All Films

The Searching Years: Ivan and His Father

1970 • 14 min

In this film you will simply see a group of young people talking.... they are not actors; there was no script. As you watch, we hope you will feel like a member of the group--- if you could join in, what would you want to say?

Invasion

1970 • 8 min • Poland

The sixth and last animation by Stefan Schabenbeck before emigrating to Germany in the early seventies. Alien life form seen from the other side of the telescope. A robot arrives on an unknown planet, whose task is to get to know and try to colonize a new world.

A Cabinet for Daydreams

1970 • 7 min • Sweden

Filmed in Spain, London, and Sweden with an old Bolex silent camera, this film was originally part of a longer film – that was split into a diptych, the other one being 'Hommage à Meliérs.' They work as independent films. (Håkan Dahlström)

Old Age Porn

1970 • 6 min • Germany

On a search for a couple for a love story with sex beyond the 70 Herbert Götzinger sent me to his colleagues sculptor Ludwig Chateau. During my surprise visit with the running camera, asking if he would be willing to do his part, he attacked me: "Is not that enough what they're doing at this moment?" –LM

Corn

1970 • 11 min • United States of America

A fixed camera companion to FOG LINE. Bright green leaves stripped from ears of corn, and later, the vibrant yellow ears placed steaming in the waiting bowl. Each of these actions inaugurates a period in which one contemplates an image whose steady transformation is barely perceptible–the delicate slow movement of light and shadow, the evolution of subtle steam into the film grain. A meditation on the fragile moments of corn's passage from living sun-nourished plant to food to light image. The mind attempts to grasp duration itself, to distinguish its own creating from its perceiving, but distictions blur in the wholeness of times's and consciousness' flow.

The Flower and the Mole

1970 • 15 min • Japan

The Robot Moles is an adorable story about flowers, moles, dumb scientists and a little girl.

Saint Flournoy Lobos-Logos and the Eastern Europe Fetus Taxing Japan Brides in West Coast Places Sucking Alabama Air

1970 • 12 min • United States of America

Presaging details and intent of the Charles Manson's cult and actions was not meant to be one of this film's greater attributes. It was, however, filmed uncannily months before the facts were known. The resemblance is oblique. The film: the mysticism of a "calling," a journey to be made, a vision in mid-desert to behold and oneness with it all. Filmed in Death Valley.

Films of Guy Bourdin (Selection)

1970 • 11 min

Guy Bourdin was a groundbreaking image-maker who had a profoundly influential impact on fashion photography. His fashion editorial and advertising was published principally in French Vogue from the mid-1950s through to the late 1980s, where it had its greatest impact in the decade of the 1970s.

Alì Babà

1970 • 10 min

Adapted from the book by Luzzati.

1967, 1968, 1969, 1970

1970 • 22 min • France

Homage to Tarzan

1970 • 5 min • Spain

Avant-garde analog animation techniques in stark black and white dramatize the effect of white men’s violence on an African jungle.

Portraits

1970 • 14 min • Germany

The series of portrait films that the Heins made between 1970-73 attest to their deepening interest in the movement generated solely through cinematic processes of reproduction. [...] Portraits (1970) is a collection of three of these films, Manson, Biggs, and Wilhelm Hein, that each underwent distinct processes of development so as to highlight different perceptual and aesthetic effects.

Behind the Veil

1970 • 50 min

A rare glimpse into a Dubai harem and a document of the significant changes in the lives of Arab women during the early 1970s, this is the only film made by Eve Arnold, the world-renowned photojournalist and first woman to work for the elite Magnum Photos.

Les dieux en colère

1970 • 52 min • France

Before the flood, a foreigner arrives in a city where the inhabitants indulge in drink, lust, looting and torture. Bewitched by a magician, he looks in vain for an ideal girl before raising the wrath of the gods.

A Length of Time

1970 • 22 min • United Kingdom

A portrait of Anthony Bruegger, a young stock car racer. He is the filmmaker’s nephew and also appears in some of her other films. The film’s title refers to time in film, which can be measured in lengths of film material (100ft, 300ft, etc), and which Anne Rees-Mogg compares and contrasts here to lived time.

Colored Relations

1970 • 5 min

Abstract animation.

A Flea in the Ear

1970 • 11 min • East Germany

The lion, wolf and fox use modern technologies for producing their food instead of traditional hunting methods. They set up a farm where they fatten up animals and produce prepared meals with the latest technology. One day, the oppressed animals, tired of what is going on, set up their own state and stand up against their dangerous predators.

Let's Measure: Using Standard Units

1970 • 10 min

A young boy is taught the wonder of standard unit of measurement by the world's greatest superhero: Measuring Man!

Grottan

1970 • 60 min • Finland

Some teenagers are on collision course with society and older generations.

Venus med piska

1970 • 20 min • Sweden

"Venus with a Whip" - A young woman is playing with a whip and through various manipulations becomes erotically excited.

Neighbours

1970 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

A minifilm form the series "Weg zum Nachbarn", made by the awarded filmmakers in Oberhausen. Produced in 1969 and screened in 1970.

Het Bezoek

1970 • 20 min • Netherlands

A girl visits a place where a boy and another girl stay for a while. Afterwards they all leave. The film was shot in a period of two weeks, with one week of rest in between. Each scheduled day the complete script was played several times again. Such a 'take of the whole script' was only partially shot. [Actually no one of the actors was rehearsed: one learns the text by reading it in action.] This repetition stands in sharp contrast with the fact that the actors and members of the crew create an ad hoc context that never became final. For example: 'this is a visit'. There is an essential correspondence between the situation on the set and the spectator's observation of what happens on the screen later, which is nevertheless also its most distinctive characteristic.

The Litter Monster

1970 • 16 min

School children lead a civic campaign to clean up litter in San Bernardino.

Michel Over There

1970 • 15 min • France, Morocco

The desert, the sea, someone. I meet Michel Nedjar; together we went to the south of Morocco. There, a movie begins to take shape and develops as our journey continues. This is Michel là-bas.