Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

The struggle by the inhabitants of Raleigh County, West Virginia, to preserve their land from the ravages of strip mining, and their efforts to pass state legislation to this end.

While awaiting the arrival of Simón Bolívar's army, groups of patriots gathered clandestinely in the Junín region, ready to confront the troops loyal to the Spanish crown. They were led by the guerrilla fighter José Fresco, renowned for his bravery by General José de San Martín. He was accompanied by Rosita, the peasant Ninavilca, and Friar Bruno Terreros. These warriors would join the fight, reinforcing the regular armies. They fought successfully in the battles of Junín and Ayacucho.

Short film by Keith Lock and Jim Anderson

Explains the evolution and basic principles of computing. It starts with simple methods like using fingers or stones to count, progressing to the decimal system and the abacus for better efficiency. The narrative then introduces the binary system as the foundation of modern computing, showing how these bits can represent on/off states in devices like switches, lamps, or punched cards. It describes how early computers process data through input, storage, and output, with programs controlling operations via switches. The text covers flowcharts for logical problem-solving, binary logic circuits, and the computer’s strengths: fast calculations, complex switching, and vast storage. It highlights applications like automation, information retrieval, and space travel, where computers simulate conditions using alphanumeric data. Finally, it speculates on future possibilities while humorously suggesting counting sheep if the concept overwhelms, tying back to the opening metaphor.

The film depicts hardships of being a waitress.

Working with the Georgian polyphonic ensemble Rustavi and composer Anzor Erkomaishvili to resurrect the countryside’s derelict monasteries, Chkhaidze films eroded structures and faded biblical paintings caressed by sunlight, evoking the ambivalence of a besieged culture despite Georgia’s extant link to antiquity. Building on themes from his earlier work, Kolkhida—where Chkhaidze assigns the famed national myth of Jason’s quest to find the Golden Fleece in Colchis a negligible value in proportion to the land’s permanence—Chkhaidze here examines and historicizes Georgia’s identity as one of the earliest adopters of Christianity.

About the Chukotka National District. It shows, for example, the northern landscape, Cape Dezhnyov, the Provedeniya Bay, the city streets, the television studio, the airfield, the deer herd, the walrus rookery, and other scenes.

Drama of Nobelist Ivo Andric shown in retrospective way that tells a story of a woman who abandoned her wealthy and prominent husband because of his increasingly schizophreniac behaviour, known only to her.

A film of the live performance of the Les McCann trio at Shelly's Manne-Hole, the premier Los Angeles jazz club founded by drummer Shelly Manne, operating from 1960 to roughly 1972/1973.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

A film about the landscape, history and cultural traditions of Khevsureti in Georgia, where traditions remain an integral part of life.

A submission to the Sogetsu Short Film Festival by three students from the Department of Photography and Visual Language at Kuwasawa Design School (桑沢デザイン研究所).

A concise philosophical film that depicts the timeless problem of the connection and interdependence between humans and nature.

Ainslie Pryor as the jilted suicidal lush who resolves her distress with a carrot.

Heinz Badewitz makes a film about himself. In fragmented takes, he depicts himself as a pensive funster, indulges in free association, then tells a love story that could just as well be freely invented as true. Like all love stories, it ends unhappily. Briefly inserted clapperboards bear the title ‘Screwings’.

This film summarises a 10-minute material action by Günter Brus that he performed as a prelude to Hermann Nitsch’s ‘7th Abreaktionsspiel’ on February 28, 1970, in Aktionsraum 1 in Munich. Günter Brus, dressed in women’s underwear, cries out, puts his feet into a bucket full of some liquid, writes on the floor with chalk and scarifies his upper legs.

(1969/70, 5 min)

A film about anti-authoritarian kindergartens.

On Monday afternoon, May 4, 1970, four students on Kent State’s campus were shot to death and many others seriously wounded by members of the Ohio National Guard. After that tragedy, some members of the faculty and student body of Kent State put together a motion picture which documents this confrontation. The filmmakers interviewed the people in the town of Kent, students, and faculty of the university, and a member of the National Guard . . . And they asked all these people the question “Do you think that the shooting of the students at Kent was justified?” The answers they received form the content of the film . . . and these answers raise disturbing questions about the nature of our society.

Two neighboring fields are inhabited by two black and white individuals. The problem is, they cannot be seen...

From the polarity of television viewer, a state of suspension of consciousness is induced through steadily lengthening panning shots. Reality evaporates.

Kyama Mharr Mainmathar is a powerful, uncompromising social drama that serves as a searing critique of patriarchal hypocrisy and the double standards placed upon women in public life. The film explores the profound personal and tragic consequences when a woman's artistic profession and public visibility are viewed as "shameful" by society.

On the square in front of the theater of Düsseldorf / Germany, the artists Chris Reinecke and Jörg Immendorf demonstrate (Lidl) together with various political groups against exorbitant rents and land speculation.

Celebration of Labor Day, May 1st. While Skopje is decorated with flags and banners on the occasion of the holiday and the city is deserted, the picnic areas are full of people who have fun in a variety of ways; then, after the holiday, they leave the nature polluted with waste.

Luanda, the capital of Angola. The city, its people, and everyday life. Traditional aspects and the challenges of the future, presented in a brief yet dynamic overview.

An intellectual and writer involved in underground revolutionary activity is imprisoned, where his convictions and will are put to the test. Based on Lesia Ukrainka’s short story “Mistake (Thoughts of a Prisoner)”.

A fairy tale about a kind and thoughtful elephant who never forgot anyone and never hurt anyone.

Without commentary, the film shows the constant change of seasons from winter to spring, summer and autumn.

Pink film directed by Kan Mukai.

Portrait of an artist.

A taiyupian co-starred Chang Di, Yang Li-hua and Kang Ding.

"Outrage" is a work for which I developed a reversible film using a negative-processing bath. While developing it, I used my fingernails to scratch the emulsion. It was a monochrome film, but when I applied the fixative, the scratches turned yellow.

Short experimental 8mm film. A cinematic contemplation from nothing to something.

In 1970, Keith Rodan began to create a series of "S" films of which this film, featuring an urban landscape and images of space, is the first. Rodan developed a form of camera animation achieved by filming still photographs and connecting them (by dissolves) into textured and kinetic compositions. (City of Vancouver Archives)

Motorway Fog

Polystyrene Tiles

Jobs For Women

A documentary film about aerialist Raisa Nemchinskaya, a legendary Soviet circus performer.

A white woman named Elisabeth is assaulted by two hunters in broad daylight. Two Native American men shoo them away and then rape the woman themselves. When they are finished, they take the woman back to their tribe where she is to take part in a “ritual”.

An old tree sits on a mound in an Ohio farm field. The filming of the tree and the metrical editing of the film is organized around the tree's natural elements: water, earth, root ends, roots, trunk, limbs, branches, leaves and sun.

Using hidden camera techniques and synchronous sound recording, the film presents an Australian Rules football game exclusively in terms of the reactions of the watching crowd.

Pinocchiova dobrodružství II. is a 1970 Czechoslovak film directed by Zdenek Sirový. The film starred Josef Kemr, Ladislav Pesek, Josef Beyvl, and Frantisek Filipovský. Ladislav Pesek is credited as voice-acting Geppetto. It is based on the book The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.

Otto, the master of the house, behaves in an exemplary manner. He washes, cooks, does housework, gives presents to his wife, in short, he does everything to make her life as comfortable as possible. But when the clock strikes midnight, that is, March 8 is over, he falls into bed and considers his task fulfilled for a year.

A BAFTA award nominated feature. Walls of stone, surrounded by water isolate the National Gallery of Melbourne, Victoria from its inhabitants. Stone, glass and water are the constantly repeating motives of this gallery. A mosaic of quick reciprocal action arises from the mixture of architecture and nature, sculptures, pictures, masks and people. A subjective look at the National Gallery of Victoria, the film expresses visually and audibly the visitors' reaction to the Gallery, and the Gallery's reaction to its visitors

A short animated movie from 1970 depicting a "grotesque image of the eternal longing for adventure and romance".