All Films

Order in the House

1970 • 5 min • Hungary

A surrealist satire describing the power that is used to dehumanise and deny individual liberties in the name of order and the common good.

Three Adaptation Studies

1970 • 8 min

Three-part short film. In 'Blindfold Catching', a blindfolded Acconci reacts, flinching and lunging, as rubber balls are repeatedly thrown at him from off-screen. In 'Soap & Eyes', he tries to keep his eyes open after dousing his face with soapsuds, resulting in a tragicomic clown face. In 'Hand and Mouth', he repeatedly forces his fist into his mouth until he gags.

Lenin vivo

1970 • 31 min • Italy

Joaquim Jorda's and Gianni Toti's short film

This Island

1970 • 31 min • United States of America

How the art in the Detroit Institute of Art connects to life's experiences and the neighborhood.

Binghamton, My India

1970 • 25 min

“The film said something necessary at the time: the numinous is everywhere, even upstate Rust Belt Binghamton. The light was perfect, students brilliant, America’s killing spree then in Vietnam distant.” -KJ

A Special Tiny Tim

1970 • 49 min • Australia

Released shortly after his wedding on the Tonight Show, "A Special Tiny Tim" showcases many great performances by Herbie. From Rock and Roll to Music Hall, Tiny covers a wide and eclectic range of material for his one and only television special.

Jazzia olohuoneessa - Bill Evans trio

1970 • 30 min • Finland

A film made in 1970 in the home of Finnish composer Ilkka Kussisto (whose two sons are famous violinists) when the Bill Evans Trio visited him for a private performance.

Attack No. 1 - World Championship of Tears

1970 • 55 min • Japan

The Japanese team has decided to participate in the World Junior Championships for the first time. Kozue, Midori, Kakinouchi and other all-Japan teams, under coach Inokuma, worked hard on rigorous training and boarded New York, where the world's strongest players await. The biggest enemy in this tournament is the Soviet Union's Voltinskaya murder spike. If you don't break this, you can't hope for a victory. An all-Japan player who works hard to practice with the cooperation of the American and Korean teams. And finally on the day of the final match with the Soviet Union. The Japanese team challenges the Soviet Union's hard block with a winning strategy in mind. Where will the glory shine? The time of the decisive battle is approaching.

The Mole and the TV

1970 • 5 min • Czechoslovakia

Welcome to real life, little mole! Incited by a television report, the comfortable coexistence of the gardener and the builder of mounds is threatened, and not just that, so is the mole’s cosy home underground. Rarely did the colourful Czech animation series for children show such a serious and brutal fight for existence.

All the Difference

1970 • 21 min

From many distinguished American poets comes the connecting narrative for this gorgeously photographed treatise on America the Beautiful and America the Increasingly Ugly.

I Am Sitting in a Room

1970 • 45 min • United States of America

I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece by American composer and sound artist Alvin Lucier composed in 1969. The first performance of the work was in 1970 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In collaboration with his partner Mary Lucier. The piece features Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the tape recording back into the room while re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Due to the room's particular size and geometry, certain resonant frequencies are emphasized while others are attenuated. Eventually the words become unintelligible, replaced by the characteristic resonance of the room.

Frammento Rosso (Rossario)

1970 • 6 min

The director films a woman being tortured.

Experiment 2001: A Failure

1970 • 25 min • United States of America

The 2001 Super8 parody remake shot home, in the backyard, on the streets and in the neighborhood junkyard: a true space odyssey and yet another venture by Niosi&friends.

Reign of the Vampire

1970 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Directed by Malcolm Le Grice. "It nears the end of the political paranoid works using found military documentary images. It explores a complex form of loop permutation in both the image and sound track."

Aaeon

1970 • 24 min • Canada

AAEON is based on experiments with dream recollection, and features the first optical printer technology developed in Vancouver and used in many of Razutis’ later films.

Šventėn

1970 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A short film capturing the journey of various musicians and singers to the Lithuanian Song Festival.

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon

1970 • 30 min

In October 1970, at his Hollywood home, Welles recorded voice-overs for short stories intended for use on special screens at the Sears chain stores. Numerous 16mm films were sent to Sears, but only one film was preserved; however, as it was not complete, it could not be used. In 2003, the Munich cinémathèque museum restored the film, which narrates a Ring Lardner short story. The missing parts were filled in from a radio play recorded in 1946.

Tougher Than Punishment

1970 • 50 min

Park House was a school for juvenile delinquents, with strict rules and punishments. In 1970 it dispensed with such rules and reverted back to its Saxon name of Peper Harow. Man Alive investigates whether the changes have been positive.

The Breath of Sheep

1970 • 10 min • Germany, United Kingdom

In Düsseldorf-based filmmaker Lutz Mommartz’s Das Atem des Schafes (The Breath of the Sheep, 1970) we see Scotland as an outsider. Recorded on a trip to the Highlands ahead of his participation in Strategy: Get Arts – a landmark exhibition at Edinburgh College of Art – Mommartz’s 8mm film testifies to the Scottish imaginary that preceded self-representation. Mist-wrapped mountains and a maggot-infested sheep carcass are soundtracked by stretched-out psychedelia, encoding this as a place of wildness." - Marcus Jack 8mm - b/w

Fog Line

1970 • 11 min • Canada

Larry Gottheim’s Fog Line consists of a fixed shot of clearing fog in a valley in upstate New York where he lived and worked in the early seventies.

Orange

1970 • 3 min • United States of America

A study of a girl eating an orange.

Berlin Horse

1970 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Two fragments of 8mm home-movie footage shot by the artist near Berlin weave together in repeating cycles of action, temporal manipulation, and colour distortion, heightening the viewer’s awareness of film-time and the film-image, and perception of colour in motion.

Interface

1970 • 4 min

An Interface not only between two continually switched over images but also between documentary tape, imagery taken from "reality", and its transformation in the electronic sphere.

The Fountain - A Sculpture - A Monument

1970 • 12 min • Brazil

A charming documentary on Brazilian sculptor Mario Cravo Jr. and his fountain project. What makes the documentary interesting beyond its topic is Oliveira's unusual approach; he tells the story of the sculpture project only through sometimes psychedelic pictures and music/noise without conventional narration.