Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

A ballet impression with the participation of pantomime artists, recorded during a rehearsal in the studio and outdoor locations.

Experimental short by Gianfranco Brebbia.

This searing documentary from 1970 still resonates powerfully today. The film described how large banks discriminated against poor customers and spotlighted the connection between the banking industry and Washington. The doc also featured a hidden-camera scene in a loan office where a weeping woman’s house was seized over a handful of dollars.

A collection of short animated films commissioned by The While House Conference on Children in 1970. Made by children at the Yellow Ball Workshop. In addition to the animated films, most titles are followed by a short documentary segment showing the children who made each film.

Using montage techniques, in 'Vertical, Horizontal, Diagonal, Square' Jan Dibbets imposes a graphic pattern on his shot of a grassy field. On the one hand, the lines are reminiscent of the white markings on a street or a football field that guide traffic or play. On the other hand, the graphic pattern here has nothing to do with this reality; it exists in the wholly other and more abstract dimension of the framing of the image imposed by camera. Then the pattern of lines disappears, and the artist himself steps into the image. With the utmost concentration Dibbets follows the lines seen earlier, which were only notional in the physical space, having been determined by the eye of the camera. He crosses the field from the lower left to the upper right, and from he bottom to the top. He moves across the grass as carefully as a tightrope walker, now drawing the lines with his movements, like an invisible horizon.

More futuristic short than industrial process film, its shimmering steelscapes are cut between close ups of machinery and set to a cool, otherworldly, soundtrack from the cutting edge of modernism - with no dull commentary to spoil the vibe. Strangely absorbing and refreshingly abstract, it's an enticing vision of British modernity in concrete, glass and steel.

This "gun" is loaded all right. And it ain’t shooting blanks.

The first of Robert Polidori's completed moving-image works – which was presented at the Jewish Museum in a Film-Makers’ Cinematheque program on May 27, 1970 – was 18 Traffic Light Changes/Durations (1970), a film that shows the clear influence of Michael Snow, as well as an affinity with the contemporaneous work of Ernie Gehr and other structuralist filmmakers.

A boy called the Pygmy escapes to the park after failures at school. There he meets two hooligans who persuade him to break into his car.

Akkara Paha is a 1970 film Sri Lankan drama film directed by Dr. Lester James Peries, with the screen play dialogue and script by Dr. Tissa Abeysekara. The film stars Milton Jayawardena as Sena, a young man from a rural society who travels to the city to pursue a higher education.

Shows several jobs on the assembly line of Detroit's automobile factories; includes workers' comments on their feelings about the work.

(1970) color; 3 min.

Tokelau is a New Zealand territory, spanning three small South Pacific atolls. In the 1960s the New Zealand Government expressed concern about overpopulation, and instigated the Tokelau Islands Resettlement Scheme. This National Film Unit documentary surveys Tokelau society and culture from a New Zealand perspective, and follows the journey of a group of Tokelauans who chose to migrate to Aotearoa (where they adapt to telephones and horses near Te Puke). It was one of three NFU documentaries directed by Derek Wright on Pacific Island subjects.

A Rodolfo de Luca and Estela Saenz de Mendez's animation short film.

After early silent black-and-white short films, this is the author's first more experimental film. She shot it during the summer film school in Koper in 1968. It is already sound and colorful and also shows various expressive procedures and also greater knowledge of editing. At that time, she and her colleague Tone Rački were in charge of film education at the Pionirski dom in Ljubljana, where they had a camera and 8mm films, and it was also possible to edit them.

An explosion of Delilah myth. A biblical super-spectacular in the Bizet-De Mille grand opera tradition, with torrid ballet sequence.

On 26 Aug 1970, 10,000 women marched down New York's Fifth Avenue to mark the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote. Shot before and during the march, Videofreex interview women sitting in cars alongside the route, protestors, counter protestors, and passersby.

experimental short film

experimental short film

“I now knew that I'd found a style to interpret an emotional event filmicly. The unabating atrocities of the Vietnam War, the growing protest movement in Australia, and the ghastly images we witnessed each day in newspapers and on TV formed my material. I wanted to get into the minds of the protesters, into their (my) anger. Protest rallies and the horror of the press were captured with a frantic camera and very fast zooming. The power of sound and image was heightened with often-rapid (sometimes single-frame) montage.” (Paul Winkler)

Lowell Bodger, 16mm, silent, black & white, date unknown.

Describes proper selection of clothes, table manners, ordering in a restaurant, introductions, dating etiquette, and etiquette at a formal reception.

A film produced for the 1970 Society of Archivists' Conference, and featuring the craft of making marble paper, by the Cambridgeshire firm, Douglas Cockerell & Son.

In 1970, the Yale student film collective May 1st Media made two 16mm works supporting the Black Panther Party’s New Haven chapter to help spread the word of their community-based activities. Puppet Show is a charming curiosity that sees the story of Panther Lonnie McLucas, who was convicted of murder in 1969, being performed for neighborhood children at the Party’s local headquarters.

Pilot for a TV series

A compilation of satirical anti-smoking clips.

A day in the life of a low-rent hooker who services, among others, a banker and the governor's wife.

Documentry of Abu Rayhan Biruni (973-ca. 1050) the Great Persian Scientist.

Judson Memorial Church on the occasion of the People’s Flag Show, 1970. Film by Rudi Stern, John Reilly. Performers: David Gordon, Nancy Green, Barbara Dilley, Steve Paxton, Lincoln Scott, Yvonne Rainer. Video (black and white, sound).

The Farm's first ten months. Cleaning the well, reading the paper, chanting Prajna Paramitra Sutra, tilling the earth, sipping coffee, picniking, the sun setting, the sun rising, mist settling, motoring through the countryside, building the woodshed, digging for the hidden well, the morning walk, bathing, horseshoing, caressing the cow, cutting wood, the annual parade, the sun yellowing leaves, the leaves wrinkling, the leaves fallen and blown, the snow, sledding, bearing water through the snow, 17 below, the blizzard. the end. Gordon Ball spent long patient seasons milking Bessie, tilling the earth, and squinting through 8mm lenses at home nature on mountain top farm filled with ghostly strangers and so documents and archetypal first year back to the land. – Allen Ginsburg

"This film, done in the fine tradition of hand-painted images and sound, deals with Western man's fetish for technology." —Keith Lock & Jim Anderson

4891 is a political 1984-ish sci-fi paranoid film like everyone made at some point in the '60s.

A nostalgic honoring as well as a reciprocal re-make of the film of the same name by Willi Forst. A setting to film of a 1930s book, literally: page by page. (E.S.jr.)

Painted pictures of castles, knights and flowers to a poem by Karl Vennberg.

An anthology of short films directed by Massimo Bacigalupo around 1969 and 1970.

For La Source de la Loire, I was in Paris, looking for a job... All the time, the word source followed me (it turns out that my grandparents lived near the source of the Loire.) The word source escapes the world, it gives without taking anything. Suddenly the autumn, it was necessary to shoot, but it was not for me, it had to become a necessity, one has to be wary because that is not what is in the film.

Multiple exposed flowers and flower buds. Some close ups of the reproductive parts of flowers. Evocations of biological universe.

A short film about Texan conservationists attempting to save the Attwater's Prairie Chicken from extinction.

Featuring Bill Weidner and Connie Brady, BRANCHES was made in a filmmaking workshop at Cornell University during the summer of 1970. The film was improvised around the theme of Branches of Possibilities real or imagined in Bill's pursuit of Connie. It is an attempt to structure a film out of the concerns of the time, using the college environment and student sexual drives as the principles focus. –E. E.

Before a figure skating championship, a television announcement reminds young girls about the emancipation of women.

A sex maniac (bald and wearing white shoes) kills young women by penetrating them with various car parts. After each crime, he calls Commissioner Jason, head of a special police unit. The "anti-sex brigade" consists of three impassive detectives, whose main activity consists of collecting the variously undressed bodies with a few crude comments, or even touching them inappropriately. However, one of the victims has survived: the commissioner decides to use her as bait.

A brief glimpse at some of the many types of cooks and chefs to be found in the food service industry.

A three piece rock band called "The Three Easy Pieces" drives into Tennessee to play a gig. After the show, they meet up with three women and pair off for three one-nighters

A short documentary on the film works directed by Brazilian pioneer Humberto Mauro. With an extensive career that began in the silent era and then moved to the talkies, Mauro was recognized as one of the most important Brazilian filmmakers of all time.

Constable's famous painting "The Haywain" seems like a good place for a picnic until the town planners move in. The painting turns into a nightmare of urban tourist resort exploitation.

A Robin Hood style story about a group who name themselves the Red Azaleas to steal from the rich to give to the poor set in ancient China - produced by left-wing The Great Wall Studio, the criticisms against the corrupt oppressive leaders in the film could be an allegory of the colonial Hong Kong government of the time this film was made.

Interesting crime story about woman-prisoner, incest and murder..

Outlines the physiological causes of acne, offering a number of health care suggestions for its treatment and control.

Dissolvimento shows two women in domestic interiors who perform two different actions, edited one after the other. In the first, the painter Gigliola Carretti is engaged in an action with a series of sexually explicit props, making the activity resemble the brushing of teeth; in the second, the director herself is seen from behind, seated on a toilet. The film ends with the almost abstract view of cascades of the fountains of Turin.