All Films

Local Power, Popular Power

1970 • 9 min • Cuba

About the election in assembly of the President of the Poder Popular (Popular Power)

Arena

1970 • 22 min

Aréna is nothing less than an attempt at spatial-temporal filming. It is an associative, avant-garde universe, the entire universe of the world, culture, edited into images of the masses participating in a match and then dispersing, in one- to four-frame flashes with music by Péter Eötvös.

Schooling

1970 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

All until yesterday, three birds didn’t even think of taking a look around, but today they heard some voices for the first time and decided to do something meaningful…

Heirs

1970 • 10 min • Bulgaria

The patriarch of a family dies, leaving his seven sons to fight for the inheritance.

Double Shutter

1970 • 13 min

Shots of a street filmed from a swing. An additional shutter has been mounted in front of the camera, creating a pulsating flicker effect. This causes the image to be interrupted and divided thirty times per second.

The Shadow of Progress

1970 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Documenting the pollution of natural resources and the misuse of technology.

Wenn man vierzehn ist

1970 • 36 min • East Germany, Germany

They are now no longer children. Young citizens distinguish themselves. The time before the Jugendweihe and its celebration. They visit Weimar, the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the Schwedt petrochemical combine, and decide to go into business after the eighth grade, stay until the tenth, or take the Abitur in the district town.

Break-Through

1970 • 3 min

"Super-8 camera held out before him as shield and surrogate, Acconci pushes through a landscape of dense reeds and overgrowth. Break-Through records this search for a pause or clearing in what, for the viewer, amounts to an abstracted and scarcely differentiated visual field." - Electronic Arts Intermix

Mister Hrstka

1970 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

One day in the life of Mr Hrstka, a blue collar worker and occasional pose model at the Prague academy of arts. Through this portrayal of an outsider, Paskaljevic explores the subject of isolation.

A Letter to Amy

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

"Peter [from Keats' The Snowy Day] is having a birthday party, and he's asked all of his friends to come. But Amy is a special friend because she's a girl, so Peter decides to send her a special invitation. When he rushes out in a thunderstorm to mail it, he bumps smack into Amy herself and knocks her to the ground. Will she come to his party now?"

Happy Kukushkin

1970 • 28 min • Soviet Union

A young worker, Kukushkin, falls in love with the innkeeper's daughter and asks for her hand in marriage. Having been refused, Kukushkin begins to practice throwing rings. The day comes when the lover wins all the property of a nepman and becomes a wealthy fiancé for his beloved.

Architects of Ayorou

1970 • 30 min

Traditional houses and new architecture in Ayorou, an island on the River Niger in the archipelago of Tillaberi. The village and its activities; the building of the house of a newly-wed young man.

A Primer for '2001: A Space Odyssey'

1970 • 28 min • United States of America

Primer on the meaning, techniques and background of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." Keir Dullea, who starred in the film as astronaut Bowman, narrates on camera and over many excerpts from the film.

Invisible Detective Akira

1970 • 13 min • Japan

Akira, a young detective, uses his Invisibility to investigate a case where the Mona Lisa has been stolen by the villainous Team Z.

Die Teilung aller Tage

1970 • 33 min • Germany

A worker is sitting at a conveyor belt on which light bulbs are coming in at regular intervals. He takes the light bulbs from the conveyor belt and inserts them into a testing device. The light bulbs light up briefly and bathe the scene in glistening light. The worker puts the light bulb back on the conveyor belt, looks directly into the camera and shouts against the noise of the machines: "We create wealth."

Nzuri: East Africa

1970 • 33 min • United States of America

Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Beginning with Genesis, the film follows the progress of civilization through to modern day Nairobi. Biblical themes combine with pulsating African music, wild animal sounds, and vivid imagery. Unusual juxtapositions of Bob Fulton's quick cuts and Brown's big lens shots of mega fauna and tribal dances mesmerize viewers.

Keep Your Eyes Safe

1970 • 1 min • United Kingdom

UK Public Information Film.

She Was A Visitor

1970 • 3 min

16mm, color, 3 min. Dir. Donna Deitch.

Arba'een

1970 • 20 min • Iran

Short ethnographic documentray about Arba'een, a Shia Muslim religious observance

A Matemática e o Futebol

1970 • 11 min • Brazil

Football images and the study of Modern Mathematics.

Casa tomada

1970 • 11 min • Argentina

Two elderly people live in a large house, following a dull and predictable routine. They are stalked by another elderly man—tall, dressed in a black coat, and with a ghostly presence—who eventually takes up residence in one of the rooms of the house. Based on Julio Cortázar’s short story of the same name, *Casa tomada* was one of the most important short films produced within the film department of the National University of La Plata between the 1960s and the early 1970s.

The Visit

1970 • 10 min • Syrian Arab Republic

An oneiric film poem about a murder in occupied Palestine, in which Qais Al-Zubaidi used drawing, poetry, music, phonograph and pantomime with his technical virtuosity and formal expressionism. Featuring poetry from Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Tawfiq Ziad.

Ice State

1970 • 13 min • Soviet Union

The documentary depicts Antarctica as an aesthetic phenomenon - it is a land of eternal silence and stillness; during its short summer the continent reveals its most beautiful treasures. Filmed during the 13th Soviet Antarctic expedition from November 1968 until May 1969.

Remedial Reading Comprehension

1970 • 5 min • United States of America

Landow rejects the dream imagery of the historical trance film for the self-referential present, using macrobiotics, the language of advertising, and a speed-reading test on the definition of hokum. The alienated filmmaker appears, running uphill to distance himself from the lyrical cinema, but remember, "This is a film about you, not about its maker."