All Films

Fluxfilm No. 37

1970 • 2 min • United States of America, Australia

Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject.

Carol

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

Ed Emshwiller’s tender portrait of his wife, avant-garde science fiction writer Carol Emshwiller.

At Your Fingertips: Grasses

1970 • 10 min • United States of America

Children create arts and crafts with various types of grasses.

Reportaje a Lota

1970 • 18 min • Chile

A report on the life of coal miners in the Lota region, in southern Chile, it shows their work activities, their homes, and how the rest of the family picks up coal in the seashore. This documentary is part of a series José Román made with CUT (Central Workers Union), whose negatives got lost during the raids on CUT offices after the coup d’état.

Shapes

1970 • 7 min

'I tried to make a kind of environment in the room where I lived in Kentish Town and to make a film within it. There were pieces of paper and screwed up, transparent gels hanging from the ceiling; it was quite dense in some parts. I wandered through it with a camera and then other parts were filmed on the rooftop at St Martins. I think I was just very much trying to find my way in a whole new area of work. I remember it involved a lot of refilming, which was the part I liked. The process was very fluid, similar to painting. I got quite interested in the specks of dust and dirt on the film and the re-filming gave me a chance to look at that more closely. Probably the thing that attracted me to film was the light ... the kind of floating quality you can get, images suspended in light.'

Transport

1970 • 5 min

A visual poem in which a young man and woman move from dead weight (death) to transcendent flight (rebirth) distilling the extremes of the early 1970s, from the Vietnam war to space exploration.

Tissues

1970 • 2 min • United States of America

In Studies cycle, abstract studies are assembled, which document the Vasulka's early work with electronic material. The visual aspect of Tissues is the work of Steina, whereas Woody engineered the sound.

In Marin County

1970 • 10 min • United States of America

"IN MARIN COUNTY approaches the subject of America's ecological disaster as a comic yet bizarre vision. The tradition of Old MacDonald's farm has long since disappeared and in its place are bulldozer and insect sprays. Our fascination with these mechanized wonders of civilization may well prove to be more lethal than we would have imagined. Peter Hutton has succeeded in making an important statement on ecology and the strange delight Americans take in destroying things." - Whitney Museum of American Art

Rotocalco

1970 • 11 min • Italy

Animated short about politics.

How The Hedgehog Changed His Coat

1970 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Hedgehog decided to change his fur coat, but no matter how much he measured, he could not find one better than his prickly one.

Sheet

1970 • 22 min • United Kingdom

A white linen sheet appears and disappears within a range of different rural and urban locations.

D - Non diversi giorni si pensa splendessero alle prime origini del nascente mondo o che avessero temperatura diversa

1970 • 34 min • Italy

"D" originates from and proceeds through the interpenetration of unreality and reality. The places subject to a long and silent violence are the small towns of eastern Liguria [...] The film is a poem about Liguria, where the critical description of the present contrasts with that of a balanced world like Virgil's.

At Your Fingertips: Boxes

1970 • 10 min

Reveals the supermarket as a source for every imaginable box, carton and container.

At Your Fingertips: Play Clay

1970 • 10 min

Shows how to combine flour, salt and water to make a pliable dough which can be modeled like clay. Illustrates how this play clay can be dyed with vegetable coloring before modeling, or painted with tempera after drying.

Shapes We Live With

1970 • 14 min

Educational film about shapes.

Encounter

1970 • 1 min • United States of America

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970.

Dinosaurs: The Age Of The Terrible Lizard

1970 • 6 min

Poorly drawn animation about dinosaurs.

Values: The Right Thing To Do

1970 • 8 min

A short film about taking responsibility for the consequences of your actions.

Flower Music

1970 • 14 min

Multiple exposed flowers and flower buds. Some close ups of the reproductive parts of flowers. Evocations of biological universe.

At Your Fingertips: Floats

1970 • 10 min

Another entry in the 'At Your Fingertips' series from ACI Films, this time around the kids are gluing trash together to make boats.

Rochdale College 1970

1970 • 21 min

Rochdale College was an experiment with new ideas and ways of living while being conventionally forced to live within the old, dead civilization and its structures. The results inevitably show confusion and angered disillusionment. The new ideas and ways, never allowed time to evolve and produce positive results, were smothered for the sake of convenience and convention. The film is ultimately a nostalgic reminiscence of the Sixties.

The Steel Chickn

1970 • 18 min

"Born in the 1960's. Died young." Boston and NYC, 1970.

Dimension soleils

1970 • 5 min • Canada

There is no need to be a mathematician to appreciate this film which puts in images a part of Fernand Lemay's theory. For this Quebec scientist, it is the segment and not the point that is non-dimensional. From this new approach result dimensions and situations in infinite number that this film reconstitutes into an extraordinary spectacle. At once an artistic work and a mathematical test, Dimension Soleil provides proof that, once again, the beautiful is not foreign to the essential structures of being.

Le Rouge

1970 • 2 min • France