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Allied to a four-year Daily Mirror campaign by John Pilger that helped achieve compensation for many of the forgotten and mostly working class victims of the notorious drug prescribed to women during pregnancy. Broadcast in 1974, the theme of Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot was to become a Pilger hallmark: injustice.
Documentary on the battle in Cyprus between English soldiers and EOKA insurgent Grigoris Afxentiou.
Short film about the right of way
A film about Ukrainian easter eggs, their religious and cultural significance and how they are made.
Short educational film about Udo
One of the most important experimental documentaries produced in Peru. It highlights the difference between the social classes before 1968, which was intended to justify the military coup of the Revolutionary Government under the slogan "Tierra sin Patrones" (Land without Bosses).
David Loeb Weiss completed a short documentary called To Make a Revolution about the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), a revolutionary Marxist youth group closely allied to the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party.
An experimental short film.
Fresh sensuality, an almost childish naivety and a point of mischief, showing an attractive demi-mondaine archetype Aprende a pronunciar
Roger Hammond’s silent portraits of film artists from the early 1970s were shot in and around David Larcher’s studio. Some Friends begins with a Polaroid photograph of fellow Co-op filmmaker Mike Dunford held before the camera by the filmmaker as he pans the camera upwards with his other hand. The photograph is held roughly in the centre of the frame, and the general situation in which it is filmed is just seen at the sides of the photograph as the camera pans. The same action is repeated with several photographs, against different backdrops (the river banks, a lawn, a domestic interior).
Rape has three victims discussing their emotional, physical and intellectual responses, then and now, highlighted and commented upon by a series of visual interpolations.
This film details the dismantling of the old railway Siaurukas in Lithuania and the construction of its new modern replacement. The old railway and the new railway become the symbol of the clash between the archaic rural Lithuania and Soviet industrialization. The film was often considered as an expression of the archetypes of Lithuanian character.
Canadian Pacific II is designed as a companion piece to Canadian Pacific I. Shot from a window two storeys higher and in the building adjacent to the artists’s studio of the previous year, one enters into a dream state… an involvement with a vocabulary of seeing and feeling by subtle transitions of the passage of time
The making and sailing of boats made with totora straw; a craft created by the Mochica people and still practiced today on Huanchaco beach.
This short film is part of Karpo Aćimović Godina's experimental and documentary work in 1970s Yugoslav cinema. It extends his interest in regional identities, minorities, and the visual traces left by different cultures on Yugoslav territory. The film offers a journey through examples of architecture, decor, and objects related to Islamic tradition in the former Yugoslavia, such as mosques, ornamental elements, and calligraphy. It explores how this art is embedded in the region's history and in the daily lives of the communities that produced it. It is an observational film, without a dramatic plot, functioning primarily as a "visual essay" on the material culture of Islam in a Balkan context. The tone is analytical and contemplative, closer to a cultural study or a poetic inventory.
Observes a newly engaged couple as they wrestle with the fears and doubts nurtured by socio-economic differences, family pressures, immaturity, and ambivalent desires. Listens to their secret thoughts and wishes as each tries to cope with the anxiety and frustration-filled situations. States a position for an engagement, long enough to resolve second thoughts and to get to know one another and themselves.
The impression lasts as long as it takes to make a horseshoe and shows the work of a blacksmith.
In 1976, Hubert Smith set out with a group of researchers to visually document Yucatec Maya society within the village of Chican. This project resulted in the 4-part series, The Living Maya. During filming, however, it was impossible to ignore the use of sign language in the village. Smith and his team saw a lot of the deaf residents, filmed them often, and went back to have these sign exchanges translated. Now it is time to share a story solely about them.
Originally filmed as an archival record of a Warlpiri (Walbiri) ceremony in 1967 by Roger Sandall, the film footage was re-worked 10 years later by anthropologist Nicolas Peterson and filmmaker, Kim McKenzie, to make this short version for public viewing. Involving large numbers of both men and women, Ngatjakula is one of the most spectacular ceremonies of central Australia, employing fire, and several days of singing and dance, to resolve conflicts and re-affirm social order among the Warlpiri (Walbiri) people. One of Sandall’s many films about ceremonial life, including several of Warlpiri rituals, the film was part of the program of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies to record traditional aspects of Aboriginal life and culture. McKenzie’s collaboration with Peterson (who had been present at the time of the original filming) to edit this public version, is a meticulous representation of the fire ceremony, much of which took place at night.
On 7 July 1978, the Solomon Islands regained its independence from Britain. This documentary, filmed by cinematographers John Hosking and Academy Award winner Dean Semler, looks at the people of these islands and their views on independence, and records aspects of their way of life, including their songs and dances. It also describes some of the problems facing the new nation and what is being done to combat them.
Sponsored film produced for Crescent Cardboard Company showcasing the superiority of "line kote" cardboard versus "hot press" cardboard in the design and production of graphic art.
Filmed on the streets of Lisbon, after the 25th of April, with a Super 8 camera, it documents the political propaganda posters, graffiti and murals of revolutionary ideology inscribed on the city's walls.
Gang members, Vietnam vets, and young factory workers from Chicago's neighborhoods tell of their personal experience with racism- who gets hurt and who profits.
Martin Slivka's documentary film about Karol Plicka (1894-1987), the founder of Slovak cinematography.
Kim's first moving-image work, made between 1971 and 1973 with an 8mm movie camera.
Joe Fafard is a sculptor living in the small town of Pense in rural Saskatchewan. There isn't much in Pense except for about 300 people and a lot of cows. Joe does small sculptures of the town's human and bovine residents, which have been exhibited and acclaimed in various places around the world.
A documentary on the subject of secondary schools, shot in Berlin-Kreuzberg in 1976. It shows teachers and students (grades 7–10) in dependent roles, refers to the working world of the parents, and documents solidarity between German and Turkish students, parents, and teachers. Other locations included a rocker pub and a girls' dormitory.
One of six Canada Vignettes from the NFB production Don Messer - His Land and His Music, featuring one of the principal performers, Marg Osburne, who has since passed away.
This is one of the films produced by Toei, who began producing educational films in 1954, as a teaching material film for schools. It tracks how many percent of the 10,000 eggs of the American White-tailed worm can safely become adults. During the observation process, the raison d'étaté of other natural enemies, as well as the clever mechanisms of natural balance are revealed.
Short Super8 making of of Walter Bockmayer's CARMEN, shot by the director himself.
The film tells about the life and work of the outstanding figure of Russian cinema Esfir Ilyinichna Shub.
Depicts a day in the life of the Miami River. Starting at the Brickell Bay Bridge, where the river meets Biscayne Bay, the journey takes us upriver to show tug boats guiding large cargo boats – with comments by the skippers of the tugs; views of the various bridges that span the river being opened; and a party in progress on the Latin party boat El Galleon. General views of the river and city are seen. Made by Miami filmmaker, George Vallejo. 16mm
Encourages the prospect of hosting an intercity exhibition on rails, with the potential to travel all across Europe.
The nature and history of the Isle of Rhum, Scotland.
A short documentary looking at top gymnastic performances, filmed during the VIIth Gymnastics World Championship in Ljubljana and backed by music by Bach.
East German short film
Experimental film in colour from 1971 by Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen (1920-2013).
On independence, Algeria had it written into its Constitution that all revolutionary and national freedom movements could claim political asylum. lt says: “The development of Algeria’s socialism is closely connected to the freedom struggle of people in other parts of the world. lt is imperative for any revolutionary movement to support this struggle and it should never become an object of manipulation or blackmail”.
The history of abortion legislation in Norway
This documentary examines the way of life and the cataclysmic end of the Minoan people who lived in Knossos, an ancient city on the island of Crete.
Illustrates the manufacture of flaked and ground stone tools among Duna speakers in Papua New Guinea, and shows the use of the tools in making bows and arrows.
A visually dynamic story about teenage motorsport races.
Coal workers are one of the professions that disappeared in our time due to the rapid technological development of industrial society. The film refers to the survival problems faced by both the coal traders and its producers, mainly the coal miners. Black and white emphasizes not only the product of production, coal, but also the acuteness of the problem. In addition, he follows the latter throughout the production of charcoal in the forests of Evia, where they move as a family. It describes the different phases of the production process, alongside the different phases of their reflection on the future, the whole family together and each member separately. Alinda Dimitriou does not use a questionnaire to elicit their thoughts – she lets the conversation "unravel the tangle of confessions", as she typically said.
Portrays the loneliness and alienation subway riders experience in the dirt and graffiti laden New York City subway. Screeching cars, pulsing escalators and moving platforms, nervous and stressed riders as they wait interminably or as they surge forward to compete for a seat during rush hour. The underground claustrophobia is finally relieved as the trains emerge above the ground and rattle to the end of the line.
Short film focused on the dangers of hitchhiking in the seventies.
The film is a continuous, "real time" tracking shot of a stream bed. The length of the track was ten yards. The camera was suspended in a motorized carriage running on steel cables three feet above the water surface. The camera pointed vertically downwards recording the contours of the stream bed and the flow of water along its course. The sound of the water was recorded synchronously from the moving carriage.
The potential of the inland regions and their need for communication routes.
Life of the sea lions of the Ballestas Islands in Paracas Bay.
A documentary film recorded in autumn 1969 in Guinea-Bissau's jungles during one of PAIGC leader Amilcar Cabral's inspection trips.
In 1976, a year before the issue was still being discussed in the media, Yamamura and his crew visited Horie-cho, Edogawa-ku, the “town of hexavalent chromium,” and, based on Tsuchimoto's extensive data, traced the chromium that was dumped in various places in the Tokyo metropolitan area since the Taisho Era.
A film about the activities of the US military base in Keflavík, Iceland.
In Rennes, as part of the 5th Traditional Arts Festival in 1978, storytellers and musicians from the Seychelles islands express their concern with modernism and the disinterest of young people in traditional music.