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This work depicts the sculptor Kiuchi Masaru's creative studio and the work without any verbal explanation.

"That's how it is, and it's fine," says the main character in Jozef Cyrus' documentary - a lonely, ageing farmer who endures daily inconveniences without complaint and runs a traditional rural farm. "(...) The field cannot stand, you have to work all the time," he explains. The camera accompanies the efforts of the protagonist, who - although the 1970s are coming to an end - does not have any agricultural machinery at his disposal and works like 19th century peasants. His only helper and faithful companion is the eponymous ox. Gradually, in successive shots, we learn about the protagonist's world view. This is the testimony of a man from a different era, who refuses even to sleep on a mattress because he was 'born on straw and will live on straw'. The successive parts of the film, including the scythe, the yoke, the birthday, the hayride and the autumn, are the elements that give rhythm to the main character's life.

What remains of a person after his death? How long does the memory of her live on? This is a film that tries to make a portrait of the soldier and homesteader Olof Knutsson Ros, called Rosgubben, who lived in Äppelbo parish in Västerdalarna and died there in 1918 at the age of 89.

The film follows the stream of consciousness of Ksenija Hribar, a ballet dancer from Ljubljana and a long time member of London Contemporary Dance Company.

Displays the various changes which take place outdoors with the onset of autumn. Illustrates the color changes in leaves. Depicts the animals hibernating or storing food and the birds flying south in preparation for winter.

Swiss television documentary on the first years of the dictatorship, filmed (in color) in 1977 by a team led by director André Gazut and journalist Claude Smadja. Strongly critical of authoritarianism and the failures of the economic model that was beginning to be adopted, the report shows different aspects of the ideological and technical implementation of the military government. From the purge in universities to the precariousness of the Minimum Employment Program, from the revenge of employers in the countryside to the lamentable composition of the constitutional commission, the show is full of conversations with personalities close to the regime (Jaime Guzmán, Maximilianio Errázuriz, Manuel Valdés, Ruy Barbosa, Arturo Fontaine Aldunate, among others) which is interspersed with testimonies from residents and farmers, victims of violence and poverty.

An action packed industrial film about how to handle kidnapping and extortion made by Bill Rebane under his North Star Communications Company for the Citizen's State Bank & Trust Co. in Wausau, Wisconsin. Restored and included on the Arrow Video Weird Wisconsin collection.

My Lai ten years after the massacre. Reconstruction of the crime at the place where it was committed; tracing the trail of squad leader Calley in the USA; description of what happened by people who were believed to be dead.

In 1961, a Christian clod named Merrill Womach survived a Thanksgiving plane accident and gas explosion that left his face and body burnt to a crisp. But instead of giving up, he sang and survived, turning tragedy into a lucrative career.

Driven by a quest to capture a landscape reduced to flatness and sky, Viola travels to Chott El-Djerid. The film opens with images of snowy prairies and winter scenes, mirrored by warm, vibrating desert vistas. Through powerful telephoto lenses, shimmering mirages and warped forms emerge under extreme heat and light. These visuals evoke a space where dream and waking reality merge. Viola’s journey transcends documentation, transforming viewing into a reflective exploration of the limits of perception.

Akis Panou explains the connection between his songs and his need to capture moments, emotions, and experiences, while also discussing how he perceives lyrics. Interwoven are scenes of him playing the bouzouki and performing alongside Manolis Mitsias the songs *"O Trellos"* and *"Zoi Mou"*. The program also includes footage of Akis Panou crafting a bouzouki in his workshop. He explains how he got involved in instrument making, while also talking about his relationship with painting and copper engraving.

This 1973 behind-the-scenes documentary features footage of director Francois Truffaut at work on the set of 'Day For Night'.

Slovenian short film about promiscuity.

In Canadian-born John Cook’s restless documentary of an Austrian couple, I JUST CAN’T GO ON, the husband Petrus, channeling “Cassius Marcellus Clay,” takes up boxing to supplement the income from his day-job burnishing frames. His companion, the much older Gisi, works as a janitor. They are an odd couple, scavenging at the bottom of the Viennese social ladder. But there is nothing patronizing or exploitative in Cook’s treatment of the couple and their eccentricities as they try to make ends meet. In one of the film’s key aesthetic choices, Cook eschews synched sound in favor of a stream-of-consciousness soundtrack pitting Petrus and Gisi’s unfiltered remarks in relief against the harsh material world.

Henshin! Henshin! Arashi and Rider is a 1972 special promoting Henshin Ninja Arashi and Kamen Rider.

Tadic chronicles the life of a postman from Dalmatian hinterland who every day walks over several miles by foot to hand over letters.

An analysis of black comedy and entertainment in the context of white production.

Hal Jepsen's coverage of the 1971 Expression Session. This was a surfing showcase event without judges, scores, winners, or losers, featuring a select group of the world's best surfers.

A simple metaphor for life - a donkey toiling away at a mill.

In the early 1970s, Toronto filmmaker Keith Lock moved to Buck Lake, where members of the Toronto art scene were undertaking an experiment in communal living. Lock filmed the achievements and daily rituals of his fellow communards, his camera bearing witness as a community assembled and dispersed. The resulting film uses poetic strategies, including logograms and other graphic disruptions, to extend its themes of renewal and rebirth, and to mark the encounter between reason and imagination, the concrete and the abstract. A landmark work of Canadian underground cinema, a film diary with mystic and symbolic overtones.

Using archival photographs, historical footage, and illustrations, this documentary traces the evolution of the feminist movement in the United States from the eighteenth century to the rise of modern women’s liberation.

A documentary about how Republican forces lost to Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

The first segment of what would eventually be the Prairie Trilogy, about veteran North Dakota poet and socialist organizer Henry Martinson, who fought against economic exploitation. Martinson recounts the 1916 birth of the Socialist Nonpartisan League, his narrative accompanied by images shot by Nilsson’s own grandfather, Frithjof Holmboe.

A satirical look at the Soviet-block hairdressing contest which was held in Warsaw in 1971.

This film, shot in 1952-53, documents the scarification ceremony called "marking" which was traditionally held for Ju/'hoan boys after they had killed their first large animal. Here, /Ti!kay, a boy of thirteen, shoots his first wildebeest with an arrow. /Ti!kay's father, Kan//a, and Crooked /Qui help the young hunter track, skin, and butcher the animal. After the meat is brought back to the village, a scarification ceremony takes place, symbolizing the importance of hunting and /Ti!kay's passage into social manhood. He is now considered an acceptable son-in-law by the parents of the girl to whom he has long been betrothed.

A brief remembrance of the Peruvian doctor Daniel Alcides Carrión (1857-1885), his investigation of the disease known as verruga, his self-inoculation of the virus and the heroic death of the doctor who with his sacrifice defeated the plague that decimated the miners of the Andes.

The 'Rounama' dance comes from a wedding custom that was common in Iran, both in the distant past and more recently. Grooms wouldn't know their brides until the very last moment before getting married, and this unfamiliarity sometimes led to unexpected situations. The creators of the Rounama dance, which has humorous elements, aim to introduce viewers to this old tradition.

Grigny-La Grande Borne, a large housing project south of Paris, the miserable condition of the buildings in the large city.

The origins of Brazilian popular music and the types of scales used, as well as the various currents that emerged and formed different schools. The great composers.

Sentiment was made as an homage to my mother who died in 1964. It is composed of footage of myself and my mother recorded between 1950-52.

Documentation on the life and work of Johann Nestroy from 1801 to 1862.

This short documentary offers an account of the epic bicycle ride of seventy girls and one man from Montreal to Vancouver. Their ultimate goal is to raise money in order to fund their trip to Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan.

A film about Stasys Brundza, the winner of the Tour d'Europe, who managed to break into the wide world behind the Iron Curtain through sport.

This short documentary shows the city of Banja Luka after the 1969 earthquake.

The history and development of motion picture machinery is lovingly and authoritatively presented and narrated by ASC cinematographer and film preservationist, Karl Malkames, using actual early motion picture cameras from 'The Malkames Collection'.

Don Marshall follows three pals who fuel up their motorcycles in Denver and hit the great highway for the adventure of a lifetime.A road trip that takes them all the way to Panama. They don't have much cash, but these nomadic spirits still manage to get their thrills while skiing, scuba diving and watching bullfights as they make their way from the States to Central America.

The 3rd edition of the Sid Davis original, now in colour and with an expanded script.

In 1971, while the Japanese prime minister Sato Eisaku was visiting South Korea to attend a party for President Park Chung-hee, a group of eight South Korean hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) took a direct petition to the Japanese embassy. The South Korean hibakusha were detained by South Korean authorities for the duration of the prime minister’s visit. This film follows the lives of these eight people. That same year, Son Chin-tu, a hibakusha who had entered Japan illegally and was being held at the Omura Detention Center, filed his so-called “Hibakusha Certificate Lawsuit,” demanding Japanese residency and medical treatment.

CM documentary 35mm Color 10 minutes

"A documentary film which looks at the issue of British Columbia Native land claims and how the aboriginals link their culture to the land, which has been stolen by the dominant white culture of North America. In the film, the argument is presented that the lands have been taken from the Natives without any clear treaty agreements and how attempts had been made to wipe out Native culture through the Residential School system. " Produced by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs in 1975.

Left-wing collective film targeting colonial politics in Northern Sweden (Norrland).

A short feature on the city of Gorky in the year of its 750th anniversary.

A businessman who studies witchcraft as a hobby and a businesswoman who heads a coven are interviewed about their beliefs and practices. Shows the initiation of new members into a coven and the attempt by a "circle" to heal a member.

A film about space research in the Federal Republic of Germany. Space projects, further development of space technology and how these developments can benefit the German economy and change lives are explained.

Geographic features of a great frontier land, including scenes of the exciting new capital, Brasilia.

Birth Rites documents Julia Lauder giving birth at home surrounded by her family. Her film focuses on women’s agency during homebirth in contrast to some women’s experiences in a hospital setting. It shows the value of physical and psychological support during labour, and the importance of touch in establishing bonds with newborns directly after birth.

This 1970s PSA-style short film titled ”Safety Facts About Crossing Tracks” combines b-roll footage and stop-motion photography to display the most common types of accidents and driving errors at rail crossings and how to avoid these errors

One of the few ethnographic films in which the anthropologist appears as one of the subjects - a lively introduction to the nature of fieldwork. Napoleon Chagnon, who lived among the Yanomamo for 36 months over a period of eight years, is shown in various roles as "fieldworker": entering a village armed with arrows and adorned with feathers; sharing coffee with the shaman Dedeheiwa who recounts the myth of fire; dispensing eyedrops to a baby and accepting in turn a shaman's cure for his own illness; collecting voluminous genealogies; making tapes, maps, Polaroid photos; and attempting to analyze such patterns as Yąnomamö village fission, migration, and aggression.

Klaus Rifbjerg is a portrait that has the author talking about his work in a series of tableaux.

The story of a cougar named Whiskers.

A portrait of a 90-year-old Carthusian monk dr. Josip Edgar Leopold from the Pleterje monastery.

A documentary about young people just starting their higher education and their professional life.