All Films

For Your Pleasure

1970 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Constable's famous painting "The Haywain" seems like a good place for a picnic until the town planners move in. The painting turns into a nightmare of urban tourist resort exploitation.

Blues like Showers of Rain

1970 • 29 min • United Kingdom

This film by John Jeremy grew from photographs and field recordings made by Paul Oliver on a journey through the South in 1960. Oliver, a British architectural historian who devoted years to researching African American blues, memorialized the journey also in his 1963 book Conversation with the Blues. The film includes the voices and music of Blind James Brewer, James “Butch” Cage, Gus Cannon, Walter Davis, Blind Arvella Gray, Sam “Lightnin” Hopkins, James “Stump” Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, J. B. Lenoir, Charles Love, “Little Brother” Montgomery, James Oden, Edwin Buster Pickens, Sam Price, Robert Curtis Smith, Otis Span, Willie Thomas, Henry Townsend, Wade Walton, and others unidentified.

Monzón

1970 • 11 min • Argentina

Short documentary about the origins of the boxer Carlos Monzón, made by the filmmaker Julio Toledo, who followed the athlete during his early years with the idea of ​​making a film about his career and his journey as an international competitor.

Safety Facts About Crossing Tracks

1970 • 13 min • United States of America

This 1970s PSA-style short film titled ”Safety Facts About Crossing Tracks” combines b-roll footage and stop-motion photography to display the most common types of accidents and driving errors at rail crossings and how to avoid these errors

The Froze Nose Knows

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

The Aardvark shiveringly pursues the Ant after a snowfall has covered their habitat.

Gargle/Spit Piece

1970 • 3 min • United States of America

The artist, sitting naked, takes water from a pot into his mouth and gargles; he spits it out onto his stomach and groin, transferring the water from one "container" (the pot) to another (his body).

Die große Reise des kleinen Elefanten

1970 • 13 min • East Germany, Germany

A little elephant playing soccer with a coconut in the desert is told that his nut has rolled to the ends of the earth. He immediately sets off to look for it. On the way, he meets other animal children who want to help him. They all realize that the end of each animal's life does not mean the end of the world. So the journey becomes longer and longer, the group of wanderers larger and larger, and finally, to the elephant's astonishment, the animals return to the starting point of the journey. And because they want to test their discovery that the earth is round like a coconut once again, they march around the equator once more.

Warf

1970 • 10 min • Romania

During World War II, several young people capture a German soldier on the roof of the building they defend and in which they most probably live. One of them ends up staying in the same room with the man for a longer time, keeping an eye on him at gunpoint. The relationship that develops between them, in spite of the language barrier, is suddenly halted by another gun(shot), one that comes from outside the room.

Chronicle Of A Group

1970 • 53 min • Italy, France

Produced within the framework of the “Programmi Sperimentali” of Italian public television (structure of the RAI which allowed, in the 1970s, the production of films such as Lutte en Italie by the Dziga Vertov Group, Cancer by Glauber Rocha or Perché pagare per essere felici by Marco Ferreri), Cronaca di un gruppo tells the story of a group of young French revolutionaries who, between Paris and the Pyrenees region, are looking for ways to continue their political activities, through the theater experimental and counter-information, the day after May 68. Produced in collaboration with Gianni Toti, Didier Sandre and the Nanterre experimental theater group.

Imperial Theatre

1970 • 6 min • Austria

A nostalgic honoring as well as a reciprocal re-make of the film of the same name by Willi Forst. A setting to film of a 1930s book, literally: page by page. (E.S.jr.)

The Golden Positions

1970 • 30 min • United States of America

A lovely, poetic, humorous and crystal investigation of mankind standing, sitting and lying down.

Quarry

1970 • 12 min

This portrait of an abandoned quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts, captures the striking natural beauty of the site as it explores the social rites of the young people who gather along its rugged shores to create leisure in what was once a place of toil. -Harvard Film Archive

Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

“A montage of still and moving images, mixing and alternating black people and white people, fantasy and reality, a presidential suite and a mother’s kitchen: a sensitive, poetic evocation in the manner of the film-maker’s Remembrance. Brilliantly colored and nostalgic, it comprises a magical transformation of painterly collage and still photographic sensibility into filmic time and space.” - Charles Boultenhouse

The Boy and the Cloud

1970 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A boy makes friends with a cloud in the mountains. He is very proud of it, but sorry that no one can see his friend.

A Short Tall Story

1970 • 4 min • United Kingdom

The Shorts and the Talls just can’t see eye to eye until a mediating fairy arrives to help them make ends meet.

A Film by Charles Baudelaire (Second Version)

1970 • 7 min • Germany

The film purports to be the second version of a (fictional) film made by Baudelaire in 1850 in memory of his (actual) voyage across the Pacific. It was shot using a world map mounted on black board, filmed in its entirety and in extreme close-up.

Unto The Least Of These

1970 • 11 min

A short film about Texan conservationists attempting to save the Attwater's Prairie Chicken from extinction.

"Interview” with Marguerite Duras

1970 • 7 min

A conversation with French writer Marguerite Duras, filmed in the calm atmosphere of her country house.

Die Spanische Treppe

1970 • 10 min

The film explores the eponymous location in Rome. Photographs and commentary run almost completely separately side by side.The sequence of photographs approaches the people depicted and then moves away again. The result is a pulsation, a waxing and waning in the sequence. An attached film sequence is integrated into the film. It reflects the form of the photographic film, as the flipped comic strip is transformed into a flip book through the movement of the fingers.

The Robot

1970 • 15 min • East Germany

Max and Tüte are super excited about a math-whiz robot at an exhibition. The boys smuggle him out so he can do their math homework. But the magical machine's programming is faulty and it goes its own way, playing havoc in town. While Max tries to catch the robot, Tüte takes the robot’s place at the exhibition. But he gets in deep trouble, when he can't solve math problems. Luckily Max and the robot return in time and the boys decide it's better to do their own homework in the future.

Blind Rain

1970 • 60 min • Soviet Union

The story is about a girl named Matlyuba, who arrives in the city to pursue her studies. While there, she meets a medical student named Samig and falls in love with him.

Calligrams

1970 • 12 min

A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

Earth and Fire

1970 • 24 min • United States of America

Explores the creative world of Paul Soldner, a potter working in Aspen, Colorado.

Break Out!

1970 • 25 min • United States of America

A self-criticism, self-analysis in which Macdonald struggles with his own status as a self-declared “armchair radical.” Wondering what real effect making films and attending demonstrations can have, he wrestles with the idea of violence and examines his own excuses (protecting his family, protecting his life) for not “being radical as opposed to talking radical.” In a section that introduces the letter board and bricolage technique that would become so prominent in his filmography, he lays out a radical 12-point program for the attainment of a more decent society; a coda proposes a halfway point between armchair radicalism and bomb-throwing.