All Films

Waterways (Burst; Storage)

1971 • 8 min

Using extreme close-ups and amplified sound to force the viewer into the space of his body, he experiments with his mouth as a container for saliva, holding it in as long as possible, trying to catch it in his hands.

Window Dance

1971 • 8 min

A chance meeting with contemporary dancer Ishi Kamamoto during a visit to London led to the filmmaker shooting the performer’s improvised dance in natural light alongside a canal which Crawford later edited when he returned to San Francisco. “With Window Dance I explored how any image contains aspects of a “surface” to look at and a “window” to look through.”

Mill

1971 • 11 min • Poland

A chained man is freed by an accidental witness of the events.

Paris Jamais Vu

1971 • 20 min • France

A 20-minute hymn to "unseen Paris" which incorporates soaring aerial shots of the Parisian skyline accompanied by commentary written by Roger Glachant and narrated by Jean Piat. Shot using Lamorisse's "Helivision," a technique involving fitting a camera to the front of a helicopter for smooth tracker of locations.

The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson

1971 • 14 min

Central Office of Information profile of actress, Glenda Jackson discussing her roles in Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Women in Love, as well as views on the profession.

World Uprising: Island Ritual

1971 • 3 min • Japan

This film documents actions performed for World Uprising by Ikuo Shukusawa, Sanzō Tanaka, and Shigeru Hanagata, who collectively worked as Shikata Kōbō (Death Type Workshop). Camera person unknown, 1971, B&W, silent, 3 min. Courtesy of Kumiko Matsuzawa.

Chronique de voyage

1971 • 26 min

Experimental short film from Robert de Laroche.

Teeth Are for Chewing

1971 • 11 min • United States of America

Designed to make children aware of the unique functions human teeth perform and the importance of good dental safety habits.

Blue Planet

1971 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The film is about how the people of Earth on a spaceship were visited by aliens.

Arpeggio (In Ricordo Di Giuseppe Pinelli)

1971 • 9 min

A reference to the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who died mysteriously on December 15, 1969, while held at the Milan Police Headquarters for an investigation following a bomb explosion.

32 Emergencies

1971 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Dmitry Ivanovich Kurochkin receives a vacation trip to Crimea and sets off with his wife. But before leaving, he makes a list of 32 possible emergencies that could happen to their apartment. Even while on holiday, he can’t relax — his thoughts are all about home and the lightning rod he might have forgotten.

Khoja Nasyr the Builder

1971 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A strong wind blows away Khoja-Nasyr's yurt and his family are left homeless. Khoja-Nasyr decides to build a house of stone, and then foreigners begin to come with their advice.

Paraíso, Juarez

1971 • 6 min • Brazil

The painter Juarez Paraíso describes the assembly of panels at the entrance of the Cinema Tupi, in Salvador, explaining their meaning.

My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)

1971 • 29 min

In this moving film, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful overview of the history of U.S. destabilization of democracy in Central America.

Necromancia

1971 • 12 min

Sokoloff’s and Grauer’s first major collaborative work, Necromancia, is a tableau vivant that combines enlightenment formalism with carnivalesque wackiness. A plastic toy strongman, his head replaced with that of a toy horse, drives a carriage pulled by a plastic stegosaurus. He is a kind of Master of Ceremonies in an anatomical realm made of plastic body parts, mylar sheeting, magazine cut-outs, and servo motors. Motors, which seem to bridge Grauer’s sculpture and Sokoloff’s film, also power a rotating stage displaying a similarly wide range of assembled toy parts. Asynchronously intercut with footage of Grauer’s art are Sokoloff’s signature New York cityscapes: skyscrapers, street performers, Greco-Roman municipal buildings, and Coney Island amusement rides.

Naryn Diary

1971 • 55 min • Soviet Union

Documentary film about the construction of the Toktogul Hydroelectric Power Station.

Inside

1971 • 17 min • Denmark

A cinematic experiment that moves in several planes. Four people act out a human course, seen with white silhouettes on a black background. 'Inside' them - or behind them - a different process plays out, supported and contradicted by the sound side. (DFI)

Who Cares

1971 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Documentarian Nick Broomfield examines the problems of slum demolition and the removal of residents to new housing blocks.

The Lascivious Wotan

1971 • 2 min • Austria

A subversive and experimental film by Otto Muehl.

GOOD-BY ELVIS and USA

1971 • 8 min • Japan

A trippy pop-art collage of phallic objects, naked women and American icons, most notably Elvis Presley.

What's Wrong with This Picture? 1

1971 • 5 min

A found, utilitarian object, the overtly moralizing educational film “How to be a Good Citizen,” is elevated to the status of ‘art’. First presented unaltered and then in Landow’s color facsimile, the film is further modified by applying an opaque matte that creates a spatial paradox. - Harvard Film Archive

Make-up

1971 • 13 min • France

Short film that examines the different types of ceremonial make-up worn by the Mapuga tribe.

The Trip to Door

1971 • 12 min

Jane and the kids go to town. Directly in the tradition of SCENES FROM UNDER CHILDHOOD, this film may indeed constitute a 3rd chapter to 'The Book of Film.'

Horse of Mud

1971 • 12 min • Egypt

El Abnoudy's first documentary depicts women in a mud-brick factory in the centre of Cairo, where they are treated like 'horses', working at repetitive and monotonous tasks in miserable conditions. Nevertheless, El Abnoudy brings out the women's dignity, showing a beautiful choreography to their movement. By giving control of the microphone to the workers themselves, she also allows the women's own stories to be interleaved with their work.