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A contemporary man in the eye of the cyclone created by information. He finds no support for his hands and feet. It’s like in a poem by Tadeusz Rozewicz (‘falling in every direction’), he turns to dust when his time finally comes.
In the days of the Second Temple, when the Roman Empire ruled the ancient Land of Israel, a Hebrew prisoner manages to escape his captors. The man belongs to violent fundamentalist sect known as the Sykariki – a fringe group that sought to end Roman occupation of the land and usher in independent Jewish rule. The escaped Sykarik teams up with his mates and finds shelter with a Jewish family – in a tent which the other Sykarikis then force their way into and settle in.
“The Promised Land” is a video essay that intentionally captures the conditions of poverty in Panama City and questions the reasons for a progress that, despite its abundance, failed to reach the people. In the filmmaker's words: “Dedicated to that pain made flesh, called the People; to that martyr, made of scars and rags, with hands bound by the iniquity of all laws made in their name, and mouth sealed by the blasphemous stone of Force, placed upon it like the claw of a basalt sphinx…”
The much-yearned-for adventure presents itself to a prince and his friends: a mission to liberate a young man’s kidnapped beloved. But her personal description leads them to a different woman with whom the prince now falls in love. Suddenly, they find themselves at war and see their true task here: to rescue culture from the barbarians.
Access to video technology had largely been limited to corporate-run TV studios until the Sony Portapak, a battery-powered video tape recorder that could be carried by one person, was popularized in the early 1970s. This device also allowed artists to see what they were recording in real time and to immediately play it back, prompting investigations of technology’s increasingly fluid relationship to the body, language, and time itself. Shigeko Kubota’s ”Self-Portrait” embodied the boundless potential of the new medium and the freedom from precedent it represented. This work, in which Kubota interacts with her own image, contains some of her earliest known experimentation with video. Here, she used new tools to manipulate the electronic signal, creating previously unimaginable colors and patterns, and unraveling established conventions of image-making right before our eyes. [Overview courtesy of Erica Papernik-Shimizu via MoMA]
Documentary by Jesús Enrique Guédez.
Makeup - Magic two. Fri May 13 1971. Original S&W [Shirley & Wendy] - then Nancy.
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Short experimental 8mm film.
An elementary school film on multiplication based on the theories of Professor Zoltan Dienes.
A Mighty Heroes short.
A series of vibrant drawings painted by Palestinian children are brought to life in Blown By the Wind. The montaged still images glimpse at their everyday lives, their memories and imagination following the Six Day War in 1967.
Magic is alive and living in Bolinas. A folkfilm, a personal poem about my family and my town. Includes "Bear-Hunt," Bolinas 4th of July," "Rummage," "Oilspill," "Horseplay," "Lila's Birthday," and "Benjamin's Bath." Rated "G" by me. Suitable for home, church, school, and film society. A patriotic, devotional homemovie. Completed August 1971.
A young university student tells us the experience of become pregnant, without having a family or a stable economic situation. She must abandon her studies and her job to adapt to the new situation while avoiding pressure from her partner who forces her to have an abortion. Short film made by students of the School of Communication Arts of the Catholic University of Chile.
"an 11‐minute slide show from a young lifetime of snapshots made by Lenny Lipton, featuring family, girlfriends, and various big‐city scenic eyesores—all accompanied by music like “Listen to the Mockingbird,” “There's a Tavern in the Town,” and a Stephen Foster medley. The film must have taken equal parts of affection and chutzpah, and it is perhaps too private really to deserve (or require) a public." - New York Times, Nov. 12th 1971
Student documentary about Marvel Comics artist Herb Trimpe.
On the first and third Saturday of each month, Master Choy Kam-man has a club meeting with all of his students who have completed at least one course in Tai Chi Chuan. Together, the students practice their form and Master Choy helps them to correct their movements….
Shot on the roof of 799 Greenwich St., New York, Bob with Books is a short silent film by Nancy Holt on her husband, artist Robert Smithson, two years before he passed away.
Doomed lovers visit a country fair, spend a long afternoon in the forest before they drown themselves in the river. FIlm thought lost for 30 years, as been restored with new sound.
Avant-garde film about drug addiction made by the famous surrealist poet Ljubiša Jocić.
Conjoined fables are told, one Japanese, the other African, a ghost story colliding with farcical folklore.
A film about women. A film by women. A film for women. With a man’s camera. Someday women will see these sad images of our survival and will wonder how we have been able to take it. (D.J.)
Mandala of Mr O is the second of a trilogy of experimental films about Kazuo Ohno, co-founder of the contemporary Japanese style of dance known as butoh, made with director Chiaki Nagano during a period in which he had retired from public performance, and just before he began touring the world as a solo dancer with his celebrated work Admiring La Argentina.
The story of the romance between the son of a ranch owner and an indigenous woman devoted to Ceferino Namuncurá.
During a voyage by boat to Finland, the camera records three minutes of black and white 8mm film of a woman sitting on a bridge. The preoccupation of the film is with the base and with the transformation of this material, which was first refilmed on a screen where it was projected by multiple projectors at different speeds and then secondly amplified with colour filters, using positive and negative elements and superimposition on the London Co-op’s optical printer.
Ken, Flo and Nisi Jacobs in the Syracuse Airport: this is what you might call baby-sitting in the swamp.
The painter Juarez Paraíso describes the assembly of panels at the entrance of the Cinema Tupi, in Salvador, explaining their meaning.
The Lost Generation takes place in a future time in an over-populated New York City, where multiple, unrelated families share apartment space, and there is no 'real' food available to the general public, only artificial versions of eggs, wheat and vegetables, etc. Babies born without government permission are frozen and only under extraordinary circumstances are thawed and given to the parents.
"A pseudo-educational, fictitious documentary survey of the ups, downs, ins and far-outs of Dope. Very funny and slightly sinister, like Red Skelton in the sky with diamonds." - Ron Padgett
Experimental filmmaker and color cameraman here collaborate in a surrealistic retelling of the old myth. But this is a dream fantasy with no real parallel to Pandora, replete with striking symbols where everything is larger than life--the silhouetted image of a mother and an infant, the profiled view of two sculptured heads spouting smoke and fire.
Eustache’s grandmother Odette Robert was a key figure in his life, serving as a substitute mother during much of his childhood (My Little Loves was dedicated to her). In 1971, he recorded an interview with her that went largely unseen until 2003—Eustache never screened the complete film publicly, although a radically truncated version was presented on television. In a string of long, stationary takes, the camera watches over Eustache’s shoulder while he pours countless glasses of whiskey and Odette tells the stories of her life. A number of her themes resonate with those of Eustache’s films: cruelty, male philandering, the Rosière festival of Pessac. Number Zero is a return to origins—of cinema and of the self—and an experiment in narration, both restrained and deeply personal.
Documentary produced by PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine).
Documentary about the EEC debate in Norway.
The well-known illustrator Werner Klemke uses his drawings to teach the youngest bookworms about the value of reading. Taking this as a starting point, Lotte Thiel presents the GDR as a land of books whose capital is Leipzig. Figures and images from the 1971 International Book Art Exhibition underscore the significance accorded to books as a tool for shaping the “socialist personality”.
On May 23, 1971, a French expedition led by Robert Paragot successfully climbed Makalu via its west pillar. Makalu is one of the five highest peaks in the world, located in the Himalayas on the Nepalese-Tibetan border. Jean-Pierre Janssen and Lucien Bérardini filmed this expedition, where Robert Paragot spoke about the expedition conditions, life at altitude, and his state of mind as expedition leader. On the return to base camp, Jean-Pierre Janssen interviewed Lucien Berardini, Georges Payot, Jean-Claude Mosca, François Guillot, and Jean-Paul Paris, all of whom played a key role in bringing Bernard Mellet and Yannick Seigneur to the summit. Expedition members: Robert Paragot (expedition leader), Georges Payot, Yannick Seigneur, Claude Jager, Jean-Claude Mosca, François Guillot, Bernard Mellet, Lucien Bérardini, Jean-Paul Paris, Robert Jacob, Jacques Marchal (surgeon).
Short Yugoslav film.
How wedding was held half a century ago.
Cirkeline, Frederik and little brother are playing trains and travel around the world to America. Here they are met by unrest, police states and a black mouse who is a member of the Black Panthers. The mouse, who we never see, tells of racial hatred and persecution of black people. Little brother disappears in the big city, but Cirkeline and Frederik ally with some Indians to find him again. The soldiers open fire, also on Frederik and Cirkeline. Fortunately, it turns out that the soldiers are plastic toy soldiers that you can just push over, and the Indian chief is Ingolf. Fortunately, it was just a game.
He made many merits, such as saving a wounded soldier from the pursuit of the enemy, seizing the white man's weapon on the way, and riding with a red flag to deliver a letter after his brother was killed by the enemy. Bat boy and his friends, who could hardly hold back the anger of the enemy and cried, won the revolution in Mongolia. showed how young people participated and helped in the rise.
This short documentary explains the importance of formalist elements such as positive/negative space, texture, color balance, and rhythm in painting and sculpture. The film characterizes these various compositional strategies as being universal, but foremost stresses their manifestation in twentieth-century art.
Sampaguita-VP Pictures brings back to you the love team of Guy and Pip that smashed all box office records unprecedented in the history of Philippine movies!
Short animation about a sample without value.
Short animation about the apple in paradise.
Mexican feature film
A picture based on an old folk song tells us a horrifying story about a soldier returning home after twenty years. His parents do not recognize him, they rob and kill him.
Soviet Union's routine explained through the life of common people.
"This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner. Cesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of Montréal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots, and gum. With a sure hand he works methodically to fashion a craft unsurpassed in function or beauty of design. Building a canoe solely from the materials that the forest provides may become a lost art, even among the Native Peoples whose traditional craft it is. The film is free of spoken commentary but text appears on the screen in Cree, French, and English." - Anthology Film Archives
An artist takes a plaster cast of a nude male's body. Part of BFI collection "The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome."