All Films

Profile of actor Dustin Hoffman on the set of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film STRAW DOGS.

How independent are we in our judgments? How do other people influence us? Being like everyone else is a natural desire of a child. He often succumbs to suggestion and passes out someone else's opinion for his own. But for an adult, this is a loss of personality, adaptability, conformism, which forms the psychology of a slave.

Short cartoon based on the comic strip by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker.

An extraordinary document from one of the Cold War's bitterest conflicts - between the Soviet Union and Communist China - this film spares no quarter in its indictment of Maoist evils and misrule.

An artist takes a plaster cast of a nude male's body. Part of BFI collection "The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome."

The Beguiled: The Storyteller is the first documentary short ever directed by Clint Eastwood. Shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, under the Malpaso Production Company, it has a running time of 12 minutes and provides a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 1971 film, The Beguiled. Eastwood highlights each of the primary actors including himself as well as director Don Siegel.

Bing Crosby hosts this music holiday special featuring performances by Mary Costa, Robert Goulet, the Mitchell Boys Choir and the Crosby family.

The film explores the curious socio-psychological phenomenon of believing in witches.

This short experimental film from Peter Foldès hails from the very early days of computer animation. Created entirely on a computer belonging to the National Research Council of Canada, it registered hundreds of movements to produce a fluid, evolving effect with images seamlessly morphing into one another.

How Death Came to Earth is a 14 minute cutout animation film by Ishu Patel produced in 1971 by the National Film Board of Canada. The film deals with an Indian myth of creation, and is notable for its trippy visual style.

Jackson 5 TV special featuring comedic skits and live performances

Early short by Peter Gidal.

On March 14, 1971, SINGER PRESENTS BURT BACHARACH was shown on CBS and featured Barbra Streisand joining the composer at the piano for an intimate conversation about life, love and music, as well as several performances - in addition to appearances by Tom Jones, Rudolf Nureyev and Bettie De Jong, too.

Push-ups to the rhythm of a metronome, a meter counting backward from 100; three words are shouted time and again: “dog – pig – monkey”.

Although Gainsbourg and Birkin had appeared in a string of films since their magnetic collision in Pierre Grimblat’s Slogan, Melody was a bit of diversion from their collaborations since it’s a series of interwoven videos inspired by the Gainsbourgalbum. For '71 it’s a novel concept to bring visual life to an LP, but even more surprising are the short film’s amazing visuals that director Averty crafted using a wealth of video filters, overlays, camera movements and chroma key effects. Averty applies these in tandem with the increasing tone of Gainsbourg’s songs, which more or less chronicle an older man's affair with a young girl. Each song is comprised of steady, sometimes brooding poetic delivery, with refrains timed to the phrase repeats of each song, while Alan Parker’s buzzing guitar accompanies and wiggles around Gainsbourg’s resonant voice. The bass is fat and groovy, the drums easy but steady, and the periodic use of strings or rich vibrato makes this short a sultry little gem.

The old Cossack had a dunce son. And one day he decides to send him for training and re-education to the wizard Okh for a whole year.

This story is about a puppy who liked it not to belong to anyone. He had no friends, no family, and no relatives. He was cheerfully singing songs, being happy that he did not want to listen to anyone and did not need to ask permission for anything and could do what he wanted. But is it possible to live like that forever?

The musician plays the laterna. He gives Candy Rosster to the boy. The world around the boy is filled with flowers and magic. The boy circles around the Sun. He lets him lick his Candy Rooster. But in the end, the Candy Rooster runs out, only the match remains.

A film by Franklin Miller

Two screens of film about - and sometimes shot by - Claes Oldenburg, detailing his inspiration, his methods and his relationship with his partner Hannah Wilke.

King (1929-68), the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, set an example of non-violence and led the civil rights movement advocating justice for all classes and races.

This short film -one of the last made by the Afro-Cuban filmmaker before his definitive expulsion from ICAIC in 1972- alternates shots of the assembly of a vehicle designed for workers' transportation with the exploration of the conditions of workers' representation and political participation in an assembly held in the workshop. The radical disjunction between image and sound interrupts the logic (and etymology) in which the agglutinating force of the "assembly" and the operation of the "assembly" of the parts converge in the dissonant structure of this documentary.

Mister Rossi goes on a Photo-Safari in Africa.