All Films

Spit Sandwich

1970 • 15 min

A series of short, single-take anecdotes that introduce his idiosyncratic approach to video and humor, these technically raw-edged vignettes use understated means to create conceptual sight gags and absurdist one-liners. Wegman's deadpan spoken delivery of his monologues, and his ingenious use of everyday objects, subvert the viewer's expectations and transform the ordinary into the surreal.

How to Gain Money, Women and Fame?

1970 • 47 min • Poland

Three ironic episodes showing how to get what every man dreams of - money, women and fame.

Nightmares

1970 • 30 min • Czechoslovakia

Singer and actress Naďa Urbánková, against the background of vampires and ghostly realities.

Chicken Real

1970 • 23 min • United States of America

One of Les Blank's industrial films, which follows a Holly Farms "broiler" chicken from factory incubation to the county fair barbecue pit. A hilarious, disturbing and surreal look at a large-scale chicken farm producing 156 million chickens a year! Film includes lots of chicken songs and music recorded live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Beauty

1970 • 22 min • Netherlands

Detective Beauty undertakes an investigation into reality. He tries to understand a world he cannot grasp, to capture the things that escape him.

Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising

1970 • 58 min • United Kingdom

One of the human trio is Dick Fontaine, the director, a thin, long-haired youth who has put together this highly personal exercise on something or other that runs, mercifully, for 58 minutes and comes from an English group of movie folk called the Tattooists. The second visitor to the animal abattoir is a pretty girl. The third is a porky, middle-aged man addicted to the expression, "Ya know?" The two men carry on a running argument about whether they should make a picture about pigs. "Are we making a movie, ya know?" says Fatso. "Where is it, ya know?" Then a bit later: "I'm making a movie about pigs, ya know?"

Singleton

1970 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Based on Lesia Ukrainka’s unfinished novella. At the end of the 19th century, a Ukrainian boy, Petro, is torn from his home and beloved and conscripted into the Russian army.

Tauw

1970 • 27 min • Senegal

A young unemployed man fends off accusations of laziness and makes a home for his pregnant girlfriend who has been rejected by her family.

Who Killed Cock Robin?

1970 • 56 min

Sort of a homosexual Dirty Harry, a gay cop investigates the murder of a porn star.

Marie and Me

1970 • 12 min • United States of America

color, silent, 8mm film

Black Sabbath - Pop Shop: Part 1

1970 • 30 min • Japan

In the history of rock, Black Sabbath is considered the pioneer of metal. Led by Ozzy Osbourne on vocals and Tony Iommi on guitar, Black Sabbath influenced the heavy metal scene. In 1970, RTB cameras filmed the British group in concert, in Brussels, in its original formation. Setlist: 01 – Introduction 02 – Paranoid 03 – Hand Of Doom 04 – Iron Man 05 – Black Sabbath 06 – N.I.B. 07 – Behind The Walls Of Sleep 08 – War Pigs 09 – Fairies Wear Boots 10 – Creits

That's the Price

1970 • 41 min • Canada

What happens to two dying coal towns in British Columbia when an American corporation provides a contract for millions of tons of coking coal? The film follows the consequences for the towns of Natal and Michel, suggesting that industrial growth has its price, especially with regard to the environment.

Ashes of Doom

1970 • 2 min • Canada

A chain-smoking woman has an encounter with a vampire.

Little Misunderstandings

1970 • 33 min • Soviet Union

Transsibirische Bahn

1970 • 19 min • Germany

A short film about an installation of the same name created by Joseph Beuys between 1961 and 1969, as well as an action of the same name that Beuys performed in February 1970 on the occasion of his exhibition "Tabernacle" at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk.

Ark

1970 • 19 min

A man takes care of an oasis in the middle of a harsh, toxic land.

Guguta

1970 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A film based on Spiridon Vangeli's "The Adventures of Gugutse". It is about a boy Gugutse and his magic hat, which everyone could hide under in the frost.

The Doors: Feast of Friends

1970 • 50 min • United States of America

A cinematic look at The Doors on the road during their summer '68 tour. Concert performances are intercut with fly-on-the-wall footage of the group in their natural habitat.

Black Sabbath - Musikladen Live

1970 • 20 min • Germany

Join the founders of heavy metal in their original lineup as they perform four of their classic tunes on this exciting release from Pioneer Artists Entertainment. Presented in standard 1.33:1 full screen and English Dolby Digital Stereo, Black Sabbath rocks their way into your living room with "Black Sabbath," "Iron Man," "Paranoid," and a sonic cover of Elvis' "Blue Suede Shoes" that must be heard to be believed, taking full advantage of the crystal-clear sound and picture of DVD. This rare appearance filmed in Germany for The Beat Club caught the godfathers of metal in their prime, making this historic high point in the band's history a must-have for collectors and fans alike.

The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'

1970 • 42 min • United States of America

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the classic western about the lives of two of America's most famous outlaws. Director George Roy Hill narrates this film, talking about some of the experience, both good and bad, of bringing the film to life.

The Raft

1970 • 29 min • Netherlands

An intimate account of a thousand kilometer journey on a river in the Northeast of Brazil on a self-made raft carrying a small household including two children. The raft is the means of transport since time immemorial and the journey to the town of Teresina lasts about a month. Life in slow-motion, with fleeting encounters along the banks. When the family arrives in Teresina, the merchandise is sold, the raft dismanteld, branch by branch, leaf by leaf.

The Most Important

1970 • 18 min • Soviet Union

HWY: An American Pastoral

1970 • 52 min • United States of America

HWY: An American Pastoral is a film by Jim Morrison, Frank Lisciandro, Paul Ferrara, and Babe Hill and stars Morrison as a hitchhiker. It is a 50-minute experimental film in Direct Cinema style. It was shot during the spring and summer of 1969 in the Mojave Desert and in Los Angeles.

Nawi

1970 • 23 min • Australia, United States of America

This classic ethnographic documentary, by the renowned filmmaking team of David and Judith MacDougall, explores the nomadic life of the Jie of Uganda. During the dry season the Jie leave their homesteads in large numbers and take their cattle to temporary camps (nawi) in western Karamoja District, where water and grass are more abundant.