All Films

The Roof Needs Mowing

1971 • 8 min • Australia

A series of surreal short scenes portraying a suburban family and their everyday rituals.

Weed

1971 • 23 min • United States of America

This 1971 color anti-drug use and abuse film was produced by Concept Films and directed by Brian Kellman for Encyclopedia Britannica. “Weed: The Story of Marijuana” combines time-lapse, montage, illustrations, animation (by Paul Fierlinger and emigre Pavel Vošický) and dramatized, documentary-style interviews to survey the evolving role of cannabis in U.S. society, with emphasis on the legal risks faced by young people. A unique score of experimental synthesizer music is provided by Tony Luisi on an EMS VCS 3 “Putney”

Little Straw Bull

1971 • 9 min • Soviet Union

An propaganda cartoon about how dangerous it is to play with fire and leave it unattended. The involuntary culprit of the fire is the hero of the Ukrainian folk tale - the Little Straw Bull.

The Birth of Aphrodite

1971 • 10 min

Depicts the birth of the goddess of love and beauty from sky-god father and sea-goddess mother. After a period of gestation in the ocean depths, Aphrodite is delivered from the womb of the wave and continues her ascent, becoming the planet Venus.

The Appointment

1971 • 22 min

Two people having an affair are spied on in their hotel room.

Kolt 15 GAP

1971 • 24 min • Yugoslavia

Funny story of an unemployed metalworker, self-proclaimed Marxist, his views and whereabouts.

The Stone Guest

1971 • 50 min • Soviet Union

A TV play based on A.S. Pushkin's play "The Stone Guest" staged by the Leningrad State Academic Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin.

Fakir Aşıkların Romanı

1971 • 55 min • Turkey

Kemal, whose father wants him to marry the daughter of a wealthy family friend, steps into the warm world of poor but honorable people and meets Nur. This poor neighborhood will be demolished by Kemal's father and replaced with a factory. All of Kemal's efforts are in vain, and he achieves no results. The two young people choose love over money. The young man chooses to marry the girl he loves instead of entering into an arranged marriage with someone he does not love, and rejects his father's fortune. He begins to live a life of friendship with the poor, honesty, and true, sincere love. However, the heartless businessman is determined to destroy both their love and the neighborhood.

Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000

1971 • 58 min • Cuba, France

Documentary about economic development in Cuba, particularly the effort to boost output of sugar cane. This film is made from a compilation of newsreel footage from the Cuban film institute and from Santiago Alvarez's film Despegue a las 18.00 (Departure 18:00).

If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?

1971 • 53 min • United States of America

Based on the preachings of Reverend Estus W. Pirkle, this film warns what will happen to America if the citizens do not give up their depraved ways and turn to God and Jesus for salvation. Communist infiltrators, the "footmen," will pave the way for an all-out invasion by weakening our will through TV, dance, rock music, and alcohol. Once the invasion begins, the new Communist government will proceed to round up all Christians, and either execute them or force them to undergo re-education. Only by putting their faith in the Bible where it belongs, says Reverend Pirkle, can America resist the coming Red Menace.

My Neighbours

1971 • 35 min • France

African migrants in Paris talk about everyday life and racism on the labour and housing markets. The chanson from which the film takes its title sings of misery on people’s own doorstep. Hondo then switches to another mode to continue his analysis of social conditions: never has the post-colonial state of the world been summarised as succinctly as in the closing animated sequence.

Siv: A Swedish Girl

1971 • 60 min

Siv is an 18 yr old naive and beautiful Swedish girl. She is invited to live with a hippie couple attending the local university. Before long she is introduced to all manner of drugs and bi-sexual encounters that leave her fulfilled yet corrupted...wanting more.

The Red Blue

1971 • 19 min • Switzerland

Experimental film by Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch.

Sentinels of Silence

1971 • 18 min • Mexico, United States of America

Sentinels of Silence is a 1971 short documentary film on ancient Mexican civilizations. The film was directed and written by Mexican filmmaker Robert Amram, and is notable for being the first and only short film to win two Academy Awards.

Terem-teremok

1971 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An animated film based on a fairy tale "Teremok".

The Icarus Wish

1971 • 7 min

UCLA Student Thesis Film. It is a film about two boys' fascination with flight, told in experimental triptych form.

Make Love, Not War

1971 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

A couple of lovers in a passionate embrace. Camera panning back, discloses a third person, a policeman, who gets himself involved in the action.

Health: The Dirt-Witch Cleans Up!

1971 • 6 min • United States of America

Casting her devious filth hex on pig farmers, house painters, and football-playing children, The Dirt Witch delights in making everyone as unclean as herself, until one day a young girl takes pity on her and instructs the soiled sorceress in the ways of hygiene. Produced by the Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation as part of their “Joy of Growing” series of educational shorts for elementary grade children.

Vampira

1971 • 45 min • Germany

Two surveyors come under the spell of the beautiful Vampira. Vampira then celebrates occult magic rites with her new companions in her castle with the Alder Queen Belladonna, a sorceress, a hunchback, and a werewolf.

A Brief Survey of Film in Sweden

1971 • 8 min • Sweden

A brief presentation of the Swedish film policy, the Swedish Film Institute and the Film House in Stockholm. The recording of "Niklas och Figuren" (1971) is featured.

Talk About Work

1971 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Ken Loach's censored production for the Central Office of Information.

Shutter

1971 • 30 min • Japan

'What I am concerned with in this film is not only the flicker effect, but also the coming and going of an eye-like shape on screen which was created by a fade-in-out device while shooting the light/the bulb of the projector. The viewer literally looks into the light which acts like an eye.'(T.I.)

The Poor Miller's Boy and the Kitten

1971 • 53 min • Germany, East Germany

There once was a poor miller who had no children but only three apprentices to work for him. The two older boys were lazy, mean and stupid, but youngest was hard-working, friendly, and cheerful. When the miller grows too old to work, he send the boys out into the world. Whoever brings back the most beautiful horse will inherit the mill.

I Was a Soldier

1971 • 16 min • Poland

A group of veterans recount a horrifying experience when trapped in a minefield, resulting in each losing their sight.