Cinematic Era: 1971 Vintage

Explores the communal life of young hippies in Devon, through a series of theatrical happenings, conversations on revolution, and strange encounters in an underground labyrinth.

Tévy dresses as a boy in order to participate in a class given at Padamok school. Tévy falls in love with Panchapoi, one of her close classmates. But when Tévy’s true identity is revealed, the son of a Cham millionaire falls madly in love with her and asks her parents’ permission to marry her…

Designed to make children aware of the unique functions human teeth perform and the importance of good dental safety habits.

The candid record of a unique 14-day theatre school, held at the village of Manutuke by the New Zealand Maori Theatre Trust.

A 1971 film by Maurizio Ponzi.

Are you a dog or a cat person? If you favour the felines then this animated meditation on cats of all shapes and sizes is for you. The film grew out of industry veteran Vera Linnecar's play with applying mottled coloured paints directly onto animation cels. Paired with the piano music these scenes are a playful experiment, mixing abstraction with careful observation of cat behaviour. Vera started her animation career at the Halas & Batchelor studio in 1940, as did Elizabeth Horn, who also worked on this film. Moving from tracing, to inbetweening, to animating, Vera became one the company's principle artists. In the late 1940s she moved to the Larkins studio which better suited her experimental spirit. In 1957, along with Nancy Hanna, she joined Bob Godfrey and Keith Learner at Biographic, and continued innovating there until she retired in 1983, after four decades in the business.

A reel highlighting Hortense “Tee” Beveridge’s montage techniques is paired here with an experimental narrative made with members of the Brownsville Youth Center.

This film documents a performance by Taku Furusawa, acting as the Aoyama Outpost of the Kingdom of Lilliput under the influence of Matsuzawa associate Shō Kazakura. Furusawa also acted in the underground theatre group Theater Yakōkan (Night Theater), which had ties with Matsuzawa as well, and in his later years was active under the name Kubikukuri Takuzō, but this film is a valuable document of his early convulsive performance.

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.

A film about blood money during Cambodia week.

"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

A drunken subway rider is haunted by a toy train, a horde of little people, and the spectre of his drunken grandeur. The news dealer passes through several gross transformations—and some marvelous hallucinations—to emerge as a redsuited monster, a Dr. Jekyllless Mr. Hyde.

Albert Knobler's film retraces with archive documents the history of Czechoslovakia from the entry of Soviet troops, acclaimed by all the population, until the arrival of Soviet tanks in Prague under the boos of a crowd taken aback and terrorized. From Prague to Prague Spring.

1971 Animation by Sabin Balasa

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

Documentary about Albrecht Dürer to mark the 500th anniversary of his birth. The film presents a panorama of the German Renaissance, in which Dürer's life and work are integrated in the context of the development of science and technology, the apocalypse of the Peasants' War and the dawn of the modern era.

The Boy, the Bird and the Musical Instrument

Popular comedy on traditional society and pamphlet against maraboutism. Two stories follow each other: a young typist is raped by a marabout who will not be worried, while a young man, opposed to the laxity of the brotherhoods of the administration, resists multiple solicitudes.

Student documentary about Marvel Comics artist Herb Trimpe.

This animated documentary is derived from footage shot at the site of the Sanrizuka struggle opposing the construction of Narita Airport. In addition to scenes evidently shot before and after the Nihon Genyasai Festival in Sanrizuka, it features time-lapse sequences showing abandoned houses and construction equipment leveling requisitioned land. “The footage was filmed in Narita. Because this land had been seized, I became conscious of the intensity of my own inner landscape. My time-lapse filming of the landscape was intended for use in an animation-as-documentary.”

A chained man is freed by an accidental witness of the events.

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.

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,.

originally made in 1971 on Standard 8 mm film, silent / digitally revisited and edited further in 2016

The film presents the career of painter Raimundo Oliveira (1930-1966) - the Prophet, and also a Collective Exhibition in Feira de Santana with some of the artist's works, mainly Baroque saints.

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.

This space and texture work, created specifically for video, is a tour of the skyline and domestic interiors of New York's Chinatown.

"There are people who never go and sit on a public bench and there are people who sometimes go and sit on a public bench. These are very different people, the former walk very fast, the latter arrive, stay a moment and then leave. And it was the latter who interested me in particular. What do they do? Do they talk to each other? What do they say? My idea was to make a short film about that, showing five people who are very different from each other but who were all able to come and have a chat for a moment on a public bench." (Patrick Van Antwerpen)

Made entirely by women - a group of young men and women have a cinema verite confessional about their most bizarre sexual experiences in a strange modern day Decameron.

Conjoined fables are told, one Japanese, the other African, a ghost story colliding with farcical folklore.

Gaelic lessons on the Isle of Lewis.

Live action and animation combination by Kathy Rose

Emil Gilels is well known as a Beethoven interpreter. His approach is characterized by a full bodied sound throughout a wide dynamic range, complete virtuosity and a structural sense that gives clarity to both local and global musical events. His tempo choices make sense within a complete movement or entire sonata (he doesn't need to slow down dramatically for the second subject in Op.53's first movement) and he will mostly maintain a tempo with only slight fluctuations.

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 4 June 1971.

A portrait of a professional striper who chose this occupation for its financial benefits.

This documentary is about the struggle for independence in the African land of Guinea-Bissau.

A disaffected youth leaves home. With a friend, he explores a demolished house.

A tailor once had three sons who had to look after his goat. But the sneaky animal told the father that he had not been given anything to eat, so the angry man chased one boy after another out of the house. All three sons learned a trade and received a reward.

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.

A Teacher teaches her students listening skills...in the form of a giant mouth and ears.

After the name of a recent lottery winner is announced in the newspaper, hundreds of letters are sent to him, asking to borrow or receive some of the money.

A tour of the facilities and interviews with owners and guests at the titular establishment, which includes the obligatory heart shaped tub.

ACI Films presents a short reminding children how not to get hit by cars as they walk, ride bicycles, and play ball in the park.

A film on unemployment that invites the spectator to resist capitalism and the consumption society, made by Mike Dunford, who was unemployed at the time, with the intention of providing a catalyst for discussion at Claimants Union meetings.

Ten works commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council were broadcast, unannounced, by Scottish TV in August/September 1971. Later, seven were compiled as TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces).

Ten works commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council were broadcast, unannounced, by Scottish TV in August/September 1971. Later, seven were compiled as TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces).