Cinematic Era: 1971 Vintage

Early computer-generated abstract film

A family comedy-drama involving Dolphy and Gloria Romero.

A sci-fi chapter thematically akin to FORBIDDEN PLANET, CUSTOMS & IMMIGRATION (a. k. a ANOTHER WORLD) is an angst-ridden as PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO, as alienated as CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS, as tacky as ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTER, as turgidly poetic as THE NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR & as baroquely conceptual as RED PLANET MARS.

Frank Kehl illustrates the vibrancy of the Chiu Chau Ghost Festival in urban Hong Kong, as the city comes alive with vibrant rituals and community events at a time when ghosts and spirits are free to wander the earth.

In Seymour’s only fiction film, Jessica Lange makes her screen debut as a diner waitress who flirts with a restless junkie (played by her real-life boyfriend Paco Grande). Reckoning with his own demons, Seymour himself appears as an ever-obliging friend who lends the junkie some scratch to score some heroin. — Museum of Modern Art

In this courageous and lyrical story about war and love, written by screenwriter Kim Seul Yun and director Min Den Shik, one can feel both the rich plastic culture of the Koreans and the peculiar authenticity of folk melodies.

A short documentary about Cypress Springs, Florida, and the various aquatic activities that go on there.

Color UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Dyal animates Navajo patterns overlayed on a photograph of an Arizona mesa, accompanied by a recording of the Yeibichai (Night Way/Night Chant) Ceremony.

Awkward college boy loves awkward college girl, but doesn't know how to approach her. Eventually, his buddies attempt to play cupid in this whimsical low-budget comedy.

Documentary short about the construction of a subway tunnel in Berlin, using the cut-and-cover method.

In this experimental short film, Alfredo Mina explores Picasso's "Guernica" through a combination of sound, photography, real life footage of war, and visual paths of the painting itself.

A Super 8 film by Claudio Caldini, focused on a progressive music festival

Documents the early, turbulent years of OEO'S experiment in police-community relations in Washington, DC R.1: Police and citizens express their attitudes toward each other. A citizens committee is appointed by the D.C. government, but dissension ensues over control of the program. Project director, Robert Shallow addresses the group; community leader Marion Barry urges citizen control, A pilot precinct is finally selected. R. 2: Police engage in training sessions, and community leaders struggle to replace the committee with elected representatives. A citizens' board is elected and the white project leader is replaced by a black official, Fred Lander. R. 3: Dissension between OEO and the community continues, but several programs including citizen riders, an emergency center, local police recruiting and an escort service, get underway. The board continues to struggle, and the program is refunded. At the films close, a small boy expresses his bitterness towards the police

Forest fire in mountainous British Columbia, as experienced by the men who must try to quench it from the air and at close quarters on the ground. Over half of fire outbreaks occur through carelessness, and this film affords a close, vivid view of the result: a whole mountainside turned into a searing, crackling holocaust until nothing remains but gray, desolate waste—mute reproach to all who travel or work in the forests.

Vertical Room Pan was made in Haxton's San Diego studio in 1971. A device was made that allowed the camera to rotate around a horizontal axis. The resulting film is a 360 degree rotation of the studio in a vertical direction. This is somewhat analogous to the way the film passes through the camera. The film was first shown in the 5th Avenue space in downtown San Diego. The installation forced the audience to view the film over a six foot wall. The film was projected near the ceiling on a wall at the rear of the space The film is about the way the camera describes space and the control of the way the viewer is oriented to the film projection.

Director: Anant Mane; Writer: Anant Mane, Amrut Gore, Vyankatesh Madgulkar, Jagdish Khebudkar; Producer: Shivaji Gaikwad, Ashok Gore.

Directed by Arun Vasudev Karnataki and Dinkar D. Patil. Starring Shammi.

Directed by Yeshwant Pethkar. With Chandrakant, Sulochana Latkar, Vikram Gokhale, Sushma Shiromani.

Director - Datta Mane. Stars Madhu Gaikawad, Chandrakant Gokhale, Sumati Gupte

Directed by Raja Thakur. With Madhu Apte, Madhav Avchal, Mohan Choti, Vatsala Deshmukh.

Directed by Raja Thakur. With Mandakani Bhadbhade, Amol Palekar, Surekha, Sharad Talwalkar.

About the Barguzin Biosphere Reserve, located on the northeastern coast of Lake Baikal, among the attractions of which are the unique Siberian pine pine, hot mineral springs, rare grayling fish, Baikal seals and, of course, the famous Barguzin sable.

A documentary about the achievements of Lithuanian athletes in 1970-1971 and the 1972 Olympic hopes.

Short film by Tati Chanampa

The color film informs about Danish recreational pedagogy using the example of the Bauspielplätze.

A 9-month construction of a 20-story office building, from ground level to completion, is depicted in this film with the use of stop-motion photography. Effects of whisking clouds, sky moods, moving traffic and the rapid rise of girders, concrete and glass work against a frenetic moving crane. A burst of music from Richard Strauss, used by director Stanley Kubrick in 2001: Space Odyssey ironically underlines that another "monolith" is completed.

In 1970, United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) president W.A. (Tony) Boyle was under indictment for union funds misuse and suspected of murdering outspoken union reform advocate Jock Yablonski and his family in 1969. The film intercuts Boyle’s speech at a Big Stone Gap, Virginia rally with mining scenes and interviews with miners from the UMWA.

An underwater close up of the death of a trout in polluted water. A film for conservationists and all people concerned about the preservation of the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it.

«This film was made by for a contest of the Local Council of Buenos Aires» - Claudio Caldini

Experimental short by Masaki Matsushita.

film by Gianni Emilio Simonetti

"What is most powerfully effective in FALL is the extraordinary sophistication of DeWitt's visual techniques, his graphic eye, and his complex designs. Because each unit of the exposition is so painstakingly conceptualized and nurtured, an audience is afforded a unique kind of purview on the elements as they are reconstituted in the more complex overlays. Thus the early, Magritte-like compositions of eye and sky establish basis for later more complicated efforts .... Color changes worked on given images (the bird, the sky) avoid the oversimplifications of hues/cues. Certain effects, as when clouds pass through the falling body which is outlined in flaming orange, can only be described as awesome. ... [A] work of immense dedication and exceptional skill." – John Fell

A dryly humorous instructional film from West Germany about how to use an Arriflex 16BL camera.

He used experimental techniques to visualize the itinerancy of his soul during his journey, and released it as a medium-length documentary, "Lingaraja: Poem for the Love of the Emptiness". During his stay in Nepal, he encountered the "Tibetan Book of the Dead," which he translated and published upon his return to Japan. Since then, he has been working to open up a vision of the spiritual world. This program consists of two works produced after his return to Japan.

Daisy the pet alligator has its teeth brushed by owner Gwen Roberts. Gwen is interviewed by TV reporter Del Cooper about owning and looking after pet alligators at her home in St Keverne on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. The word alligator comes from the Spanish word el lagarto meaning lizard. Alligators are native only to America and China but Chinese alligators are an endangered species. Taming exotic animals to become pets became fashionable in the 70s

Starting at Upminster Hall, built in the 16th century, the film covers the Tithe Barn, Gaynes Lodge, Upminster Clockhouse, High House, The Old Cottage, Great Sunnings, Howard Hall, Great Tomkyns, Upminster Station and Upminster Windmill. A labour of love, the film took John Wynstanly over a year of working evening and weekends to research the history, obtain permissions for filming, record the sound track himself and carry out the filming. This film is from the collection of Havering Local Studies and Family History Centre, a member of the London's Screen Archives Network.

8mm film by Wyndham Wise.

People's Video Theater (PVT) documented historic public demonstrations by liberation movements in 1970-1971. Sampled here are the first Women's Liberation March in New York, the first Gay Pride March, the Young Lords' (a Puerto Rican liberation group) protest occupation of a Manhattan church, and an action taken by Native Americans at Plymouth Rock on the 350th anniversary of the pilgrims' landing.

“Drug Use or Abuse” focuses on the differences between utilizing drugs which have been prescribed by a doctor versus illicit drug use and abuse.

An innovative homage to the work of Kazimir Malevich and his theory of Suprematism, combining readings from the artist's collected essays with an abstract animation based on one of his unrealised film scripts.

The footage shown here features a mix of still images, moving images, and short animated clips. The still images are primarily of a woman in various scenarios, from riding a bike to lying nude on a jagged rock formation. The animated scenes throughout the film include black backgrounds with the following items in bright colors and patterns: mushrooms, the phrase Good-by Fat Larry, and a tiny truck. The soundtrack to this film is a folk melody.

A forty-minute black-and-white tape done in 1971. Fried is seated at a table, trying to run the gauntlet of choices while ordering in a restaurant. He keeps answering the waiter’s questions with more questions.

The naive paintings of an ordinary man who works as a watcher in a building.

A portrait of the life of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792), a playwright of the Sturm und Drang period and friend of the young Goethe, with evident parallels to the life of the filmmaker himself. Lenz's progressive mental deterioration and his tragic trajectory are central to the film.

1971 / 8mm / color / sound

'Vibrating Horizon' offers us a view of the sea on a grey day. The horizon in the middle divides the image into two equal fields, the sea and the sky. The quietly rolling waves create an almost meditative atmosphere, until the horizon suddenly takes on a life of its own. The camera shakes on its tripod, as though affected by an earthquake, so that the dividing line between the sea and sky is constantly moving. This camera movement causes the sea and waves to lose their spatiality. The two fields become increasingly abstract, and as a result of the pulsing horizon it seems as if they are attempting to push each other out of the frame.

A student discussion film regarding the economic, infrastructural, and environmental impacts of the American highway system

The film you are about to see is the outcome of a two-semester high school art project. It was made by a seventh grade art class at Charles Evans Hughes Junior High School in Woodland Hills, California. After seeing it, we felt it should be shared with other classes and other teachers.

This film documents actions performed for World Uprising by Ikuo Shukusawa, Sanzō Tanaka, and Shigeru Hanagata, who collectively worked as Shikata Kōbō (Death Type Workshop). Camera person unknown, 1971, B&W, silent, 3 min. Courtesy of Kumiko Matsuzawa.

This documentary by Richard Everson marked the first groundbreaking attempt to depict the events of Garabandal in color 16MM film.

"...the best film at the Whitney. Lamy describes his movie as “a fantasy about the mental and physical masturbation of an overexposed, overstimulated urban teenager"—a solemn proposition that he handles rather in the manner of the Three Stooges. He has assembled a marvelous cast of fat boys and slinky girls in which everybody appears either mostly comatose or wholly disreputable. There are many happy moments in “Big City Blues,” but I especially prized a parody bump and grind performed by a long‐haired, blond boy, an imitation sexy Swede, to the theme music from “Exodus.'" - Roger Greenspun, New York Times Oct. 19th 1971