Cinematic Era: 1971 Vintage

The final stages of alcohol addiction are juxtaposed with the official attitude of Polish authorities towards the success of the ever-growing national alcohol industry.

The pharmacist's assistant puts sweets in all the medicines and suddenly he got a wonderful marzipan — March's bread.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

NASA documentary of the flight of Apollo 15. Details the launch, lunar landing, and return to earth of the spacecraft and crew. NASA Film HQ-217

With the help of “electronic feedback”, it is the crazy round of images that come, return, surpass each other, overlap and dance on the screen. Under the gushing flow of abstract geometry that fascinates the retina, extremely sensitive music by Michel Hinton occupies a special place.

Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.

This documentary follows the 1970 Chilean elections, which resulted in the election of Salvador Allende. The footage reveals the political and social divisions in a country plagued by poverty, malnutrition, and homelessness. Allende, newly elected, reflects on his future government and his subsequent assassination. One could say that this footage became a chilling and prophetic chronicle of a death foretold.

Yuri Abakumov, a steelworker at the Centrolit plant in Tikhvin, talks about the profession of a steelworker.

Skits produced by The Conception Corporation, a '70s comedy group.

Hong Kong movie

An erotic pop animation seemingly symbolizing his youth when his soul was taken by the Hollywood actress.

Songsmith Neil Diamond performs live with strings and horns laid on by the BBC, including hits such as Sweet Caroline, Solitary Man, Cracklin' Rosie and Holly Holy.

Three ARVN special task agents infiltrate the ranks of North Vietnamese army to plant doubts and fears among Revolutionary soldiers.

Mexican feature film

Reportage from Uppland, a center of settlement and power for the former Swedish tribes.

Sabatham is 1971 black-and-white Tamil Drama – Romantic film, directed by P. Madhavan.

Mrs. Endrényi, an old woman in Old Buda learns that her house is going to be demolished and she is going to get a new apartment. Since she would like her family members to have the same advantage, she takes them in her apartment.

A little baby girl is left at the door of a mansion, and the kind-hearted servant and grumpy old owner of the mansion take her in. Her mom is dying to see her kid, but she can't even see her face. For her brother had deceived her by claiming that the baby had been stillborn, as he did not want his sister's illegitimate child in the house. The mansion's inhabitants, who raised the little girl named Ayşegül, created a world filled with love for her. Ayşegül tries to ease the longing for her mother she has felt for years by loving a famous singer, unaware that she is truly her mother...

During the trip back to Lithuania, Jonas Mekas made Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, Adolfas Mekas made Going Home, while Pola Chapelle, Adolfas’ wife, made this Journey to Lithuania, which both Jonas and Adolfas said was the best of these three films.

Two people having an affair are spied on in their hotel room.

“Love Shots traces the overwhelming, colorful landscapes of Minnesota and Mexico: shots of lush, Mexican mountains and country roads are interspersed with Minnesotan lakes on a rainy day and aerial views of the city from a friend’s airplane. Downs also documents his family life; his wife, Anita, and daughter Lila appear throughout the 8-minute short. Distinguished by its frenetic pace—cutting sharply between saturated images and frequently showing scenes sped up to multiple times their normal pace—Love Shots also exhibits Downs’s fascination with conspicuous consumption, manifested in various images of advertising, shopping, and scenes from amusement parks.” —Ruth Hodgins, Walker Art Center

This documentary takes its cue from the death of Padre Pio and from the atmosphere of intense popular mourning, so as to examine the birth and development of one of this century's most exceptional myths

A poet seeks revenge on the criminal responsible for the death of his mother.

Filmed in a remote location at Land's End, San Francisco. The film is constructed around a formal central idea. The scenes are constructed to suggest a number of popular European directors of the period, but these styles morph into a free-for-all of film genres. A quasi-personal voice over dovetails with minimum dialogue scenes. The film winds up being something of an essay, illustrating the major life choices and laid-back values of the hippie-era . The brief appearance of members of the Cockettes (the reigning company of drag queen camp at the time) and a cast happy to discard their clothes when asked adds to the general mayhem.

In the interior of a forest, a tree is being felled. Anordinary event, an event like the shooting of a birdor a rabbit in a forest or the violation of a girl in alonely forest. It is an ordinary human event.. Thefilm humanizes the event of the cutting of a tree ina forest. When one tree is cut (killed, violated) theWOodcutter passes on to the next tree to be cut(killed. violated?

A report from the inside of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) - about a country whose future no one believed in. But after several major setbacks, China took North Korea under its mighty wing.

A jewel of Italian artist cinema long considered lost, Echo by Gianfranco Pardi was presented for the first time in 1971 at Studio Marconi. The music from the film, created together with the artists Mino Ceretti, Carlo Ruffini and Davide Mosconi, will then flow into the album Uno zingaro di Atlante con un fiore a New York, released by RCA in 1973. As Franco Quadri had already noted at the time, the structure of the film unfolds in three moments which, although contrasting, blend into each other harmoniously, from a visual and musical point of view. The first is of an exquisitely conceptual nature and focuses on the constructive values ​​of the architectural measurement of space; the second is characterized by a convulsive explosiveness bordering on pop and, finally, the third brings the gaze back to the natural order.

With clear stylistic references to the spaghetti western, the film tells a story set in the Chilean countryside in a bygone era. The script, which tries to offer a folkloric costumbrista picture through an anecdote of love and revenge, is primary and unsubstantial. In many moments the film turns out to be comic when it is supposed to be dramatic and vice versa.

One evening, in the metro, the eyes of a woman and a man who do not know each other meet. As the train rolls around, the woman imagines a sexual relationship with the man. When she gets out of the metro, the stranger follows her. Forgetting her passing fantasy, she goes to find a policeman who calls out to the man.

The further adventures of masked criminal Killing

Hassan Kababi and his friend "Esmall" do not compete in gambling ...

Kemal, whose father wants him to marry the daughter of a wealthy family friend, steps into the warm world of poor but honorable people and meets Nur. This poor neighborhood will be demolished by Kemal's father and replaced with a factory. All of Kemal's efforts are in vain, and he achieves no results. The two young people choose love over money. The young man chooses to marry the girl he loves instead of entering into an arranged marriage with someone he does not love, and rejects his father's fortune. He begins to live a life of friendship with the poor, honesty, and true, sincere love. However, the heartless businessman is determined to destroy both their love and the neighborhood.

A man goes through his solitary morning routine, then has an accident.

Short film made on Bankside featuring, as the electric fairy, a "young man with curly blonde hair, a star on his forehead and stars on his tunic, headphones, jewels and carmine lips".

Jean. François. Xavier. Three names, three figures that personify the triple image of a being who lives before our eyes the stages of his evolution and his liberation from sex, woman and death. Freed from his constraints, he becomes himself and, in his eyes, the woman is no longer the provocative element of a certain guilt of which he carried the weight.

A documentary short about the "exploding whale" in Florence, Oregon, in 1973, and the environmental impact of whaling.

A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous community formed a cooperative to defend their rights from settlers and colonists, but the government organized a military operation to protect the latter and foreign companies.

A series of interviews with Juan Domingo Perón in Madrid, where he was exiled. Filmed between June and October 1971, Perón talks about the current situation of the Justicialist movement and the steps to be taken to win the presidential elections again.

Reza is content with his life—on the condition that his mother doesn’t keep pressuring him to get married! He is kind-hearted and a bit comical. In stark contrast stands another young man who looks just like him but is serious and deeply interested in women. By chance, the two accidentally switch places...

The film begins at a women's agency in London, where the protagonist, Mel Lamb, makes arrangements for a series of engagements. During his time in Paris and at Ai en-en-Provence Mel's human values are explored in the environment of horror and violence of Belfast.

Recording of video processing feedback which was "performed" live to the music of The Soft Machine.

The women of Ghana have a reputation for independence. They, rather than the men, sit enthroned at the market stalls and run a large proportion of the nation's retail trade. But Ghanaian women are now thrusting even more vigorously into the arena of power and influence

Portrait of a provincial family with fourteen children.

A family is observed watching television. The viewer becomes the object of the family's gaze, as much as the family is the object of the viewer's gaze.

Short film on the creation of an agricultural cooperative in the village of Sever do Vouga.

A programme about the Icelandic actor, Brynjólfur Jóhannesson, with excerpts from some of his most famous performances.