1970 Movies

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experime...

A motley cast of characters offer their thoughts on what’s most important in life. Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2...

A young girl succumbs to the charm of a Don Juan who abandons her after having given her a child.

Made for ten thousand dollars over 5 years this film shows both the signs of lack or resources and inventiveness in attempting to overcome the low bud...

VERONICA focuses on Veronica Glover, a black teenager who has been elected to the Student Congress of her predominantly white high school in New Haven...

A rare glimpse into a Dubai harem and a document of the significant changes in the lives of Arab women during the early 1970s, this is the only film m...

An experimental Austrian film

Met Sokoli is a young pioneer who fights against a band of saboteurs entering Albania.

Peter Tammer’s personal diary film contrasting the comfortable suburban life of his family to that of his father-in-law, an Austrian Jew who emigrated...

Scenes of a village wedding and the hard lives of farmers in a remote mountainous region of Poland.

GROUP IV: BEADED LIGHT (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) “In BEADED LIGHT, Gerson applies an ambiguous procedure to our perception of color and light.” –B...

SUNLIGHT (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) Sunlight patterns on a window in constant change through subtle camera swings – the motions repeated giving the...

"Endurance/Rememberance/Metamorphosis is a film composed of three parts of equal duration. Each part consists of a single shot of a minimal space." -...

An electronic synthetic color video, based on a memory of Larry Gottheim’s film “Blues”. Natural and electronic real time events, new American electro...

1971 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

1970 Czech experimental film by Petr Skala