All Films

Crocus

1971 • 7 min • United States of America

A woman's nightly domestic rituals—from putting her baby to bed to making love—unspool in a playful parade of surreal, straight-from-the-id images. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

The Wrecked Cinema

1971 • 12 min • Switzerland

"In Germany, I bought an old 35mm Debrie camera. I spent several weeks working with this camera and found that its mechanics were marvelously thought out and that the way the camera was made was proof of the skilled craftsmanship back then. I developed a procedure which also allowed me to use the camera as a printing machine. The printing process is not so different from the filming process, as far as the transport of the film goes . . . It was a lot of fun to try to exhaust the possibilities of the Debrie. It was not only the mechanics that were exciting, like the works of a wonderful old clock, but the numerous possibilities for the realization of the second part of the film, too. This consists mainly of what has already been shot, but offers at least 50% more experimental manipulations in the printed part." (HHK)

Sand

1971 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

A short amateur film by director T. Ivančić.

The Revolutionary Was a Cop

1971 • 32 min • United States of America

Focuses on the actions of FBI agent provocateur Thomas Tongyai—aka Tommy the Traveler—who infiltrated branches of the SDS movement at Hobart College and other colleges in upstate New York in 1969–70.

Crónica del salitre

1971 • 9 min • Chile

Story of the history of the workers' movement in the saltpeter offices of northern Chile. The voices of the workers are heard, with images of the mining sites.

Pintando con el pueblo

1971 • 10 min • Chile

In support of the victory of the Unidad Popular, artists create a mural on the Paseo Bulnes, located in front of the Palacio la Moneda. Among the muralists are José Balmes, Gracia Barros and Guillermo Núñez.

Horizon

1971 • 8 min • Japan

This work was created to commemorate the reversion of Okinawa to Japan.

Absolutorium

1971 • 20 min • Poland

A group of director's school colleagues meet after 12 years at his place. They talk about what they think of their life choices.

Echo

1971 • 33 min

A jewel of Italian artist cinema long considered lost, Echo by Gianfranco Pardi was presented for the first time in 1971 at Studio Marconi. The music from the film, created together with the artists Mino Ceretti, Carlo Ruffini and Davide Mosconi, will then flow into the album Uno zingaro di Atlante con un fiore a New York, released by RCA in 1973. As Franco Quadri had already noted at the time, the structure of the film unfolds in three moments which, although contrasting, blend into each other harmoniously, from a visual and musical point of view. The first is of an exquisitely conceptual nature and focuses on the constructive values ​​of the architectural measurement of space; the second is characterized by a convulsive explosiveness bordering on pop and, finally, the third brings the gaze back to the natural order.

Multiplication 1

1971 • 2 min • Canada

An elementary school film on multiplication based on the theories of Professor Zoltan Dienes.

These Stones Remain

1971 • 27 min • Ireland

This exquisite documentary traces the history and artistry of stone carving in Ireland from earliest times to the Middle Ages. Directed by George Morrison, director of the ground-breaking historical films Mise Éire and Saoirse? This engaging film is beautifully shot and shows Morrison's skills as director, writer and cinematographer. It was awarded the Diplome d'Honneur in Moscow in 1971.

Children and Disused Fridges

1971 • 1 min

British Public Information Film about the importance of removing the door when throwing a refrigerator away.

Operation "Duke"

1971 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A humorous New Year's story about the kidnapping of singer Nikolai Ogrenich by agents of Central Television.

Outrage

1971 • 3 min • Japan

"Outrage" is a work for which I developed a reversible film using a negative-processing bath. While developing it, I used my fingernails to scratch the emulsion. It was a monochrome film, but when I applied the fixative, the scratches turned yellow.

Bob with Books

1971 • 3 min • United States of America

Shot on the roof of 799 Greenwich St., New York, Bob with Books is a short silent film by Nancy Holt on her husband, artist Robert Smithson, two years before he passed away.

La Mission

1971 • 53 min • Algeria

An Algerian peasant (fellah), crushed by the soldiers of the French colonial army, decides to resist. His young wife finds herself, despite herself, also enlisted in the Algerian resistance to flee the atrocities of harsh colonial persecution.

Yuri Zavadsky

1971 • 60 min • Soviet Union

The film is about Yuri Zavadsky, his work as the chief director of the Moscow Theater. The Moscow City Council and the last performance of the master - "Petersburg Dreams" (based on Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment").

San Francisco Ball

1971 • 50 min

Three thugs kidnap two innocent young women and demand $50,000 from one of the girl's sister, while her boyfriend is hot on the trail. Unfortunately, after being raped and cut with razor blades, the girls don't stand a chance.

Plumb Line

1971 • 15 min

The dissolution of a relationship unravels through visual and aural equivalences. Schneemann splits and recomposes actions of the lovers in a streaming montage of disruptive permutations: 8 mm is printed as 16 mm, moving images freeze, frames recur and dissolve until the film bursts into flames, consuming its own substance. Sound: Carolee Schneemann. -- EAI

Endless Day

1971 • 30 min • Soviet Union

Among Tooming's filmic works, Endless Day provides perhaps the most eloquent material for investigating the radical renewal of visual and narrative form, as well as the shifting registers of spatio-social portrayals and critiques in Estonian cinema. It was banned in 1971 and ordered to be destroyed. However, the film was retained and restored in the 1990s.

Sally Simpson

1971 • 5 min

Sally Simpson played to a song rendered by Bette Midler (one of the cast) behind the proscenium curtain. Filmed in San Francisco in collaborated with a friend, Wilfred Satty, who had gained a reputation for illustrations of rock posters. Satty was one of San Francisco's most colorful personalities, a German artist who lived near Bay street, and would throw extravagant parties in the basement of his studio. He died prematurely, cracking his head when he fell off a ladder in his studio. His memorial was held in the rotunda of the Palace of Fine Arts and attended by over 400 mourners.

This Is Portland

1971 • 7 min

Don and Edwina take us on a delightful tour of The wondrous Portland, Oregon. Sights and smells truly come alive in this whimsical walk through The City of Roses. Whether you're uptown, downtown, or staying at the luxurious Royal Gambino Hotel! See what all the talk is about and come on down! You can find us eating iced cream in the Brownstone District.

The City of No

1971 • 45 min • New Zealand

Two men's friendship has been weakened by their contrasting approaches to life. Bob (Jeremy Stephens) has left his wife to paint pictures of a lover (Shirley Gruar) who is much younger than him. Lawyer Graham (Bill Johnson, who later played Mr Wilberforce in Under the Mountain) is the voice of reason, trying to convince Bob to quit his bohemian lifestyle. But is Graham really acting in his mate's best interests?

Cat Stevens - In Concert

1971 • 39 min

Cat Stevens and his band recorded and broadcast live by BBC Television in November 1971.