All Films

The Weightlifter

1970 • 6 min • Iran

A fraudulent appears in the form of a hero, but cannot lift weights. And He loves to show off.

Requiem-29

1970 • 31 min

UCLA's Ethno-Communications Program's first collective student film had intended to capture the East Los Angeles Chicano Moratorium Against the War in Vietnam, Aug. 29, 1970, but the film turns into a requiem for slain journalist and movement icon, Ruben Salazar. The film shows footage of the march, the brutal police response and resulting chaos interspersed with scenes from the rather callous and superficial inquest. Filmmakers attached to the project have confirmed that the original elements for the film disappeared over 40 years ago.

Visit Greece

1970 • 21 min

An end of study film for this film director who graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, it was produced from audiovisual archives found in Russia. Inspired by the film "Triumph over Violence", produced in 1965 by Mikhail Romm, a study director and film director, "Visit Greece" tells the story of the first tourists – usually armed and not invited – to visit Greek territory at various periods of its history.

Espolio

1970 • 6 min • Canada

A BAFTA award nominated animation based on a poem by Earle Birney and a painting by El Greco. The theme concerns the responsibility of the innovator for the thing he makes. In the film, a carpenter builds a cross but is reluctant to become involved in the right or wrong of situations that bring men to die on crosses. His interest is in his own craftsmanship. To illustrate this moral, the filmmaker used light-pen drawings, giving colour and emphasis through optical processes.

El legado Picasso

1970 • 3 min • Spain

1970 Documentary on Pablo Picasso, On display at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.

Étranges étrangers

1970 • 58 min

Marcel Trillat traveled to the slums of Aubervilliers and Nanterre, to meet immigrants of Portuguese and African origin. Composed of images taken on the spot and testimonies, this film forcefully denounces the policy then followed by France in terms of immigration. On the night of December 31, 1969 to January 1, 1970, five black workers died of asphyxiation in a home in Aubervilliers. In the post-68 context, this drama will experience national repercussions, both politically and in the media. Marcel Trillat and Frédéric Variot then produced Étranges Étrangers, a documentary that candidly shows the slums and hovels of Aubervilliers and Saint-Denis.

This Gun is Loaded

1970 • 59 min • United States of America

This "gun" is loaded all right. And it ain’t shooting blanks.

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

1970 • 21 min

Monteverdi's mini-opera, starring Cathy Berberian.

Loving in Marghera (The Kiss)

1970 • 9 min • Italy

The film is set in an industrial landfill in the Petrochemical area of Porto Marghera (Venice). Here, among the toxic residues, a happening takes place: a boy and a girl without knowing each other before are invited to undress and kiss in front of ‘fake’ journalists, photographers and operators. The soundtrack is composed by different environmental noises. The director denounces in this way the pollution and the landscape changing, focusing on the vision of two beautiful bodies kissing.

I’m Me!

1970 • 17 min • United States of America

A collection of short animated films commissioned by The While House Conference on Children in 1970. Made by children at the Yellow Ball Workshop. In addition to the animated films, most titles are followed by a short documentary segment showing the children who made each film.

Ho fatto un film a Varese 2°

1970 • 14 min

Experimental short by Gianfranco Brebbia.

Two Halves of the Heart

1970 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

During divorce proceedings, children have to make a hard decision which parent they want to stay with, which leaves an indelible mark on the children's souls.

Raymond Rohauer Presents "The Sneeze"

1970 • 2 min

Raymond Rohauer, an exhibitor and collector, claimed copyright ownership to every film that entered his collection-- and many that didn't. In 1970, film preservationist David Shepard decided to poke fun by making "RAYMOND ROHAUER presents The Sneeze", a biting parody of Rohauer's extravagant assertions via the use of Edison Studios' 1894 film. Imitating the "Rohauer style" of long descriptive title cards, one including the not-so-unfeasible claim: "Recently, persevering Film Archivist RAYMOND ROHAUER secured the Estate of Thomas A. Edison and so acquired exclusive world rights in perpetuity to all motion picture films produced with sprocket holes". The Sneeze itself takes up eight seconds at the end of the film-- itself broken up by title cards!

Any Way You Like It

1970 • 11 min • United States of America

A lovely young lady pays a visit to a doctor. She has got a hang up in regards to certain marital aids, thanks to unwittingly witnessing some dude in the act, using a fairly monstrous one on some other gal. She's so appalled by this that she makes a couple of repeat visits and sees the same dude do the same thing to a few other chicks on a few other occasions. The doctor's got the right idea for a cure though, and that's to break through her mental block with some vibrator love. Once she's had a taste though, she needs more and he's only too happy to give it to her. Hopefully her insurance covers this.

The Different Sex

1970 • 12 min • United States of America

Sandra takes her research on human sexuality to a different level when she decides to experience different kinds of sex - two threesomes - with two guys, and then - with two girls. Guess which one she liked the most!

Naked Sexes

1970 • 9 min • United States of America

NAKED SEXES pits four topless women and three g-string wearing muscle men literally giggling at each other for 8 minutes. There's no sexual interaction between the opposite sexes just a weird face-off of laughing bursts as the men flex everything from their butt cheeks to their pecs.

Six Loop Paintings

1970 • 11 min

In SIX LOOP-PAINTINGS, as in SOUNDTRACK, sound and image are hand applied directly on to 16mm clear leader. The image at a given instant is repeated both on the image track and soundtrack, so that the viewer is visualizing the image he is hearing. However, unlike SOUNDTRACK, the images and sounds in SIX LOOP-PAINTINGS are not painted; they are made by cutting to size and pasting acetate self-adhesive patterns (Micotape and Zipatone) directly onto the clear film. Each pattern yields a distinct sound. Patterns of lines yield square wave sounds; patterns of dots yield sine wave sounds; patterns of diamonds yield sawtooth wave sounds, etc. The finer the pattern, the higher pitched the tone. The further spaced the pattern, the deeper the tone.

The Light of a Long Day

1970 • 7 min

An old man meditates by the sea. A little girl is building a sandcastle. A young couple is frolicking on the beach. The day fades into the evening, as do the memories of youth.

She Was So Pretty

1970 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

This short documentary shows the city of Banja Luka after the 1969 earthquake.

The Myth of the Heavenly Road Pilgrimage

1970 • 13 min • United States of America

"The Myth of the Heavenly Road Pilgrimage," is about a young man and woman, was filmed on location at Mt. Mihara on Izu Oshima. The music was composed by members of the "Taj Mahal Traveling Troupe. In 1971, he travelled to India, where there were almost no Japanese travellers at that time, and travelled through India and Nepal.

Images for music

1970 • 8 min • France

Images "inspired" from music by Bernard Benoit

The Six Penguins

1970 • 5 min • Bulgaria

Bulgarian stop motion animation that follows the adventures of six penguins.

Liberty

1970 • 2 min • Italy

Two interpretations of the concept of freedom.

Gioved ì ventiquatro setembre milenovecentosettanta

1970 • 2 min • Italy

A left and a right arm come together in the center of the image, and both start writing, in Italian, the date on a wall: "oggi è venerdì ventisette marzo millenovecentosettanta" (today is Friday the nineteenth of March nineteen seventy). The left is the mirror image of the right.