Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

A portrait of three Los Angeles area residents who create things with their hands. Angelo Austin decorates wedding cakes; Dean Jeffries designs, manufactures, and paints custom cars; and Pamela Weir-Quiton creates wooden dolls. Restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Blue Eyes has soft fur, big blue eyes, long hair and soft nose. He is an educated cat who keeps a diary and lives with his owner, a writer. He discovers the world around him and tells about all his two-legged and four-legged friends. He is rescued from a hole in the fence by a new friend, Beel Beard the cat, and makes other friends on holiday - Shramota the hedgehog, Beard the hunting dog and White Feather the rabbit. He also meets Kiki the cat and fights a huge, mischievous cat, Zlutyak, for her sake. Blue Eyes realizes that he is an adult, and eventually he and Kiki have four beautiful kittens.

Kathak is a classical dance from Northern India. Both Hindu and Muslim rulers patronized this dance form giving it the status of a court entertainment. Hence this classical dance carries the quaint charm of folk arts and a happy synthesis of Indian and Mughal traditions. Kathak is a combination of Nritta and Nritya.

Misunderstood person

Shot before the term “urban legend” was used, Tales of the Supernatural analyzes the ways in which horror stories ( or “ghost legends” ) are transmitted, the functions of such stories for the members of a group of American teenagers being filmed, and the relationship between transmission and function in the telling of the tales.

An animated short consisting of 4 segments: bowl, garden, theatre, marble game. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Harvard Film Archive in 2015.

This program uses Lenin’s own words to tell the story of the Bolshevik rise to power: the overthrow of the Tsar and of the Kerensky government, the efforts at world Communist revolutions and the readiness to compromise in order to save the revolution in the Soviet Union, the ascendancy of the struggle against socialism over the struggle against capitalism. Thus the program explains the political background of the establishment of the totalitarian Soviet state and of its economic, social, and cultural policies—the precise institutions and policies that would in our time cause the destruction of what Lenin created by the force of his single-minded personality, his political acuity, his powerful oratory...and the weaknesses of the divided democratic opposition.

Comic short made up of interviews with New York City filmgoers leaving a theater.

"[P]ortraits of three women in the characteristic Foldes style: Sibylle, the psychedelic woman, Flora, the flower woman, Bilitis, the happy woman." - MIFF

The phenomenon of Brazilian oral literature with a study on cordel literature and popular singing.

German writer Uwe Johnson lived for several years in the 1960s on Manhattan’s Upper Westside where he got to know his neighborhood very well, observing the goings-on in the streets, cafeterias, and parks. In 1968 German Television agreed to co-produce a film for broadcast featuring interviews with various neighborhood characters.

Jarnow's first work for Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop - yak is a goofy take on the letter "Y."

Film starring Satish Kumar, Archana, Rehman

‘A beautiful, mysterious yet satisfying optical illusion…celebrates the early passing of a steam on the Thames. Using freeze-frame techniques, elaborate dissolves, and most of the resources on the optical table, this picture is, amongst other things, a Turner come to life. Rimmer’s concern with the surface nature of the film is most evident in this work which, in spite of its filmic complexity, is incredibly simple.’ — Donald Richie. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Pacific Cinematheque in 2013.

Black and white with color photography is used to tell the story of 12 would be demonstrators waiting for re-enforcements to show them the way. the group spends their time talking about love, religion, sex and the war. The meeting degenerates into a drunken orgy before the police mercifully break up the group and stops the film from continuing. The film was banned in Portugal. - Dan Pavlides, Rovi

The film is about four children of Spanish parents: Raimón, Fina, Isa, and Maribel. These children were born here, but their names were not listed in the Big Book of Sinterklaas. So the Head Piet says that they do not exist and that they will therefore not receive any presents.

"Abigail and Jonathan Child's 20‐minute exploration of the new Lower East Side. At one point in the Child's film, an old man with an East European accent surveys his neighborhood, which has been invaded by the blacks, the hippies, the ex‐ Urban poor and the (now‐ defunct) Fillmore East. He announces that he's satis fied with the conditions in this country 'except for the people.' ;Except for the People,; the title of the Child's film, is the rather terrifying theme of the entire program." - Vincent Canby, New York Times, Nov. 19th 1971

A Pakistani Urdu-language social film directed by Luqman, starring Nayyar Sultana, Darpan, Mustafa Qureshi, Adeeb, and Lehri.

'The Drunk Trio': Ivar Wallin, guitar, Erik Wiberg, accordion and Bror Wiberg, mandolin, play songs by Harry Rydell. The farm trader Sixten Landby talks about how to become a peddler, while cycling on a path to his own story about the profession. Kuno Persson, poet and ore prospector, stands on the beach and reads his own poem about the river.

Steve goes on a camping trip and learns how to use the sun, stars and a compass to find directions.

Documentary about Croatian Ustashe terrorists and their attacks in Yugoslavia.

Images "inspired" from music by Bernard Benoit

Report film about sexual varieties.

Short film by Gianfranco Baruchello.

Mr. Monster hello

1970 short starring Niall Toibin as Behan.

On the occasion of the regional elections of 1970, the Italian Communist Party seizes a new model of propaganda and counter-information developed in France during May 68: the cine-tract.

"Unavailable until recently, Corrections is Acconci's first single-channel video. Back to the camera, with only his head and bare shoulders visible, Acconci lights a match and brings it around to the nape of his neck. The lights dim as the flame nears his body hair, which briefly flares in the darkness, at which point Acconci shakes out the match. This action is repeated for the duration of the piece. Corrections introduces themes that typify Acconci's body-based performance work of the 1970's." - Electronic Arts Intermix

An episode film initiated by Erik Borge, the fresh director of Norwegian Film, giving fresh film makers a chance of being seen by a big audience. Anja Breien, Egil Kolstø and Espen Thorstensons got the chance with very diverse films.An episode film initiated by Erik Borge, the fresh director of Norwegian Film, giving fresh film makers a chance of being seen by a big audience. Anja Breien, Egil Kolstø and Espen Thorstensons got the chance with very diverse films.

In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the indtroduction of purposeful time error. The result is the repetitive abstract pattern of a distorted magnetic field. Furthermore, this horizontal stream also travels thorugh a set of TV screens stacked on top of each other, giving the work a vertical dimension as well. The image thus demonstrates the flexibility of the frame in video.

David Rimmer's avant-garde classic takes a single film fragment of a factory worker unraveling a sheet of cellophane, and alters it through a mesmerizing series of spectral apparitions and alchemical and sonic permutations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Pixillation features computer generated abstract animations set to Moog-synthesized sound.

A film from 1970, directed by Ferd Sebastian.

Two men play chess while the city is in political and social turmoil. Short film made in Super 8 as part of the exercises of the film school of the UNL (Universidad Nacional del Litoral) in Santa Fe, Argentina.

Skip Norman shot ‘On Africa’ after graduating from the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). On the level of the image, we see tracking shots through West Berlin, information detailing the economic gains of colonialist exploitations, and photographs from West Africa, while the soundtrack shares facts about the continent’s conquest and decolonization. As Norman himself put it: “The starting point is the relationship between Europe’s prosperity and Africa’s poverty; Europe’s destruction of societies and cultures, and the simultaneous use of Christianity and racial theories as justification for a massive exploitation of the colonized.” ‘On Africa’ was first shown in 1970 and then broadcast on television by WDR in 1972. In 2020, the Harun Farocki Institut was able to digitize a 16mm print from the archive at the WDR.

Pioneering LGBTQ activist and local Los Angeles filmmaker Pat Rocco (1934-2018) is singularly legendary for using his camera not just to joyfully portray gay love, but also as a tool of direct action in documenting the gay revolution of the late 1960s. Among his myriad community efforts includes the founding of S.P.R.E.E., or Society of Pat Rocco Enlightened Enthusiasts, which grew into a major hub and support system for entertainment artists of various stripes. This 30-minute documentary highlights S.P.R.E.E.’s various activities, beginning with a charitable Christmas party and culminating with five kaleidoscopic, orgy-filled minutes of the S.P.R.E.E. drama workshop’s original production of “Myra Breckinb*tch.”

Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like crisp paper about to be despoiled, a torpid heat reduces movement to fidgets and hesitations. - MIFF

A tongue-in-cheek uninhibited depiction of the secret sex life of a college English professor.

The film tells the story of the construction of access roads to the Samotlor oil field in the Tyumen Region.

An animated story introducing the basic concept of laws. Concludes that no one can live peacefully without rules, and that if people help make their own laws, thay will usually make fair ones.

A modern-day analogy and freestyle adaptation of the life and work of acclaimed Israeli poet, Rachel Bluwstein.

Feature on the northern city of Murmansk and its annual Spring festival of winter sports and Saami culture.

Film by Manuel Pires documenting an exhibition by visual artist Lourdes Castro.

Film by Latif Faiziyev

Animated labor protection film commissioned by the Ministry of Health and Social Provisions, the Institute of Hygiene and Labor Protection.

Pink film directed by Kan Mukai.

The Dutch director Bob Rooyens shows Berlin as it pleases young people in particular. His self-chosen "Miss Berlin" takes the viewer on a spectacular tour of the Berlin of the 70s. The film impresses with its innovative camera work, rapid cuts, confused by surreal stagings, in short: fireworks of imagery.

One day the meadow king notices that the grass has grown so high that he can no longer see over it. He investigates and finds out that the sheep have not come to graze, that the shepherd cannot work because he is hungry, that the farmer does not give the shepherd anything to eat because the mice are eating everything and that the cat does not want to chase the mice because they are so dirty. Then the king speaks a word of power...

Documentary short from the early 70s that depicts Buenos Aires city and its lifestyle.

Claudia von Alemann filmed the co-founders of the Black Panther Party, Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver, in exile in Algiers, on her own. Their filmed statements were intended for a solidarity campaign in West Germany for the release of Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale, their Black Panther friends.