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Ed Emshwiller’s tender portrait of his wife, avant-garde science fiction writer Carol Emshwiller.

Soft X flick with hippie themes.

During the course of one night, two strangers, a lonely waif and a prodigal poet, form an unexpected connection.

Exploration of the possibilities of light – ephemeral, dazzling, ravishing. Its flames and explosions, its swirls and glimmer, its interactions with matter and celluloid.

A concept film made for Swedish television featuring songs that appeared on Lee Hazlewood’s album Requiem For An Almost Lady plus some additional tunes.

Scripted documentary about the life and career of painter, experimental film-maker, surrealist Hans Richter. Interview of Richter, examples of his art work, excerpts from his films.

hong kong film

In the early 1970s Robert Frank and the Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka led a workshop at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, where students were treated to a lesson in creative spontaneity and nonconformism. — Museum of Modern Art

Begins with landscape/sunset thru mist, ends with window sill.

In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an Opera (or piece of theater depending on the case) for television. The work is comprised of seven, two hours sections. Each “episode” is dedicated to investigations, interviews, and performances of his one of his peers – David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, and Terry Riley respectively, with the final reserved for himself.

A series of papers flutter in the wind.

Using film footage from various sources, Kaiss al-Zubaidi creates a description of the everyday lives of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Through skilful montage, the constant latency of conflict and violence becomes a relationship between the images. Counter-Siege was awarded one of seven ‘Main Prizes’ by the international jury at the 1979 Oberhausen Short Film Festival.

How Death Came to Earth is a 14 minute cutout animation film by Ishu Patel produced in 1971 by the National Film Board of Canada. The film deals with an Indian myth of creation, and is notable for its trippy visual style.

Movement of the body in all forms: dance, discipline, freedom, exploration, and the environment that surrounds it.

In this rotoscope animation, Tom Waits sings about "The One That Got Away."

Gabriella, Gabriella, a 1970-lensed soft-X feature repurposed to pad the running time of Arthur Marks' Class of '74. Gabriella is a young naive girl who finds herself surrounded by strange encounters with hippies, rich people and groupies.

We traveled to Indiana back roads to see and shoot the annual Miss Nude Universe Contest held at a “notorious” nudist camp. They wanted $15 a head at the gate so we parked down the road and crawled through the brush. Once in, we encountered truckers and hundreds of Sunday photographers straining for a shot at the contestants. Afterward we joined the quest for stray women willing to pose. After a quick success we headed home with our catch in the can.

A lecherous thief posing as a preacher is wandering in northern coastal Mexico. After stealing a car and evading police, he stumbles on a small coven of mysterious witches living in a seaside mansion. The preacher attempts to extort money from the witches, not knowing how dangerous they really are.

A young girl is so tortured by her realization that she's a lesbian that she commits suicide. Her enraged father sets out to take his revenge on all the lesbians that he believes drove his daughter to her death.

Een "Thrilla in Manila: The Philippines Under Martial Law

In this short documentary from the 70s, we get a glimpse of life inside an artistic community in the mudflats area of North Vancouver. An anti-establishment group, they live as squatters, rejecting drugs while practicing a philosophy of love for the universe. They also reject the values of mainstream society, as embodied by the mayor of North Vancouver, who wants to turn their “home” into a shopping centre.

Set in Gippsland in 1880 and based on the short story by Barbara Baynton, Squeaker (David Mitchell) and his mate (Myra Skipper) are a primitive, illiterate, poverty-stricken pair, who eke out a miserable living from felling timber in the remote bush.

Four children want to invite their friends to a picnic, but they don't know how to use the telephone. Suddenly, the room goes dark and the phone becomes large enough for them to climb into. They walk through a tunnel and meet a man named Telly, who takes them into the world of Telezonia, where they are shown various kinds of telephones. They meet several costumed characters, such as Question Mark, who teaches them how to answer the phone; Q and Z, who show them how to use the phone book; and Exclamation Point, who teaches them how to place a call. By the time they leave Telezonia, they are full-fledged telephone users.

A story revolving around the assassination of socialist leader Jean Jaurès in Paris in 1914. The script was improvised, and the film was shot on location in Mainz, Reims, Paris, Ibiza, and Formentera. The title refers to an islet near Ibiza in the Balearic Islands where part of the film was shot. Not to be confused with the 1971 album of the same name by the German group Can.

"In the final format for MAGELLAN, Frampton had planned to disassemble these two films into twenty-four 'encounters with death' that were to be shown in five-minute segments twice a month. In their present state, seen together and roughly the length of an average feature film, the two parts of MAGELLAN: AT THE GATES OF DEATH constitute perhaps the most gripping, monumental, and wrenching work ever executed on film...Frampton in 1971 began his filming of cedavers at the Gross Anatomy Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. He returned to the lab four times over the course of the next two years and then spent nine months assembling his 'forbidden imagery' into an extraordinary meditation upon death."–Bruce Jenkins

An illegal immigrant has a hard time

A group of eight collage films, using various clips from television commercials, educational documentaries and other sundry sources. (1) Birth; (2) Wake up; (3) Come Alive; (4) Video Breakup; (5) Sorry, Wrong Number; (6) Ways of a Witch; (7) Board Meeting; (8) Turn of the West – A Western.

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.

An anarchic collage of invention, Rubber Cement uses rotoscoped family footage together with found objects to create an almost free-form animation bursting with color and movement.

An artist takes a plaster cast of a nude male's body. Part of BFI collection "The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome."

This 11 minute homage to the male member shows its subject in the various stages of erection. The voice-over poem by James Broughton includes the line "This is the secret that will not stay hidden."

A reworking of an earlier film, Institutional Quality, in which the same test was given. In the earlier film, the person taking the test was not seen, and the film viewer in effect became the test taker. The newer version concerns itself with the effects of the test on the test taker. An attempt is made to escape from the oppressive environment of the test — a test containing meaningless, contradictory, and impossible-to-follow directions by entering into the imagination. —Canyon Cinema

A satire about a mayor who has problems with the cost of the 1976 Olympics.

A symbolic rape by the Devil and a renewal of self worth.

Bill Westland is a wealthy industrialist who now only intends to devote himself to his pleasures. He barely manages to make a few decisions about his myriad businesses or sign a few checks every week. He spends most of his time in a magnificent Hollywood villa in the company of his young wife and her many friends living a life of love that is as inventive and renewed as possible.

Two schoolboy musicians help to catch a jewel thief

A youth on the run hijacks a yacht with three children aboard.

A young boy, abandoned by his father and supported by a blindly optimistic mother, struggles to fit in at his new school.

Lucky's band of outlaws holds a rich girl for ransom and plans a new series of robberies. Meanwhile, a peasant who was widowed by one of Lucky's men teams up with a Preacher/Bounty Hunter to plot a premature end to Lucky's lucky streak.

Chinese American Journalist Freida Lee Mock journeys across the West Coast to unearth her family history and the history of the Chinese community in America.

Summary:The Flemish painter Heironymus Bosch (1450-1515) remains one of the most puzzling and enigmatic artists of all time. In this film we see two of his major triptychs, The Haywain and The Garden of Earthly Delights, in detail which only adds to Bosch's mystery. The Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1515) remains one of the most puzzling and enigmatic artists of all time. In this film we see two of his triptychs, THE HAYWAIN and THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS in detail which only adds to Bosch’s mystery. (TREASURES FROM THE EL PRADO series).

A chicken farmer takes LSD.

A man who sells coffee for a living gets his boss's daughter pregnant. This changes his life and eventually leads to his becoming a powerful business tycoon with no moral center. (TCM)

The Pink Panther follows a very long piece of string.

Color UCLA Animation Workshop Film, preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A handdrawn animation of a ghostly bman flying above the top of a cinema where "Man on Roof" is playing, only to be shot and killed by a police helicopter. An audience laughs at his dying body. The curtain falls and the audience begins asking to play the animation again, so the film reverses and plays again, only for two critics to speak over the film, debating whether the animation is a political statement.

In Fig we see a young girl, naked, pregnant; and a young man, also naked. Sometimes they are together, sometimes apart. They sit or stand with downcast eyes, but occasionally exchange a glance that may suggest complicity or perhaps great apprehension. Nothing really happens. Everything has happened or is about to happen, and the picture space seems alternately full of memory, and charged with potentiality. The figures are at once immensely weighted and strangely insubstantial; skin texture dissolves into film texture, and the most solid body may suddenly become a ghostly presence passing like a shadow out of a scene.

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

While touring the U.S. in a brightly painted school bus, the psychedelic rock collective Anonymous Artists of America stops to hold a performance at an alma mater, the University of Chicago. Inspired by LSD, the group once opened for the Grateful Dead and played at Ken Kesey’s infamous Acid Test Graduation. The band also featured one of the first analog synthesizers designed by Don Buchla. Kartemquin's Gordon Quinn is behind the camera, and in the audience are Jerry Temaner and his family. (Kartemquin)

A couple argue.

A short animated PSA, starring the Tin Woodman and Scarecrow from the land of Oz. They stop woodland animals from smoking a cigarette.

Gathering inspiration from the world around him, Claes Oldenburg has dedicated his career to giving objects life. What many would see only as their mundane, everyday tools Oldenburg sees as an opportunity for art. His famed large scale sculptures stand with such stature and force that the viewer has no choice but to become involved with the piece.

Two disembodied male colleagues direct Lynda Benglis, who sits between a monitor and a camera lens loudly exclaiming her vision for the video we’re watching. Playing with the idea of originality and how the reproduction of images troubles fine art categories, Benglis affixes a double portrait of herself to the monitor screen and draws moustaches on both likenesses. Document ends with Benglis writing the video’s title and “copyright, Dec. 1972” directly on the monitor underneath the photograph, validating this video accomplishment as an original artwork.

Assuming roles of both performer and director in "Gestures", Wilke explores her own face as artistic material. Whether kneading her skin into misshapen contortions or enacting stereotypical poses, she stages a fluid, continuous sequence of actions in front of the camera. Her performance calls attention to and deconstructs familiar representations of women, as well as encourages the viewer's personal or cultural associations with these gestures while also reclaiming agency over such depictions as her own.

a film by Nilo Saez.

A mad doctor runs a sanitarium in the desert, where his hunchbacked servant whips women who are chained in the basement and cuts the legs off bodies so they'll fit in the caskets.

The juxtaposition of the Schumann cello piece, the performer's voice, and the film is entirely his idea, and we are still surprised at the strength and unity achieved by the superimposition of these three rather different elements.

Creative differences arise during rehearsal of a play about a love affair.

A rat named Walter The Rat must go on a fishing adventure with his pet worm to catch a giant fish.

Peng is a Chinese gangster boss. Arai is a Japanese gangster boss. Both have strong fighting supporters and gang members. Peng buys heroin for 1 million, hiding in a teddy bear. But the heroin is not real and the dollars are not. And, to make matters worse, a secret policeman emerges: Reason enough for the most magnificent fights of all kinds.

Micro text film of the Nov. 1974 issue of U.S. magazine Time cover to cover.