All Films

Frameless 16

1971 • 3 min • Japan

What is a frame? He attempts to make a film that doesn't have the normal 16mm frame. He also doesn't respect standard recording principles. Thus, a distinction must be made between: - the real time during which he films the object (himself) through his camera. - the time the film is recorded. These two periods do not always correspond to real time. The image must illustrate the search for these different notions of time. To achieve this, he experiments and places a 16mm film on top of a 35mm film during the shooting.

London 1971

1971 • 15 min

A leisurely video journey through London, featuring uncommon footage from an early Gay Pride parade.

The Island That Refused to Die

1971 • 20 min • United Kingdom

80 year-old Gaelic speaker Donald MacDonald takes us on a brief tour of his lifelong home, Gigha - a tiny island off the West coast of Scotland. He explains how Gigha has been able to fend off the threat of depopulation, which has afflicted so many other small Scottish islands, to become a place of beauty and prosperity.

A Clause for Beauty

1971 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A Dispute in the Village Council — how should the village be redeveloped, what kind of new houses does it need? People want a basement, a small garden plot, a place to keep a piglet — and everything nearby, so they don’t have to run half a kilometer when a neighbor comes over and they need to fetch some pickles from the cellar for a snack. And they don’t want to go up to the ninth floor, even if there’s an elevator. But everything has already been decided — no one will build two- or three-story houses, let alone separate ones. Only five- to nine-story buildings. The plan has been approved, and new residents are already moving into urban-style apartment blocks. So why did they even have the discussion?

Great Bakuri

1971 • 10 min • Soviet Union

In the place where Bakuriani is today, there used to be an impenetrable forest. A little farther away was the village of Fafa (which means porridge). In this village, instead of snow, delicious sweet porridge fell from the sky. The village was inhabited by idlers and lazy people. They knew how to do nothing but eat and sleep. One lazy man grumbled all the time and was nicknamed the Grumbler. Another was always complaining and was called the Complainer. The third was used to crying and was named the Crybaby.

The Little Sheriff

1971 • 19 min

A young boy with such little to do, wanders around Sydney playing sheriff with his toy gun. However, this state of monotony takes a sudden turn when he encounters a group of older boys.

Untitled

1971 • 8 min

A portrait: of Saul Levine, filmmaker and one-time Italian Ice Vendor./of the film surface & depth/so by the choice of image./ of the inside & outside light in the summer and the shower. –M. K.

El insólito asalto al Royal City Bank

1971 • 20 min • Venezuela

Short film by Alfredo Lugo.

This is It

1971 • 10 min • United States of America

James Broughton's creation myth, THIS IS IT, places a 2-year-old Adam and a bright apple-red balloon in a backyard garden of Eden, and works a small miracle of the ordinary. And since that miracle is what his film is about, he achieves a kind of casual perfection in matching means and ends.

S:tream:s:s:ection:s:ection:s:s:ectioned

1971 • 42 min • United States of America

Streaming, scratched lines continuously appear two at a time over images of flowing water.

Clockmaker

1971 • 26 min

Clockmaker is a 1971 short film directed by Richard Gayer. It is a look at the one-man cottage industry of Martin Burgess, a man who has revived the medieval craft of ornamental clock-making and who is solely responsible, for his bizarre, often gargantuan , but always strikingly elegant timepieces. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film in 1973.

About Me: A Musical

1971 • 29 min

A Musical Set in New York City

Australian History

1971 • 18 min • Australia

Short directed by Bruce Petty.

Slides

1971 • 11 min • United Kingdom

'Slides' came about through some fascination with the phenomena of matter, its frailty and transcience, the oddness of tiny filmed images from my earlier work lying around. Working with these parts, 35 mm slides cut into strips, thread, sewn film, light leaked footage, 8mm and 16mm fragments, I hand held this material in the contact printer. Images were created by movement and handling, literally keeping in touch with the elements.'

Hour Glass

1971 • 13 min • United States of America

In the midst of the Black consciousness movement, a basketball player imagines his profession to that of a gladiator. After a series of reflections including his upbringing as a foster child of White Americans, he returns to his origins.

Lensless

1971 • 5 min

16mm structural film by John Du Cane.

The Peaceable Kingdom

1971 • 8 min

This film, one of the most perfect ever given to me to make, was inspired by the series of paintings of the same title by Edward Hicks. - SB

Uma Rua Chamada Triumpho 1969/70

1971 • 11 min • Brazil

A short film made from photos of Boca do Lixo, a bohemian and marginal neighborhood, and its people.

Dresden Dynamo

1971 • 5 min • United Kingdom

‘At the work's core is an experimental approach to the stuff of film and a fiercely political outlook. Dresden Dynamo is an abstract assault on the senses. Eschewing a camera, Rhodes affixed patterned Letratone stickers to the film itself and used filters to create red and blue colours. Stripes, dots and wavy lines surge across the screen, and their forms dictate the accompanying barrage of white noise and atonal bleeps.’ --Ben Luke London Evening Standard 26 January 2012

Glasgow 1980

1971 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A documentary, edited by Bill Forsyth, promoting the proposed development of Glasgow in the 1970s.

27/71 On Peacock Isle

1971 • 2 min • Austria

Kurt Kren short

Test I

1971 • 5 min • Poland

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface.

Examination

1971 • 52 min • Bulgaria

The beginning of the 20th century. A village in the mountain. The young barrel maker Liyu is to be examined by the local craftsmen. They approve the barrel he has made, blindfold. They give him "the craftsman's belt". At the beginning, nobody considers him a master.

Doorway

1971 • 8 min • United States of America

A serene winterscape glides, as in a dream, across the screen, from darkness to darkness...Vision shivers, hesitates ever so slightly to savor, to hold still, but inevitably everything passes. Far becomes near, near far. Shadows seed their counterparts in the depths of the viewer's heart.