Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

Short film by Manfred Jelinski

A cyclical film, without sound, that goes from day to night and back again. First, from the porch glider, daytime movement is seen--children running and bicycles and cars going by. The nighttime scene is a long poetic and dream-like look at adolescent lovemaking.

A popular science film dedicated to research of the Earth from spacecraft, instilling a sense of empathy for protection of the Earth's natural resources.

Deep Nebhe Nai is a 1970 Bangladeshi film starring Razzak and Kabari opposite him. The film was directed by Narayan Ghosh Mita.

A couple has found peace in a strange manor by the sea but, on a hot evening, a visitor comes, troubling their solitude. However, three is not actually a crowd and they start start talking, exchanging points of view about philosophy, sociology and politics, eroticism as well.

A Wild West gunslinger faces cardboard shooting targets bearing the faces of Mao Zedong, Golda Meir, and others. What is the ultimate shooting target and who will end up pulling the trigger?

A poetic story of love and parting between a young man and a young woman. Based on Lesia Ukrainka’s one-act drama.

Dramatization of the events leading up to the Cherokee Nation's terror-filled journey from their Southeastern homeland to the Oklahoma Territory in 1838-39; the journey itself, on which thousands die; and the resulting inter-tribal conflict that divided the Cherokee people for decades.

Skin flick starring Lynn Harris and Donna Young

A short film about two mothers from Niger and how they care for their children.

Max C. Kragh, a wealthy industrialist, and his wife Edith are traveling through the hills of Denmark heading toward their weekend retreat, when they see a young girl, Avi, thumbing for a ride. They stop for the girl, and suddenly Max is pulled from the car by two of Avi’s friends, Steen and Jorgen, while Liala watches happily from the other side of the road. Half crazed with drugs, the young folks kidnap Max and Edith and break into an unoccupied house. Now the hidden, depraved thoughts of the young people are brought out into the open. The night becomes an orgy of lust and terror for Max and Edith, who are subjected to countless indignities.

The film is a portrait of Allison Krause, one of the students murdered at Kent State University on May 4, 1970 by the Ohio National Guard. It is a memorial put together from footage that Richard Myers and his students filmed of Allison (unknowingly at the time) during student war demonstrations. The film’s images are very simple but the soundtrack read by Arthur Krause, Allison’s father, is deeply moving. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

A story about a small drummer in a great army.

With an irresistible humour, Rimmer speculates in The Dance on the nature of the film loop. We see a (1920s) couple whilring around a dance floor at a dizzying pace... Uncanny in its ability to evoke complexity of responses from a simplicity of means. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Striking students meet at a "Revolutionary Seminar" at the Art Institute of Chicago in response to the invasion of Cambodia and the killing of protesting students at Kent and Jackson State Universities.

Inger gets pregnant by an American man who then abandon her. Maskot moves in with Inger and she wants them to start a relationship, but Maskot has other plans. He and his friends conduct several robberies and uses Inger's apartment as hideaway.

Alexander Kluge follows his father, a doctor, in his daily activity.

The author Peter Ustinov has called his work "Endspurt" a "biographical adventure". Biographical because the somewhat ambitious but later successful writer Sam Kinsale meets here as a twenty-, forty- and sixty-year-old. The interesting thing about this film, however, is that the four Sams are confronted with each other. The diversity of an eighty-year-old life becomes transparent. At the age of 20, Sam Kinsale loves the young Stella and is determined to marry her. But 20 years later, he is fed up with the marriage and wants to leave her. But he doesn't because she is expecting a child. As a sixty-year-old, he is constantly making compromises both in his work as a writer and in his personal life.

Seemingly, nothing happens in the film; At most, a man forgets something at home and must return. The viewer watches his train journey, the rhythm of the soundtrack determined by pylons whooshing by his cabin window.

Maria Kunz, a barmaid and hostess, is found strangled in her apartment on Helvetiastrasse. Gaudenz Moser is seen at the scene of the crime as he drives away on his motorcycle. He has an accident and is arrested. All the evidence points to him. His brother Vinzenz Moser calls on Iseli, the pastor of his home parish in Graubünden, for help. Iseli immediately sets off for Zurich, where the case has already been closed by the police because a confession has been made. Pastor Iseli, who has a keen sense of criminal investigation, does not believe that Gaudenz Moser is guilty and begins his own investigation in Zurich's underworld.

Memories of World War II are evoked by images of the then current events of 1970.

Experimental arthouse film taking satirical views on war, politics and religious beliefs.

To Tea, made in Holland (at the house of the Dutch avant-garde filmmaker Franz Zwartjes), is a slowed ‘Alice in Roomland’.A guide to sensual contact between two women. Their contact is arrived at through an arrangement of slow tactics. As the light of day goes the bodies come closer, and the piano melody floats in a distant hall. Once my Hungarian art teacher said: “If you exaggerate the objective lines you reach a stronger subjective expression.” So here the strange tea party gives over to touch. – S.D.

The protagonist of this farce is the enthusiastic, bald, spectacled Krebsz, an employee at the Prime and Sample Institute. He alerts the whole village to organise a beauty contest in the weed-field of Balatonszutykos. Hoping to win the grand prize, the leading role in a two-hour colour-film, the girls make all efforts and use all their tricks.

A natural activity under the stress of an unnatural setting. Gravity reneged. Vast scale. Clear order. You start at the top, walk straight down, stop at the bottom. All those soupy questions that arise in the process of selecting abstract movement according to the modern dance tradition -- what, when, where, and how -- are all solved in collaboration between choreographer and place. If you eliminate all those eccentric possibilities that the choreographic imagination can conjure and just have a person walk down an aisle, then you see the movement as the activity. The paradox of one action working against another is very interesting to me, and is illustrated by Man Walking Down the Side of a Building, where you have gravity working one way on the body and my intention to have a naturally walking person working in the other way.

Íñigo and Waldo are two friends who share their cinephilia. But one day, at a party, Íñigo meets a girl.

This is one of a series of films that Broodthaers made on the subject of the pipe, a reference to the work of René Magritte. A static camera depicts images of a pipe, clock, and smoke against a whitewashed brick wall. The superimposed titles were added in 1971, and include the labels ‘Figure I’ and ‘Figure II’, phrases that recur throughout Broodthaers oeuvre, and echo Magritte’s concern with the relationship between object, image and language.

One of Les Blank's industrial films, which follows a Holly Farms "broiler" chicken from factory incubation to the county fair barbecue pit. A hilarious, disturbing and surreal look at a large-scale chicken farm producing 156 million chickens a year! Film includes lots of chicken songs and music recorded live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

The document, which splices together footage from both Osaka and Montreal, offers a rare comparative insight into the two events. It is believed to have been part of a longer documentary made in collaboration with Masuo Ogawa. These "world’s fairs" were colossal events featuring displays from countries and corporations around the world, providing a testing ground for technologies from IMAX screens to security systems. Despite a culture of ambivalence and resistance surrounding Expo ’70, due to its depoliticized celebration of “progress and harmony for mankind” in the era of U.S.-sponsored conflicts in Asia, the pavilions were often run in collaboration with artists.

Horst Rudolf Überlacker is a young lawyer at the beginning of a promising career. At the end of the Second World War he was nine years old, but his present statements can be considered "agitation threatening peace". The Spokesman of the Sudeten German Association, Dr. Becher lauds "the young political talent" who performs the generational change from old Fascists to neo-Nazis.

Two diplomats, Mr. X and Mr. Y, enter public negotiations in the interior of a palace. The audience observes the exchange of animated blows and dodges.

Joey, a resident of a Manila slum, is a GI baby. He doesn't know his American father. His mother, an ex-prostitute in Olongapo City, is forcing the 17-year-old boy to capitalize on his good looks and bluntly tells him to marry a rich girl so that both mother and son will have a comfortable life, an idea he detests and becomes the object of conflict between them.

A fashion designer returns to Denmark with his American wife. She is leery of the excesses of female nudity and the relaxed moral standards of the country. A visit to a psychiatrist reveals feelings of latent lesbianism.

A short documentary profiling male impersonator Hetty King, a star of the Edwardian music hall still performing in her 87th year. Accompanied by her sister and dresser Olive, she reminisces about her career, applies her makeup, and performs at the Royal Hippodrome, Eastbourne.

A man takes care of an oasis in the middle of a harsh, toxic land.

The film is a meaningful collage of images and music.

Paulchen the Hazelnut has a beautiful flower. He is always in trouble with the wind that lives behind his house on the mountain. This villain kidnaps the flower and locks it up in the mountain. Paulchen takes up the fight with the wind, but it simply blows him away. Paulchen makes friends and together they manage to tame the wind.

A telling of the classic tale about a foot race between a hare and a tortoise.

About the election in assembly of the President of the Poder Popular (Popular Power)

In Studies cycle, abstract studies are assembled, which document the Vasulka's early work with electronic material. The visual aspect of Tissues is the work of Steina, whereas Woody engineered the sound.

A man whose company is on the verge of bankruptcy, after the escape of his partner after years of hard work and endurance, eventually his company will benefit greatly. Meanwhile, his partner, who is aware of the matter, announces that he will come to him soon to get his share back.

A man sentenced to death reflects on his arrest, interrogations, torture.. and a bit on the time before, long gone, swallowed up by pain and numbness.

Two pickpockets live in a world where they dream of social elevation.

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.

A young woman who lives with a married man falls in love with another, and maintains a friendly correspondence with him.

Dr. Leonard Kleindienst hosts the educational white-coater about the importance of foreplay and the need to vary positions.

A Béla Vajda Cartoon

Doria leaves home after being raped and deflowered by her stepmother's boyfriend while her stepmother drunkenly watched. She is picked up on the highway by Jackie, a lesbian whose tenderness contrasts with Doria's recent experience. Doria then meets two artists, Tee Jay and Julio, who use her as their model and introduce her to a bohemian life of parties and such drugs as marijuana and LSD.

A father takes his son to a truly magical toy store.

Report No. 10 in a series of 13 topical films, covering: Hovercraft, Princess Ann; the Advanced Passenger Train; Design Centre exhibition, The next train; plasma torch, Derby Technical Centre; analysis of diesel oils, Glasgow science laboratory; bleep radio communications, Paddington; resignalling, Derby area; intercity coaches; evolved suspension, the Brighton Belle; Southern Region grouptravel; computer, Eastern Region; shipment of molten iron.