Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

An Iranian Theatre.

Short documentary.

Urban Gateways Drama Workshop, a Chicago Model Cities Leisure Time Project involving black children from the fourth and fifth grades, is designed to give children the basic tools of acting, using the definition "acting is the art of making an audience believe that real things are happening to real people." Incorporates the use of games, charades, and imaginary objects, both indoors and outdoors

An experiment in narrative.

Rapidly edited scenes of a construction site are interrupted by feverish image-sound montages and end in a small micro-drama

An animated cartoon of drawings by young children, who imagine the motor car of today and of the future.

An androgynous person is climbing up a swaying tower of humans who hang in the air. Many drop into a sea of flies below them. The flies pick at their brains. At the top of the tower a lotus flower opens and radiates light.

German horror movie from 1970.

Partly dramatised documentary in which a tourist goes in search of the commercial object Rembrandt van Rijn with an 8mm camera in Amsterdam. These shots are juxtaposed with staged impressions of the household life of the Dutch master.

An animation produced by Frank Bresee.

Astronut is a kind, zany guy from outer space who always seems to get into trouble. Oscar was his human friend.

This program provides an intimate glimpse into communal ways and ritual at the height of the counter culture. Includes cameo appearances by Abbie Hoffman and Paul Krassner of Yippie! fame.

"The traditional rites of courtship and marriage simply and beautifully evoked in this lyrical film". Linda Rivera was born and raised in New York City. In the heart of the Lower East Side, between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, she studied theatre and film at the Henry Street Settlement's Movie Club.

Filmed between March and August 1970, the film presents the Catholic festival from its performative dimension. Residents of the region reveal a certain nostalgia for the spectacle, which, according to them, have been lost over time. It is in the search for a theatrical revival that the film operates, reactivating the historic city as a large open-air stage.

It exists only in a fragmented state.

A depiction of the Greenlanders' everyday life and problems in Copenhagen.

Training film for drivers on the introduction of the new locomotive.

A short film by Hans Peter Kochenrath.

SOS – help! A clear and simple visual language to disturbing sounds. The distinguished Lithuanian film and theatre director Vladislovas Algimantas Blinstrubas condenses the violent, centuries-long history of the Baltic in timeless metaphors. The naked, vulnerable human being is at the centre of this filmic exploration. The space opens up to pain and grief.

"...in a film abounding with humor and fertile with suggested points of departure for at least half a dozen more pictures, clearly deserves the encouragement that a top award can give." - Statement of the Judges of the First International Erotic Film Festival (Bruce Conner, Maurice Girodias, and Arthur Knight)

This film deals with the problems affecting the remote communities of the Labrador coast--particularly the relocation of families in more populated centres that offer better employment opportunities, school and medical facilities. The role played by the Labrador Film/VTR community development project is outlined.

A film about the region of Mývatn.

All the goals of the 1970 world cup goals

Film in three parts: Raymond Depardon films L'ambuscade d'Aouzou, in Chad, where Gilles Caron, Michel Honorin, Robert Pledge and a group of rebels are attacked by Chadian auxiliary troops in 1970. The other two parts (1975-76) include an interview with Françoise Claustre, a captive of the Frolinat fighters led by Hissène Habré and Goukouni Wedey, and the attack on the Faya palm grove. Raymond Depardon's interview for this short documentary moved public opinion, and Paris relented, paying the ransom demanded by Hissène Habré, amounting to ten million francs. Françoise Claustre's story served as the basis for Raymond Depardon's film La Captive du désert, starring Sandrine Bonnaire.

1970 Documentary on Pablo Picasso, On display at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.

A history teacher returns to the scene with his students and reenacts what happened in 1941, when he was the only one of the 178 people sentenced to be shot who managed to escape and stay alive.

A documentary about the XVII Estonian song festival, a celebration of 100 years of song festivals. Shown are the lighting ceremony of the song festival fire, the procession, the choirs, singers and the public, including performance of the Mart Saar song Leelo led by Gustav Ernesaks.

An eccentric old man starts preparing for his funeral after he has a vision that he will die in 7 days. When his granddaughter is forced to look after him, they form an unexpected bond during their journey to complete his bucket list.

The drawings on which the series is based were created in 1969 and served as a template for a slide series in 1970. During its screening, this is interrupted by the film "Percy McPhee Agent of Horror (6th + 7th episode)".

A far closer view, and a more complete one, than even the hardest and most patient of visitors is likely to get of the bighorn mountain sheep of the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

The film explores the environment—manmade and natural—at Rozel Point on the north arm of Great Salt Lake. The film captures wood cabins, an amphibious vehicle, and remnants of oil drilling that have largely disappeared from the site today, but the tar seeps and salt-encrusted pelicans so present in this film remain a constant at the site.

(1970) Musical motivation encourages children in the use of percussion instruments.

The film Harry Hooton is conceived as a huge energy field combining the energy of light and colour, movement, editing and sound — a dense, vibrating, pulsating work, unrelenting in its thrust; a celebration of Hooton’s definition of art as the communication of emotion to matter.

On the feast day of 24th June, an annual pilgrimage is made to the church of Sv. Ivana Krstitelja in the village of Podmilacje.

Explosive flowers, a phenomenal invention, have filled the world with enthusiasm. People, usually uninterested in simple flowers, are now crazy about the new fashion. The explosive flowers have become a mania, a matter of social reputation.

Abstract animation.

For African-American soldiers in Vietnam, the contradiction of being expected to defend liberties not granted at home is evident.

1970 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

Douglas Bravo talks about the guerrilla war in Venezuela.

A fairy-tale staged as a puppet show about little rabbits who overcome their fear with the help of a magic galosh that was lost by an absent-minded hunter.

Some of Tennessee's trashiest transvestites strut their fluff and lip sync their gender -bending hearts out on the opulent Holiday Inn Dinner Theatre stage. See Magda as Sophie Tucker! See Chiquita as Carmen Miranda! See Edwina as Ann (Bowlegs) Miller! It's like a bad high school play in which all the girls look a bit...well, scary

Filmed aboard a Hungarian ship, this is a journey upstream the Danube, recalling the vital role the majestic river played in the settlement and political evolution of central and south-eastern Europe. Bridges, locks, cities and mountain ranges float in front of the camera to the noises of the ship’s motor.

A housewife visits a lawyer to discuss her sexual frustration with her husband.

A short film made to the music of Béla Bartók's famous ballet, Der wunderbare Mandarin (The Wonderful Mandarin).

Watch slides of Michael Snow's paintings from the worst seat in the house.

An early Téo Hernandez film exploring the space of a garden. Shot in July 1970 in the Carlsberg Glyptotek garden in Copenhagen, Pause is a 8 mm black‑and‑white silent short in which Téo Hernández roams the museum garden, alternating tight close‑ups of bodies (hands, feet, faces) and textures with sculptures and vegetation; the camera’s halting, scanning movement turns the stroll into a study of matter, framing and rhythm. Featuring Michel Nedjar, Léon Pizano and Sheena Mark, the film dispenses with narration and treats the garden’s statuary and foliage as anchors for a tactile observation of bodies in space.

Trendsetter and absolutely fabulous. Biba was a London fashion store of the 1960s and 1970s. Biba was started and primarily run by the Polish-born Barbara Hulanicki with help of her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon.

A monkey paces inside a cage: visually, the short film confines itself to this stark simplicity, yet its message resonates deeply. It draws on whispered excerpts from Goffman’s seminal Asylums on total institutions, paired with a poignant citation from Poe. In the spirit of post-'68 thought, closed and segregated spaces take center stage in the social and cultural discourse, and this film embodies that reflection with radical intensity.

Ill omens surround the marriage of Bimla and Uttam, according to the temple priest, Shankarnath, who refuses to oversee their ceremony and prophesizes Uttam's death if the couple weds. Unable to surrender her love to Shankarnath's prediction, Bilma seeks reinforcement from the mystical wives of Bhagwan Brahma, Bhagwan Vishnu and Bhagwan Mahesh, initiating an epic battle between the powerful women and the almighty Shankarnath.

A documentary with some fictional scenes.

Mat is contented working as a rag-and-bone man. He is offered a paper bag that he thinks is just filled with shards of glass. It turns out to contain jewels worth millions of dollars that he unknowingly gives away to his friend Hamid. The owner sends his henchmen on a wild goose chase to hunt down the bag. This bewilders Mat as he is forced to be on the run. He puts on various disguises and encounters a slew of obstacles and colourful characters along the way.

David wakes up on the grounds of a deserted church. Is it a dream? An hallucination? Nope. This is the real world.