend, which interprets the mood and style of Robert Garioch's poem.

Navajo Rain Chant

1971 • 3 min

Color UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Dyal animates Navajo patterns overlayed on a photograph of an Arizona mesa, accompanied by a recording of the Yeibichai (Night Way/Night Chant) Ceremony.

Vilaap

1971 • 18 min • India

In the interior of a forest, a tree is being felled. Anordinary event, an event like the shooting of a birdor a rabbit in a forest or the violation of a girl in alonely forest. It is an ordinary human event.. Thefilm humanizes the event of the cutting of a tree ina forest. When one tree is cut (killed, violated) theWOodcutter passes on to the next tree to be cut(killed. violated?

We Demand Jobs

1971 • 4 min • United States of America

A film by Marjorie Keller & Saul Levine

Juan Pérez, Miner

1971 • 18 min • Chile

Work that illustrates the life of the Chuquicamata miners, criticizing their mechanical and repetitive routine that reduces them to just another cog in the productive gear. Armed with a script that works a mixture of documentary and fiction that introduces us to the current of thoughts of Juan Pérez, a worker who questions the real meaning of work and human existence.

Hungry Ghosts

1971 • 29 min • Hong Kong

Frank Kehl illustrates the vibrancy of the Chiu Chau Ghost Festival in urban Hong Kong, as the city comes alive with vibrant rituals and community events at a time when ghosts and spirits are free to wander the earth.

A Documentary About Transit

1971 • 17 min • Cuba

Activities of the transit authority and plan for reeducation of those punished for traffic offenses.

Aplis pierādījumā

1971 • 8 min

An experimental documentary on environmental issues, based on chronicles. Reproductions of Salvador Dali's paintings, footage from Pumping Iron (1977) with Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film shows the process of salmon spawning and the brutal human intervention to extract the eggs. The film features a recording of a concert by Polish musician Czeslaw Niemen. Awarded at UNICA and other film festivals.

Ural salmon

1971 • 9 min

Salmon has long been considered the delicacy, but commercial fishing have left this unique fish on the brink of extinction. Problem of saving the population became state care.