All Films

The Now

1971 • 15 min • United States of America

"These are my past lives when my lovers were black and my lovers were white, when I was male and when I was female." A reincarnation.

Johnny Cash in Copenhagen

1971 • 60 min • Denmark

This live show was recorded in a television studio in Denmark before a small and appreciative audience in 1971, and was shown on Danish television. Featuring the entire Johnny Cash touring show - the Tennessee Three, the Carter Family, the Statler Brothers, and Carl Perkins - this tightly filmed, terrific little DVD takes us back to Johnny Cash at the very peak of his popularity. He looked good and sounded great as he took over the small stage with all the power of his personality, just his guitar and his iconic voice, thundering out "Boy Named Sue" with that sparkle in his dark eyes and a slight grin on his face, obviously happy to be exactly where he was doing exactly what he was doing - entertaining folks. It was at this time that Cash began the gradual but inevitable transformation from mere performer to legend.

A Village Romeo

1971 • 9 min

Doomed lovers visit a country fair, spend a long afternoon in the forest before they drown themselves in the river. FIlm thought lost for 30 years, as been restored with new sound.

Film Alphabet

1971 • 1 min • Austria

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ - each letter is one frame (1/24 of a second) long and each letter originates from a company sign. The film shows the paradoxical relationship between film and written language. (E.S.jr.)

Art Is...

1971 • 28 min

"What is art?" The film offers some new answers to the age old question.

An Evil Hour

1971 • 12 min

The plight of children in South Vietnam studied by an American child psychologist, whose interest is in evacuating some of them to the United States.

Vasya and the Dinosaur

1971 • 7 min • Soviet Union

About the adventures of a boy and his dog who got into ancient times.

David Lean: A Self Portrait

1971 • 58 min • United States of America

A television documentary on the life and career of British film director David Lean. Scenes of Lean directing are intercut with personal interviews in which the director explains his methods, the beginnings of his career, and his relationships with actors and actresses.

Volta Redonda — Capital Brasileira do Aço

1971 • 10 min • Brazil

Tinguely: A Kinetic Cosmos

1971 • 33 min

Investigating Tinguely’s working methods, his art, and his inspiration, this film records the artist at work over a ten-year period and documents the design and construction of his monumental sculpture, Le Cyclop. — Anthology Film Archives

I Am Making Art

1971 • 19 min • United States of America

In an ironic reference to body art, process art and performance, Baldessari challenges definitions of the content and execution of art-making. Performing with deadpan precision, he moves his hands, arms and entire body in studied, minute motions, intoning the phrase "I am making art" with each gesture. Each articulation of the phrase is given a different emphasis and nuance, as if art were being created from moment to moment. This index of body movements is ironically offset by the repetitive monotony of the exercise.

Swift, 1971

1971 • 12 min • Argentina

The Popular Revolutionary Army (ERP) was a military unit of an Argentine political party, looking up to Mao's cultural revolution as its model. Its way of fighting involved kidnappings and assassinations of government officials as well as representatives of foreign firms. The crusade of the military junta against its terrorist practices later became a pretext for state terror against civilians who had nothing to do with ERP. Gleyzer's so-called "secret film" records the kidnapping of a manager of the meat processing factory and cooling plant Swift. The partisans request an improvement in the working conditions in the factory in exchange for his release.

The Basement

1971 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

A documentary art film.

The Insomniac

1971 • 45 min • United Kingdom

An insomniac who lives in a sterile urban environment has a strange waking dream one night in which he experiences a surreal adventure incorporating wild nature and sexual freedom.

Le vampire de la cinémathèque

1971 • 24 min • Belgium

An experiment in visual perception in which a witch becomes a girl, and then returns to being a witch.

A Blank on the Map

1971 • 60 min • United Kingdom

In his now well-known role of narrator of wildlife expeditions, Attenborough accompanies a government-sponsored trek into the central New Guinea highlands to make contact with a group of natives never before seen by Europeans.

Honor of the Poor

1971 • 30 min • Soviet Union

Honor of a Poor Man, a story by Hovhannes Tumanyan, written in 1894. A story about a poor man and a woman with whom an incident happens one day.

The Struggle Continues

1971 • 32 min • Mozambique, United States of America

A Luta Continua explains the military struggle of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) against the Portuguese. Produced and narrated by American activists Robert Van Lierop, it details the relationship of the liberation to the wider regional and continental demands for self-determination against minority rule. It notes the complicit roles of foreign governments and companies in supporting Portugal against the African nationalists. Footage from the front lines of the struggle helps contextualize FRELIMO's African socialist ideology, specifically the role of the military in building the new nation, a commitment to education, demands for sexual equality, the introduction of medical aid into the countryside, and the role of culture in creating a single national identity.

Say Goodbye

1971 • 52 min • United States of America

Say Goodbye is a 1971 American documentary film about the relationship between humans and nature, directed by David H. Vowell. The film depicts the plight of various animal species at the hands of man and his influence. Some segments include the clubbing of seals on the Pribilof Islands, the effect of DDT on brown pelican populations in Texas, and the plight of severely endangered animals. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

What Did You Take?

1971 • 35 min

Stresses recognition and treatment of drug abuse emergencies, accurate identification of symptoms, and immediate clinical procedures. Presents scenes of actual cases in the emergency room and adjoining physician's offices of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Viewers observe emergency treatment of patients in the major classes of drugs commonly abused, opiates, depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens. The film demonstrates to health professionals that successful management of drug overdoses can save most lives and avert additional organic and psychiatric complications.

Prisoners

1971 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A Duologue - TV play featuring Edward Woodward and Warren Mitchell

Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?

1971 • 50 min • United Kingdom

They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?

Dandelion the Puffy Cheeks

1971 • 6 min • Soviet Union

An inquisitive grasshopper could not understand why a dandelion has a chubby face and a thin stalk. With his excessive interest, he scared the dandelion, which began to call doctors and complain to its appearance. A dilemma appeared after medical advice a doctor gave. The dandelion did not know that its fears were groundless and would soon dispell.

Berlin - Divided City

1971 • 21 min • Sweden

Berlin is like an island in the middle of East Germany, a divided city known for its wall, the so-called Berlin Wall. Ever since its inception, this has been extensively exploited by Western propaganda. The notions about it are based in the general public on the fact that it was created to prevent people from traveling as they wish, from escaping. The wall that separates West Berlin from East Berlin is considered a crime against humanity. The truth is that the wall has caused many tragedies, the people on both sides of it are hermetically sealed off from each other. Those who are indignant about the existence of the wall, base their opinion entirely on the propaganda, which in the Cold War game manipulated the background to its creation. The film shows how necessary it was for East Germany to effectively close its border and the consequences of that for West Berlin.