Cinematic Era: 1971 Vintage

Experimental film responding to the controversial Industrial Relations Bill of 1971.

Real Time is a reflexive documentary essay on time and a personal evocation of the filmmaker’s childhood and her feelings towards ageing and death. Conceived as patchwork of photographs, re-enacted memories and recorded conversations, the film is structured around a car journey from London to the Rees-Mogg family home in Temple Cloud, Somerset.

In a very traditional and popular setting, this documentary follow Willie Lamothe who becomes a national icone aftera 25 years career. The film follows the stars through is retelling of his career, his private life and his shows. It also follows testimonies from his fans and friends. Finaly, it his full of Willie Lamothe's music.

The story of the 1970 World Sports Car Championship presented by Gulf Oil

Campus investigates the metaphoric overlap between properties of the video camera and processes of human perception, an area of great interest to many early videomakers. Double Vision inventories strategies for comparing simultaneous images of a loft space produced by two video cameras whose signals are fed through a mixer, thus producing an electronic version of what in film would be called a "double exposure."

In Reel 1, Wegman creates deadpan one-liners and ironic sight gags from materials that include his own body, everyday objects such as balls and dolls, and his dog Man Ray. The humor derives from the wild incongruity of expected and actual behavior or events. Inanimate objects are personified; extended actions lead to absurd anticlimaxes. In Stomach Song, Wegman sits in a chair, his bare torso facing the camera. As he gruffly hums a song, his torso becomes a face, with nipples as eyes, navel as mouth. Raising his arms, the "facial" features change gender and he hums in falsetto. Other segments find him blowing a feather from his nose and creating pendulous female "breasts" by folding his elbows to his body. The ever-obliging Man Ray drags a microphone in his mouth, laps up milk that Wegman has drooled onto the floor, and, in an oddly poetic exercise, runs through a darkened room with a flashlight in his mouth.

2 episodes of CBS Reports from 1971: POWs Pawns of War Pts 1 and 2. "Summary: CBS documentary on treatment of US prisoners in North Vietnam and Viet Cong prisoners in South Vietnam. CBS reporters interview wives and families of American POWS. NOT TO BE RELEASED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF CHIEF/AMPD-RC. COMMENTS: Keeping for the record. Standard poor, off the air. Kinescope quality." - Information from archive.org

When old Mr Brown gives the gang some skis, they resolve the problem of the lack of snow by fixing the skis to roller skates. Havoc results, but it's the two nasty louts who steal the skis who are arrested by the police.

A man tries to escape a camera.

Narrated by celebrated modernist author and filmmaker BS Johnson, March! documents the TUC-instigated protest, on 21 February 1971, against the Industrial Relations Bill, which was subsequently passed by parliament in August of that same year. The film records the assembly of protestors (in Hyde Park) and a march through the streets of Central London to Trafalgar Square.

Five women embark upon a crime spree initiated by their erstwhile employer Billy Boy

Silent footage of dancers is visually manipulated in a variety of ways.

Woody accidently signs up for the Foreign Legion.

A unique, colorful collection of four animated shorts that humorously examine human quirks and weaknesses, each capturing a different aspect of society’s “foibles.”

At a strictly Catholic boys' school, sixteen-year-old André Sevrais forms an emotionally intense friendship with fourteen-year-old Serge Souplier. Their bond draws the attention of the Abbé de Pradts, a priest and teacher at the school whose interest in Souplier conceals deeper motives. As tensions mount, this triangle of affection, jealousy and spiritual conflict reveals the fragility of innocence, the ambiguities of authority, and the dangers of repression. Based on the semi-autobiographical play by Henry de Montherlant.

Short film.

Marching musicians through the city to the sound of national patriotic songs on a holiday morning isn't enough of a reason for people to go outside, but beef roasted on a spit is.

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.

An elderly, delusional man sits in an empty shack. There, he recalls his lost love as a woman is thrown into the room before she is brutally assaulted and raped. The older man is pinned against the wall at knifepoint and is unable to help the woman. All he can do is watch the harrowing scene as it unfolds.

"Cuba va!" is a 1971 color documentary directed by Felix Greene that records social, economic, and cultural life in Cuba more than a decade after the 1959 revolution. Filmed over an extended period, the documentary presents scenes of education, agriculture, industry, healthcare, and the arts, alongside historical footage used for comparison, and includes appearances by Fidel Castro and contemporary Cuban musicians and performers.

A rapid montage of stills giving impressions of New Guinea before and during the Second World War.

The sweet and heartbreaking island in the Iseo Lake.

An ethnographic documentary filmed among the Trobriand Islanders of the Western Pacific, directed by Yasuko Ichioka for Japanese television. The film documents the Kula exchange system, a ceremonial network of inter-island gift exchange that structures social relations, travel, and status among participating communities. Produced within the context of Japan’s Our Wonderful World ethnographic television series, the film presents sustained observational footage of ritual activity and daily life associated with the Kula cycle. (Note: Although produced for television within the Our Wonderful World series, the film is consistently cited in ethnographic filmographies, festival programs, and scholarly sources as a self-contained work with a distinct title, director credit, and runtime, supporting its treatment as a standalone film.)

An experimental documentary on the atmosphere of the Tehran Coppersmiths’ Bazaar

A short feature on the city of Gorky in the year of its 750th anniversary.

During a field trip to the zoo, a little boy learns the dangers of striking out on his own.

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.

Early experimental film from Claude Champion.

A man is pursued by aggressive advertising images. he finds himself in a labyrinth of advertisements from where he escapes and subsequently ends up in advertising heaven. There an ironic fate awaits him...

If only you knew what I'm going through, complains Stella Zázvorková as Mrs. Lapáčková in the doctor's waiting room. A television mystery feature based on an idea by journalist and novelist Lenka Hašková about a patient haunted by a mysterious number, humorously pointing out the high cost of medical treatment and citizens' responsibility to themselves and the state.

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.

Documentary by Jesús Enrique Guédez.

Commissioned by the German Book Traders’ Association, Lotte Thiel follows the preparations for the 1971 International Book Art Exhibition, prominently supported on screen and on the soundtrack. The tradition of this fair is recalled, from its predecessor BUGRA 1914 to the first IBA in 1927 and the subsequent events that took place every five to six years starting in 1959. Award-winning illustrations can be viewed in detail.

Makeup - Magic two. Fri May 13 1971. Original S&W [Shirley & Wendy] - then Nancy.

A sermon to the stockbrokers for the Big Board.

Abstract, geometric forms, became the basis for the most outstanding works of the avant-garde sculptor Katarzyna Kobro. With her 'Spatial Compositions', she created her own artistic language, with which she aroused a lot of criticism, which was based on the traditional assumption that a sculpture should be a compact, modelled mass. However, the task of "Composition" was to shape forms that were to come into being. Kobro, however, still wanted to change the space surrounding people with her own art.

80 year-old Gaelic speaker Donald MacDonald takes us on a brief tour of his lifelong home, Gigha - a tiny island off the West coast of Scotland. He explains how Gigha has been able to fend off the threat of depopulation, which has afflicted so many other small Scottish islands, to become a place of beauty and prosperity.

Le-hong’s life, marked by sexual assault and the death of her parents, takes an unexpected turn when she becomes the second wife of wealthy Hok-tsai. Their marriage provides her luxury but lacks intimacy, leaving her lonely and unfulfilled. Upon Hok-tsai’s sudden death, she inherits his fortunes. She then meets a charming young man who awakens her body and soul, but as their affair blossoms, strange occurrences begin to plague her home. Is the sinister housekeeper to blame, or is the young lover the real threat?

A documentary chronicle of the excavation of a Western Han dynasty tomb in Hunan province and the camera-observed autopsy of a remarkably preserved female corpse — a 2,100-year-old noblewoman whose burial goods and condition revealed details of elite life in the Han era.

A woman is killed in a mysterious accident. Five years later, her soul enters a body of a man who had just died and goes to find her old lover.

Walter S. prepares his escape from constant conformity. As he flees, he feels watched, insecure, compelled to stay. As he crosses the border to the other country - his 'dreamland', freedom - he is shot.

A leisurely video journey through London, featuring uncommon footage from an early Gay Pride parade.

The footage, in order of appearance, is: 1. rock strata – along the banks of the Niagara River, before it empties into Lake Ontario, 1975, while an artist-in-residence at Artpark, Lewiston, N.Y. (Originally a three-screen panorama study); 2. flow patterns of the Niagara River. Same place/time as the rock strata. (Originally a four-screen panorama study); 3. fire juxtaposed to a rhythmic flow of cloud formations. Shot during S.W. American desert trip, 1971. The fire is a burning car which Indians had set on fire to attract and trick passing cars at night. The Indians sat off in the darkness, getting a great deal of amusement from watching concerned travelers come up to inspect the scene of the “disaster”; the Indians were having their laughs, as if watching a hilarious TV program. The clouds were shot to create a sort of inventory of “cloudness” – thousands of shots of thousands of different cloud formations; these are edited in rhythms like those of fire’s flame pulses.

In April 1971, thousands of G.I.'s came to Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnam War. They stood in front of the U.S. Capitol and threw away their medals. Told from the veterans' point of view, the film examines some of the conditions that led many decorated but disillusioned veterans to such dramatic displays of non-collaboration. As one former G.I. explained, "A guy goes to 'Nam and finds out that a communist is an 18 year old kid or a woman with children.”

In West Berlin, first the dachshunds disappear, then the old ladies. Little by little, Berlin is disappearing.

Documentary.

An analysis of the ecological crisis, this film dispells the myths that big business and big government had been telling the people about the global ecological crisis.