Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

Left-wing collective film targeting colonial politics in Northern Sweden (Norrland).

Aréna is nothing less than an attempt at spatial-temporal filming. It is an associative, avant-garde universe, the entire universe of the world, culture, edited into images of the masses participating in a match and then dispersing, in one- to four-frame flashes with music by Péter Eötvös.

A song of disenchantment with the city, yet an acknowledgement of it as a many-faceted place of dreams. Words and music by Jean-Pierre Ferland and Franck Dervieux.

A 1970 TV discussion with Alexander Kluge.

The apotheosis of Devensky's work is CATERPILLARS AND ANTS which technically resembles a Lumiere film. The camera starts at a man eating caterpillars for the entire running time. The spectacle is so repulsive that the hand-held camera begins to shake wildly, Devensky himself admits that he had to look away during part of the filming. Thus the camera did the looking for him and for us. The experience is quintessentially voyeuristic, as even the filmmaker did not experience first hand what was going on." –Richard Koszarski, New York American

An installment in the Pittsburgh Police series. A number of short sequences show some of the events and people in the daily lives of several policemen: their intervention in domestic quarrels, the handling of a hit-and-run case, the approaches taken toward loitering youths, a drunk and disorderly charge being made in Magistrate's Court, and the interrogation of a burglary suspect. Police force candidates are shown being interviewed by members of the police department. They discuss their reasons for wanting to be policemen and their thoughts about themselves and their jobs, placing the film in the context of the community from which the department draws its personnel.

A collaborative piece by Gore and Beckett, the film begins with one of Gore's characters composing a letter, to eventual mail it. Beckett's animation takes over at this point, transforming the envelope into a looping, cascading form that seems to be perpetually turning itself inside out. A brief Gore finale bookends the piece, which is one of only two extant examples of Gore's unique animation work. This film is usually appended to Gore's own Dream of the Sphinx. [Source: Mark Toscano] Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with CalArts in 2009.

For R. B. and G. M. Filmed in Diesntis, Switzerland.

An autobiographical film ballad about dodging dog dung in New York City.

Experimental ballet film with choreography by Eske Holm.

A race towards the other, with its misunderstandings, for the time a record is playing...

A 8mm experimental short.

Rows of red brick terraced houses, streets filled with children playing, hide lives of hardship in this programme focussing on the poverty and housing conditions in Belfast - often underreported due to the Troubles. Typically for This Week, the programme addresses social problems instead of superficial prejudices, and the result is a heartbreaking portrait of people struggling to survive.

It was while going to film Jeanne Moreau in the summer of 1970 in her house at Garde Freinet that Guy Gilles fell in love with her. She will appear in his films: "Courtyard side on the field side", then "Saint, martyr and poet". She will also sing for "Repeated absences" and "The garden that tilts".

Raindance's Media Primers reflect the group's iconoclastic theories of television and video, and their engagement with alternative and mass media, pop culture and the counter-culture. The themes addressed — media manipulation, the camera's role in modifying individual behavior — illustrate their experimentation with the technological and conceptual underpinnings of 1/2-inch portable video. Paul Ryan's Proto Media Primer includes scenes of Abbie Hoffman awaiting the verdict from the Chicago 7 trial and ironic man-on-the-street interviews.

A police officer embarks on a relentless pursuit to avenge the brutal murder of his partner by a notorious criminal, leading him into a dangerous underworld.

With beads of hail resembling the shape of the mold grown brains.

A young unmarried girl falls apart on a weekend.

"...Filmed in the Sahara [...] Edited in New York at a ratio of ten to one, the movements of groups of animals in a camel market are related to establish a structural rhythm of body motions. I read Eisenstein. I ignored narrative and documentary possibilities. The sound was both wild and sync on four tracks. It augmented the visual opulence of the final footage." -N.G.

Vijay Chauhan (Sanjeev Kumar), an honest security officer, finds his life shattered when he is framed for a train robbery involving a massive shipment of gold. The heist results in a tragic accident that leaves his father blind. Branded a criminal, Vijay becomes a fugitive, hunted by the police and the ruthless "Jwalamukhi" gang responsible for the setup.

Vito Acconci chokes himself with a white cloth multiple times, his face turns red.

About the mining strike at LKAB in Norrbotten 1969/70. Snapshots, moods, meetings, strikes, corporate staff and the local community.

An actor on screen insults the audience. How will spectators react?

In Slavonia in the 1970ies it was still common practice to send old people to a decrepit house, usually on the edge of a forest, where they'd be left waiting for death. This is a document about one such wait for death, of an 86-year-old farmer Antun Babić from the Slavonian village Babina Greda.

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970.

Poorly drawn animation about dinosaurs.

School children lead a civic campaign to clean up litter in San Bernardino.

Asked about her artistic practice after her return to the United States, Hafif said: ‘I wanted to take a break from painting and try out other creative methods. So I bought a Super 8 camera and photography equipment. The first film I produced was the best I ever made. I shot on black-and-white stock and kept the camera trained on a single cloud for three minutes. The cloud slowly changed shape and floated away.’ In the cloud, Hafif seized on a motif with a long tradition in the history of painting. The film’s ‘action’, too, prompts associations with painting: the sky appears as a ground on which the clouds stirs like a mass of paint applied with a brush. A bird crossing the screen anchors the scenery in the specific filming location: California’s Pacific coast.

When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots. I lived in the East village in New York, which was a center of the former, and watched TV news of the latter often. These two films, Film Strips I and II, were taken from the scenes respectively, not as a documentary but as an inner report of mine, abstracted yet chaotic. (T.I.)

"Venus with a Whip" - A young woman is playing with a whip and through various manipulations becomes erotically excited.

A portrait of Anthony Bruegger, a young stock car racer. He is the filmmaker’s nephew and also appears in some of her other films. The film’s title refers to time in film, which can be measured in lengths of film material (100ft, 300ft, etc), and which Anne Rees-Mogg compares and contrasts here to lived time.

An animated fantasy that shows Canadians as urbanized people developing a vast wilderness with the aid of the latest technologies. Shown as part of the Urban Environment exhibit in the Canadian pavilion at the international exposition, Osaka '70.

A Newsreel documentary that accuses the DuPont Corporation of enforcing racism and martial law in Wilmington, Delaware in the late 1960s.

"D" originates from and proceeds through the interpenetration of unreality and reality. The places subject to a long and silent violence are the small towns of eastern Liguria [...] The film is a poem about Liguria, where the critical description of the present contrasts with that of a balanced world like Virgil's.

A documentary about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

One of the earliest minimalist video with flicker effects was produced in Tokyo in early 1970s. A flickering video with eyes, which super-impose the positive over the negative, open and close rapidly. At the same time the "blind" effects of video fast-forwarding accelerates/decelerates the picture synchronized with the sound.

Film inspired by folklore about the adventures of three simple minded souls.

A rare glimpse into a Dubai harem and a document of the significant changes in the lives of Arab women during the early 1970s, this is the only film made by Eve Arnold, the world-renowned photojournalist and first woman to work for the elite Magnum Photos.

A mixture of abstract images and, as if out of a Man Ray painting, a large mouth in the foreground with red lipstick slowly devours a raw liver and then goes on to eat a postcard. Meanwhile, romantic Neapolitan songs play in the background. As Andrea Giunta says: At the same time they function as a hyperbole of the feminine in a register impregnated with pop aesthetics (they are perfect lips and make-up), but in which the flesh introduces an element of deep transgression, with scatological tensions.

Peter Tammer’s personal diary film contrasting the comfortable suburban life of his family to that of his father-in-law, an Austrian Jew who emigrated to Australia after World War II.

"Endurance/Rememberance/Metamorphosis is a film composed of three parts of equal duration. Each part consists of a single shot of a minimal space." - Ellen Feldman

The work and fantasies of one of the COBRA group's principal painters, with the participation of Alechinsky

"At the time (1970) I had one foot in the Situationist movement, and another in the hippie movement, or what took place in Paris. This film is the result of the tension between the two, and reproduces it." - Alain Montesse

UK Public Information Film.

Through a series of dream-like episodes, UNFOLDING suggests universal awareness—aloneness, fantasies, searching, touching, loving. In the vague suggestion of a story, nature and sea mix with hints of legend, ritual, and poetry. UNFOLDING becomes one’s own folklore of imaginings. Double and triple exposure blend ocean, hills, sun, woman, and man, to portray subterranean feelings, ethereal feelings, the freeing of self, in loving and lovemaking, culminating in orgasm.

Sunday in London's parks - Speaker's Corner, courting couples, people swimming in the Serpentine, tramps, etc.

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

An Interface not only between two continually switched over images but also between documentary tape, imagery taken from "reality", and its transformation in the electronic sphere.

A boring commuter fantasises about his sex life; when he gets home he is too exhausted to make love to his sexy wife.

In this film you will simply see a group of young people talking.... they are not actors; there was no script. As you watch, we hope you will feel like a member of the group--- if you could join in, what would you want to say?