All Films

Group V: Endurance/Remembrance/Metamorphosis

1970 • 12 min • United States of America

"Endurance/Rememberance/Metamorphosis is a film composed of three parts of equal duration. Each part consists of a single shot of a minimal space." - Ellen Feldman

Venceremos

1970 • 15 min • Chile

A collage of images showing the two faces of a society. That of poverty and that of wealth. Throughout the documentary, this antagonism is shown: populations in unhealthy conditions, and on the other hand, large showcases with mannequins.

The Dance

1970 • 5 min

With an irresistible humour, Rimmer speculates in The Dance on the nature of the film loop. We see a (1920s) couple whilring around a dance floor at a dizzying pace... Uncanny in its ability to evoke complexity of responses from a simplicity of means. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Florence

1970 • 9 min • Finland

One of several experimental films shot in the late '60s and early '70s by the recently deceased computer music pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi, Florence is a dazzling, abstract travelogue shot between Italy, Switzerland, and the artist's home in Finland.

Real Image / Virtual Image

1970 • 10 min

A film that has chosen as its protagonist its own negative and will remain committed to that choice until the very end. More precisely, nearly positive, or rather, not all negative, it detains two characters in constant solitude afflicting them with visions and apparitions of the epoch of man and the epoch of the cinema.

Resende

1970 • 23 min • Portugal

The life and work of the painter Resende. An encounter with social themes and subjects portrayed in the painter's work.

Naankhor-haye bisavadi

1970 • 13 min • Iran

A documentary about people who make their living by writing letters for illiterate people

The Showman

1970 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A documentary portrait of sideshow impresario Wally Shufflebottom, Jr.

At Your Fingertips: Sugar and Spice

1970 • 10 min

Children are instructed in (edible) crafts.

Osaka 1-2-3

1970 • 3 min • United States of America

This Is How It Will Run

1970 • 38 min • Hungary

Interesting crime story about woman-prisoner, incest and murder..

You Can Do Something About Acne

1970 • 16 min

Outlines the physiological causes of acne, offering a number of health care suggestions for its treatment and control.

Omega

1970 • 13 min • United States of America

An epic experimental film by Donald Fox. Prints circulated widely in the 1970s, with and without soundtrack.

How's School, Enrique?

1970 • 18 min • United States of America

A Mexican-American goes to public school in the US

Confrontation: Paris, 1968

1970 • 41 min • United States of America

Student unrest in a university outside Paris sparks a huge civil revolt and general strike against Gaullist authoritarianism in France during the months of May and June, 1968.

The Clift Hotel

1970 • 7 min

The Clift Hotel was made by positioning the camera vis-à-vis a hotel entrance; Hafif hoped to capture guests entering or leaving the building. As it happened, no one came or went during the window of time she had set for the shoot. Lively car traffic instead dominates the static shot. The passing vehicles lend the pictorial space a horizontal structure. The hotel’s architecture looks timeless and anonymous. The car models, by contrast, unmistakably date the film to the 1970s. Several drivers notice the camera as they slow down and gaze into it with an expression of bewilderment.

Clouds

1970 • 4 min

Asked about her artistic practice after her return to the United States, Hafif said: ‘I wanted to take a break from painting and try out other creative methods. So I bought a Super 8 camera and photography equipment. The first film I produced was the best I ever made. I shot on black-and-white stock and kept the camera trained on a single cloud for three minutes. The cloud slowly changed shape and floated away.’ In the cloud, Hafif seized on a motif with a long tradition in the history of painting. The film’s ‘action’, too, prompts associations with painting: the sky appears as a ground on which the clouds stirs like a mass of paint applied with a brush. A bird crossing the screen anchors the scenery in the specific filming location: California’s Pacific coast.

L’homme nu

1970 • 3 min • France

A naked man disappears into the light.

Lust Combo

1970 • 60 min • United States of America

A three piece rock band called "The Three Easy Pieces" drives into Tennessee to play a gig. After the show, they meet up with three women and pair off for three one-nighters

Jobs In Cosmetology

1970 • 9 min

From the depths of the 1970s, comes a short film produced by the U.S. Department of Labor detailing some of the many jobs available to persons with training in cosmetology.

Lettre à mon ami Pol Cèbe

1970 • 17 min

A short "working class road movie".

Grain

1970 • 6 min • Canada

This is a film made without a camera. The images are painted directly onto 16mm clear leader. Patton was particularly interested in the organic shapes that resulted from mixing chemically dissimilar spray paints.

Lesser Antilles

1970 • 11 min • United States of America

Scenes of the Lesser Antilles.

Earth Message

1970 • 23 min • Australia

The beauty of the Australian bush is depicted in a carefully composed camera choreography of different aspects of flora and fauna. Close-up and panorama shots and Aboriginal music meld into a meditative view of the energy and harmony that shape the place.