All Films

Varka

1971 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The young poultry worker's besties often ask her to watch for them when they go on dates, but one day she doesn't fulfill their request.

Quick Billy

1971 • 55 min • United States of America

A psychedelic montage of home movie footage gives way to a silent western story.

Night of the Animals

1971 • 58 min • United States of America

Lee and Harold escape from prison and with accomplice Joan take over the home of Stanley and his family.

The Laboratory of Fear

1971 • 11 min • France

All the researchers of the IMPS laboratory are males - with one exception : Mademoiselle Clara, Antoine, the cleaner, desperately yearns for. Night after night, when Clara is alone, going on with her experiments, the young man awkwardly manoeuvres with a view to declaring his flame. But the cold scientist remains unconcerned. In his trouble, Antoine regularly drops and breaks phials and other test tubes full of dangerous chemical products. He doesn't care when his skin gets into contact with acid. His heart burns too much for him to be able to feel the burning of his skin. And if he can't GIVE his hand to Clara will he really mind to... LOSE it ?

An Attempt (Test II)

1971 • 2 min • Poland

A classical organ composition by Johann Sebastian Bach “stretches” a red strip of film; An exploration of musical memory.

Dirty

1971 • 12 min • United Kingdom

DIRTY is the reincarnation of two girls, a bottle and one bed. Their bodies, hands and face expressions reach out in a refilm look.

The Frog Princess

1971 • 29 min • Soviet Union

A tsar's youngest son, Ivan, is destined to marry a frog who turns out to be the enchanted Vasilisa the Beautiful. When he breaks her spell too soon and loses her to the immortal Koschei, Ivan sets out on a quest through dark forests and ancient magic to win her back.

A Indústria do Solúvel

1971 • 8 min • Brazil

It accompanies the manufacture of soluble coffee.

On Sugar Workers' Quarters

1971 • 24 min • Cuba

Documentary about the history of the bateyes, informal settlements surrounding the mills to house workers. Throughout the film, Sara Gómez recovers the political and cultural relevance of black migrants.

Neil Young In Concert at the BBC

1971 • 32 min • United Kingdom

Recorded at the old Sheperds Bush Empire Theatre by the BBC, Neil preformed his now classics for an intimate audience. With only his guitar in hand and a voice that matches no other, he swept away the audiences with the following songs: «Out on the Weekend», «Old Man», «Journey Thru the Past», «Heart of Gold», «Don't Let It Bring You Down» and «A Man Needs A Maid».

Annapurna South Face

1971 • 55 min

This entertaining film documents the first ascent of the very difficult South Face of Annapurna, a huge Himalayan wall that the right team could achieve the seemingly impossible. The ascent of the South Face of Annapurna in 1970 was one of those breakthrough ascents - both technically and psychologically. Chris Bonington assembled the cream of British mountaineering and American Tom Frost for the attempt. The documentary is punctuated by wry observation, understatement and cutting humor from a by-gone age when the game of taking huge risks was matched by a determination not to take it too seriously.

It's a Bird

1971 • 25 min • United States of America

A Superman flying beyond imagination: the Bucalo-Niosi-Scaramozzino trio's masterpiece parody.

Mourir pour des images

1971 • 45 min • France

Returns to ‘La Mer et les jours’ (1958), a film by Alain Kaminker and René Vogel during the filming of which Kaminker disappeared in the sea.

César

1971 • 50 min • France

In 1971, Jean-Daniel Pollet & Guy Seligmann directed for French TV a documentary about French artist César Baldaccini. It was part of L'invité du dimanche show.

Fire

1971 • 16 min • Soviet Union

A boy goes through time, helped by a wise clock, and learns to appreciate human ingenuity.

Now We're Going to Call You Brother

1971 • 13 min • Chile

Raoul Ruiz shot this film on March 28th, 1971, during the big peasant march in Temuco, Chile, when the bill that gave the full citizenship and civil rights to the Mapuche Indio people was approved. Raoul Ruiz listens to their painful stories.

Morris

1971 • 9 min

A reel highlighting Hortense “Tee” Beveridge’s montage techniques is paired here with an experimental narrative made with members of the Brownsville Youth Center.

The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam

1971 • 13 min

Uncle Sam has been living peacefully in the American southwest, running a gas station. But when terrorists kidnap the Statue of Liberty, Uncle Sam teams up with an eagle to go rescue her. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Come Out

1971 • 10 min • Argentina

About the music of Steve Reich, a phrase be phased out as the image it makes the reverse movement.

Goodbye to the Goat and the Bicycle

1971 • 38 min • Soviet Union

A wistful, whimsical look at life in a mountainous Ossetian village through the eyes of a boy who lost his father in WWII.

The Silent Revolution

1971 • 44 min • Germany

The Silent Revolution is a 1972 German documentary film about molecular biology. The film posits that biologically, man will still be programmed as a hunter and food collector even when there will be nothing to hunt and collect. Evolution is too slow to cope with the rapid changes in our environment, and the countdown of man's survival has already begun. Yet. there may be a chance to influence the steering mechanism of life. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

In Syrien auf Montage

1971 • 19 min • East Germany, Germany, Syrian Arab Republic

The film is a reportage showing the help of workers from the GDR in the industrial reconstruction of Syria. We witness the friendly relationship between workers from both countries, who are jointly involved in the construction of the cotton spinning mill in Homs. In impressive pictures the exoticism of the environment and the mentality of the Syrian hosts is shown. At the same time it becomes clear that the workers from the GDR become 'ambassadors of the GDR' through their collegial behaviour and good work.

El potro salvaje

1971 • 10 min • Argentina

Short film inspired by "El potro salvaje" (1924), a short story by Horacio Quiroga.

I Don't Know

1971 • 20 min • United States of America

A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender person who prefers to be identified somewhere in between male and female, in an expression of personal ambiguity suggested by the film’s title. This nonfiction film – an unusual, partly staged work of semi-verité – is the first of Spheeris’s films to fully embrace what would become her characteristic documentary style: probing, intimate, uncompromising. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.