All Films

Orfeus & Julie

1970 • 7 min • Denmark

A ballet abstraction shaped as a combination of cartoon and trick film, where the dancers move behind, in front of and between the animated. The eternal pair experiences dangers and joys and finally disappears as it arose. (DFI)

Factory Snaps

1970 • 4 min

Filmed in Super 8, Factory Snaps is a brief record of the small fabricating and precision engineering companies that Lijn used to make much of her work. When she arrived in London in 1966, Lijn lived in a bedsit and was unable to do much more than draw her ideas for sculptures. Then, she found that there were many small industrial companies in London and she began to use them. The factories themselves fascinated Lijn but, although she spent a considerable amount of time in them in the first years she lived in London, Lijn only managed to film a very small part of the amazing places and strange visions she saw.

Rhythms

1970 • 4 min • Romania

One of the very rare Romanian abstract films. Rhythms presents concrete objects that break down into all sorts of colours, shapes and shifting substances.

Fever

1970 • 11 min • Romania

Two brothers meet again one morning in the apartment of the man who left his hometown long ago and became a cosmopolitan urbanite. The perspective of the past left behind confronts that of the new man, integrated into the life of the big city.

Berlin

1970 • 26 min • United States of America

In what could now be regarded as a moving image time capsule of the Cold War, this short documentary film, narrated by Cactus Pryor, presents the view in 1970 of the city of West Berlin. Using historic film footage from pre-war and World War II, the film recounts the events that lead to the splitting of the city into East and West, and the resulting social and economic consequences for citizens on both sides of the wall.

Metropoème

1970 • 33 min • France, Romania

He and she meet by chance on the Parisian metro. They are, were, or will be – or not – together in this world without time but with infinite space of metropoems.

Pierre Mercure 1927-1966

1970 • 33 min • Canada

Pierre Mercure 1927-1966 is composed of a three-minute montage filmed by Gagnon at Mercure's funeral and burial, which is looped 11 times and processed using colour filters and optical printing techniques that reverse and double the image.

Spring Comes to the Pond

1970 • 10 min • United States of America

Shows how the gradual changes in a pond affect living things from the end of winter to the beginning of summer. Includes extreme close-ups and photomicrography to show protozoa and other minute forms of life found in a pond.

And Who but I Should Be

1970 • 6 min • Denmark

The group Young Flowers plays "And who but I should be", Joan dances. Jørgen Roos has manipulated the whole thing. Joan is a professional go-go dancer. People like to look at her and she likes to be watched when she dances. For her, dance is an expression of a kind of joy in life, which is perhaps a postulate. So is the movie. Symbols are such a pretentious thing. Is she thinking all that? Do we put something into it ourselves, or is it manipulation with a hidden meaning - it really doesn't matter, because she is very sweet - Joan. (DFI)

How Levers Help Us

1970 • 11 min • United States of America

This instructional film shows the three parts of a lever and demonstrates how various levers help to move things more easily, or move them farther and faster.

Heart

1970 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

A film that documents Bogdanka Poznanović's public performance piece 'Action-Heart-Object' where a large heart sculpture was carried around the streets of Novi Sad.

Shoot/Don't Shoot, Part 1

1970 • 23 min • United States of America

THIS POLICE TRAINING FILM SIMULATES SEVENTEEN TEST SITUATIONS IN WHICH POLICE OFFICER VIEWERS ARE ASKED TO USE THEIR JUDGMENT IN SPLIT SECOND DECISIONS OF WHETHER TO SHOOT OR TO NOT SHOOT.

Pepsi Pavilion Fog Sculpture #47773

1970 • 4 min • Japan, United States of America

A project by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.

America’s Best

1970 • 15 min • United States of America

A dialectical view of the Vietnam war, framed by two teenagers -one a Patriot ready to enlist, the other a bleeding heart liberal about to board a protest bus to Washington D.C.- who furiously spew arguments at each other in a city park.

Directions for Beginners: North, South, East, West

1970 • 10 min • United States of America

Steve goes on a camping trip and learns how to use the sun, stars and a compass to find directions.

Thanatos Palace Hotel

1970 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Young Love

1970 • 6 min

"The traditional rites of courtship and marriage simply and beautifully evoked in this lyrical film". Linda Rivera was born and raised in New York City. In the heart of the Lower East Side, between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, she studied theatre and film at the Henry Street Settlement's Movie Club.

Blood Creature from Beyond the Grave

1970 • 40 min • Canada

A tribute to the German Expressionists of the 1920s. When Baron Malvolio becomes enamored with the lovely Eva, he sets off a cosmic battle for the soul of the town of Moclu.

Justice

1970 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Short film about a soccer referee.

Monkey on Their Backs

1970 • 1 min

10 seconds long anti-heroin PSA that contains a jumpscare.

Wallpaper 7

1970 • 7 min

Metro!!! The School Without Walls

1970 • 18 min • United States of America

Metro!!! The School Without Walls (Rod Nordberg, 1970) is an eighteen-minute documentary about the Chicago Public High School for Metropolitan Studies (aka Metro), which was part of the CPS system from February 1970 to September 1991.

Bajen

1970 • 5 min

The film depicts the atmosphere around Hammarby's autumn soccer matches at Johanneshov with the singing crowd.

Festival of the Midnight Sun - Mantorp 1970

1970 • 15 min

Festival of the Midnight Sun, a.k.a. the Mantorp Festival became the biggest fiasco in Swedish pop festival history. The festival was presented the midsummer weekend 19-21 June 1970 at Mantorp Raceway. A local band, Magazine Story, from Linköping, had the honor of opening the festival with Clabbe af Geijerstam as MC. The raceway and surroundings were almost empty. Clabbe's welcome speech explained that the sun was the guest of honor at the festival, which was dedicated to "peace, friendship, love, community and everything that can be thought of as beautiful".