All Films

A Prayer

1971 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

The executioner binds a prisoner at the stake. He lights a match and the prisoner spits on it and puts it out. But the fire is lit with the second match. The prisoner puts his hands together and prays for the rain. Rain begins to fall. Falling, falling, falling, and water drowned the convict — good luck, bad luck — they all come quickly.

Space and India

1971 • 21 min • India

Starting with a symbolic presentation of man's curiosity and his constant search of the mysteries of the unplumbed space, the film presents various scientists connected with the organised space research activities in Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) personally introducing their fields of research activities.

Homecall

1971 • 8 min

Consisting basically of home movie footage of family, relatives, and myself during the mid-1940's I have included loops of certain sequences and actions that have attracted me. Invariably people find HOMECALL a very warm film; however, upon closer scrutiny quite another facet is visible. –D. D.

All’s Quiet in Sparkle City

1971 • 14 min

The short film is simple in execution, but the message is disturbing and thought-provoking. The film is filled with low-ground shots of cockroaches crawling around a house, interlaced with voiceovers of ads and commercials for various things. We start off seeing cockroaches as an enemy, a disgusting creature to exterminate. The voiceovers of some science fiction narrative allow the audience to draw such parallels. But then violence against them occurs. We hear news broadcasts of innocent casualties of war. It becomes clear how this becomes a protest. The audience is left wondering, viewing the graveyard of cockroach carcasses, if the fear of the unknown brings out the injustice in ourselves.- Omri Curnutte

The Divine Comprehension

1971 • 30 min

I planned the Divine Comprehension to be my magnum opus however, although it is complete, I never considered it finished. As in PROOF (and, in part, several other of my films) I dispensed with the narrative, creating sequence and short scenes that capture unexpressed emotions or feelings; an unanswered telephone call, the 1,000 Year Old Chinese Egg, fighting hamsters, a fish head floats by in a pristine stream, all tried together with reoccurring motifs. One such sequence includes the victims of the 1904 Slocum Disaster, the reclaiming of their bodies and the funeral service at their church - which is still stands today - all of which were captured in vintage Edison ‘Newsreel“ footage,.

Initiation

1971 • 19 min • Australia

Blue and Green

1971 • 39 min • Soviet Union

Screen adaptation of the story of the same name by Yuri Kazakov: about love, about youth and sad farewell to it.

Inflorescence

1971 • 7 min

“This film was made without the use of a motion picture camera. Strips of geometric patterns, moire patterns and various precisely repeated designs were applied to the film stock and solarised. These images were then printed in positive and negative colour through special printing techniques…the pattern overlay combined with strong complimentary colours creates a three dimensional effect.” – Science News.

He Who Daydreamed and He Who Acted

1971 • 9 min • Iran

A boy finally succeeds, after many attempts, to pick a fruit from the tree. In the face of his constant efforts, every time a daydreamer makes fun of him.

Carl Gustaf heter jag

1971 • 27 min

Nixon Visions

1971 • 5 min • Sweden

A film about multi-media artist Kjartan Slettemark’s Nixon Visions, the collective title of his famous pictorial version of president Nixon, made 1971-74. It has its beginning in, among other things, Slettemark’s slogan ‘Opposition Must Pay Off’. The new, coffee-loving Nixon is marketed in a satirical balancing act between humor and seriousness. Slettemark’s advertising campaign is ‘a study of Nixon’s mental health’ in which ‘the face is the mirror of the soul’. (Filmform)

¿Dónde estará Vampirella?

1971 • 7 min • Argentina

A Silvestre Byrón experimental short film.

Le Western

1971 • 8 min • France

Animated film parody of Western / Cowboy movies.

Portrait - Jesse Fuller

1971 • 25 min

A KRON-TV film documentary featuring the last public concert given by one man band musician Jesse Fuller, in Oakland Museum's Cowell Hall on May 7th 1971. Fuller is seen playing several songs (including 'San Francisco Bay Blues') and bantering with the audience, recalling how he appeared in Raoul Walsh's 1924 movie 'The Thief of Bagdad'. Also includes close-up views of him playing his guitar and fotdella (a foot operated percussion bass) and talking about his playing style. Begins and ends with brief scenes of Fuller walking around his Oakland neighborhood.

Cycle

1971 • 5 min • Canada

A film of free-hand line animation, where the movement as much as the designs reflects the artist's thoughts on the life of humans and their universe. What evolves is a stream of ideas about the elemental situation of humankind, poised midway between the primary dust and the measureless universe yet unplumbed.

Neo-classic

1971 • 14 min • United States of America

Wedding Ceremony of the Ainus

1971 • 33 min • Japan

The documentary is a record of a marriage ceremony that took place in April 1971 and was performed in accordance with Ainu traditions at the request of the young bride. There were two hurdles to overcome in the realization of the ceremony: first, a group of Ainu had to be convinced, who were against a revival of the tradition. Secondly, there were only a few members of the community who knew the details of the ceremony at all, since most of them had already been celebrating a wedding in their own style for over 80 years.

Don't Underestimate America

1971 • 24 min

Short film.

Lonely

1971 • 3 min

The footage shown here features a mix of still images, moving images, and short animated clips. The still images are primarily of a woman in various scenarios, from riding a bike to lying nude on a jagged rock formation. The animated scenes throughout the film include black backgrounds with the following items in bright colors and patterns: mushrooms, the phrase Good-by Fat Larry, and a tiny truck. The soundtrack to this film is a folk melody.

Red Red? Red

1971 • 34 min

Explores the communal life of young hippies in Devon, through a series of theatrical happenings, conversations on revolution, and strange encounters in an underground labyrinth.

Upminster's Heritage

1971 • 30 min

Starting at Upminster Hall, built in the 16th century, the film covers the Tithe Barn, Gaynes Lodge, Upminster Clockhouse, High House, The Old Cottage, Great Sunnings, Howard Hall, Great Tomkyns, Upminster Station and Upminster Windmill. A labour of love, the film took John Wynstanly over a year of working evening and weekends to research the history, obtain permissions for filming, record the sound track himself and carry out the filming. This film is from the collection of Havering Local Studies and Family History Centre, a member of the London's Screen Archives Network.

Women’s Camera

1971 • 20 min • Germany

A dryly humorous instructional film from West Germany about how to use an Arriflex 16BL camera.

Paris, June 1971

1971 • 16 min • France, Spain

On June 20th, 1971, thousands of Spanish Republicans from all around Europe meet up in Montreuil, France to take part in an event initiated by the French and the Spanish Communist Parties, to protest against Franco's dictatorship.

5 Aspects 5

1971 • 11 min

«This film was made by for a contest of the Local Council of Buenos Aires» - Claudio Caldini