All Films

Inwentaryzacja

1970 • 4 min

Experimental short film by Wojciech Bruszewski.

In Search of Lebanon

1970 • 11 min

Poetic travelogue of Lebanon.

Steel Windows

1970 • 7 min • United Kingdom

More futuristic short than industrial process film, its shimmering steelscapes are cut between close ups of machinery and set to a cool, otherworldly, soundtrack from the cutting edge of modernism - with no dull commentary to spoil the vibe. Strangely absorbing and refreshingly abstract, it's an enticing vision of British modernity in concrete, glass and steel.

Banks and the Poor

1970 • 59 min • United States of America

This searing documentary from 1970 still resonates powerfully today. The film described how large banks discriminated against poor customers and spotlighted the connection between the banking industry and Washington. The doc also featured a hidden-camera scene in a loan office where a weeping woman’s house was seized over a handful of dollars.

Fair Play

1970 • 6 min • Poland

Two diplomats, Mr. X and Mr. Y, enter public negotiations in the interior of a palace. The audience observes the exchange of animated blows and dodges.

Ma femme

1970 • 10 min

A short film by Rosa Foschi

Beaufort

1970 • 4 min

Short film by Gianfranco Baruchello.

Variations on a Seven Second Loop-Painting

1970 • 6 min

The "theme," a seven-second loop-painting (actually closer to eight), is repeated seven times in succession before the title appears. Then, using an optical printer, the variations start. After each variation the original theme is repeated once. The variations involve step-printing, repetitions and optical manipulations. They very closely follow the original theme.

Man Walking Down the Side of a Building

1970 • 2 min

A natural activity under the stress of an unnatural setting. Gravity reneged. Vast scale. Clear order. You start at the top, walk straight down, stop at the bottom. All those soupy questions that arise in the process of selecting abstract movement according to the modern dance tradition -- what, when, where, and how -- are all solved in collaboration between choreographer and place. If you eliminate all those eccentric possibilities that the choreographic imagination can conjure and just have a person walk down an aisle, then you see the movement as the activity. The paradox of one action working against another is very interesting to me, and is illustrated by Man Walking Down the Side of a Building, where you have gravity working one way on the body and my intention to have a naturally walking person working in the other way.

CF Porn

1970 • 2 min

Optical printing experiments of a 16mm pornographic film.

Turi

1970 • 15 min

A 8mm b/w film depicting the town of Varese and the director's mother.

Iniciación al Cinematógrafo

1970 • 3 min • Peru

The exhibition that is the subject of this documentary consisted of a set of unconventional apparatuses, images and experiments of a kinematic nature that were related to each other in the exhibition space.

Teatro Pedagogico

1970 • 23 min

Short documentary by Giorgio Turi.

The Creation

1970 • 1 min • Japan

An animated short by independent animator Sadao Tsukioka.

The Drifting of the Continents

1970 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Scientists now know where each continent was in relation to the Poles at any given time. These developments have come from discoveries in paleomagnetism, oceanography and seismology, and they are affecting every earth science from geochemistry to earthquake engineering.

The Horse Sacrifice

1970 • 18 min • Denmark

Broadcast to a large portion of the Danish population in January 1970, Hesteofringen ('Horse Sacrifice') was the ostensible ritual slaughtering and dismemberment of a horse in protest of the ongoing war in Vietnam (the horse was actually very old and put down humanely by a vet).

Un día yo pregunté

1970 • 7 min • Colombia

A 1970 documentary directed by Julia Sabogal. The film screened at Valdivia International Film Festival in 2021.

Old Yerken 's Scars

1970 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The film combines the actors' acting and hand-drawn animation. The story in the film is told in the first person: an elderly man tells his life story to the children sitting in the hall. In a collision with himself when he was a young horseman, and with the direct reaction of children to his story, the main theme of the cartoon is revealed — love for his native land.

Curiosity

1970 • 1 min

In his so-called one-minute films, he raises the most important questions of today's human life in a caricature-like manner, but with deep humanity.

Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani

1970 • 36 min

The fourth year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of Amani.

Matisse: Centennial at the Grand Palais

1970 • 55 min • France

The styles of Henri Matisse's works range from impressionism to fauvism to an almost abstract technique. He, along with Picasso, are regarded as two of the giants of 20th century art. This installment of the Museum of Modern Art series depicts the works of Matisse, and is the only film record of the landmark exhibition in Paris in 1970. All of his works, including the seldom-seen paintings from the Russian collections are shown here. Rare footage of the master painter at work is also offered. Matisse scholar Pierre Schnieder narrates.

Snowmill

1970 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A doll Timbu-Limbu takes his friends to the snowmill and frees the millmen from a malicious spell. Then starts a long-awaited snowfall.

Ceremony

1970 • 19 min

Early 8mm filmwork by Masanobu Nakamura.

The Earth: Coastlines

1970 • 10 min • United States of America

Uses animation, wave tank, live-action photography, and underwater models to show how waves develop, how coastlines are shaped, and to describe the forces that change the sea bottom.