Cinematic Era: 1971 Vintage

The world of an operatic singer is documented in a film portrait of world-renowned Swedish-born tenor Nicolai Gedda. One of the greatest singers of his day, Gedda has recorded more than 80 record albums of opera, operetta, oratorios, and recitals. The documentary follows Gedda in rehearsals and performances in New York, San Francisco, and in European cities, as he tells about his life as an opera singer, relating the personal satisfactions and frustrations of being an opera star and traveling around the world.

A portrait: of Saul Levine, filmmaker and one-time Italian Ice Vendor./of the film surface & depth/so by the choice of image./ of the inside & outside light in the summer and the shower. –M. K.

In the place where Bakuriani is today, there used to be an impenetrable forest. A little farther away was the village of Fafa (which means porridge). In this village, instead of snow, delicious sweet porridge fell from the sky. The village was inhabited by idlers and lazy people. They knew how to do nothing but eat and sleep. One lazy man grumbled all the time and was nicknamed the Grumbler. Another was always complaining and was called the Complainer. The third was used to crying and was named the Crybaby.

Pink film directed by Kan Mukai.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

The technical and propaganda film warns against the most typical violations of safety regulations on the railway, mainly during the maintenance of alarm and communication devices.

Two filmmakers stand within a surrounding and completely mirrorized cylinder, body trunk stationary, hands holding and pressing a camera's back end flush to, while slowly rotating it about, the surface cylinder of their individual bodies. One rotation circumscribes the body's contour, spiraling slightly upward with the next turn. With successive rotations, the body surface areas are completely covered as a template by teh back of the camera(s) until eye-level (view through cameraman's eyes) is reached; then reverse mapping downard begins until the orginal starting point is reached.

Student documentary short film by director Carlos Vallina.

A portrait of Barbro Margareta "Lill-Babs" Svensson, then 32 years old.

A film by Gianfranco Baruchello

Two episodes from a series of informational shorts made for the ninth festival by subsequent festival manager and Oscar-nominated editor Cassidy. Featuring “Ticket Fred” LaBour and projectionist Peter Wilde.

About how a girl believed in a miracle, and it happened.

Robles Godoy narrates the childhood of his father Daniel Alomía Robles and the birth of his melody "El cóndor pasa".

Following in the bloody footsteps of the auto-accident documentaries produced by Highway Safety Films (HSF) of Ohio, came a number of independently produced imitators Produced by the "Suicide Club" (Dean Robinson, who also narrates), DEATH ON THE HIGHWAY is composed largely of still photos retouched with red ink to underline the gruesomeness.

An interim view of the North West New town from David Mahlowe

Story of the history of the workers' movement in the saltpeter offices of northern Chile. The voices of the workers are heard, with images of the mining sites.

Single-channel digital video, transferred from Sony CV 1/2-inch video tape, black-and-white, sound

A short documentary showing people working on railway tracks.

The camera slowly zooms, in over a long period of time, on the light of the sun reflected in the mirror of a bicycle parked at the construction site. To this is added a slowly evolving flicker effect derived from negative-positive reversals, progressively dismantling the distance from the subject. Nakai created a masking film with a calculated pattern of black and white frames into which he inserted positive and negative images and made a print out of two separate rolls of film. The original projection speed was 16 frames per second, but the sound is separate from the open-roll tape rather than burned in, so it can also be screened at 24fps. Also, the original sound consisted of the friction noise of rubbing steel, but in 2019 a new version of the sound was created featuring the friction noise of glass. Two versions of the film exist: 24:15 mins at 24 fps and 40 mins at 16 fps.

A highly varied and playful series of short sketches involving induced camera "mistakes," printing "errors" and various "assaults" upon film (some rephotographed) which in one way or another reveal the process/materiality of cinema. The "unframing" called for in this film (bringing the top frame line down into the viewing area as is possible by adjusting the projector framer) is a way of heightening the intended unmasking of the usually hidden vulnerability/fragility of the film strip.

Structuralist film collage consisting of 8mm film "notes" printed directly on 16mm stock. The images include people and landscapes and the technical difference between the two film formats are emphasised by the presence of perforations, Kodak company marking, spacing, and leader.

Edited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

An evil, murderous woman attempts to eliminate her stepdaughter Lisa in order to get her hands on an inheritance but gets more than she bargained for when she's haunted by a ghost.

About the music of Steve Reich, a phrase be phased out as the image it makes the reverse movement.

Originally black-and-white material printed with green filters with a superimposed flicker loop.

This is then the property of many angels.

Experimental film by Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch.

A young woman threatened with expropriation decides to shut herself in her apartment with her two children, until death ensues. Boltanski, following the logic of despair, shows us the unimaginable.

A young girl bolts away during a traditional but painful lip - tatooing ceremony, incurring the mockery of the villagers and the anger of her parents .

Woody has a hibernating bear in his tree, one that won't stop snoring.

A journey through the surreal paintings of the artist, painter, and stage designer Yosl Bergner.

Linda confesses her secrets to a psychiatrist.

The story takes place in the first post-war year. Two Leningrad teenagers, who survived the siege, travel to Ukraine to get bread. During this journey, they come to understand the value of human kindness and trust.

The world of an operatic singer is documented in a film portrait of world-renowned Swedish-born tenor Nicolai Gedda. One of the greatest singers of his day, Gedda has recorded more than 80 record albums of opera, operetta, oratorios, and recitals. The documentary follows Gedda in rehearsals and performances in New York, San Francisco, and in European cities, as he tells about his life as an opera singer, relating the personal satisfactions and frustrations of being an opera star and traveling around the world.

Pink film directed by Kan Mukai.

A young man follows an older man through the woods to see what he has in his bucket. Based on the novella by Kjell Askildsen

Bulgarian animation film

A film by Gianfranco Baruchello

Following in the bloody footsteps of the auto-accident documentaries produced by Highway Safety Films (HSF) of Ohio, came a number of independently produced imitators Produced by the "Suicide Club" (Dean Robinson, who also narrates), DEATH ON THE HIGHWAY is composed largely of still photos retouched with red ink to underline the gruesomeness.

Short by Vera Neubauer.

A psychedelic combination of Shakespeare, rock & roll and Catholic symbolism in the shape of a Cuban ballet.

An interim view of the North West New town from David Mahlowe

“This film was made without the use of a motion picture camera. Strips of geometric patterns, moire patterns and various precisely repeated designs were applied to the film stock and solarised. These images were then printed in positive and negative colour through special printing techniques…the pattern overlay combined with strong complimentary colours creates a three dimensional effect.” – Science News.

A wealthy young man falls in love with the Roma girl Mara. Both the young man's family and the girl's family react to the possibility of the two lovers getting together, and conflict is inevitable.

A man and a woman sit in front of a window and eat breakfast. Through the window, we see the countryside. During the day, they remain seated at the table. The settings, light, and depth of field change: slowly we learn the vocabulary of the medium. In the final shots, the camera is reflected in the windows, and we see lights being cleared away. The film itself, and not the man and woman at the table, has become the subject of the film.

Tadic chronicles the life of a postman from Dalmatian hinterland who every day walks over several miles by foot to hand over letters.

Fearing being deported, Gabi, a young foreign girl looks for a husband and even has 5,000 German Marks for him. But within the free and marital environment of the commune, there are no candidates for a wedding.

The film is about freight handler's life.

The most inclusive so far of my film preoccupations; zooming panning focussing to constantly redefine reality and the process of seeing/filming...also; demystification of the subject/object relationship and an attempt to create awareness of manipulation, rather than deny its filmic existence. A structured film in pre and post filming conceptualisation. The situation within the film is the process of making the film as such; the technical events of the filmmaking process are the film experience.

Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States. The film delves into the lives of ordinary women from different races, educational levels and social classes. Filmed mostly in small consciousness-raising groups, from which the women's movement grew, the women talk about the daily realities of their lives as wives, home-makers, and workers. They speak, sometimes with hesitancy, often with passion, about the oppression of women as they see it.