Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

Early 8mm filmwork by Masanobu Nakamura.

Directed by Prabhakar Manajirao Nayak. With Saroj Sukhtankar.

Cast: Arun Sarnaik, Uma, Asha Kale, Dada Salvi, Digambar Dhanawde, Sandhya Kulkarni, Nilu Phule, Ganpat Patil, Barchibahaddar. Directed by Datta Mane.

Directed by Dada Kondke. Starring Pushpa Bhosale.

Riffing on statistical fallacy and quantum mechanics theory, Keith Varnum's 1975 experimental short film follows a man's course of action after he receives an unsettling phone call and enters into a nightmarish version of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

What does a noose mean?

The story of friends who prove that there are no secrets between them.

One of the very rare Romanian abstract films. Rhythms presents concrete objects that break down into all sorts of colours, shapes and shifting substances.

This short documentary introduces us to the Massaro family of Thunder Bay, Ontario, and highlights some of the activities they partake in: roller hockey, drag-racing, flying, gymnastics, hunting, shooting, fishing... and even hand-making brooms. This film was made by students of the Thunder Bay Community Film/VTR project, a collaboration between the Challenge for Change< program and Town Talk, a citizen's group from the Lakehead.

Filmed in Super 8, Factory Snaps is a brief record of the small fabricating and precision engineering companies that Lijn used to make much of her work. When she arrived in London in 1966, Lijn lived in a bedsit and was unable to do much more than draw her ideas for sculptures. Then, she found that there were many small industrial companies in London and she began to use them. The factories themselves fascinated Lijn but, although she spent a considerable amount of time in them in the first years she lived in London, Lijn only managed to film a very small part of the amazing places and strange visions she saw.

Short educational film about equations.

A film by Cioni Carpi

Soundtrack: Paul Bowles's MUSIC FOR A FARCE.

Early computer animation.

Documentary by Francisco Norden.

16mm, 1970, 9 minutes. Music by Miles Davis, with sound effects.

A lovely young lady pays a visit to a doctor. She has got a hang up in regards to certain marital aids, thanks to unwittingly witnessing some dude in the act, using a fairly monstrous one on some other gal. She's so appalled by this that she makes a couple of repeat visits and sees the same dude do the same thing to a few other chicks on a few other occasions. The doctor's got the right idea for a cure though, and that's to break through her mental block with some vibrator love. Once she's had a taste though, she needs more and he's only too happy to give it to her. Hopefully her insurance covers this.

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

A video by Dennis Oppenheim

A video by Dennis Oppenheim

A video by Dennis Oppenheim

A videotape by Dennis Oppenheim

The building of a giant open-cut copper mine on the island of Bougainville brought profound change to local landowners. Despite royalties, training programs and extensive development, landowner concerns eventually escalated into conflict, which resulted in the closure of the mine. These issues are already clearly evident in this film, made shortly after the mine opened in 1970.

Under the care of her brother, Little Małgosia goes to her grandmother and gives her a cake baked by her mother.

In the spring of 1970, thousand of protesters descended on New Haven to demonstrate against the trial of Black Panther members for the murder of suspected FBI informant Alex Rackley. Led by radical luminaries Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Tom Hayden, the demonstrators converged on the New Haven Green to vent their anger and shut Yale down. Yale President Kingman Brewster commissioned a small group of Yale students to document the demonstrations, resulting in the 22-minute black-and-white film MAYDAY.

The film shows how community run childcare centers are a step toward liberation, by giving parents and children a chance to develop relationships with their peers and new relationships with each other. Focusing in the need for childcare and what good childcare could be, the film interviews women who express their desperation to find a safe environment for their children, and shows them taking positive action. Filming in daycare centers, it records what good parent-controlled daycare could mean for children as well as parents. Filmmakers Bonnie Friedman and Karen Mitnik said, "Being activist filmmakers, we were interested in showing everyday people taking control of their situation by utilizing empty community space to set up their own daycare centers. Using equipment shared amongst several projects within the Newsreel collective, we shot mostly on the streets of New York City with a Bolex and Nagra for sound."

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

Georg Săbău’s first work is a pioneering collection of avant-garde cinematic short stories – non-linearly structured narratives and pseudo-narratives that revolve around partnered couples. It gives the opportunity to master the basic vocabulary of experimental film: split screen, multiple exposures, and jump cuts.

Music tv movie, featuring performances by Tamara Miansarova — People's Artist of Russia, Honored Artist of Ukraine, and laureate of international festivals.

A young man wakes up to the sound of an alarm and a woman is lying next to him. He puts on his clothes and goes to a park and approaches another woman. Afterward, he seduces a woman near Seoul Train Station and has intercourse with her. Then he returns to his room and gives the woman in the room a gift that he has received from another woman.

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

A nature documentary, the film depicts the wildlife of Africa and efforts to protect it through the creation and maintenance of game reserves.

Panola’s life was a performance. He was always “on the set.” Wino, tree pruner, possible police informant, philosopher, “the most dangerous X that ever was,” “father of eight with one more on the way,” Panola challenged our filmmaking convictions. In no way could we film him independently of the presence of the camera. The conflict between our aesthetic convictions and the reality and authenticity Panola expressed led to few years of confusion, unsuccessful attempts at edits, and ultimately the need to find an outside editor (primarily Michal Goldman).

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)

Lonnie Ward, an ex-convict and Black Panther, experiences college life in America. He helps found a Black Student Union, which creates a political storm on campus. Later he goes back to the black community to help bring black consciousness to his friends who didn't go to college.

A tale in two (silent) voices. The forest, the vineyards En Geddi, are there and are not there. The two voices speak on the border between recognition and estrangement, distance and contact. Sometimes, like certain angels in paintings, they turn their eyes away from the representation and look at the observer. Part Two of the Eryngium Flowers series.

Demonstrates how police behavior can increase or diminish the hostility potential in everyday occurrences in law enforcement. Sequences illustrate such typical problems as a street corner gang, a speeding car, a barroom brawl, and a campus demonstration.

Herodias, the wife of Herod Antipas, is accused by John the Baptist of committing adultery. On the occasion of his birthday, Herod asks Herodias's daughter, Salomé, to dance for his guests. As a reward, Herod decides to grant Salomé a wish and she wishes for John the Baptist’s head.

An advertisement from 1970, as part of the It Happened in France: French animation from 1894 to 2018 program curated by the Ottawa International Animation Festival and the Embassy of France

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

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

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.

"Born in the 1960's. Died young." Boston and NYC, 1970.

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

There is no need to be a mathematician to appreciate this film which puts in images a part of Fernand Lemay's theory. For this Quebec scientist, it is the segment and not the point that is non-dimensional. From this new approach result dimensions and situations in infinite number that this film reconstitutes into an extraordinary spectacle. At once an artistic work and a mathematical test, Dimension Soleil provides proof that, once again, the beautiful is not foreign to the essential structures of being.