1971 Movies

Originally black-and-white material printed with green filters with a superimposed flicker loop.

A Cinema Action campaign film about the fourteen month-long occupation of Upper Clyde Shipyards by a joint shop stewards' committee. Part of BFI coll...

With a rock music soundtrack, Choke suggests pop art in its treatment of Piccadilly Circus at night. Multipally exposed and treated images mirror each...

A documentary style film about an old man’s journey from his home in Roche’s Point to Whitebay, Whitegate, Rostellan, Cork City, Iniscarra, Carrigadro...

A program on Israeli television about the tradition of matchmaking and wedding rituals and customs.

A surreal animation of erotic images.

Acconci's face is seen in close-up. His eyes trace, in real time, the movement of the hands of an off-screen clock.

Catch 44, co-produced by Nam June Paik, fuses Cage's compositional precepts with the immediacy and real time of video. Cage is seen performing and pre...

Filmed in the gardens of the villa La Pietra, Fiesole, Italy. Preserved in Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna.Original reversal film in Temenos Arc...

In this early conceptual experiment by General Idea, the artists manipulate reflecting surfaces to generate optical “feedback.” Two mirrors are positi...

May 1971: French television airs a report on the first months of the Popular Unity government. Focusing primarily on economic and political issues, th...

A court's decision to take away a mother's child after a divorce and grant the father sole custody leads to a clash of human law and written law.

Paleolithic Pornograffiti is about a prehistoric man who learns how to whack, is shown how to fuck, and sets out to try

Short film.

A pilot recounts his experience of being rescued by the Jolly Green Giant helicopter.

Educational film about the dangers of drug use and abuse in high school. Framed around the death of a classmate from overdose.

'Slides' came about through some fascination with the phenomena of matter, its frailty and transcience, the oddness of tiny filmed images from my earl...

The film should not be shown at the beginning or end, but in the middle of a program. The film should be shown in the same way as any other film. Imme...