All Films

The Man in Black

1970 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

People need a leader. Someone has to lead them, even if he is sick. The man in black stands at the bus stop and warns anyone who comes to stand in line. The queue is getting longer. When the bus arrives, the man lets the people in line enter in front of him, and when he prepares to enter, paramedics come and take him away.

Coda

1970 • 15 min • Italy

A conclusion and recapitulation of the Eryngium cycle, Coda deals directly with the theme of self-portraiture. The first shot alludes to the end of Erichvon Stroheim's Foolish Wives, where the corpse of the hero-director is dispatched in a man-hole. Other dramatic self-portraits follow: Caravaggio's Goliath, Dante's Sestina (read by the film-maker), and Dürer's Self-portrait with Eryngium. The abandoned villa of Migrazione is revisited. But the finale is hopeful.

Pink Floyd: KQED

1970 • 60 min

One of the most celebrated recordings of the Pink Floyd, professionally filmed in San Francisco on the afternoon of the 29th of April 1970. Tracks performed are Atom Heart Mother, Cymbaline, Grantchester Meadows, Green Is Thy Colour, Careful With That Axe Eugene, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.

American Woman

1970 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

A documentary about Ann, the United States citizen, who came to Zagreb (Yugoslavia) to participate in the working actions along the Sava river.

Le cirque des muchachos

1970 • 8 min

Guy Gilles films the lives of young artists aged 12 to 18, members of a circus that has set up camp for two weeks at Porte Maillot in Paris. Between outdoor rehearsals and balancing acts, the filmmaker captures the fragile magic of adolescence and the spirit of freedom that comes with the dream of performing.

View

1970 • 4 min • United Kingdom

"The film alternates from recording in time-lapse (one frame every ten seconds) to running through the camera at 24 f.p.s. (regular speed). The film was made in a continuous heavy rainstorm, and the front element of the Angenieux lens accumulated drops of rain on its surface until the view became obscured. The bursts of film at normal speed occur just after the lens had been wiped dry to reveal the trees, marsh grass, and watersedge in clear sharp focus beyond" William Raban

Trip

1970 • 4 min • India

A timelapse short film that chronicles Bombay of the 1970s. Used as educational tool to understand time-lapse, sound sync and lighting apart from historical chronicle of a city.

How Does It Happen, Agnisia Is Asking, That We Can See a Bear on the Screen

1970 • 6 min • Poland

A witty lecture for children about the technique and production of a TV show, given by a resolute little girl, based on a program about Teddy Bear.

Arthur Penn: The Director

1970 • 25 min • United States of America

A short documentary about Arthur Penn.

Single (un ejercicio incompleto)

1970 • 14 min • Argentina

Cinematographic exercise by director Alberto Yaccelini, where through metadramatic procedures we are presented with the dilemma of the veracity of the documentary as a means of communication and reflection of reality. An apparently fragmentary, incomplete work that manages to fully reflect the complex personality of the protagonist. And, by extension, the complexity of personality.

Horton Hears a Who!

1970 • 26 min • United States of America

In this story, Horton discovers there is a microscopic community of intelligent beings called the Who's living on a plant that only he can hear. Recognising the dangers they face, he resolves to keep them safe. However, the other animals around him think Horton has gone crazy thinking that there are such beings.

Occupation

1970 • 47 min • Canada

Students seeking greater control over the hiring of faculty occupy the offices of the Political Science Department at McGill University. The film crew lives with the students and follows their action through confusion, argument, dissent, and negotiations with faculty. The result is an intimate view of a student political action.

Mask of the Red Death

1970 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story.

I See the Earth!

1970 • 17 min • Soviet Union

A popular science film dedicated to research of the Earth from spacecraft, instilling a sense of empathy for protection of the Earth's natural resources.

Rayday Film

1970 • 13 min

Rayday Film was shown projected in several 100-foot length parts from multiple projectors. The friends and family who featured in costume and character within - like Motler, the Word Killer who reflects Keens preference for action over thinking - performed similar actions in front of the screen. After a final performance in 1976, Keen spliced the parts together so it could be shown according to normal cinematic convention.

Nurse Griselda's Night Watch

1970 • 54 min • Yugoslavia

The story of a nurse who, during her night shifts, kills patients with her gentle talk and diligent care instead of healing them.

Roll On Four O'Clock

1970 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectations and ambitions. Pupil Latimer does not conform to the macho culture and is labeled a homosexual, leading to bullying by both the pupils and some of the teachers.

Children and Cars

1970 • 8 min • United Kingdom

An animated cartoon of drawings by young children, who imagine the motor car of today and of the future.

A Morte do Boi

1970 • 10 min • Brazil

Largo

1970 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

Being stranded on a desert island is anything but tedious for this strange shipwrecked soul.

Sanrizuka: The Three Day War

1970 • 50 min • Japan

In 1968 the plan by the government to construct a new international airport in the fields of Sanrizuka near Tokyo unleashed one of the most important and enduring social upheavals in the history of postwar Japan. The plan sought to evict thousands of farmers from their lands without any sort of respect for the locals’ rights. Their resistance to eviction was met with extreme violence by the police. Activists from all over the country, including thousands of students, joined with the farmers in their mounting struggle. As the combats in Sanrizuka became more intense and the numbers of police increased, the collective became more involved in the fighting. Sanrizuka: The Three Day War was what Ogawa called a “bullet film”, an immediate and powerful piece of agitprop shot in three days and intended to be seen as quickly and widely as possible. Credit: ICA London

Blood in Upper Egypt

1970 • 27 min • Egypt

The film discusses the issue of revenge in Upper Egypt.

Husband Under the Bed

1970 • 26 min • Poland

A jealous husband follows his wife, but accidentally ends up in a strange apartment.

Frei Damião: Trombeta dos Aflitos, Martelo dos Herejes

1970 • 20 min • Brazil