All Films

Meow Meow

1970 • 7 min

An animated short about a man who finds a cat that turns into a lion. The lion becomes a famous singer who is kidnapped by gangsters. Uses animated cutouts.

Chagall dans son jardin a Saint-Paul-de-Vence

1970 • 8 min

Extract of rushes from the unfinished documentary project written and produced by Henri Langlois on Marc Chagall.

A Matter of Baobab: With One Growth

1970 • 3 min

A short experiment in compression on film.

Wind of Zaar

1970 • 17 min

This documentary shows the Zaar tradition in Bandar Lengeh in south of Iran. It is kind of local dancing and singing to exorcist the zaar from people who believe to be possessed by evil.

Amir Khan

1970 • 18 min • India

The film portrays the personality and family life of Ustad Amir Khan, the famous vocalist and his music.

Homage #5

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

An unfinished film, or preliminary sketch, that pairs live action film with a recorded lecture on reincarnation by Baba Ram Dass, an American spiritual teacher and the author of the seminal 1971 book Be Here Now. The footage deliberately resembles outtakes, a lot like those accidental moments in life that can throw a new light on our understanding. An exercise of the non-literal relationship between image and sound.

The Endless Sandwich

1970 • 2 min

Between the TV set and viewer, a function exists whereby the user switches on and off the appliance. I have reproduced this function and made it the content of the TV programme. Sandwich character of real process and reproduction process, of reflection and action. On the screen, a series of viewers is seen sitting in front of TV sets. A fault occurs in the last set shown, meaning the next viewer has to get up in order to repair the fault. This repair brings about a disruption in the next viewer’s screen. The disruption propagates itself until it reaches the real TV set, meaning the real viewer has to rise and eliminate the fault. Time delay: the real procedure is the conclusion of the reproduced procedure. (Peter Weibel)

From Morning to Evening

1970 • 20 min • South Korea

A young man wakes up to the sound of an alarm and a woman is lying next to him. He puts on his clothes and goes to a park and approaches another woman. Afterward, he seduces a woman near Seoul Train Station and has intercourse with her. Then he returns to his room and gives the woman in the room a gift that he has received from another woman.

Cumulonimbus

1970 • 9 min • United States of America

A 1970 projection of what may come when pollution over powers nature.

The Black Ships

1970 • 8 min

Created with imagery taken from the 19th-Century Japanese woodcuts on display in the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition “The Japanese Expedition 1852-1866 of Commodore Matthew Perry,” the film records the opening of the country to Western trade from a Japanese perspective. In Charles’ words, the film “shows something of the special and rare situations that existed when these two cultures came together…one very sophisticated, one with a highly developed technology.” The soundtrack juxtaposes the visuals, with music from the album “Banjo Kings,” an early-American fife-and-drum recording from the Smithsonian Institution archives, and traditional Japanese music from tapes provided by the Japanese embassy.

Tale About The Good Rhinoceros

1970 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A short story about an extremely kind and soft-hearted rhino. His skin was so thin that any slightest bruise caused a lot of pain. He treated any creature he met with the greatest respect.

Waiting For…

1970 • 11 min

An ironic love letter to the British drama/documentary tradition.

Train

1970 • 14 min • Poland

A passenger train on its daily route, a winter landscape can be seen through the window. Passengers are deep in their own thoughts and some of them have a conversation. Hidden lyricism of the gray everyday life and the constant flow of life.

Perrault 70

1970 • 49 min • France

Joe and Janny get lost and find themselves in the enchanted universe of Charles Perrault's tales. During their adventures, they will have to help Little Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb and Puss in Boots against the Wolf, Bluebeard and the Ogre.

Chromochrome

1970 • 10 min

16mm, 1970, 10 minutes. Music: OISEAUX EXOTIQUES, by Oliver Messiaen.

The Long March Back

1970 • 32 min • Italy

The documentary addresses the problem of the Palestinian people from its historical origins, to the social situation that characterizes it, to the forms of struggle to achieve their liberation. In particular, the film - through footage taken in the Jordan Valley, in refugee camps, in the cities and countryside of Jordan - describes the organization and function of one of the components of the Palestinian Resistance, the Popular Democratic Front. The phases of military training that the Front imparts to its militants, the guerrilla actions it conducts, its relations with the Arab masses, the characteristics of its political intervention are shown.

Arrowhead

1970 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Learn how to climb Great Gable in the Lake District, via the Arrowhead ridge climb.

Quarter of an Hour

1970 • 14 min • Denmark

A literary, cinematic, musical experiment. The starting point is the trivial language as environment, concretized in a newspaper page. (DFI)

Maps Add Meaning to History

1970 • 10 min • United States of America

The Gold Rush, Phoenicia as a sea power, political change in Africa, and the Panama Canal are some of the topics considered in showing how different kinds of maps can be used to gain insights into events and patterns of history.

The True Light Beaver Film: After the Revolution

1970 • 13 min

This program provides an intimate glimpse into communal ways and ritual at the height of the counter culture. Includes cameo appearances by Abbie Hoffman and Paul Krassner of Yippie! fame.

Reading of an Extract from Labyrinths by J.L. Borges

1970 • 5 min

The film Reading of an Extract from “Labyrinths” by J. L. Borges shows a young woman reading an essay by Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges titled Nueva refutacion del tiempo (New Refutation of Time) out loud. Her lips can be seen moving but her voice cannot be heard.

Eu Sou Vida, Eu Não Sou Morte

1970 • 14 min • Brazil

Play written by Qorpo Santo, in 1866, about a love triangle in which the husband kills his rival in the name of honor, pride, dignity and national integrity.

There are so many things you cannot understand

1970 • 44 min • Finland

Tove Jansson, Erna Tauro, Birgitta Ulfsson, Lasse Pöysti, Gunvor Sandqvist and Bo Andersson have gathered in Tove Jansson's studio to discuss and enjoy the evening. The evening will be accompanied by songs written by Tove Jansson and composed by Erna Tauro.

Koodal

1970 • 15 min • India

"Visionary post-war modernist Tyeb Mehta channels the nightmares of the nation in Koodal, at once the artist’s self-described “autobiography” and a profound meditation on collage, crowd control, cinematic subjectivity and the violence buried within every glorious act of foundation." -- Sarkari Shorts