Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

Details the misadventures of an estranged couple in Vegas preparing for their divorce.

One day in the life of Mr Hrstka, a blue collar worker and occasional pose model at the Prague academy of arts. Through this portrayal of an outsider, Paskaljevic explores the subject of isolation.

A Mexican-American goes to public school in the US

Max and Tüte are super excited about a math-whiz robot at an exhibition. The boys smuggle him out so he can do their math homework. But the magical machine's programming is faulty and it goes its own way, playing havoc in town. While Max tries to catch the robot, Tüte takes the robot’s place at the exhibition. But he gets in deep trouble, when he can't solve math problems. Luckily Max and the robot return in time and the boys decide it's better to do their own homework in the future.

This documentary deals with the 4 months that Father Daniel Berrigan was underground from the FBI, due to participating in and leading the burning of draft records in an act of civil disobedience.

African couple Silvianus and Makeba arrive in Brazil, seeking to tourist around the country and take part in an International Music Festival

Days of Our Death is a documentary about workers in an army occupied tin mine in Bolivia. The film alternates between showing the men, women, and children of the community at work and going to school and showing a street celebration. Narration over the scenes of work consist of sentences written by the children in school exercise spoken in Spanish and repeated in French.

A portrait of two old people whose dialogue is echoed by internal monologue. A visitor, possibly their nephew, disrupts the routine of their day.

In his country house, a man lets himself get stuck in a suicidal lethargy. Eugène Ionesco, alone on screen, interprets the character of his short story, during a cinematic experience as a transcription of an existential malaise. The distress of a devastated, dying man waiting for a glimmer of hope. “I did everything wrong. But I'm going to start again. »

A woman staying at an isolated desert house with her artist husband is stalked by a strange figure.

A dance of painted wooden Russian dolls (hollow inside and of graded sizes so that the largest holds all the rest). They twirl, swing and sway to gay Russian tunes, never losing their fixed reserve. As the dance ends they hop up in turn into the mother figure, who then hurries off the scene.

Martin Slivka's documentary film about Karol Plicka (1894-1987), the founder of Slovak cinematography.

Short film about the well known sea-route.

This is a somewhat irreverant look at the Church of San Ignacio (Saint Ignatius of Loyola) in Bogata. Established in the 17th century by the Jesuit order, it is a building of lavish baroque interior and exterior edifices and statuary. The film examines the subtle antagonisms between popular and clerical uses of the sacred images and rites.

At a funeral, we learn about the man-whore past of the deceased.

On her eighteenth birthday, a woman is granted by Satan the power to make all of her sexual desires reality.

Time lapse photography shows the swarm of commuters at London Waterloo station racing about at top speed.

Documentary covering author Paul Bowles' time living in Morocco.

a Terrytoons Cartoon

TV film adaptation of the play Aleksandra written by Tome Arsovski.

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

Avant-garde picturesque vision to the music of Béla Bartók. Motifs of an abandoned farm evoked in haunting tones: a galloping horse, a thatched house, a hoe, crockery...

Shots of a car speeding down the road are intercut with kinky sex flashes (a woman with a whip rides a guy, for instance). Then the car crashes into a tree, the male driver (Christian Chaix) is decapitated and the bloody, injured female (Marie-Paule Mailleux) scoops up his head and returns to her home. There, she cleans herself and the head off, prepares dinner for herself and the head, buys the head a Ken Doll to keep it company, puts the head on a mannequin's body and then has a series of strange hallucinations, which include having sex with her bloodied lover, dancing in a room by herself with a spotlight, etc. Things culminate in her having sex with the head and then throwing it into the trash bin.

After a sudden tragedy cuts her marriage short, Nahid must navigate grief and unexpected responsibility within her husband’s wealthy family. The arrival of a mysterious man who closely resembles Nasir begins to stir hidden motives and buried tensions.

A film portrait of the famous con artist Czesław Śliwa, alias Jack Ben Silberstein, who, posing as the Austrian consul in Wrocław, swindled over half a million zlotys from people in three months. In 1988, Mirosław Bork made a crime comedy based on the protagonist's biography.

A visualization of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the ‘myths of childhood’ through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental remembering of it… a ‘tone poem’ for the eye – very inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen.

An intimate account of a thousand kilometer journey on a river in the Northeast of Brazil on a self-made raft carrying a small household including two children. The raft is the means of transport since time immemorial and the journey to the town of Teresina lasts about a month. Life in slow-motion, with fleeting encounters along the banks. When the family arrives in Teresina, the merchandise is sold, the raft dismanteld, branch by branch, leaf by leaf.

Pink film directed by Kan Mukai.

Hmone is a singer and dancer with one of the best known Burmese travelling theatres. One of the leading cast members is the pianist and composer Myint Thu. He has composed the song 'Hmone Shwe Yee' for Hmone which makes her a famous star. The song, praising the beauty and fragrance of the flower 'Hmone Shwe Yee', is a hidden declaration of love, but in 'real' life Myint Thu behaves with rather more reservation, strictness and coldness. He is a man incapable of showing his feelings. The mutual attraction is never admitted openly, and his love for Hmone becomes a real problem when a new admirer shows up. Ye Aung, an officer and Myint Thu's old school friend, falls in love with Hmone when he first sees her on stage.

Nyoman Regeg's asceticism was one day short of what his teacher had recommended. Therefore, the teacher sent another student, Sugriwa, to find and persuade Regeg to complete his asceticism. Regeg seemed to have other intentions. He meditated and sought supernatural powers only to take revenge.

A documentary about the histoy and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric, and Samoyedic peoples. Speakers of the Kamassian, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Mari, and Karelian languages were filmed in their everyday settings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The footage was shot in Altai Krai, the Nenets Okrug, Khantia-Mansia, Uzbekistan, the Komi Republic, Mari el, Karelia, and Estonia. The first documentary in Lennart Meri's "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno - Ugricarum (1970 - 1997)" series.

Farsa o Patlenu is a Yugoslav TV movie from 1970, produced by RTV Belgrade. It is an adaptation of the famous 15th-century French medieval farce, 'La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin'. The story follows a crafty, bankrupt lawyer who resorts to trickery to obtain fine cloth from a greedy draper. The film was directed by Jovan Konjović and the screenplay was written by Miroslav Karaulac.

Dick Emery and dance troupe The Young Generation invite you to "simply pay through Giro" in this musical money promo.

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

This is a story about how a family with many children moves into a new apartment in a newly constructed apartment building. The film “Moving Day” won a Silver Dragon Award at the 7th Krakow Film Festival. The jury’s decision stated: “For the warm and soulful relationship between the director and subjects of the film, expressed in a laconic form.”

Joaquim Jorda's and Gianni Toti's short film

An interviewer (off-camera) asks children between the ages of seven and ten about various topics.

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

A satirical mockumentary in the form of an instruction video for stock brokers.

A solitary house in the countryside constantly changes its appearance and atmosphere. A film of silence.

The film focuses on the role played by the parental home and vocational school alongside the training center in the life of an apprentice.

A sensitive cinepoem about a young boy and his daydreams in a beautiful sunlit glade, utilizing multiple color photographs in split screen technique.

Festival of the Midnight Sun, a.k.a. the Mantorp Festival became the biggest fiasco in Swedish pop festival history. The festival was presented the midsummer weekend 19-21 June 1970 at Mantorp Raceway. A local band, Magazine Story, from Linköping, had the honor of opening the festival with Clabbe af Geijerstam as MC. The raceway and surroundings were almost empty. Clabbe's welcome speech explained that the sun was the guest of honor at the festival, which was dedicated to "peace, friendship, love, community and everything that can be thought of as beautiful".

Color silent drama that shows the love story between Efraín and María and its tragic end, shot on a farm in San Gil.

A BAFTA award nominated animation based on a poem by Earle Birney and a painting by El Greco. The theme concerns the responsibility of the innovator for the thing he makes. In the film, a carpenter builds a cross but is reluctant to become involved in the right or wrong of situations that bring men to die on crosses. His interest is in his own craftsmanship. To illustrate this moral, the filmmaker used light-pen drawings, giving colour and emphasis through optical processes.

A swarm of slaves in ancient Egypt moves massive boulders to erect a statue of Re, the god of the sun. Erecting impressive structures required knowledge and exact measurements. However, the statue's massive hand falls down and crushes the builders. The statue has been awe-inspiring for many centuries. Meditations on the religious nature of man.

After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering to the soviets.