All Films

Meditation

1971 • 5 min • United States of America

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

Shapes

1971 • 9 min • United States of America

A short film by Maria Lassnig.

A, B, C... Z

1971 • 41 min • Albania

Children get ready to start the first grade. They start learning the first letters.

Biological Cycle No. 3

1971 • 9 min • Japan

The series, based on the first 16mm film that was shot in a studio with Nakajima’s family and birds, moves through media and processing transformations over many iterations over the years. Once transferred to video, digital effects were added using the “Animaker,” an electronic image synthesizer that he invented (also nicknamed “Ko-puter”). Total of 6 parts exist.

Cotton Eyed Joe

1971 • 12 min

The simple but compelling true story of an African-American vagabond named Joe. A former rail-rider, he has settled as a squatter in a secluded spot near downtown Los Angeles to live out his life in the small hut he has made his home. Dependent on the city and yet terrified of everything in it, Joe seeks a quiet life-style of simple needs and simple wants. The camera follows Joe through a day in this life, never intruding, showing only glimpses of his existence, painting a portrait of a unique individual. Featuring music by B. B. King and Nina Simone

Representational Painting

1971 • 38 min

The artist explores make-up as a traditional mode of self-expression, using it to find a representation of herself with which to face the world.

Une balle de gin

1971 • 7 min • Canada

This experimental short film deals with anguish, as imagined by Claude Péloquin, author, poet, performer and filmmaker, in the early 1970s. Vertiginous camera angles, oppressive places and a disturbing soundtrack, the filmmaker uses his sound environment and the words of the interpreter Josée Vanasse to express this generalized disease at a time of great acceleration and fury for life.

Elisa Repeats

1971 • 20 min • France

A young actress rehearses on stage the play of her mental life. Where is the play, where is the reality? The character's real life and the baroque show seem intimately linked in the closed universe of a somewhat seedy theatre. On the advice of her director, Elisa ends up breaking her chains by accepting herself as she is. While she sings an opera, the walls of the theater disappear. Transported to the street, she continues her euphonious and optimistic number.

Mako-chan no Koutsuu Anzen

1971 • 10 min • Japan

The preschooler Mako and the rabbit Pico learn what to watch out for when walking on the road. The work combines animation and live action to help young children learn the rules of the road in a fun and easy-to-understand way.

We and Our Environment

1971 • 27 min • East Germany

On the occasion of the GDR Landeskulturgesetz (Law on the Conservation and Protection of the Environment), passed in 1970, the speaker explains the various aspects of environmental protection through vivid, visually pointed examples. The film repeatedly refers to the fundamental contradiction between exploitation and preservation of nature in a developed industrial state but is unable to resolve it.

Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli

1971 • 53 min

The fifth year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of Idyeli.

Steel Ring

1971 • 28 min

About how a girl believed in a miracle, and it happened.

From Bed to Worse

1971 • 6 min • United States of America

After being run over by a truck, both the ant and the aardvark wind up in the hospital with broken legs. However that, along with sharing the room with an aggressive bulldog, doesn't stop the aardvark from continuing to pursue the ant as his dinner. NOTE: Last "Ant and the Aardvark" cartoon.

A Lesson Not Learned

1971 • 6 min • Soviet Union

This film was made in reaction to revanchism fear that Germany would reunite and seek revenge on Europe and the USSR for World War II. A disguised Nazi slips into the US zone of divided Germany. The Americans nurse him back to health as he plots how to reunite the Fatherland. His plans are ruined when he runs headlong into the Berlin Wall, erected by the USSR between East and West Berlin in 1961.

Three Bananas

1971 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Tree Dance

1971 • 10 min

For the exhibition Twenty-Six by Twenty Six at the Vassar College of Art Gallery in Poughkeepsie, New York, Matta-Clark created a performance inspired by spring fertility rituals. He performed in a structure made of ladders, ropes and other materials, which he built at the top of a large tree.

El Dorado

1971 • 22 min

Different eras and geographical locations have their own dreamscapes. Here, however, the mythical El Dorado is a mining site. Tambek does not simply document miners’ lives, but creates an image of a secluded universe far away from social norms, one that engenders a unified space between reality and dream.

One million unemployed in winter '71

1971 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A film on unemployment that invites the spectator to resist capitalism and the consumption society, made by Mike Dunford, who was unemployed at the time, with the intention of providing a catalyst for discussion at Claimants Union meetings.

Road to Nowhere

1971 • 3 min • United States of America

Florida Keys, FL, 1971.

Guță tractor driver

1971 • 2 min • Romania

Animated labor protection film about the dangers of driving a tractor while in a state of ebriety or tiredness. Produced with the support of the Ministry of Labor.

Benedictine Nuns

1971 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Documentary.

Alcohol

1971 • 12 min

A chilling fable about the dangers of booze.

Gente de boina

1971 • 7 min • Spain

A short documentary about the spanish town of Tomelloso and the hat the villagers use to wear

Breath In (To) / Out (Of)

1971 • 3 min

The screen is empty: the artist stands off-screen — he breathes in and out, his stomach moving into and out of the frame.