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One of the early documentaries that Child made before turning towards the experimental cinema, and whose footage she repurposed for her later work, MUTINY (1982-83), GAME is a portrait of a prostitute and pimp in downtown Manhattan.
Short by Studio 970/2.
The cosmos in a cabbage.
Two friends are very close in college and in everyday life. During a pursuit between the car driven by one and the motorcycle of the other, an accident occurs; the motorcycle skids and its driver is killed. Karl, the survivor, begins to remember: their tennis games, their mutual friend, their games, their lessons, their holidays and their discussions. The film intersects all these memories to try to identify the deep friendship that bound the two teenagers and takes place in the present of Karl and the friend and in the past of memory. After having done everything to find his friend, even going so far as to dig him up in the cemetery in the middle of winter, Karl, appalled by his "murder", becomes more and more schizophrenic. He enters the hospital and stays there until the end of his days, fixated on this accident which turned his life upside down.
A profile of the Italian painter and sculptor Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), who made his mark on 20th century art with his concept of Spatialism. He proposed a cooperation between artists and scientists to express ideas in a total art form, synthesising colour, sound, movement, space and time. Includes contributions from artists who knew him and critics who chronicled the impact of his ideas.
Two neighbors play backgammon with such passion that they don't notice anything happening around them.
Experimental feature film by Horacio Vallereggio.
A parody of a gangster movie. A group of Africans arrange to meet on a beach near Abidjan to organize a hold-up. They are ready to kill and they take an oath, calling on the goddess Mamy Wata as their witness. On the day of the hold-up, everything goes smoothly and the gang get away in a car with the loot. This triggers off a chase with the police and the army
The story of a young couple, who, despite experiencing financial difficulties, want to present themselves with gifts on Christmas Day.
Stan VanDerBeek, experimental filmmaker at work with friend and computer expert Wade Shaw, at the sophisticated new (1972) computer at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and discussing the inevitable interaction of computers with artistic creativity. Clips from several VanDerBeek films.
The world is plagued by natural disasters, but here comes a couple in love who boldly enter a different game. Their love cannot be thwarted by natural disasters.
A Silvestre Byrón experimental short film.
Every year, on June 13, for the past thirty-two years, the villagers have gathered to remember one of their neighbors who left his home on that day in 1939 and never returned. His nearest and dearest did not receive information about his death.
Two brothers try to retrieve the lost glory of their king father through hard work and sincerity.
A bright avant-garde message of amateur cinema about society, the individual, the search for oneself and one's time.
The well-worn trope of the “intrepid white explorer attempts to explain the ways of African tribes” is subverted in a masterful fashion by Horace Ové in The Black Safari. We follow Yemi Ajibade, Merdel Jordine, Bloke Modisane, Horace Ové, and Douglas Botting as they go on an expedition across the Liverpool-Leeds canal in search of the English community and the strange cultures that they currently involve themselves in, all while attempting to find the centre of England. The imagery of the Queen of Spades, the boat that the explorers travel on, complete with the sound of African drums going through these towns in middle England feels provocative, especially as baffled locals look on in astonishment. The little seen The Black Safari makes for compelling viewing; it is a biting satire that never fails to raise a smile.
From the film cycle "Exposing the Text"
A different view on the World and European Hockey Championships in Prague in 1972.
Ilike to go to oregon hills/ Iroll down with my arms because/ Iwant to go slower/ Iam scared. –J. K.
Matamgi Manipur is the first full-length Manipuri feature film released in the year 1972. The film narrates the story of a middle class family which has votaries of the new and old values in society. They drift in different directions pulled by their diametrically opposite attitudes.
Directed by Babul Chaudhary.
Remember your driving test? Step back into the 70s brogues of this young learner and see how much you recall.
An early work by Bill and Louise Etra.
In the line-up of great Australian realist films of the '70s, this short student film, nominally a documentary, is the most in-your-face and "gritty" realist film you will see. It's powerful and unforgettable. "It's a ground-breaker, venturing into the dark, slovenly lives of a couple of outsiders", said Nigel Buesst.
This short employs animation and live action to teach young children about their digestive system.
Film by Kathy Rose. 1971/1972
The film is based on a variety of reflections on politics and labor, economy and technology, identity and advertising.
A crowd of champagne-riddled art patrons witness and react to the unveiling of a fountain sculpted by Richard See and the filmmaker. The fountain collapsed the night this film premiered.
A strange and haunting vision of the catharsis involved in the work and leisure expenditure of an apparently non-distinct punch clock commoner, a human with its face masked in bandages. The cold urban landscape is pocked with such sinister everyday events that even the contents of the commoner's briefcase can only reinforce the veils within. Chock full of very special effects.
Surveys the history of the United States in World War I at home and at the battlefronts. A documentary compiled of authentic war films set to vintage sound, designed to stimulate student interest in further study of the war and the times.
Footage from and interviews with attendees of a public function in Griffith Park, Los Angeles sponsored by the Gay Liberation Front.
"Not enough attention is paid to photogenic objects. A telephone receiver, for instance..." - Louis Delluc.
16mm Kodak Reversal Film, 1972. Transferred to Video and digitised with Screenplay Graphics approx. in 2018
Videotaped at the 1972 Republican Convention, Videofreex's cameraperson tapes from inside the press area with protestors from the People’s Band outside at the fence. A group of protestors are shown calling for non-violent blockades of the delegates' entrance. Tear gas is feared, and there are interviews with victims and medics.
A story about a boy who together with his friends - a dog and a swan - taught a lesson to a mischievous robot.
A 1972 short about the 26th amendment and how eighteen year-olds can register to vote.
I happened to see a documentary by Leni Riefenstahl. German troops were marching, and I found that I could duplicate the drumbeat by typing “mar mar march.” Had not the broadcast of this film taken place while I was typing, I would never have thought of this concept. (Paul Kos)
Blending psychedelic animation with haunting music. Centred around a black cat, it explores themes of misfortune and the uncanny through dreamlike visuals and Maki Asakawa’s melancholic song, "Fushiawase to Iu Na no Neko".
A true story, fillmed in Rome with both actors & non actors. in the 1500's Roman life was often a nightmare - Count Cenci tortured his family, raped his daughter, murdered his sons, created general havoc. Beatrice got her revenge, before she lost her head. A hectic, hysterical nightmare built of intercutting, movement & emotion.
Pierre, a young African man raised in Europe, embarks on a quest to explore his culture, resisting Western influences.
Wilbur and the Stews travel to the town of Lazy Susan, whose lethargic residents suffer from poor eating habits.
An extremely rare film of the alternative community that settled on the uninhabited Dorinish island off Co Mayo, owned by John Lennon and given custodianship to Sid Rawle, ‘King of the Hippies’, in 1970. Leeds’ maverick filmmaker Alan Sidi was on hand to film and interview members of the community that settled there about their way of life. He returns a year later to find just one member surviving, Tom, recounting how the promise of a non-materialistic lifestyle fell apart.
An odd comedy skit/salespitch for Seven Crown liquor for bar owners.
In 1969, Howard Wise presented the landmark exhibition TV as a Creative Medium at his eponymous gallery on 57th Street in New York. The exhibition is recognized as the first in the United States devoted to video (or television) as an emergent art form. Jud Yalkut's silent 16mm film footage is a vibrant document of the seminal works in the exhibition, including Nam June Paik's Participation TV, Paul Ryan's Everyman's Mobius Strip, Thomas Tadlock's Archetron, Eric Siegel's Psychedelevision in Color, Charlotte Moorman's first performance of Paik's TV Bra For Living Sculpture, and Ira Schneider and Frank Gillette's installation Wipe Cycle.
In this short documentary from the 70s, we get a glimpse of life inside an artistic community in the mudflats area of North Vancouver. An anti-establishment group, they live as squatters, rejecting drugs while practicing a philosophy of love for the universe. They also reject the values of mainstream society, as embodied by the mayor of North Vancouver, who wants to turn their “home” into a shopping centre.
Short funny animation about a irritating spider and a man who is reading the newspaper. He catches the spider and flushes her through the toilet. But the big arms from the spider comes out of the toilet, catches the man and pulls him also through the toilet
Henderson leaves the house, as his experiment intersects with another film crew.
Mexican feature film