All Films

S

1970 • 9 min • Canada

In 1970, Keith Rodan began to create a series of "S" films of which this film, featuring an urban landscape and images of space, is the first. Rodan developed a form of camera animation achieved by filming still photographs and connecting them (by dissolves) into textured and kinetic compositions. (City of Vancouver Archives)

A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

1970 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairy tales of S. Maltsev.

Projet Pour Un Poisson

1970 • 9 min • Belgium

The main part of this film was created by the process of superimposition: Broodthaers’s ink drawings of fish, scales, words and signs were transferred to film stock, which was used in negative to create the final work. In contrast, the title sequence, added in 1971, shows Broodthaers’s drawn storyboards filmed with a moving camera. The film was shown for the first time at the Galerie Michael Werner in Cologne in 1971, and a second film Le Poisson est Tenace, was created partly from its out-takes.

The Rooster Surgeon

1970 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The story of how a Rooster married a deaf-mute Chicken and, with the help of surgery, restored her speech.

The Last Snow

1970 • 54 min • Soviet Union

A psychological duel between schoolteacher Chabakhan Basieva and a German major.

I Sent You a Birch Bark Letter

1970 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about an archeological discovery of birch bark letters found in Russia.

A Tale of a Kind Elephant

1970 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale about a kind and thoughtful elephant who never forgot anyone and never hurt anyone.

The Burn

1970 • 1 min • Romania

Animated labor protection film commissioned by the Ministry of Health and Social Provisions, the Institute of Hygiene and Labor Protection.

A Holiday

1970 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

Celebration of Labor Day, May 1st. While Skopje is decorated with flags and banners on the occasion of the holiday and the city is deserted, the picnic areas are full of people who have fun in a variety of ways; then, after the holiday, they leave the nature polluted with waste.

Sort of a Commercial for an Icebag

1970 • 15 min

This short film sees the thoughts and process of Claes Oldenburg come to life as he produced the soft kinetic sculptures from his ice bag series at Gemini GEL print studios.

Corridor

1970 • 23 min • United States of America

An unknown observer is seen traveling through a bleak corridor. At the end of the corridor they see a naked woman, whom they are unable to reach as their trip seems to become increasingly twisted and looped.

The Gifts

1970 • 29 min • United States of America

The Gifts is a 1970 American short documentary film about water pollution in the United States. The film was produced by Robert McBride for the United States Environmental Protection Agency. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

We Can Do It

1970 • 9 min • Soviet Union

An anti-war film about the ability of individuals to prevent war.

Splendor In Bed

1970 • 42 min • United States of America

Sexy housewife and the maid pose as lesbian love slaves to teach cheating husband a lesson.

During and After Air Raid

1970 • 10 min • India

The precautions to be taken during and after an air-raid by the people, are shown in this film.

Selective Service System

1970 • 13 min

One of the most shocking documentary films ever made. A young anti-war American, to avoid the draft, calmly aims a rifle at his foot and shoots. For several endless minutes, he thrases about the floor in unbearable pain, in his own blood. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Album

1970 • 5 min • Australia

In this short self-portrait, Ubu Films co-founder Perry mines his archive of family photographs, home videos and exhibited 16mm film to fast-forward, reverse and freeze-frame narratives and reminiscences.

The Weir-Falcon Saga

1970 • 30 min • United States of America

The term "The Weir-Falcon Saga" appeared to me, night after night, at the end of a series of dreams: I was "true" to the feeling, tho not the images, of those dreams in the editing of this and the following two films. The three films "go" very directly together, in the order of their making (as listed); yet each seems to be a clear film in itself. At this time, I tend to think they constitute a "Chapter No. 2" of The Book of Film I've had in mind these last five years (considering SCENES FROM UNDER CHILDHOOD as Chapter No. 1); and yet these "Weir-Falcon" films occur to me as distinct from any filmmaking I have done before. (Stan Brakhage)

The Animals of Eden and After

1970 • 35 min • United States of America

THE ANIMALS OF EDEN AND AFTER ... is too mysterious, to me, for me to be able to write anything about it except that it seems to be the best film I've ever made. - SB

Ending It All

1970 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Michael Palin guides us on suicide in this humorous public information film on motorway safety.

Fluxfilm No. 36

1970 • 3 min • United States of America, Australia

Tips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all around the frame.

The End of One

1970 • 7 min

A camera records the last moments in the life of a seagull on a polluted beach.

Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four

1970 • 45 min

Section IV is the longest of the four parts and the one in which the photographic material from the past plays the most prominent role. We see more of Brakhage and his wife than in previous sections, both in everyday activities and in the grip of intense emotion; a long sequence shows Jane weeping intercut with stills from her past; another shows Brakhage in anger. The children are seen in varying moods: fighting, crying, delighting in water, absorbed by the grass or their own bodies. The most banal surroundings, such as the bathroom, are totally transformed before our eyes into nearly abstract compositions of form and color, and a mundane activity like dishwashing becomes the occasion for an exploration of pure color. (Artforum)

Rastejador, Substantivo Masculino

1970 • 25 min • Brazil

Report of a crawler, who helped the steering wheels to find traces of the cangaceiros in the caatinga and their knowledge to survive in this environment.