All Films

The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees

1970 • 58 min

The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees is a 1970 documentary exploring the career of Norman McLaren, a Scots-Canadian animator known for his pioneering work in experimental animation, using innovative techniques to blend visual art with sound design.

Jaramataia

1970 • 21 min • Brazil

Life on the Jaramataia farm in the interior of Paraíba and the relations between the cowboys and the owners of the land.

Short Stories

1970 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Kiri (The Fog)

1970 • 3 min • Japan

"Shot on 8mm on a mountain in Japan, the abrasive winds that drift the fog in Iimura's Kiri are so fierce we almost believe it to have grazed the filmstrip. The scratches, however, emerge as dust particles that submerge in and out of the mist. A comparative piece to Larry Gottheim's Fog Line (1970), Kiri shows rare patience in such a situation." -Julian Ross.

The Flower Lovers

1970 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Explosive flowers, a phenomenal invention, have filled the world with enthusiasm. People, usually uninterested in simple flowers, are now crazy about the new fashion. The explosive flowers have become a mania, a matter of social reputation.

Mister Rossi at Camping

1970 • 12 min • Italy

Mr. Rossi goes camping.

Heartbeat in the Brain

1970 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A documentary produced and directed by Amanda Feilding, an advocate of trepanation. In the film, Feilding, a 27-year-old student at the time, drills a hole in her forehead with a dentist's drill. In the documentary, surgical scenes alternate with motion studies of Feilding's pet pigeon Birdie.

Lord, Let Me Die but Not Die Out

1970 • 37 min • United States of America

Follows contemporary American poet James Dickey on a three week lecture tour. Reveals the actual thoughts and feelings of the poet through his conversations and poetry readings. Later, he and fellow poet Robert Lowell discuss their dreams.

Children Under 16...

1970 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Visitors from another planet arrive in the city to study humans. Their lack of knowledge about basic traffic rules leads them into a series of troublesome situations.

Apotheosis

1970 • 18 min • United Kingdom

This short follows Lennon and Ono as they take a hot-air balloon ride over snow-covered countryside.

The Grus

1970 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A little crane flies to Africa with other cranes. He likes it there very much, but later he realizes that he is only a stranger there and returns home.

Osaka Show 1970

1970 • 51 min • Spain

A utopian tour through the various pavilions of Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.

Zorns Lemma

1970 • 60 min • United States of America

Zorns Lemma is a 1970 American structuralist film by Hollis Frampton. It is named after Zorn's lemma (also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma), a proposition of set theory formulated by mathematician Max Zorn in 1935. Zorns Lemma is prefaced with a reading from an early grammar textbook. The remainder of the film, largely silent, shows the viewer an evolving 24-part "alphabet" (where i & j and u & v are interchanged) which is cycled through, replaced and expanded upon. The film's conclusion shows a man, woman and dog walking through snow as several voices read passages from On Light, or the Ingression of Forms by Robert Grosseteste.

Melissa: The Total Female

1970 • 56 min • United States of America

A British porn director named Dave is casting his movies. Melissa is a buxom blonde who satisfies Dave both in his office and on the set. Minimal plot has Dave's jealous (and prudish) girl friend calling the cops on him during the inevitable orgy finale.

Operación no se respira

1970 • 5 min

A man tries to speak, but his mouth is covered. He then undresses and gestures with his hands, but they are tied. Next, he tries to dance a tango, but his feet are tied. He attempts to communicate by shaking his genitals, but they are held against his leg. Finally, he moves his nostrils, but they are pinned shut. Thus, he dies. Only surviving short from the National Film Meeting against censorship held in the Santa Fe Railway Union in November 1970.

The Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene

1970 • 22 min

Robert Mitchum narrates an anti drug propaganda film.

Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles

1970 • 51 min • United States of America

The New York Friars club roasts Don Rickles. Hosted by Johnny Carson.

Using the Telephone

1970 • 18 min • United Kingdom

A young David Jason tries and fails to master sales calls.

Norman Mailer vs. Fun City

1970 • 50 min • United States of America

Dick Fontaine documents Norman Mailer’s 1969 bid for the Mayor’s office in New York City. Accompanied by his running mate, Jimmy Breslin, Mailer charismatically works the press and the public with a provocative platform that ultimately fails.

Gay San Francisco

1970 • 60 min

Shot between 1965-1970, Gay San Francisco features a collection of incredible footage of San Francisco’s thriving LGBTQ culture, with a focus on the Tenderloin, San Francisco’s first queer neighborhood.

Béjart

1970 • 59 min • France, Venezuela

Maurice Béjart answers an interview about choreographic creation; it shows ballets and improvisations. The film was screened for the 1970 Directors' Fortnight, at the Cannes Festival.

How the Cossacks Played Football

1970 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A group of cossacks travels around Europe, playing football against the teams of different countries, each of which has their very unique playing style.

Staggerlee: A Conversation with Black Panther Bobby Seale

1970 • 59 min

A documentary on Black Panther leader Bobby Seale during his incarceration in the San Francisco County Jail.

The Tortoise and the Hare

1970 • 12 min

A telling of the classic tale about a foot race between a hare and a tortoise.