All Films

Keep Off the Grass

1970 • 22 min

Tom is confronted by his parents about being a "dope fiend" for using marijuana.

Ana Kamien

1970 • 10 min • Argentina

Inspired by choreographic fragments of the prestigious dancer Ana Kamien, the filmmaker Marcelo Epstein creates a cinematographic work that, due to its singular concept and language and the year of its realization, is considered the foundational work of what is known today as videodance in Argentina.

Genius

1970 • 60 min • France, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Based upon the theme of Faust, with the characters portrayed serving as representatives of the crises of their time. A triple portrait of three important figures in the art world: British artist David Hockney, Argentine surrealist painter Leonor Fini, and German-French art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.

Contacts

1970 • 18 min • Germany

Super obscure experimental short film. Very raw and primitive, it features a great soundtrack made of amazing psychedelic abstract electronic music (the song is “I Of IV” by electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros), which is probably what makes this short some kind of mesmerizing experience

Did Britain Murder Hanratty?

1970 • 36 min • United Kingdom

A documentary covering the trials of James Hanratty, perceived to be wrongly accused at the time and one of the final eight people in the UK to be executed before capital punishment was effectively abolished.

Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945

1970 • 16 min

This documentary is a compilation of silent black-and-white film footage shot by the Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortly after the atomic bomb blasts in early August 1945. English-language voice-over narration has been added, along with a few scenes from American sources. The film shows the destruction and injury caused by the atomic bombs in graphic detail.

Science Friction

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

The Ant is captured by a scientist and placed in an insect specimen container within the scientist's mobile laboratory, and fortunately for the Ant, his host does not approve of the Aardvark's Ant-snatching attempts.

The Black Goddess

1970 • 25 min

Working in a coal mine Morgan suspects that his fellow miner is losing his mind as he often rambles about seeing 'The Black Goddess' who haunts the workings and demands a sacrifice...then a pitfall occurs and terrifyingly he does not seem so mad after all.

Misuke in the Land of Ice

1970 • 16 min • Japan

A puppy, Poko, jumps out of a refrigerator and takes a boy, Misuke, to an ice world full of adventure through the refrigerator. In the ice world, there is a girl called Nally who wants warm food. So they try to find some warm food for her, but everything freezes so quickly in the ice world...

Pornogra Follies

1970 • 30 min

Ted Davis is everyone's favorte Master of Ceremonies for the following performances: Peckernose Act, The Cooking and the Washing Act, Spin Your Little Clothes Off Act, Tea Break, The Spinning Nuns, Balancing Prick Act, The Dirty Hummers, Spanish Dancer Act, The Whora, Picking a Winner, The Poop Chute Act, Waiting and Worrying Nude Act, The Tapping Tennis, The Disappearing Milk and Sandwich Act, The Flower Magician, Fart Chorus, The Whirlwinds, The Paper Bags on the Heads Act, The Belly Dance, Cheek to Cheek, Head Job Act, Tweeting Prick Act, Fanny Dancer, Back Words Act, Betsy the Cussing Doll, And… The Singing Twat

Langlois

1970 • 52 min

Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

Fall 2

1970 • 1 min • Netherlands

Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.

Christmas Is

1970 • 30 min • United States of America

Benji is upset that he is playing the second shepherd in his school Christmas play for the second year in a row.

Fall 1

1970 • 1 min • United States of America

Bas Jan Ader's first fall film shows him seated on a chair, tumbling from the roof of his two-storey house in the Inland Empire.

Africa Danny

1970 • 17 min

Super 8 silent early short film by the Chiodo Brothers, inspired by Ray Harryhausen, included on the 4K remastered Arrow Video Blu-ray of ‘Killer Klowns from Outer Space’

The Killer of Fossil Gulch

1970 • 19 min • United States of America

In the shadow of Dinosaur Cliff lies Fossil Gulch and Ghost Ranch. Will someone on the ranch be an innocent victim?

Antenna

1970 • 34 min • Netherlands

Antenna gives a snapshot of the 1970s. The film is a typical work by Ditvoorst: freedom of the individual, the desire for a utopia that does not come true, the lonely and misunderstood artist, the aversion to the state, bureaucracy and religious authorities, absurd side characters etc. The film has little dialogue and is largely told through the images of cameraman Jan de Bon

Putti Plutti Pott og Julenissens Skjegg

1970 • 39 min

Britt Blazer

1970 • 60 min • United States of America

Female agent Britt Blazer (Bambi Allen) is sent to hunt down the gang that has kidnapped the daughter of a British agent. It's all just a flimsy excuse for wall-to-wall soft-core sex... enough so that an attempt to release this in the UK led to it being banned due to "frequent" and "gratuitous" sex. One minute of nudity and "sexual violence" were removed before it was finally passed.

Under the Table You Must Go

1970 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A trip around the clubs, pubs and discotheques in London, England.

Attack No. 1 - Tear Rotation Receive

1970 • 60 min • Japan

The four heavenly kings of Hamaki have joined the Fujimi Gakuen Valley Club, which aims to be the best in Japan. However, one of the four heavenly kings, Yuri, hurts her wrist and becomes unable to play volleyball. Yuri, who once became a spy at another school due to discoloration, decides to throw her best in the track and field club with the encouragement of Kozue and others. And finally the national tournament. Fujimi Gakuen, which continues to win daringly, has finally reached the final match with Fukuoka Junior High School, where the master of rotating receive, Kakinouchi, is present!!!

La Fenêtre

1970 • 45 min

Two suicides take place in the same room of a hotel in Paris. The police investigate the reason why two previous tenants was pushed to hang themselves at that particular place.

Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke

1970 • 55 min • France

Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series “Cinéastes de notre temps”.

Pixillation

1970 • 4 min • United States of America

Pixillation features computer generated abstract animations set to Moog-synthesized sound.