All Films

Bukowski at Bellevue

1970 • 60 min • United States of America

In the spring of 1970 Charles Bukowski took his first plane trip for a poetry reading at Bellevue Community College in Washington state. That he was videotaped by two students apparently was later forgotten, but the tapes were recently rediscovered and have been released by Black Sparrow press. "Bukowski at Bellevue" gives us a fascinating glimpse of the man before he had to be concerned with how celebrity and financial security were affecting him. (It is said that this was only his fourth public reading.) This is Bukowski, then about 50, taken straight. No games, no irony, no self-consciousness--just an ordinary-looking guy, maybe hung over, sitting before a small group of students reading his work with gusto, humor and sensitivity. A man who clearly had lived the marginal life he wrote about with passion and at times a lyrical, even mystical beauty.

Los taxis

1970 • 27 min • Argentina

A Doctor From Haberstadt

1970 • 29 min • Germany

Alexander Kluge follows his father, a doctor, in his daily activity.

Science Fiction

1970 • 9 min • Poland

Conquerors land on a newly discovered planet and try to colonize and explore a new discovered planet.

The Art of Marriage

1970 • 60 min • United States of America

A host lectures on how to increase one's pleasure in the sack in marriage.

The Reason Why

1970 • 13 min • United States of America

A meditation on My Lai.

Facts and Figures or Whatever Happened to Dick

1970 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Unambiguous message, unpretentiously inventive animation and a blackly comic tone.

Miles Davis Live At Tanglewood 1970

1970 • 46 min • United States of America

Miles Davis performing live at Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood Massachusetts on August 18, 1970. Miles Davis tp / Chick Corea el-p / Keith Jarrett org / Gary Bartz ss, as / Dave Holland el-b / Jack DeJohnette dr / Airto Moreira perc 1. Directions 2. Bitches Brew 3. The Mask 4. It's About That Time 5. Sanctuary 6. Spanish Key 7. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down

Friends in Dallas, Texas

1970 • 3 min • United States of America

This film is an introductory exploration of Dallas, Texas, narrated by Walter Miller. It highlights various aspects of the city, including its location in north-central Texas, 250 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. Dallas is portrayed as a bustling metropolis, nicknamed "Big D," known for its towering buildings, extensive new construction, thriving industries, and comprehensive city services. The film emphasizes the city's rich transportation infrastructure and abundance of recreational opportunities, with special mention of attractions like Six Flags Over Texas. Accompanied by lively music and visuals, the film paints Dallas as a vibrant and dynamic urban hub.

Film Strips I

1970 • 12 min

When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots. I lived in the East village in New York, which was a center of the former, and watched TV news of the latter often. These two films, Film Strips I and II, were taken from the scenes respectively, not as a documentary but as an inner report of mine, abstracted yet chaotic. (T.I.)

Valerka, Remka + ...

1970 • 29 min • Soviet Union

A story about first love of two boys and a neighbor girl...

The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians

1970 • 60 min • United States of America

The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians is a 1970 American animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. After the Christmas special Frosty the Snowman (1969), it was Rankin/Bass' second hand-drawn animated work to be outsourced to Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production in Tokyo, Japan. The show aired on ABC on April 7, 1970 before the airing of that year's Oscars. It was a tribute to early vaudeville, and featured animated reworkings of various famous comedians' acts.

Ted Stevens and Richard Nixon in D.C.

1970 • 2 min

In a courtyard somewhere in Washington D.C., Senator Stevens walks and talks with President Nixon in this brief silent color film.

Oidentifierad Porrfilm

1970 • 45 min • Sweden

"Unidentified Porn Movie" - Elderly gentleman gets acquainted with a young girl outside a restaurant. She is lost in the city. They take a short walk around the block to an adult movie theatre. The old gentleman buys tickets and brings the girl inside. While they watch the program other men enter.

Badou Boy

1970 • 56 min • Senegal

Badou Boy, a cheeky young man, travels through the streets of Dakar on the city buses and experiences adventures.

The Necklace

1970 • 10 min • Kuwait

A poor couple wants to buy a pearl necklace with their own money.

In The River

1970 • 12 min

Iimura analyzed some footage he had made in Katmandu of a man taking a bath in a sacred river. A meditational experience is, thus, presented in a film whose minimal action and quiet pace can create meditational possibilities for viewers -Scott MacDonald (Afterimage, April, 1978, N.Y.)

Play or ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’

1970 • 12 min

B&W and color; silent.

Re - The God of Sun

1970 • 6 min • Poland

A swarm of slaves in ancient Egypt moves massive boulders to erect a statue of Re, the god of the sun. Erecting impressive structures required knowledge and exact measurements. However, the statue's massive hand falls down and crushes the builders. The statue has been awe-inspiring for many centuries. Meditations on the religious nature of man.

The Experiment

1970 • 10 min • United States of America

Young women share their experiences after the experiment

Two Cover Studies

1970 • 8 min

"In Scene Steal, Acconci, fully clothed, tries to shield a nude woman from the camera. In Container, he wraps his nude body around a cat as if to totally enclose it." - Electronic Arts Intermix

Anonymous Artists of America

1970 • 9 min • United States of America

While touring the U.S. in a brightly painted school bus, the psychedelic rock collective Anonymous Artists of America stops to hold a performance at an alma mater, the University of Chicago. Inspired by LSD, the group once opened for the Grateful Dead and played at Ken Kesey’s infamous Acid Test Graduation. The band also featured one of the first analog synthesizers designed by Don Buchla. Kartemquin's Gordon Quinn is behind the camera, and in the audience are Jerry Temaner and his family. (Kartemquin)

Oisín

1970 • 17 min • Ireland

This lyrical film opens with a quote from Irish mythology where Oisín describes Irish birdsong as ‘the sweetest in the world’ and urges us to ‘Stop and listen!’ What follows is a stunning, non-narrated depiction of Irish birds, animals and landscapes. Oisín was commissioned by the Department of Land of Ireland as a contribution to the European Conservation Year.

Use Your Eyes

1970 • 13 min • United States of America

“Use Your Eyes” is a police training film produced by the Alhambra Police Department, California, in 1970. It is intended to demonstrate to police officers how to search a residence for evidence of marijuana use, and what rights they have to search the property once certain prima facia evidence is established.