All Films

Georges Mathieu or the Fury of Being

1971 • 53 min • France

Narrated by François Billetdoux, this documentary about Georges Mathieu features the artist in Paris painting along to a live improvised soundtrack by Vangelis.

People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter

1971 • 52 min • Canada, United Kingdom

The second of two coproductions by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada, People of the Seal, Part 2: Eskimo Winter is compiled from some of the most vivid footage ever filmed of the life of the Netsilik Inuit in the Pelly Bay region of the Canadian Arctic. Together, the two films provide insight and understanding of a culture now almost vanished, as they show the incredible resourcefulness of the Netsilik (People of the Seal) who have adapted to one of the world's harshest environments. Part 2: Eskimo Winter shows how Inuit families gather in communities on the sea ice to harpoon seal as they come up through breating holes in the ice. Also seen is the mid-winter season, a time of intense socializing in the communal igloo, with games, contests and ceremonial activities.

Before the Rally

1971 • 14 min • Poland

Ten days of preparation for the Monte Carlo rally. The two Polish drivers battle with the technical shortcomings of the Polish Fiat 125 and overwhelming bureaucracy. They did not finish the race. An allegory of the country's industrial and economic problems.

The Boarded Window

1971 • 26 min • Poland

In a secluded forest house, a woman tormented by anxiety and paranoia lives with her helpless husband. Their fragile peace shatters when she suddenly falls ill and appears to die, setting the stage for a tense and haunting drama of isolation and dread.

Olympiad

1971 • 3 min

Study in motion based on Muybridge’s photographs of man running.

¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se asesina un general?

1971 • 36 min • Cuba

Documentary short about the death of Chilean general René Schneider by the CIA, following the election of Salvador Allende as president of the nation.

Following the Unreturned Soldier: Thailand

1971 • 45 min • Japan

In Thailand, three Japanese soldiers, left in the jungle more than a quarter of a century after their country's defeat, come together to discuss what their life was like during and after the war. Part two of Imamura's quest for Japanese soldiers who stayed behind after the war.

The Oil Pipeline

1971 • 13 min • Israel

A short documentary, produced by the Israeli Film Service about the laying of the Trans Israel Pipeline. The film was produced under the auspices of the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company and TAHAL. After 18 months of work, one of the most important engineering projects in the history of Israel comes to a close: the laying of a 254 kilometer long pipeline between the Port of Eilat and the oil port in Ashkelon. The purpose: creating a landbridge to transport oil from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean – independently of the Suez Canal. This film follows the complex undertaking, which took place both in the desert and at sea.

Gilded Foreheads

1971 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The Song of Moscow

1971 • 3 min • United States of America

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to the Soviet Union in 1971, this short presents a personal record of Moscow. The footage was later incorporated into Mekas’s 2003 compilation film Travel Songs (1967–1981).

Med rett til å drepe

1971 • 35 min • Norway

Norwegian Sci-Fi short based on William Tenn's short story "Time in Advance". In the far future a law is passed enabling citizens to serve out sentences for crimes they intend to commit, serving the full term, but with a 50% pre-criminal discount. Post-criminals and pre-criminals alike are sent to carry out hard-labour on hellishly perilous, far-flung Convict Planets. Few return. Those pre-criminals who are not killed, drop out before their terms are up, with nothing but scars and nightmares to show for their troubles. Two pre-criminals however manage against all the odds to serve out two full terms for murder, and return to Earth as minor celebrities, with the right to kill one person each.

Factory

1971 • 17 min • Poland

A documentary revolving around the Polish situation on an industrial level at the tail-end of the 1960s: it alternates between stark images at a metallurgic foundry and a board-room meeting among the various executives involved in its management.

Flim Flam Fountain

1971 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody Woodpecker Show - Flim Flam Fountain. "Flim Flam Fountain" is the 180th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on 1970, the film was produced by Walter Lantz

The Ways of Water

1971 • 13 min

The Ways of Water was made with the Earth Science Curriculum Project and the Environmental Studies Project of the American Geological Institute. A study of the water cycle on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, the narratorless, poetic film is enriched by Blank’s characteristically graceful and fluid camera movements. Its musical soundtrack was created using an analog synthesizer." - Dan Streible, notes from The 57th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar

Tenma no Torayan

1971 • 18 min • Japan

A short puppet animation. Winner of the Oofuji Noburou Award.

Salt Peanuts

1971 • 20 min • Yugoslavia

Experimental short film that combines pornographic and nazi symbolics.

TV Cello Premiere

1971 • 7 min

TV Cello Premiere is a silent film documentation of Charlotte Moorman in her first performance on Paik's eponymous TV Cello at the Bonino Gallery in New York in 1971.

Focus on LSD

1971 • 14 min • United States of America

This anti-drug educational film, hosted by pop singer Tommy Roe, features teenagers discussing the pros and cons of taking LSD.

The Conquered Dream

1971 • 52 min • Canada

A documentary history of the exciting, sometimes ill-fated exploration of Canada's Arctic, produced jointly by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada. The film shows the challenge and the rewards of the far north and, from rare film footage, some of the exploits of the first and last men to run the gauntlet of the cold: Byrd's flight; Stefansson's sled journey; Captain Bernier's explorations; and finally, the voyage of the U.S.S. Manhattan.

Focus On Heroin

1971 • 13 min • United States of America

This film points out the risks of being a heroin addict. Explains that addicts cannot be identified solely with one particular socio-economic level and cannot always be detected by appearance. Addicts and ex-addicts describe the first and subsequent drugs they used.

A Postman from the Rocky Wasteland

1971 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Tadic chronicles the life of a postman from Dalmatian hinterland who every day walks over several miles by foot to hand over letters.

Red, Red, Freckled

1971 • 4 min • Soviet Union

About the red-haired boy everyone laughed at until the sun gilded everyone and everyone turned red.

Violence in the Cinema, Part 1

1971 • 20 min

What at first seems like a serious psychological assessment of violence in the cinema by a professor or lecturer, turns into a bloody orgy of human destructiveness.

A Well Spent Life

1971 • 44 min • United States of America

A tribute to the Texas songster, Mance Lipscomb, considered by many to be the greatest guitarist of all time.