All Films

Paranoia

1970 • 30 min • United States of America

American horror short from 1970.

Men & Women & Bells

1970 • 41 min

Featuring home movie footage shot by Higgins and other material derived from his father, MEN & WOMEN & BELLS includes the recurring sound of the bells of Rostov-on-Don in Russia, lending it a mournful quality. — Anthology Film Archives

Story with No Words

1970 • 5 min • Bulgaria

Lucky Pigs

1970 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Yes – just looping images of pigs on three screens with a tape sound track of a Chinese pop song.

Safety on the City Streets

1970 • 13 min • United States of America

Made for hearing impaired children to help teach them lip-reading, the content discusses the importance of safety rules for children and vehicles on city streets. It emphasizes various safety measures, including obeying traffic signals, being alert, and thinking before acting. The characters in the story remind each other of these rules while navigating their environment, highlighting the dangers of neglecting safety practices. The narrative illustrates the consequences of forgetting safety rules through examples of characters almost getting hurt and the need for constant vigilance.

Partially Buried Woodshed

1970 • 14 min

Partially Buried Woodshed, one of Smithson's iconic works, was executed at Kent State University in Ohio in January 1970. The piece was created by partially burying an empty shed under mounds of dirt with a backhoe until the shed's roof beam collapsed. The physical structure has long since been degraded by weather, vandalism and neglect; it has "gone back to the land," as the artist expected. However, the infamous Kent State shootings in May of 1970, in which National Guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War, killing four of them, has lent Smithson's entropic monument a peculiar historical resonance as a metaphorical locus of the forces and conflicts of its era.

The Decision is Yours

1970 • 30 min

A young military man gets a girl pregnant. He gets advice from multiple figures in his life on what to do next.

Ich war Fremd

1970 • 5 min

Rapidly edited scenes of a construction site are interrupted by feverish image-sound montages and end in a small micro-drama

Acting Is The Art

1970 • 22 min • United States of America

Urban Gateways Drama Workshop, a Chicago Model Cities Leisure Time Project involving black children from the fourth and fifth grades, is designed to give children the basic tools of acting, using the definition "acting is the art of making an audience believe that real things are happening to real people." Incorporates the use of games, charades, and imaginary objects, both indoors and outdoors

Pigmalion

1970 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A satire on the "incomprehensibility" of abstract art.

Apollo, Man to the Moon

1970 • 27 min

Life and lives in New York City, sights and sounds of its streets and its people, at the time of man's first landing on the Moon.

Prospects of Ireland

1970 • 25 min • United Kingdom, Northern Ireland

Film showcasing the tourist attractions, culture and natural beauty of Ireland.

Coastguard's Job

1970 • 1 min

Coastguard's Job

Dita in the Air

1970 • 7 min

Dita learns to fly

Juventus

1970 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary.

Nothing

1970 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

Short experimental 8mm film. A cinematic contemplation from nothing to something.

Jobs For Women

1970 • 1 min

Jobs For Women

Begging

1970 • 9 min

Begging features Paul Su, the activist known for protesting the fare increase of the Star Ferry, in a striking portrayal of a homeless man. His contemporary plight is interspersed with the ancient wisdom of verses from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching.

Simon Square Exhibition

1970 • 5 min

Exhibition of works by people with disabilities in Edinburgh.

Prisoners of the Permian Sea

1970 • 19 min • Soviet Union

An educational film on unknown microorganisms discovered in the potassium salts of the Permian Sea.

The Atrocity Exhibition (J.G. Ballard And The Motorcar)

1970 • 17 min

A BBC short feature. J.G. Ballard reflects on cars and our interactions with them.

Congregation

1970 • 11 min • Soviet Union

After graduating from art school, Yuriy Zmorovych, who had just turned 23, was hired by the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, better known as Pirogovo. Today, it is a huge open-air complex located on the outskirts of Kyiv — a valuable place if you are interested in rural huts, ancient churches, mills, and folk art. Zmorovych arrived there when there was absolutely nothing in Pirogovo. He was lucky with his job: he got to go on expeditions to villages, searching for ancient icons, paintings, and household items. And larger-scale items—primarily wooden churches. Workers would come for them, carefully dismantle the buildings piece by piece, transport them to Kyiv, and then restore the structures to their original form. Zmorovych managed to see another side to this process.

The Initiative

1970 • 4 min • Soviet Union

To the island where one man is living under on apple-tree arrives another and decides that the shadow of the apple-tree does not allow to grow - maybe - to a palm.

Mietersolidarität

1970 • 13 min • Germany

The former DFFB student and filmmaker Max D. Willutzki moved to the Märkisches Viertel (MV) in 1969, a large housing estate built between 1963 and 1974 for 60,000 residents on the outskirts of West Berlin. Together with Christian Ziewer and others, he documented the political neighbourhood work on the estate. The resulting »Basis-Filme« formed the starting point for the later Basis-Film distribution company. This film shows how the Arbeitskreis Mieten und Wohnen (workgroup rents and housing) succeeds in preventing the forced eviction of the working-class Puhle family, who can no longer pay their rent.