All Films

Het beademen van de beeldbuis

1971 • 3 min • Netherlands

'Boezem's face appears on the screen, stares at the viewer, and begins to breathe on the picture tube. After some time passes, the image begins to blur through the moisture deposited and the artist disappears from sight for several moments. While the vapour clears Boezem keeps his gaze directed on the camera, motionless, until his face is again clearly visible.

Dirt

1971 • 3 min

... has been used in women's studies classes on rape. Its energy is the energy of protest and of rock music. A woman is dragged and dragged through dirt with increasing violence. As the violence increases, so does the beat and intensity of the harsh, eletronic sound. The audience can identify deeply with the woman's movements and so experience the depth of this violence.–A. G. "She abandons her body entirely."–Boston Sunday Herald.

Evolution

1971 • 11 min • Canada

A humourous illustration of the natural process of evolution.

Odette Robert

1971 • 54 min • France

Eustache’s grandmother Odette Robert was a key figure in his life, serving as a substitute mother during much of his childhood (My Little Loves was dedicated to her). In 1971, he recorded an interview with her that went largely unseen until 2003—Eustache never screened the complete film publicly, although a radically truncated version was presented on television. In a string of long, stationary takes, the camera watches over Eustache’s shoulder while he pours countless glasses of whiskey and Odette tells the stories of her life. A number of her themes resonate with those of Eustache’s films: cruelty, male philandering, the Rosière festival of Pessac. Number Zero is a return to origins—of cinema and of the self—and an experiment in narration, both restrained and deeply personal.

Elvira Pagã Vai Se Acabar!

1971 • 2 min • Brazil

A selection of photos of the Brazilian actress, singer, songwriter and star, Elvira Pagã.

Earth Belongs to the People

1971 • 17 min

An analysis of the ecological crisis, this film dispells the myths that big business and big government had been telling the people about the global ecological crisis.

Open Form: Game on an Actress's Face

1971 • 3 min

Open Form - Game on an Actress's Face. A segment from a 1971 performance film by the Polish art collective KwieKulik, which uses the face of a famous actress as a canvas on which to experiment.

Morra

1971 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

A documentary film showing Dalmatian men playing their famous hand game „šije-šete“.

José Joaquín Barrero

1971 • 20 min

The naive paintings of an ordinary man who works as a watcher in a building.

Plot

1971 • 13 min • Greece

Life on a plot of land in Petralona in three seasons of the year. An amusement park is set up in an alana in the fall, the plot is deserted in the winter, and in the spring it serves as a stadium where the school's gymnastics demonstrations take place, which during the Junta become another tool of disorientation from the regime. A composition of moments of life as it flows in one of the then less glittering corners of the capital, where a space acquires its own essence. The passage of time sculpts the character of a piece of land, leaving its marks on it, just as it would on a person. Moments of joy and vitality give way to a rainy melancholy, like mood swings at the change of seasons. Until interest, an external force, dissolves everything during the construction of a building. The end is inexorable and inevitable.

Jerry Lewis - 2ème partie

1971 • 51 min

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics André S. Labarthe and Robert Benayoun, originally aired 22 October 1971.

Because The Mountain Was There

1971 • 32 min • France

On May 23, 1971, a French expedition led by Robert Paragot successfully climbed Makalu via its west pillar. Makalu is one of the five highest peaks in the world, located in the Himalayas on the Nepalese-Tibetan border. Jean-Pierre Janssen and Lucien Bérardini filmed this expedition, where Robert Paragot spoke about the expedition conditions, life at altitude, and his state of mind as expedition leader. On the return to base camp, Jean-Pierre Janssen interviewed Lucien Berardini, Georges Payot, Jean-Claude Mosca, François Guillot, and Jean-Paul Paris, all of whom played a key role in bringing Bernard Mellet and Yannick Seigneur to the summit. Expedition members: Robert Paragot (expedition leader), Georges Payot, Yannick Seigneur, Claude Jager, Jean-Claude Mosca, François Guillot, Bernard Mellet, Lucien Bérardini, Jean-Paul Paris, Robert Jacob, Jacques Marchal (surgeon).

Walter Goes Fishing

1971 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A rat named Walter The Rat must go on a fishing adventure with his pet worm to catch a giant fish.

William: From Georgia To Harlem

1971 • 16 min

Young William moves with his parent from rural Georgia to Harlem.

Ducky

1971 • 4 min • United States of America

An early short film by Sally Cruikshank.

Two Track

1971 • 30 min

In Two Track, Acconci experiments with direct and peripheral perception of information in the context of communication and interaction. He sits with a man and a woman in front of a microphone. The man and woman each read a different text (a Mickey Spillane novel and a Raymond Chandler novel) simultaneously; Acconci repeats everything the man says. Occasionally an off-screen voice interrupts to question Acconci on what the woman has read, and he tries to answer.

Bette Midler at the Continental Baths

1971 • 55 min

Bette Midler performs her final concert at the famous Continental Baths.

Acid

1971 • 26 min • United States of America

A groovy look at the world of LSD, complete with catchy theme music ("Assssssid!"), as commissioned by Encyclopedia Britannica

Phase Loop

1971 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

Reggae

1971 • 50 min • United Kingdom

BBC documentary focusing on a reggae concert held at Wembley Stadium in 1970 featuring the Pyramids, Pioneers, Black Faith, Millie, the Maytals, and Desmond Dekker. Includes interviews with DJ Mike Raven and producer Graham Goodall, who review the history and development of reggae.

Deathstyles

1971 • 56 min • United States of America

An experimental film by Richard Myers about the cultural devastation of the USA.

BBC In Concert: Neil Diamond

1971 • 38 min • United Kingdom

Songsmith Neil Diamond performs live with strings and horns laid on by the BBC, including hits such as Sweet Caroline, Solitary Man, Cracklin' Rosie and Holly Holy.

Death on the Highway

1971 • 20 min

Following in the bloody footsteps of the auto-accident documentaries produced by Highway Safety Films (HSF) of Ohio, came a number of independently produced imitators Produced by the "Suicide Club" (Dean Robinson, who also narrates), DEATH ON THE HIGHWAY is composed largely of still photos retouched with red ink to underline the gruesomeness.

El Cóndor Pasa

1971 • 9 min • Peru

Robles Godoy narrates the childhood of his father Daniel Alomía Robles and the birth of his melody "El cóndor pasa".