All Films

Valeria Fotografa (Playtime)

1970 • 3 min

A girl is taking pictures on the notes of "1970" by The Stooges, but it’s only in the end that we’re allowed to see the subject of her photos.

Carotid Artery

1970 • 11 min

Experimental film by Jean Dupuy.

Hikoichi's Wits

1970 • 18 min

Hikokazu is walking around selling watermelons when he meets Chuemon, a family retainer, in front of a castle. He was looking for someone with wisdom, as he was troubled by an envoy from a neighboring country who was making unreasonable demands. Hikokazu decides to cooperate with Chuemon on the promise that he will buy all the watermelons.

Oh

1970 • 2 min • Italy

A film by Cioni Carpi

Siberia: Russia's Frontier

1970 • 24 min • United States of America

This film pictures Siberia, land of the exiles, and its rapid growth in becoming a highly industrialized land. Focuses on the major manufacturing plants of the city of Irkutsk, which anticipates a population of one million by 1980.

Tall Dark Stranger

1970 • 15 min • Canada

A drug encounter between a P.E.I. farmer and a hippie from "Upper Canada" who thinks he's Christ.

Map Skills: Recognizing Physical Features

1970 • 11 min • United States of America

Physical features such as gulf, peninsula, island, etc, are defined and basic principles of using colors to show elevation are illustrated with models.

Inheriting Your Physical Traits

1970 • 11 min • United States of America

This educational film from 1970 traces the inheritance of traits such as sex, eye color, height, and weight, showing the role of chromosomes and genes in determining their development.

Holidays Your Neighbors Celebrate

1970 • 10 min • United States of America

Reviews holidays that have come to America from origins all over the world. Shows the many different holidays celebrated by Americans, including Mexican and Puerto Rican Christmas celebrations.

Prometheus XX

1970 • 6 min • Bulgaria

Bulgarian animation film

Velazquez Treasures

1970 • 9 min

Probably the greatest Spanish painter of the 17th century, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazques (1599-1660) was a court painter and worked at various courts throughout his life. His famous, Las Maninas, is typical of his work, and shows Princess Margarita and her court with himself painting the scene.

The Trojan Horse

1970 • 34 min • Soviet Union

A group of art historians has been sent from the spy center in London to the USSR to photograph icons for the publication of an album, but in fact they are engaged in subversive work, building bridges, internal decomposition of the Soviet people, bringing the fall of communism closer.

Redemption

1970 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A minimalist drama about the war from the point of view of the loser.

In the Village of "Riddlkino"

1970 • 25 min • Soviet Union

City schoolboy Andreika finds himself for the first time in a village with a mysterious name "Riddlkino". Everything here is new and unusual for him. Having seen and learned a lot, Andreika fell in love with his native nature.

Feleségképzés anno 1904

1970 • 11 min • Hungary

A Béla Vajda Cartoon

The Last Cry of Fashion

1970 • 4 min • Soviet Union

Humoresque about people who blindly follow the whims of fashion.

Gold Fugue

1970 • 3 min • Australia

Images of gold in nature and art are repeated in a fugal structure from one screen to the next. The extra potential for image structuring provided by the multi-screen form interested us from the moment we saw a reconstruction of the final sequence of Abel Gance's Napoleon in London in 1968. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill).

Marriages

1970 • 2 min

Dancers reveal Japanese Kanji word origins.

The Violin in the Jungle

1970 • 7 min • Soviet Union

The violinist gets lost in the jungle, but the magical sounds of the violin enchant wild animals and save the violinist's life.

Forbidden fuel

1970 • 1 min • Romania

Animated film about the dangers of drunk driving.

El fin

1970 • 15 min • Mexico

'El Fin' drastically divides youth into two waves: there are couples composed of girls who paint oil landscapes and fall in love with young people with long hair, to go to the countryside to enjoy love and peacefully sing protest songs. But not for long: to the chords of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" will appear a priest, a soldier, an official and a charro to interrupt the idyll and harass the youth soundly rebellious.

Nosferato in Brazil

1970 • 27 min • Brazil

Budapest, 19th century: Nosferatu is killed by a prince. Now in colour and on holiday in Brazil, he saps several natives.

Pause

1970 • 7 min • Denmark, France

An early Téo Hernandez film exploring the space of a garden. Shot in July 1970 in the Carlsberg Glyptotek garden in Copenhagen, Pause is a 8 mm black‑and‑white silent short in which Téo Hernández roams the museum garden, alternating tight close‑ups of bodies (hands, feet, faces) and textures with sculptures and vegetation; the camera’s halting, scanning movement turns the stroll into a study of matter, framing and rhythm. Featuring Michel Nedjar, Léon Pizano and Sheena Mark, the film dispenses with narration and treats the garden’s statuary and foliage as anchors for a tactile observation of bodies in space.

Indocile Sparrow

1970 • 9 min • Soviet Union

There once was a little sparrow, a little dopey and helpless. He wants to become an adult and independent, so he seeks advice from different birds and animals. But can someone teach him wits better than his own life experience and the example of other sparrows? After all, all those to whom he refers, have another way of life.