Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

The film asks the question of whether religions are humane or socially beneficial. A visual question with music.

Experimental film shot in Paris and in the forest of Fontainebleau, in black and white with some sequences in color. An ode to vinyl, women's legs and perforated plastic filmstrip.

With the support of the New York State Council on the Arts and using rudimentary means, the great formal and thematic diversity of the Young Filmmakers is testimony to their aspirations, frustrations, dreams and pleasures. Creating new links between the underground art of New York and Latin America, they reinvented cinema to the rhythm of the Beatles, Willie Colón, Bob Dylan and Ray Barreto, formulating a particular vision, in the case of Fred Pérez, of pop culture, psychedelia and drug use.

A film about the legendary Estonian choir director and the soul of song festivals Gustav Ernesaks.

Factory workers struggles over contracts in post-68 Italy documented through original footage.

A steam locomotive that runs on a trip and the beautiful four seasons of Japan.

Short, abstract film of a woman in a toilet. Black and white film with some tinted shots.

A young African American man drives through South Central thinking about revolution, Malcolm X, racism, capitalism, and war in Vietnam. Midway through, the film switches over to the thoughts of a young African American woman who is thinking about revolution and Angela Davis.

Documentary filmed in Technicolor on 35mm for Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL).

Mysterious blind man Mata Malikat arrives in a small village and disrupts the peace, starting with killing one of the village's most respected fighters. The fighter's son then tries to avenge his death.

Film showcasing the tourist attractions, culture and natural beauty of Ireland.

A short experiment in compression on film.

The Ramsay Brothers' first attempt at a horror film.

The film consists of several short stories. Between them, always the same leitmotif appears – a short joke with a different ending. The stories are always about absurd and ridiculous situations depicting the relationship between a man and birds.

Wild Bill Hiccup chases Woody around a haunted house.

Thai horror film.

One Year (1970) is a series of forty-nine rolls of 16mm film, nearly all of them unedited except in the camera, and all of them silent. The flares at the beginnings and ends of the rolls are not eliminated and, as a result, become a form of visual punctuation. The rolls are arranged so that, as title implies, we move gradually through an entire year, from winter to winter. The most interesting aspect of the overall organization, however, involves the fact that the first quarter of One Year (1970) is very different from the final three-quarters: this change reflects a fundamental alteration in Huot's approach to film.

How to Make Glass (Mechanically) is part of a series of educational films for television intended for young audiences. Directed by Peter and Zsóka Nestler, the series was dedicated to the history and processes behind the making of objects (paper, printing books, fabrics and so on), highlighting the differences between artisanal and industrial production and the labour and economic relations involved in each of these methods of producing things.

George Greenough chronicles ground zero of the shortboard revolution, as it evolved in 1968. Experience remote Australia and hidden California, as ridden by Bob McTavish, Ted Spencer, Baddy Treloar, Chris Brock, Gary Keys, Russell Hughes and a brigade of the underground's best. Check out Norther NSW in the golden era of the late 1960s, with empty perfection at Lennox Head.

Experimental film by Ran Shechori.

A self-parody film on Arnaldo Pomodoro's sculptures and the art as "commodity", shot together with Francesco Leonetti and Ugo Mulas.

Cain has been traveling for a long time throughout Europe. Back "home" he knocks at the door of his parents' trailer only to be rejected by his hateful mother, who once again blames him for his laziness and once again compares him to his brother Abel, a successful businessman and a right guy, good to his parents and stuff. As for his father, now blind and crippled, he escapes his wife by being permanently drunk and he is of no help. In disgust, Cain runs away from the place and contacts Abel, the perfect son, to borrow money from him. But, although Abel tells him he doesn't mind helping him, Cain shoots him down with a gun found in his brother's car.

1970 Czech experimental film by Petr Skala

Using everyday objects and a humble fly, the Gross studio's animation parodies the world of politics, and conflict between nations.

Bomba inspired by the "Swedish New Wave"

The dialogue takes place in a night bar between a man sentenced to death for epithelioma ("the flower in his mouth") and a "peaceful customer" who has missed his train; that is, between someone who lives intensely the little time he has left and someone who has plenty of hours to spend idly, waiting for the morning train and preoccupied with a trivial setback.

Bringing Lights Forward describes the film set through the manipulation of lights on stands. A woman is seen placing three lamp stands at the center, left, and right of the screen and then moving them gradually into the foreground - the surface of the screen- in several distinct stages. As she makes a move she turns the lights on and off. Finally she clusters the three stands at the center of the screen but in such a way that the lamps themselves, the light source for the film, are cut off by the top of the frame yet still illuminating the screen. The woman walks off-screen once she has completed this action. The placement and movement of the lamp stands and the use of negative in this film serve as a literal demonstration of the way in which light affects the perceptual quality of the film image.

The life and career of the controversial comedian, Lenny Bruce.

Rembrandt Films will long be remembered for animated TV hits such as "Tom and Jerry" and "Popeye"; however, the studio also produced its own unique animated shorts. This compilation contains the best of those shorts, including the Oscar-winning Munro, which is about a 4-year-old boy who's drafted into the Army. Also included is the witty Self Help Series, which explores the human condition through cartoons such as "How to Avoid Friendship."

An experimental drama following three main characters who embody different attitudes about consumerism. A window onto Quebec in the late 1960s, this protest film explores these characters' daily lives, their trials and aspirations. Regarded as an innovative and militant work, buoyed by hard-hitting film language that includes subtitles and intertitles, quotations, offscreen voices and songs and references to advertising.

An impotent husband pushes his wife in the arms of a playboy in order to offer her satisfaction. At the same time a lesbian is flirting with her.

Musical documentary shot in Estonia.

An educational short produced by Disney which poses three questions to children in how they should deal with a given situation. This time a school project.

Osman was released after serving a prison sentence of ten years for the murder he did not commit. Two young men, Ali and Hassan Osman arrested after he came out of prison and taken to meet with their leader, Karim. Osman beaten unconscious and thrown into the river. ASP Azman was assigned to investigate the matter. Faridah, wife ASP Azman Osman when he stumbled upon a chance to clinics treating the injured Osman. Osman suspect that Faridah actually is Hamidah, his girlfriend before the first imprisonment. Hamidah Osman tried to prove that being disguised as Faridah, and all that happens is related to a group led by Karim. ASP Azman also suspect his wife who behaves like a concealer after Osman presence.

Italian gangster story with socio-politico themes about a Robin Hood-esque character.

A tour of the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland with local art gallery director Richard Demarco.

A 1970 projection of what may come when pollution over powers nature.

"IN MARIN COUNTY approaches the subject of America's ecological disaster as a comic yet bizarre vision. The tradition of Old MacDonald's farm has long since disappeared and in its place are bulldozer and insect sprays. Our fascination with these mechanized wonders of civilization may well prove to be more lethal than we would have imagined. Peter Hutton has succeeded in making an important statement on ecology and the strange delight Americans take in destroying things." - Whitney Museum of American Art

Due to life circumstances, the young protagonists decide to leave their childhood homes, the places they’ve always loved, abandon their familiar way of life, and move to the capital to live and study in a large, unfamiliar city. The brothers find it difficult to adapt in the big, unfriendly city, which makes their life much less simple and familiar than it was at home. The young people seriously question the wisdom of their decision: to dramatically change their lives and completely alter everything that gave their life meaning, or to leave everything unchanged.

Lost Zulueta's short

Indianist Orlando Villas Boas goes deep into the jungle to try and make contact with the elusive Kreen-Akrore tribe, who have slaughtered everybody they have come in contact with, down to children, since soon buildings and roads will be coming in.

An abstract audiovisual take on the biblical tale of Isaac’s binding.

"Doll House" is a Sesame Street song about the number 2. The song features vocals by Juli Christman, and is accompanied with a live-action film by Jim Henson about two girls (played by Sumiko Kimura and Alison von Brock) playing with their doll house. Eventually, two cats get into the doll house and knock things over, much to the girls’ amusement.

Essay film about the origins of war in human history.

Short film dedicated to the "established order" (yet made clearly outside of it) and drawing from the protests of 1968 and the struggle for socialist revolution, it also challenges the Catholicism and nationalism of Franco's Spain. It depicts the breakdown of a relationship, as the woman leaves for Germany where the Marxist struggle needs her help, and the man mocks her revolutionary ideals.

"Freaky Black Friday Spook Special" was a hosted horror movie television special hosted Jill Forster as "Vampira" screened on ATN 7 (Sydney) between 13 and 14 November 1970.

The film tells the story of conjoined twin brothers who want to avenge their father. The Byzantine governor makes a deal with the Russian tsar to avoid paying taxes to the Turks. Led by Zalim, the Russians attack the city of Amuryon. While the Russians are attacking the city, a Turkish warrior named Kafkaslı Mahmut has two sons. Although the Russians kill Mahmut, the twins are saved. Mahmut's servant Ömer sends one of the children, Cafer, to Samarkand to be under the protection of Uluğ Bey. He takes Cafer's brother, Ali, under his wing. When Cafer and Ali reach adulthood, they will take action to avenge their father's death.

This comedy tells the story about a father who refuses to agree to his daughter's marriage to a wealthy man. The story chronicles the conflict between a family in post-colonial Ghana as they struggle to choose between love and money.

Iimura analyzed some footage he had made in Katmandu of a man taking a bath in a sacred river. A meditational experience is, thus, presented in a film whose minimal action and quiet pace can create meditational possibilities for viewers -Scott MacDonald (Afterimage, April, 1978, N.Y.)

The Robot Moles is an adorable story about flowers, moles, dumb scientists and a little girl.

This film is part of the series "Treasures of Russian ballet".

Budapest, 19th century: Nosferatu is killed by a prince. Now in colour and on holiday in Brazil, he saps several natives.

This Video captures the Canterbury Sound legends Soft Machine live in France filmed at a concert for French television in 1970. The line up of the band at the time of this concert included, Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean and Lyn Dobson. The concert took place on the 2nd of March 1970 at the Theatre de la Musique in Paris.