Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

"Acconci spars with his close-up image in a mirror. He then breaks the mirror, destroying his image." - Electronic Arts Intermix

A young priest thinks he's found out what he needs to do to better his church.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine spokesman Ghassan Kanafani interviewed by Richard Carleton, Beirut 1970.

Political short film made during Ongania's dictatorship.

The story of how Cumbernauld started as part of the solution to Glasgow's housing problem, how it was planned and developed, how it had yet to develop and, above all, how well it works as a place to live in and what it will be like for future generations

Raymond Rohauer, an exhibitor and collector, claimed copyright ownership to every film that entered his collection-- and many that didn't. In 1970, film preservationist David Shepard decided to poke fun by making "RAYMOND ROHAUER presents The Sneeze", a biting parody of Rohauer's extravagant assertions via the use of Edison Studios' 1894 film. Imitating the "Rohauer style" of long descriptive title cards, one including the not-so-unfeasible claim: "Recently, persevering Film Archivist RAYMOND ROHAUER secured the Estate of Thomas A. Edison and so acquired exclusive world rights in perpetuity to all motion picture films produced with sprocket holes". The Sneeze itself takes up eight seconds at the end of the film-- itself broken up by title cards!

Created with imagery taken from the 19th-Century Japanese woodcuts on display in the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition “The Japanese Expedition 1852-1866 of Commodore Matthew Perry,” the film records the opening of the country to Western trade from a Japanese perspective. In Charles’ words, the film “shows something of the special and rare situations that existed when these two cultures came together…one very sophisticated, one with a highly developed technology.” The soundtrack juxtaposes the visuals, with music from the album “Banjo Kings,” an early-American fife-and-drum recording from the Smithsonian Institution archives, and traditional Japanese music from tapes provided by the Japanese embassy.

In 1970, Rob Fothergill released Canada’s own War of the Worlds—Countdown Canada, a TV news simulation dramatizing the day in which Canada becomes part of the United States. The broadcast included prominent public figures commenting on the last gasp of Canadian sovereignty, some debating the merits of such an assimilation, others engaging in a plea for an independent Canada.

Men and women meet by chance, as it seems. They have played this game before.

In the interior of Paraíba a tournament between cowboys who must demonstrate mastery in knocking an ox down by the tail while they ride.

A short documentary that explores a blue-collar community’s growing unease with the Vietnam War. It was produced in response to President Nixon’s famous November, 1969 speech when he contrasted the unlawful and vocal anti-war protesters to the respectful “silent majority” who were in favor of remaining in Vietnam to fight communism. This film explores the thoughts and opinions of the “silent majority” represented by the folks living in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago.

Directed by Wang Yan.

Eastman narrates, describing the challenges they face living in the arctic and the bonds they form with the wild animals. A wildlife cameraman raises three wolves in the Yukon. Trappers who hear of the wolves try to kill them for the hides. This film served as a follow-up to Eastman's grizzly bear film, High, Wild and Free.

The artist used readily available objects and materials to explore techniques particular to film, such as zooming and panning.

1970. 16mm; 5 minutes; black and white; sound.

This film shows various forms of triangles.

A man and a woman converse wordlessly. An essential film dialogue. The accompanying sound was created by playing a chord from a Mahler symphony through two 'reel-to-reel' tape recorders and editing it.

A reflection on art during the destruction of a post-atomic society.

Originally filmed in 8mm a little stone-made Buddha in a temple of Katmandu, the film strip in ten seconds was projected as a loop, and then the screen w as refilmed many times in 16mm at different speeds (frames per second). The original 8mm footage has been greatly expanded through refilming in 16mm. The rhythmic manipulation of "flying Buddha" in the air is realized.

Dita learns to fly

"Documentary-style" pink film.

A Macedonian TV film.

The title is a phonetical arrangement in kanji Chinese characters of camp, a concept synonymous with Michio Okabe. Okabe radically explores his distinct, Japanese camp aesthetic in the enclosed space of the film world. As written in the kanji, “precious night, wealth of dreams” (貴い夜、夢の富), inhabitants of the night world such as butoh dancer, gay character, night watch, violinist, masseuse, yakitori shop, vampire, dog, and cat, appear one after another and unfold a disastrous but beautiful soirée.

A lawyer, son of a local decorator wedding cook, unwillingly got married with a rich father's goofy daughter & bring curse to his family.

Filmed at Teatro Laura Alves (Martim Moniz), in Lisbon. The original negatives reside in Barcelona, FOTOFILME SA.

Braverman presents a collage of the events and personalities of the 1960's, both political and social. Includes President Kennedy on the Berlin Wall, Martin Luther King on racism, Vietnam demonstrations, and the Beatles

Film shot entirely in the open air with women walking around a garden, life-sized photos in the grass and people at the table. A film from the series Home Sweet Home.

The term "The Weir-Falcon Saga" appeared to me, night after night, at the end of a series of dreams: I was "true" to the feeling, tho not the images, of those dreams in the editing of this and the following two films. The three films "go" very directly together, in the order of their making (as listed); yet each seems to be a clear film in itself. At this time, I tend to think they constitute a "Chapter No. 2" of The Book of Film I've had in mind these last five years (considering SCENES FROM UNDER CHILDHOOD as Chapter No. 1); and yet these "Weir-Falcon" films occur to me as distinct from any filmmaking I have done before. (Stan Brakhage)

Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between husband and wife. It is a relationship that is strongly marked by power and domination, sexual attraction and repulsion. It manifests itself in humiliation and abuse (such Pentimento), but also in cool eroticism or natural physicality. Zwartjes’ goal is not to explain or designate this relationship. Rather it is the subject that Zwartjes uses to describe his world. In an article on Zwartjes, filmmaker and student George Schouten compares Zwartjes to the Italian writer Alberto Moravia. For both, sex is their way of dealing with reality. It is the subject by which they define their world. And for Zwartjes, it is also the subject with which he can display and develop his cinematic talent. (eyefilm.nl)

A kaleidoscopic experimentation in colour, in which familiar Brighton locations are distorted and interspersed with imagery from adverts and film clips.

Briel's first independent production after leaving the DFFB, made for the Sender Freies Berlin. The title is a biblical reference (Daniel 5 — "you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting"). TV documentary

Enemy agents commit acts of terrorism in an attempt to sabotage India’s progress using time bombs on planes, trains and factories. Secret agent Rajesh (Hercules) learns that Hotel Green is the main headquarters or the traitors, who are forcing the proprietor and his daughter to help them. Meanwhile, government officer Chandra is murdered and his sister Mala swears to avenge his death by joining up with Rajesh to take down the terrorists at their other center, a local circus.

At the screening venue, making a film while it's being projected. It is the {original live film}. Painting on a loop of snooker film, screening will be held. Even now, sometimes, in 16mm, do a live performance. It is a long-lasting work.

An erotic composition whose title alludes to the early abstract films of Hans Richter. Two pairs of women’s hands with painted nails stroke and manipulate a vagina in a geometrical, rhythmical game; in between, there is the playing of the hands in hair and fixed compositions of hands and vagina. Monotonous, technical music diminishes the sexual stimulation.

A film from the documentary series "On Space Exploration Issues."

The word and image "Meer" are brought together by young people in a provisional way.

Rex is glad to see his master, a hunter. The dog has already made friends with the bunny, so he will do his best in order to save his friend. Rex protects small animals.

Film dedicated to the American artist Andy Warhol.

Psychedelic Hanna-Barbera anti-drug PSA, ca. 1970. Created by Art Babbitt - he'd developed Goofy during his time at Disney.

A brave young cowboy, owner of a golden revolver, defeats bandits, and then... eats the weapon, which was made of chocolate.

Young people involved in love games.

A self-criticism, self-analysis in which Macdonald struggles with his own status as a self-declared “armchair radical.” Wondering what real effect making films and attending demonstrations can have, he wrestles with the idea of violence and examines his own excuses (protecting his family, protecting his life) for not “being radical as opposed to talking radical.” In a section that introduces the letter board and bricolage technique that would become so prominent in his filmography, he lays out a radical 12-point program for the attainment of a more decent society; a coda proposes a halfway point between armchair radicalism and bomb-throwing.

A film about the director's garbage walks around London at the time of the strikes in 1970.

Explores the creative world of Paul Soldner, a potter working in Aspen, Colorado.

"Canada's convention-shattering voice of poetry" (Globe and Mail). Michael Ondaatje documents the work and spirit of fellow poet bpNichol (1944-1988) Capturing the artist / writer / sound performer in "fantasy documentary", Ondaatje uncovers what made bpNichol an influence to a generation of North American and European writers.

/Gunda, a young man (who later marries N!ai), pretends to be a lion. He is "hunted" and "killed" by a group of boys.

Filmed in Spain, London, and Sweden with an old Bolex silent camera, this film was originally part of a longer film – that was split into a diptych, the other one being 'Hommage à Meliérs.' They work as independent films. (Håkan Dahlström)

Indonesian film starring Benyamin S.