All Films

Wabadate

1970 • 7 min

Material filmed during and after the battle of Amman, in September 1970. The images document the rubble after the bombings, showing displaced people in the hall of a building, among the ruins, inside schools, while they are being treated . Some moments of a Yasser Arafat rally are also filmed.

Don't Worry Kyoko

1970 • 15 min

Early 8mm filmwork by Masanobu Nakamura.

The Mole and the Hedgehog

1970 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

The mole meets the hedgehog.

The Girl And The Star

1970 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale about how the girl, Lola, became friends with the star.

Dejeunez, Mon Amour

1970 • 3 min

Close-up vision of American consumption. Before tattoos were all the rage, filmmakers Mark Henriksen and Deanna Morse had a vision. And some food. And some stock music. One of my earliest films, student-produced at Iowa State University.

Birth

1970 • 2 min

Hip Jean Jeannie

1970 • 9 min

With the support of the New York State Council on the Arts and using rudimentary means, the great formal and thematic diversity of the Young Filmmakers is testimony to their aspirations, frustrations, dreams and pleasures. Creating new links between the underground art of New York and Latin America, they reinvented cinema to the rhythm of the Beatles, Willie Colón, Bob Dylan and Ray Barreto, formulating a particular vision, in the case of Fred Pérez, of pop culture, psychedelia and drug use.

Pioneer Living: 'The Home'

1970 • 10 min • United States of America

Shows how a pioneer family of the early 1800's selected a site, built a log cabin, cooked, made soap and candles and did other household tasks.

Vinyl!

1970 • 30 min • France

Experimental film shot in Paris and in the forest of Fontainebleau, in black and white with some sequences in color. An ode to vinyl, women's legs and perforated plastic filmstrip.

Flour/Breath Piece

1970 • 3 min • United States of America

The artist, covered in flour, tries to blow the flour off his skin.

Sunsets

1970 • 16 min

Original 16mm footage was shot on location in central New York within a 100 mile radius of the town of Clinton. Converted to NTSC video using a Rank Cintel scanner.

Anahita

1970 • 19 min

The film "Anahita," directed by Nasib Nasibi in 1970 (1349 in the Iranian calendar), is a historical and adventure film from pre-revolutionary Iran. The story is centered around the Anahita Temple in Kangavar, one of Iran's significant ancient monuments. The movie tells the story of a group of archaeologists and researchers who set out to explore and study the Anahita Temple in Kangavar. The Anahita Temple is one of the most important and ancient religious sites in Iran, dedicated to Anahita, the goddess of waters and fertility. Throughout the story, the group faces various challenges and obstacles, primarily focusing on the dynamics between the characters and the discovery of ancient secrets hidden within the temple. The film intertwines historical and supernatural elements, aiming to depict the connection between people and their ancient past and its impact on their current lives.

Cremation

1970 • 10 min

John Baldessari is today known as one of the leading conceptual artists of his generation, using found or appropriated images and exploring the associative power of language. Like many experimental artists Baldessari began his career in the more traditional realm of painting. Rather than merely moving on from these early works, Baldessari decided in 1970 to have them destroyed. In the summer of 1970 all paintings in the artist’s possession dating from the thirteen years 1953–66 were incinerated at a local crematorium. This is the film of that cremation. [Overview Courtesy of Tate Modern]

Tree

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

An old tree sits on a mound in an Ohio farm field. The filming of the tree and the metrical editing of the film is organized around the tree's natural elements: water, earth, root ends, roots, trunk, limbs, branches, leaves and sun.

Dances of Torbat-e Jam

1970 • 9 min

Second short film of Sohrab Shahid Saless

Colony Kitchen

1970 • 7 min

Colony Kitchen was shot by the Pacific Coast Highway in California. Hiding her camera, Hafif filmed a young man pacing back and forth in a restaurant parking lot. He is joined by a second man who likewise seems to be waiting for something. After a while, a car pulls into the parking lot and a woman gets out. The three talk for a while, then the woman crosses the street. The men get into a parked vehicle and drive off. Toward the end of the film, the camera pans to the right, showing the action along the shoulder of the road and the moving traffic. A little later, the woman, too, returns into the field of view.

Listen

1970 • 3 min

An anti-smoking film produced by Helen and Sidney Moritz that mocks cigarette advertisements of its day. Shot in the late 1960s or early 1970s and distributed by the Society of Amateur Cinematographers (SAC).

Raisa Nemchinskaya — The Circus Performer

1970 • 31 min • Soviet Union

A documentary film about aerialist Raisa Nemchinskaya, a legendary Soviet circus performer.

Once Upon A Time

1970 • 5 min • Japan

This short animated film was shown at the Seiko Pavilion during the 1970 Osaka Expo. It tells the story of a day when time is thrown into chaos by an alien prank, and speaks to the importance of time. The rapid change of the seasons is full of the charm of metamorphosis (the process of changing shape), which Osamu Tezuka loved.

Polystyrene Tiles

1970 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Polystyrene Tiles

Jobs For Early School Leavers

1970 • 1 min

Jobs For Early School Leavers

Let’s Make A Film

1970 • 13 min • United States of America

Yellow Ball Workshop Documentary following eight year old Jeanie Falcone through most of the steps of making an animated film using cut-outs. Her finished film is shown along with short documentary sequences of older students working with advance techniques.

Motorway Fog

1970 • 1 min

Motorway Fog

The Secret of Sleep

1970 • 56 min • United States of America

From legendary folk musician "Spider" John Koerner and friends, this experimental photo-skit depicts three youthful idealists wandering through various utopian settings to come to terms with reality.