1970 Movies

In this performance based tape, Acconci uses his body to explore notions of opening and closure.

In 1968, the Italian Communist Party sent director Luigi Perelli and chief operator Ferruccio Castronuovo to France to film the events of May. Announc...

Produced within the framework of the “Programmi Sperimentali” of Italian public television (structure of the RAI which allowed, in the 1970s, the prod...

Pioneering ethnographic filmmaker John Marshall casts an eye on the inner workings of a Pittsburgh police station, capturing law enforcement’s day-to-...

In the late 1960s, Vito Acconci abandoned poetry in order to work with the body and its relationship with space, although he did retain a commitment t...

Short film by Manfred Jelinski

Animated pen and ink Cartoon space-like drawings on transparent acetate sheets & silver paint superimposed plastic bubble packing material & plastic h...

"This film, done in the fine tradition of hand-painted images and sound, deals with Western man's fetish for technology." —Keith Lock & Jim Anderson

Ronald McDonald, Merlin the Magician and Stinky the Skunk host a birthday party for Mother Goose. Ronald shows the party guests how to make a party ha...

4891 is a political 1984-ish sci-fi paranoid film like everyone made at some point in the '60s.

An animated short consisting of 4 segments: bowl, garden, theatre, marble game. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Harvard Fil...

With beads of hail resembling the shape of the mold grown brains.

Early black and white live action portrait film by Kathy Rose.

Documentary about young earthquake victims in Banja Luka.

A film about the beauty of impermanence and about everything that people throw away. A mix of recognizable images from reality and abstract images, w...

A film by Naomi Levine from 1970

Caught between two entirely different women, an artist finds himself in conflict between the spiritual and the sensual, and at the same time lost crea...