1971 Movies

Made in 1971, "Comitati Politici" encircles some exclusive witness of the union spokepersons, the employees and the factory workmen at the time.

The executioner binds a prisoner at the stake. He lights a match and the prisoner spits on it and puts it out. But the fire is lit with the second mat...

In a sequence shot around a drawing board the protagonist (Pettena himself, recently graduated architect) does anything but design: he trims his nails...

Tracing the under documented history of art made by black artists since the 19th Century, this essay film explores the demands and criteria imposed on...

Surveys growing interest, especially among young people, in the occult, black and white magic, mysticism, and witchcraft. Interviews writer Colin Wils...

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

A short documentary about dealing with people in rent arrears.

An Ultraman compilation film from Taiwan.

In these three exercises, Acconci plays with trans-gender illusions, manipulating and altering his own body parts to suggest sexual transformations.

Short Yugoslav film.

The film is based on the idea that each person is the forger of his or her own happiness. The film starts with the subtitle: "If a man is destined to...

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...

A twist on the hippie movement’s spirited outdoor gatherings, Los Angeles’ first “Gay-In”s took place in Griffith Park in the early 1970s. This short...

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 s...

Color UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Dyal animates Navajo patterns overlayed on a photograph...

A documentation of one of Acconci's most notorious performances, Claim Excerpts is a highly confrontational work, an exercise in self-induced, heighte...

Film starring Premendra, Rekha and Suresh Chatwal

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