1971 Movies

This installment covers "electronic" music from 400 BC to 1950, including analog techniques such as the "soundhouses" of the 17th century to the glass...

A documentary chronicle of the excavation of a Western Han dynasty tomb in Hunan province and the camera-observed autopsy of a remarkably preserved fe...

Robotic presentation of the myth of Sisyphus.

A long red banner billows in the wind.

In this interview given soon after the completion of Forman's first American film, Taking Off, we are treated to a candid, humorous and lively portrai...

A look at the design and production of various products.

Filmed in16mm black and white in 1970 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Pamela and Ian is a bisexual love story that explores an idea suggested by Alain Robbe-G...

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

The main character in this three-act visual gag is an apple, subjected to extremes of lightness and heaviness. Méliès’s camera magic enchants it in su...

Shot at the first Earth Day in 1970, this new release features Allen Ginsberg reflecting on the state of American culture and society at the end of th...

Art film about the painter Adolf Wolfli, 1864-1930, who was a schizophrenic patient who spent most of his life at the Waldau Institute, Bern. An attem...

An ethnographic documentary filmed among the Trobriand Islanders of the Western Pacific, directed by Yasuko Ichioka for Japanese television. The film...

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

Presents dramatic vignettes which portray the emergence of black poets, essayists, and novelists in the 1920's and 1930's. Includes excerpts from Coun...

Experimental short by Masaki Matsushita.

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 t...

A powerful New American Cinema psychodrama in which the frustrating function of the female as a sexual tool of the male in society is depicted in surr...