All Films

Where You're at Home

1971 • 42 min • Soviet Union

Several short stories in the spirit of classic neorealism of the 60s about people and cities.

Scene One: Take One

1971 • 26 min

Filmed in a remote location at Land's End, San Francisco. The film is constructed around a formal central idea. The scenes are constructed to suggest a number of popular European directors of the period, but these styles morph into a free-for-all of film genres. A quasi-personal voice over dovetails with minimum dialogue scenes. The film winds up being something of an essay, illustrating the major life choices and laid-back values of the hippie-era . The brief appearance of members of the Cockettes (the reigning company of drag queen camp at the time) and a cast happy to discard their clothes when asked adds to the general mayhem.

The Earth, Planet of People

1971 • 7 min

Scenes from Vilnius, the city breathes new beginnings, change is in the air. Then clouds gather and a storm breaks out. Long thought to be lost, this film by Barysas is one of his most beautiful.

Biological Cycle No. 4

1971 • 7 min

The series, based on the first 16mm film that was shot in a studio with Nakajima’s family and birds, moves through media and processing transformations over many iterations over the years. Once transferred to video, digital effects were added using the “Animaker,” an electronic image synthesizer that he invented (also nicknamed “Ko-puter”). Total of 6 parts exist.

Drawings/Lines

1971 • 10 min • Portugal

“In Drawings/Lines, 1971, on top of previously printed film—was he just recycling material or was he deliberately experimenting with a new technique?—Palolo scratched lines directly on the celluloid, imprinting on it a choreography of rhythms and lights. The background images, unified by an overall tone of blue and purple, fluctuate from barely visible to perfectly recognizable, producing a fascinating layered effect with material as diverse as Marlene Dietrich, the Beatles’ yellow submarine, Adolf Hitler, Botticelli’s Venus, and a painting by Magritte.” (Filipa Oliveira)

Decimal Currency: The System

1971 • 1 min • United Kingdom

February 15 1971 marked the official date the United Kingdom decimalised from its historic pounds, shillings and pence to the new system of 100 new pence to the pound. Known as Decimalisation, Decimal or simply ‘D’ Day, it ended the centuries old tradition of using 12 pence to the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound. Although work on the new system began in earnest in March 1966, new coins were gradually phased in up to D-day in 1971. In April 1968 the first of the new coins, the five and ten new pence, were introduced with equal value to the old shilling and florin coins respectively. A year later the new 50 pence coin was released, replacing the ten-shilling note. The remaining decimal coins – the one, two and halfpenny coins – were all introduced on 15 February 1971.

Die Normannen erobern England: Der Teppich von Bayeux

1971 • 28 min • Germany

The conquest of England by the Normans is retold using the Bayeux Tapestry.

Let It Be

1971 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

Short experimental 8mm film.

Ki komp pa

1971 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

Short experimental 8mm film. It has a certain dimension of strange experimentation with space, without a tendency to communicate something, but rather to experience an experiment.

The Hour of Temptation

1971 • 29 min • Soviet Union

An entertaining musical film, where a bright and colorful story presents a humorous, sometimes satirical modern struggle between good and evil.

On One Route

1971 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A group of young friends got together for a hike and decided to invite a colleague who had never been on such a trip before. To be on the safe side, the newcomer took everything he needed with him, including many books on first aid in the wild. At first, the young people made fun of the "overly proper" tourist, but in the end, he turned out to be the most experienced.

Temptation

1971 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

While looking for help with his burning house, a terrified man meets many surreal people and creatures and discovers that they too are threatened by fire.

The Following Generation

1971 • 50 min • France

How did the orphans of deported Jews themselves become parents in the absence of a family model? The filmmaker, who attended a boarding school where many Jewish children were hidden during the war, sets out in search of his memories and former residents. He interviews them about what they chose to pass down...

Portrait of an Actor

1971 • 10 min

The actor in question is George C. Scott. Many of his co-workers on the film The Last Run (1971) talk about what it is like to work with the famed actor.

Nikolay Amosov

1971 • 57 min • Soviet Union

Confessions of a surgeon — this is how readers and critics appreciated N. Amosov's book "Thoughts and Heart". Now he has become the hero of the film himself. How he lives, works, thinks, communicates with colleagues, patients, students…

It's Good in Heaven

1971 • 7 min • Netherlands

A man is pursued by aggressive advertising images. he finds himself in a labyrinth of advertisements from where he escapes and subsequently ends up in advertising heaven. There an ironic fate awaits him...

L'Enigma di Isidore Ducasse

1971 • 7 min • Italy

In this film, heavily inspired by Man Ray's collage work L'enigme d'Isidore Ducasse (1920) and the poetic energy of Lautreamont's Les Chants De Maldoror, Franco films a number of incunabulae (a swing machine, an umbrella), ancestors of fecund inspirational symbols for modern and contemporary art, which hold a privileged position among the objects described by Lautreamont.

Color Film

1971 • 2 min • United States of America

Further examining the medium of film itself, Colorfilm is a work Lawder made while trying to make a minimalist, "pure color" film. Using spliced-together strips of colored film leader in white, yellow, blue, red, green, etc., Lawder ran the film through a projector and found the results to be quite boring. While he was running the film, though, he noticed how beautiful the colored strips of film looked as they ran through the projector. So, he turned a camera on the projector and filmed the colored film gorgeously winding its way through the projector's machinery." - Noel Black, Colorado Springs Independent

The Cat

1971 • 10 min • Italy, Yugoslavia

Short animated inspired by the Aesop's fable.

Changing

1971 • 28 min • United States of America

After adopting a hippie lifestyle, a man finds his home life enhanced while becoming isolated at work.

Adventures in Perception

1971 • 21 min • Netherlands

An introduction to the work of graphic artist M.C. Escher.

Road

1971 • 5 min • Poland

It is a philosophical parable about a man at the crossroads. He divides himself in two, as he cannot decide on the one way only. Each half follows its own path. When they meet again, they do not fit each other any longer. The journey changed them irreversibly.

Choke

1971 • 5 min • United Kingdom

With a rock music soundtrack, Choke suggests pop art in its treatment of Piccadilly Circus at night. Multipally exposed and treated images mirror each other or travel across the two screens. Originally made as a 2 screen film in 1971 from standard 8mm film blown up to 16mm. Recently digitized, and both screens combined in wide screen video format.

Barn Rushes

1971 • 34 min • United States of America

"…elegant yet rustic in its simplicity of execution; tugged gently toward different sides of the set by hints of color and motion interactions, positive and negative spaces, etc., and the unyielding delivery on one of the great apotheoses of poetic cinema at fade-out time." – Tony Conrad