All Films

Inferential Current

1971 • 8 min • United States of America

A mapping of an image of the linear passage of '16mm film frames' and 'emulsion scratches' onto actual 16mm film strip (the unperceived film 'print')/the aural word 'miscellaneous' is extended to a length of 8 minutes by serial fragmentation, looping, staggering and overlaying/a variational but non-developmental strand thru time.

Color Aid

1971 • 36 min • United States of America

Like the three "Hands" films by Richard Serra (1968), the subject of "Color Aid" are fingers as actors of real time activity. Monochrome colour cards lying on top of each other and filling the whole screen are being pulled away individually with a swishing sound by a single finger, each time bringing a new colour into view.

The Eighth Day, or the First Lesson in Thought

1971 • 9 min • Soviet Union

So what happened after the day of Man’s Creation? Do you really think that after His well-deserved day of rest, God chose to follow a policy of non-intervention? No — He wanted to teach humanity the most important skill and weapon of all: the ability to think. What came of this noble idea — find out in this ironic fantasy.

Слово о хлебе

1971 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Epilogue

1971 • 16 min • Canada

This film employs a multi-image technique to contrast scenes of natural grandeur--mountains, forests, and wildflowers filmed in Canada's national parks--with images of the polluted rivers and countryside that result from the heedless exploitation of the environment. Without words.

Your Payday

1971 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Soviet Union's routine explained through the life of common people.

The Adjective Woman

1971 • 51 min

The female question in all its aspects is highlighted through interviews with women in different situations and conditions. Older women who have been working for years in the general markets since the early morning and who then return home and continue to work as housewives, then the workers of a factory occupied, a housewife, a woman who tells of her experience with sex and a woman who tells of her clandestine abortion, a new mother who tells about her motherhood and then interviews with girls elementary school that already, despite them, undergo an education based on patriarchy values.

Bitter Melons

1971 • 32 min • Namibia

This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana.

El Pueblo se Levanta

1971 • 42 min • Puerto Rico, United States of America

In the late '60s, conditions for Puerto Ricans in the US reached the boiling point. Faced with racial discrimination, deficient community services, and poor education and job opportunities, Puerto Rican communities began to address these injustices by using direct action. This film focuses on the community of East Harlem, capturing the compassion and militancy of the Young Lords as they implemented their own health, educational, and public assistance programs and fought back against social injustice. An excellent portrayal of inner city organizing in the late 60s.

Get the Message

1971 • 12 min • United States of America

Created by Walt Disney Educational and distributed to Schools. Traces the development of communication techniques from the first "ugh" to the astral language of the space age, and concludes with a look at the implications of today's "information explosion."

Analytical Studies II: Unframed Lines

1971 • 30 min • United States of America

A highly varied and playful series of short sketches involving induced camera "mistakes," printing "errors" and various "assaults" upon film (some rephotographed) which in one way or another reveal the process/materiality of cinema. The "unframing" called for in this film (bringing the top frame line down into the viewing area as is possible by adjusting the projector framer) is a way of heightening the intended unmasking of the usually hidden vulnerability/fragility of the film strip.

Safety As We Play

1971 • 7 min

ACI Films presents a short reminding children how not to get hit by cars as they walk, ride bicycles, and play ball in the park.

The Canal

1971 • 51 min

A chinese documentary.

Pig Music

1971 • 6 min • France

Chairs

1971 • 2 min • Austria, United States of America

A slender chair works out while a cushioned one strains. Hand-drawn comedy with early cinema motifs. A woman arrives and sits, finding a perfect fit.

Saturnus

1971 • 25 min • Belgium

Saturnus (1971) by Ludo Mich (filmed with a self made fish-eye lens) is one of the top works of Belgian underground cinema, still fascinating young generations everywhere. Strange pictures and sounds are received from outer space, they show us the bizarre life on one of the moons of Saturn. In a self-designed setting, several characters: a king, a queen, torturers, gladiators and bush women. They speak an unintelligible language (Lingala) and are dressed up grotesquely, painted Ensorian style. The soundtrack for Saturnus was made using fucked up sound sculptures, heavy tape machines, non stop sax outburst and African poetry and was released in 2005 as part of the Ultra Eczema LP Music from Films by Ludo Mich. One of the leading roles is played by Nicole Van Goethem (1941-2000), Oscar Winner for her animation film Een Griekse Tragedie in 1986.

Aphrodisiac I

1971 • 6 min

Experimental film by Ian Hugo

Your Lips 3

1971 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A re-worked version of Your Lips 1 with multiple colour superimpositions. Originally shown with a soundtrack from computer artist Alan Sutcliffe but replaced by a re-mixed track of one of the prepared piano pieces made by Le Grice in 1964/5.

Sunday

1971 • 3 min • East Germany

The entire globe is barren; there is no green left. A long line of people edges slowly forward. Under the strictest security, the people manage finally to get into the museum, where they can see… a tree!

Jemina, fille des montagnes

1971 • 10 min • France

JEMINA, THE MOUTAIN GIRL is playing with various elements : literary sterotypes of the F.Scott Fitzgerald novel, inflamed romantism of a Viennese waltz, idealized feminine beauty through lengthy shots, some white and some black, burst of color, intrusion of rose, and green. The film is mocking classic hollywood cinema and undertake the fundamental discontinuity of every film, of every filmic text. Pleasure of the text, pleasure of cinema.

Fields Covered in Blue

1971 • 12 min • Argentina

A disaffected youth leaves home. With a friend, he explores a demolished house.

Clown Face!

1971 • 50 min • United States of America

The movie "Clown Face" offers a very rare glimpse into the backstage private world of Circus Clowns. Here, you can look behind the curtain. You will see the clowns in their backstage habitat, Clown Alley, preparing for a circus performance

Faces

1971 • 21 min • Soviet Union

“Sociological cinematic observation about the life of young people.” About hippies and other informal communities.

Moonchild

1971 • 10 min • United States of America

Moonchild is one of Fulton’s very earliest ethnographic projects. Filming in East Africa while on another production, he shoots with single frame bursts from his Bolex camera with an Angenieux 5.9 lens. He could shoot inconspicuously from the hip, an approach he learned from his father, filmmaker Robert Fulton Jr. In Moonchild, he shares his first impressions of Africa.