All Films

Dames at Sea

1971 • 60 min • United States of America

Dames at Sea is a musical with book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller and music by Jim Wise. The musical is a parody of large, flashy 1930s Busby Berkeley-style movie musicals in which a chorus girl, newly arrived off the bus from the Midwest to New York City, steps into a role on Broadway and becomes a star. It originally played Off-Off-Broadway in 1966 at the Caffe Cino and then played Off-Broadway, starring newcomer Bernadette Peters, beginning in 1968 for a successful run. The television version was broadcast on the Bell System Family Theater on NBC on November 15, 1971. The cast had extra chorus girls and boys, and there were full production numbers, turning into the very thing it was spoofing. Ann Miller was singled out for praise, especially when "she was allowed to tap out her brassy...temperamental star..."

A State Visit to Turkey by Queen Elizabeth II

1971 • 23 min

Britain and Turkey had not always enjoyed the ‘special’ friendship referred to in the commentary. Their armies were on opposing sides in the First World War and there had been disagreementt over the future of Cyprus in the run up to the settlement of 1960. In the 1960s relations improved and this reciprocal tour (the President of Turkey, Cevdet Sunay, had paid a state visit to the United Kingdom in November 1967) was regarded as a milestone in the bilateral alliance between the two countries. The camera affords the viewer a prime vantage point by which to marvel at the splendour of the pageantry and contemplate every nuance of gesture and sartorial detail. As we linger on the bejewelled Queen waiting patiently at the British Embassy in Ankara to greet her guests we wonder what it might be like to be in her shoes.

Crash!

1971 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Short film produced by the BBC about JG Ballard's Crash. “The film was a product of the most experimental, darkest phase of Ballard’s career. It was an era of psychological blowback from the sudden, shocking death of his wife in 1964, an era that had produced the cut-up ‘condensed novels’ of Atrocity plus a series of strange collages and ‘advertisers’ announcements. After Freud’s exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised. Later there were further literary experiments, concrete poems and ‘impressionistic’ film reviews, and an aborted multimedia theatrical play based around car crashes. After that came an actual gallery exhibition of crashed cars, replete with strippers and the drunken destruction of the ‘exhibits’ by an enraged audience.” (from: http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.blogspot.de/2013/01/short-film-adaptation-of-jg-ballards.html)

James Taylor in Concert - BBC Studios

1971 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Music concert from 1971 featuring American singer-songwriter James Taylor, with a special guest appearance by Carole King.

Gal Fa-Tal

1971 • 2 min • Brazil

Shot in 1971 during Gal Costa's famous concert "Gal Fa-tal" in Rio de Janeiro's Sucata Nightclub, Ivan Cardoso's eponymous Super-8 short film shows the singer both in and off stage, interlapsed with scenes from Cardoso's "Nosferato no Brasil".

I Will Kill You, Wolf

1971 • 60 min • Germany

A young woman takes the train to Berlin. She wants to kill her friend Wolf, a theater actor. When the woman meets him, he tells her about his weird wife.

Sebastião Prata, ou Bem Dizendo, Grande Otelo

1971 • 12 min • Brazil

Short documentary film offering a rare portrait on legendary Brazilian actor Grande Otelo, recorded at his own family home.

Water, Water, Everywhere ...

1971 • 5 min

An underwater close-up of the death of a trout in polluted water. A film for conservationists and for all audiences concerned about preserving the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it.

Paria

1971 • 46 min • Sweden

Mr X and Mr Y both have a hidden past. Mr X committed manslaughter in his youth without being caught. Mr Y falsified a debt without being punished. Now they meet in a countryside house in the middle of a storm.

Universal Integrator

1971 • 2 min

Commissioned by Habitat for the British Steel Corporation stand at the Ideal Home exhibition.

The Orchid

1971 • 31 min

An experimental film directed by author Samuel R. Delany

Snow on the Lips

1971 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

Avant-garde film about drug addiction made by the famous surrealist poet Ljubiša Jocić.

Man and Woman

1971 • 2 min • Japan

MAN AND WOMAN shows full body shots of a naked man and woman shot from above without movement. They are shown alone as well as together, one over (or under) the other symbolizing in words at the same time, their positions

Sun River

1971 • 19 min

Filmed during the 2 years from 1969-1971 spent with the Peace Corps in Maharashtra, India, working with “Adivasi” tribal natives in Thana District, ~100 miles north of Bombay (now Mumbai). Edited upon return, and used by The Peace Corps for training of subsequent volunteers.

Y Adán y

1971 • 28 min • Chile

From the depths of the sea is born Adam, a young man who searches the world for the place to which he belongs. Walking along the beach, he meets another child like him and they become friends. As an adult, the child becomes a man who tries to find the woman, his counterpart. Harassed by the beings of the world, he sees it through dreams and this helps him to recover from his evil.

Prétextes

1971 • 14 min • France

An actor and an actress repeat scenes of a film which they must play in their apartment. The filmmaker shoots the tests.

Oslofilm: OBOS og byen

1971 • 13 min • Norway

Short documentary on Obos, a building cooperative in Oslo.

The Pacific Ocean

1971 • 7 min • Japan

Shot on 8mm on the 12-day boat journey between Yokohama and San Francisco, Iimura's The Pacific Ocean consumes the anticipation and uncertainties of a voyage on waves with an obsessive attention on the ripples. (Julian Ross)

Wer bist du?

1971 • 9 min • East Germany

The little dog Nero looks around inquisitively in a world that is still somewhat foreign to him. He doesn't really know who or what he is and wants to have everything he admires in others. Only when the fox intrudes does Nero come to his senses.

A State Is Born

1971 • 20 min • Bangladesh

A short documentary, charting Bangladesh's quest for freedom from Pakistan.

The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man

1971 • 10 min

Vintage documentary that briefly looks at the making of several parts of the film and showcases Heston discussing the film and philosophizes with famed anthropologist Ashley Montagu.

All Go Margate

1971 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Michael Aspel introduces this publicity film entitled 'All Go Margate', promoting Margate as a 'favourite family resort'.

Time Tunnel

1971 • 5 min • Japan, United States of America

An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.

Only for Adults

1971 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Satirical miniatures for adults.