Cinematic Era: 1971 Vintage

Sri Lestari and her fiancé, Joni are invited to an empty house. Instead, he is met by a policeman who asks him to the police station for questioning. Joni then calls his future mother in law, Rahayu, who later on, pays a visit. When Joni goes back to the police station, Rahayu had left behind a letter after taking poison. The letter tells her life story, about her husband, Yono, who had many wives and liked to sleep around. This prompted Rahayu to get a divorce and start an affair with her former lover, Jufri. But Yono is angry when he finds out about the affair. He fights with Jufri, but ends up being killed by Jufri. In panic, Jufri runs out of the house and is killed by an oncoming truck. Then Rahayu goes to her aunt’s house claiming that Yono has remarried. Frans, the maid begins to blackmail Rahayu but Rahayu later poisons her. All of this happens when Lestari was five years old.

Edmundo Scivano returns to his hometown after years of failure in his political career. Discredited, he seeks the support of his countrymen to get his life back on track, but finds only contempt and disappointment in his path. Dissatisfied and angry, Scivano decides, insanely, to make a pact with the devil to obtain power and wealth to plot his revenge.

"People with an abiding interest in what young America is thinking today will be happy to learn that with perhaps one exception all the movies in the Whitney Museum's current Teen‐Age Filmmakers program are concerned with nightmare visions. The one exception is “Quiet Snow,” a nature study by Rob Hahn and Corey Kaup, which earns its “perhaps” because after several minutes of pastoral imagery it ends with about 30 seconds of mere blackness accompanied only by noise. For all I know, that may be a nightmare." - Roger Greenspun, New York Times, Oct. 19th, 1971

In this experimental short film a soap tells its own story woven of humor and hallucinatory microscopic images.

Short film about a mysterious car trip

A fictional story about Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation of their homeland..

"PRIMARIES is a simple film which merely establishes a definition of 'politics'. Its narrative moves in paragraph blocks, with each sentence accompanied by different pictures of a young woman's hands, feet, torso, face… A TURNING POINT IN LUNATIC CHINA provides a critique of the methods of communication employed by my fellow Leftists. The ritualistic posturing and sloganeering I had used myself and seen in action in Chicago and San Francisco State, the seizing of exotic foreign figures (Mao, Che) and ideological rhetoric (SDS debates on Stalinism)–all struck me as mistaken and useless... [TURNING POINT] initiates a conscious probing of the means and techniques of mass communication, particularly film. 1, 2, 3, FOUR... delivers a critique from within of the... ideologies... of the 'counter-culture'... [It] provides no answers, but rather it allows the internal dynamics of the 'left' generate its own questions."

I planned the Divine Comprehension to be my magnum opus however, although it is complete, I never considered it finished. As in PROOF (and, in part, several other of my films) I dispensed with the narrative, creating sequence and short scenes that capture unexpressed emotions or feelings; an unanswered telephone call, the 1,000 Year Old Chinese Egg, fighting hamsters, a fish head floats by in a pristine stream, all tried together with reoccurring motifs. One such sequence includes the victims of the 1904 Slocum Disaster, the reclaiming of their bodies and the funeral service at their church - which is still stands today - all of which were captured in vintage Edison ‘Newsreel“ footage,.

A sobering look at Battersea's Doddington and Rollo estate - home to 7,000 people.

Using life-like seal fur puppets, this animated short by Co Hoedeman tells the traditional Inuit tale of the owl and the lemming.

Poses the potential for manipulation and alteration of man's life through the use and abuse of drugs as a part of drug education. Discusses the use of drugs for increased learning power, memory stimulation, accelerated maturing processes and tension control and the responsibilities educators and administrators may have in such applications.

Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski and French thinker Henri Lefebvre (both former Communist Party members) debate the ongoing significance of Marxism and the concept of alienation—while at the same time struggling to define what a future, post-capitalist society might hold.

A film about the life of African American Donald Horner from New Haven, Connecticut, detailing his views on society, his experience, of his time in jail, and his growing relationship with the filmmaker. - Revitalizing History: Recognizing the Struggles, Lives, and Achievements of African American and Women Art Educators

Experimental short film that combines pornographic and nazi symbolics.

The final installment of the Conversions trilogy.

The director in the film allows primary school pupils to express themselves. Teens and kids talk about themselves, their teaching system, their peers - they are not optimistic about it.

The protagonist finds himself surrounded by an oppressive reality in which conformity and facade nonconformity slowly destroy his jester soul.

An interview with Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom who were presenting films at the ninth New York Film Festival (1971). The documentary was first presented on the television program Camera Three.

A conciliatory review of the life of the author using the techniques of animated film. In 1972, Selfportrait received the award of the New York State Council.

ACI Films takes you to the county fair.

Sjors and Sjimmie have received a magic ring as a thank you for their help to a well-known archaeologist. They end up in the Middle Ages with their regular opponents, Boris and Pedro, because of the magic ring. The magic ring makes wishes come true, but Sjors and Sjimmie don't know that. They are accused of witchcraft and are in danger of being burned at the stake.

Four couples. They form a circle, are of different nationalities and live in the big metropolises of the world. They are beautiful--a famous painter, a fashion model, a song star. When their profession forces them to move to a city where one of the couples of the circle lives, they share not only their apartment, but also one or the other spouse, as the case may be. Every year, it's a ritual, they all meet for a two-to-three week holiday with one of the couples. This year, they meet in Quebec, in a villa in the Laurentians, near a lake, far from civilization.

Untitled is the first of over 100 films created by Ana Mendieta. By scratching and painting directly onto the film’s emulsion, she formed a filmic painting of fields of dancing colors, comprised of vibrant strokes of blue and splashes of red. Though Mendieta experimented with various technical processes, this is the only moving-image work in which she manipulated the film’s surface.

Based on fairy tales about an evil stepmother, a lazy daughter and a hardworking stepdaughter.

Unable to obtain tickets for the local Cup Final, the gang build a viewing platform atop a tree near the garden of an enemy householder. Their presence there, as always, causes considerable chaos.

A classical organ composition by Johann Sebastian Bach “stretches” a red strip of film; An exploration of musical memory.

1971 short film by Håkan Dahlström.

It is the magazine that continues the Modern Art Week of 22.

Three brothers - gymnastics champions doing their practice. While one of them is performing, the others two spot him to prevent a fall. A subtlety, vitality, tone and perspective of sound contribute an additional dimension to the film.

Israeli mini series.

Navin Nischol, Nirupa Roy and Pandharibai

Fantasy musical about an Austrian hippie commune.

"What is art?" The film offers some new answers to the age old question.

A subversive and experimental film by Otto Muehl.

Animals – the ox, the lion, the dog – carry their names with them. A tiny ant bears an enormous Latin name on its back. When the rain begins, it builds a little house where everyone can take their shelter. The film was banned by Soviet censorship authorities and is now considered lost.

Pink film directed by Kan Mukai.

Short documentary.

Animated public information film. A Fairy Godmother grants a girl the man of her dreams – or is he? The girl’s thoughts are voiced by Carol Hawkins, and the voices of ‘Mike’, the fairy godmother, ‘Dave’ and the closing narration are all Peter Hawkins.

An outstanding factor in the efficiency of the CANDU reactor employed in Canadian nuclear power stations is that its construction allows for refuelling while the plant remains in operation, with no necessity for periodic shut-downs. Filmed at the Pickering, Ontario, station, this film clearly illustrates the processes and the advantages of this Canadian feature. Cutaway models and animated drawings are used in the demonstration.

Narrated by Loretta Long A little sister means big trouble for Peter -- first his parents paint his cradle pink, and then they paint his crib! But he won't let them paint his chair!

Moseka, a young woman from Zaire, travels to Belgium to study. With her braided hair and traditional clothes, she is the laughingstock of her fellow students who strive to look European, adopting wigs and European clothing. The film tells of the depersonalization of young Africans when they enter into contact with the European culture.

Four Square is a film designed for four screens surrounding the audience. Through its spatial distribution of abstract image and sound it begins to build up a TIME/SPACE experience where the mental construction of the events do not clearly differentiate between separation/ distribution in time from separation/ distribution in space. A unified field TIME/SPACE experience.

A retrospective of Luiz de Barros's life in cinema, illustrated with photos of his first films, still silent. He talks about the creation of synchronization, a process he created to make films sound. Then, through a sequence, some scenes from his most famous films are presented, such as "E O CIRCO CHEGOU" and others.

In 1971 Thierry Zéno creates a fascinating portrait of artist Georges Moinet in the form of a 16 mm medium-length film. A schizophrenic who lives in a psychiatric hospital near Namur, Moinet paints. After being mute for 24 years he chooses this cinematic encounter to explain his artist approach, revealing what lies behind his personal cosmogony. But this long logorrhoea proves disturbing and fails to provide possible clues to understanding his work, gradually becoming a form of music that blends in with the sounds and distant, invisible hubbub of the hospital. With Alessandro Ussai behind the camera and Roger Cambier responsible for the sound, Zéno gets up close to Moinet to better capture him in all his demiurgical excessiveness, his existence on the fringes but also his humanity, deconstructing in a series of very tight shots the man and his canvasses.

This documentary by Michael Rubbo (Waiting for Fidel) offers candid glimpses of Indonesia and its people. Filming in and around the capital of Jakarta, the cameras follow where chance leads, capturing the flavour of life in this fertile crescent of tropical islands. Throughout the film, the focus is on a society caught between the past and the conflicting options for the future - to change or not to change from long-established patterns of life to ones more influenced by western technology.

This short, bleak French-language drama is the first film by Canadian director Andre Theberge. The story concerns a young woman saddled with too many concerns and not enough means. She has been ill and has been given the job of sewing shirts as a means of recovery as well as a livelihood. Abandoned by her husband, she has three very young children to raise, and the combination of fatigue, worry, and just plain despair slowly send her over the brink.

Part of BFI collection "Your Children and You."

This film is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Region; it portrays the daily working lives of the region's inhabitants alongside the breathtaking nature of this land.

Commissioned by Habitat for the British Steel Corporation stand at the Ideal Home exhibition.

The film examines eight cases of children's misbehavior or accidents. Following the parents' descriptions and interpretations of the causes, the typical behavior is tested in comparable situations.

Thai horror film.