Cinematic Era: 1971 Vintage

Bollywood 1971

Experimental short film.

Legendary soprano Anna Moffo stars as Lucia and Lajos Kozma plays her lover, Edgardo, in this lush production of Gaetano Donizetti's great bel canto opera. Featuring gorgeous cinematography, the film was shot in authentic Italian locations in 1971 and directed by Moffo's first husband, Mario Lanfranchi. The cast also includes Paolo Washington as Raimondo, Guilio Fioravanti as Enrico, Glauco Scarlini as Normanno and Pietro di Vietri as Arturo.

A darkish journey down memory lane, to visit some news events, folkways and thought patterns associated with the late forties and early fifties. The film is also concerned with such perceptual phenomena as color-space, "false tones" caused by varying black-white alternations of simultaneously seen rhythms set up by multiple repetitive actions, and the use of image outlines as "containers" for other imagery. Sort of a working notebook, which is continued in EASYOUT and DOWN WIND.

Streaming, scratched lines continuously appear two at a time over images of flowing water.

Experimental short by MAJYOLICA

Short film.

Short film.

Experimental short by Iwata Kazuo

Documentary narrated by Robert Vaughn - chronicling John F Kennedy's visit to Ireland in 1963.

Ironic commentary on ruthlessness.

The labour of film-making is reflexively spliced into a portrait of the steelworks where the filmmakers work.

This is the first ever BYU student film made for class credit. Poduced by Robert Starling and directed/edited by Dean Stubbs. Jerry has a crush on Sue after meeting her in the elevator. Their relationship becomes complicated when Sue sends a letter to Elder Wilson, her boyfriend on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. How will Sue's love life end up?

The fate of heavy smokers. The era is the Taisho era. A young man, while warming myself by the fire heavy smoking. Then, his chest instantly turned black. The fear of lung cancer creeping into the comical depiction. The author, a former smoker, dreamed the fate of smokers.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

A 16mm wide film without perforations. I pull it by hand and send it off. If the speed is a little slow, you may slip. It melts from the heat of the projector. The visuals are the melted footage was re-shot. It has an image of a multi-layered structure. Screening prints are only used once and then become trash. The original "disposable film."

Can John Hume’s campaign of civil disobedience challenge the political status quo and take violence off the streets of Northern Ireland? In Hume's opinion there was no military solution to the problems that beset Northern Irish society. Instead, we here see him promote passive resistance, including the instigation of a rent strike. He believed that through such protests the silent majority could make their voice heard. However some believe Hume is a man who pleads pacifism, but whose actions "keep the pot boiling".

This film is less about the birth of printing in medieval Germany, than about the effect it has had on social life and human relations. On the one hand this film is an intricate examination of materials and production processes of the publishing industry but on the other, an understated history lesson leaving viewers ponder on class differences in today's society.

A TV-theater-like film experiment. As the title suggests, the film is fragmentary so that you never quite know what, who or why.

A line – drawn directly onto the film by Urs Graf. A film that makes no explicit statements, but in which one can (optionally) have an experience – for other lines/images/words. The continuous dissolution of the content always leads back to the medium (the line). Experiencing the medium as a medium allows one to more consciously find access to the meaning behind other lines/images/words.

In May-June 1971, Malmer and Romare accompanied a delegation of experts sent by the international committee to investigate US crimes in Indochina and then reported on their experiences in 'Att samla några bevis'. The visual material is partly unique: it concerns, among other things, the documentation of the US Air Force's conscious investment in so-called anti-personnel bombs and mines. The use of napalm and chemical warfare agents is also discussed in a few sections, where an old woman and two mothers, who were in sprayed areas during their pregnancies, talk about and show the damage to themselves and their deformed children.

What have we got here, bacteria? At first glance, they look like abstract paintings, but at second glance, they are swarms of pests filling hospital beds. Laboratory staff, acting as chemical police, search for sources of infection, and save society from pandemics. This jazz-inspired educational film takes a critical look at the hygiene conditions in food stores and production facilities.

The stove is the saddest altar to which half of humanity sacrifices its abilities, strength, and satisfaction. This critical portrait bitterly comments on the double-edged meaning of emancipation in post-war society, which built up the image of the working woman, but did not abandon the cult of the housewife. Labour market reform is not complete without reform of the household.

A promotional film about production at ČKD Kompresory was made by the Krátký film custom production studio. The film served the company for its own purposes, mainly for representation and instruction. Shot on narrow 16mm film, it could be easily presented at industrial exhibitions, but also to the company's own employees and business partners.

Peter Yung Wai-chuen's first documentary One Day in Locke (1971) was made to fulfil the wish of his teacher-mentor James Wong Howe, capturing the first Chinatown in the US. Locke locals were Chinese labourers who had come in the 19th century to build the railroad in California. As time passed, the town slipped into a slow decline which shrouded it in poetic desolation.

In this film, heavily inspired by Man Ray's collage work L'enigme d'Isidore Ducasse (1920) and the poetic energy of Lautreamont's Les Chants De Maldoror, Franco films a number of incunabulae (a swing machine, an umbrella), ancestors of fecund inspirational symbols for modern and contemporary art, which hold a privileged position among the objects described by Lautreamont.

Wishing to turn over a new leaf, a reformed gangster reluctantly agrees to take on one last deal to earn some money that will let him settle down.

A haunting Christmas short film from Québec about a lonely man and a mysterious wolf-like visitor. Created by Claude Roussel and Gilbert Gratton for the Ministère de l’Éducation, Philidor became a cult memory for many who saw it on television in the early 1970s.

Animated labor protection film about the dangers of driving a tractor while in a state of ebriety or tiredness. Produced with the support of the Ministry of Labor.

An Ultraman compilation film from Taiwan.

A parody of the creative freedom of fashion in overly in-depth amateur movies.

A Dispute in the Village Council — how should the village be redeveloped, what kind of new houses does it need? People want a basement, a small garden plot, a place to keep a piglet — and everything nearby, so they don’t have to run half a kilometer when a neighbor comes over and they need to fetch some pickles from the cellar for a snack. And they don’t want to go up to the ninth floor, even if there’s an elevator. But everything has already been decided — no one will build two- or three-story houses, let alone separate ones. Only five- to nine-story buildings. The plan has been approved, and new residents are already moving into urban-style apartment blocks. So why did they even have the discussion?

In the film, the spirit of the old Guatavita, which also inhabits the new one, is materialized in the form of a peasant woman who sees how the old city is sinking under the waters, only to resurface through a ballet in traditional costumes that moves through the spaces of the new city.

Presents dramatic vignettes which portray the emergence of black poets, essayists, and novelists in the 1920's and 1930's. Includes excerpts from Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Waring Cuney, and W. E. B. DuBois.

Development of the English theatre up to and including the time of William Shakespeare.

Documentary on the struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime in Mozambique, focusing on the organization of civilian life in the liberated areas. Filmed in 1970 in Niassa, it was supported by the Mozambican liberation movement FRELIMO.

The footage for this film was shot in London during our research into the Vorticist movement. It is a montage of images from the Vorticist magazine Blast, including Vorticist drawings and texts from the manifestos. A screen made from a collage of photographic enlargements from the magazine was prepared for the screening of this film. The soundtrack evokes the sounds of World War I, which were, in a way, the climax of the Vorticist movement in England. During the Expanded Cinema presentations, excerpts from Blast were read during the film screening. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

A fantastical jungle environment of clay creatures is invaded by a raucous visitor.

A UCLA student film designed as a stag film for jackasses, both literally and figuratively.

To the music of "The moog and me", played on a moog synthesizer, the filmartist has taken developed black raw stock and used different acids to eat through the various layers of color to create both his patterns and his colors, while at the same time carefully synchronizing his images to the music, through the use of both moviola and oscilloscope equipment.

A documentary about Swedish animator and director Victor Bergdahl.

Mike Trippiedi/s short film produced when he was a teenager.

A flock of birds moves in abstract pattern over land and water.

A film by Roland Lethem

When honor howls no sylph can resist

While Marxist guerrillas were dreaming of scientific socialism in the south of the country, untrammelled capitalism was being unleashed on a highly complex tribal society in the north

A group discussion about trans people produced by the Erickson Educational Foundation. Featuring Pamela Lincoln, Dr. Leo Wollman, Lyn Raskin, Deborah Hartin, and Zelda Suplee.

Belgian horror short from 1971.

David Lamelas was invited to mount a solo exhibition, a short film was shot with a stationary camera documenting everything that happened to enter its angle of view. At the same time, eleven photographs were taken at regular intervals.