All Films

Cristobalito, the Calypso Colt

1970 • 47 min • United States of America

Filmed entirely on location in the Caribbean, this touching family drama tells the adventurous tale of a Puerto Rican boy who befriends a Paso Fino palomino, a descendant of the horses of the Spanish Conquistadors. The young man kidnaps the colt in order to ride in the island horse championships and ends up learning a lesson in responsibility and honor.

The Battle

1970 • 5 min

Animated short depicting a battle inside the body of a soldier, with green monsters facing off against the body's defenses.

A Place for Everything

1970 • 29 min

In this film Eric Nilsson takes up the contrasts in the well-ordered Swedish society--order versus spontaneity; individual desires set against collective needs; subordinates vis-à-vis superiors. The young Swedes interviewed make a plea for independence, imagination, and the discussion of existing conditions.

Jefferson Market

1970 • 8 min

A study of the architecture of the Jefferson Market building in Manhattan which employs quick, probing camera work and intentionally arrhythmic editing in stark contrast to the Venetian Gothic styling of the facade’s architectural details. In three brief sections, the film details the exterior windows and turrets, then, in stark contrast from within the darkened interior, demonstrates the play of light through the stained glass windows. In the final segment, the camera returns to the building’s exterior, but now its sightline is impaired by a chain link fence, possibly in an allusion to the structure’s origin as a courthouse and prison for women. The final shots focus on the plaque affixed to the exterior, which states, “…constructed in 1876 and served as a women’s court until 1932. Of particular interest are its turrets, tracery windows, ironwork and sculpture.”

Lesson for Linda

1970 • 25 min • Albania

A spectacle featuring the children of the puppet theater.

Alice Cooper

1970 • 15 min • United States of America

Alice Cooper and band’s first performance, organized by his friend Frank Zappa, at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival in 1969.

Valley of the Riflemen

1970 • 53 min • Albania

Met Sokoli is a young pioneer who fights against a band of saboteurs entering Albania.

Rudolfio

1970 • 24 min • Soviet Union

A short film based on the story by Valentin Rasputin.

Anatomy of a Teenage Engagement (Second Edition of the Meaning of Engagement)

1970 • 25 min • United States of America

Observes a newly engaged couple as they wrestle with the fears and doubts nurtured by socio-economic differences, family pressures, immaturity, and ambivalent desires. Listens to their secret thoughts and wishes as each tries to cope with the anxiety and frustration-filled situations. States a position for an engagement, long enough to resolve second thoughts and to get to know one another and themselves.

The Muppets on Puppets

1970 • 57 min • United States of America

Jim Henson and Rowlf the Dog explain the art and history of puppetry, and let the viewer in on some of the secrets in performing his own act, the Muppets.

Nothing Like Experience

1970 • 50 min • Australia

This playful mix of documentary and fiction provides a vibrant record of the Second University Arts Festival held at the University of Melbourne in May 1969, while also providing a fascinating time capsule of late 1960s Bohemian Carlton.

About Addiction

1970 • 9 min • United States of America

About Addiction was created to educate the youth about proper and improper drug use. It draws a compassion between prescription drugs, alcohol, coffee, over-eating and illicit drug use. The opening scenes show the narrator informing viewers addiction is a dependence on anything taken into the body

Paul Bowles in Morocco

1970 • 57 min • United States of America

Documentary covering author Paul Bowles' time living in Morocco.

Group III: Sunlight/Floating/Afternoon

1970 • 24 min • United States of America

SUNLIGHT (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) Sunlight patterns on a window in constant change through subtle camera swings – the motions repeated giving the light a fluid quality. FLOATING (1970, 15 min, 16mm, silent) Moving images from a windowsill looking out on a cityscape transformed in time and space. AFTERNOON (1970, 8 min, 16mm, silent) A darkened room in Time with yellow sunlight streaming onto the floor through parted red curtains gently swaying in the breeze.

Приключения Пифа

1970 • 35 min

Honeymoons

1970 • 35 min • Hungary

Documentary about the Italian men that visit Hungary to meet girls and the Hungarian women that fall in love with them.

The Last Supper

1970 • 25 min

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experimental filmmaking in the 1960s. Henderson’s work throughout the 1970s and 1980s, from which this program of 16mm films is culled, thrums with a sociopolitical, humorous sensibility that lends his small-scale, often musically kissed portraits (which he later dubbed “blues cinema”) a personal, artisanal quality. - Film Society of Lincoln Center. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Dead Eye Dick

1970 • 59 min

Dead Eye Dick is the best private detective in town and he’s on the case of a cheating husband, with the help of his secretary, Quickie.

Signal

1970 • 3 min • France

The Triadic Ballet

1970 • 30 min • Germany

A film in three parts after Oskar Schlemmer's Triadische Ballett (Triadic Ballet).

Adventures of Mowgli: The Fight

1970 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Episode 4. A terrible threat hanging over the wolf tribe and all living inhabit the jungle. On native places for Mowgli is approaching a huge flock of wild red dogs, destroying everything in its path. It seemed nothing to resist them, but Mowgli comes up with as they confront the red Horde.

Buenos Aires ida y vuelta

1970 • 10 min • Argentina

Documentary short from the early 70s that depicts Buenos Aires city and its lifestyle.

Hedonist Hypnotist

1970 • 56 min • United States of America

Wilmington

1970 • 15 min • United States of America

A Newsreel documentary that accuses the DuPont Corporation of enforcing racism and martial law in Wilmington, Delaware in the late 1960s.