1971 Movies

A delirious pageant about violence and the decline of the West.

John Lowry's 1971 Ontario travelogue "Home by the Waters" (featuring a haunting theme song by Tommy Ambrose) was shown at the IMAX Cinesphere in Ontar...

A feature-length documentary directed by Dorothy Wiley and Gunvor Nelson about five working San Francisco artists: William T. Wiley, Robert Hudson, Wi...

Using fragmented personal imagery, "Next to Me" renders Cartier-Bresson's theory of the "decisive moment" fully in cinematic terms. The film is an exp...

Ten works commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council were broadcast, unannounced, by Scottish TV in August/September 1971. Later, seven were compiled a...

Ten works commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council were broadcast, unannounced, by Scottish TV in August/September 1971. Later, seven were compiled a...

Ten works commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council were broadcast, unannounced, by Scottish TV in August/September 1971. Later, seven were compiled a...

Untitled is the first of over 100 films created by Ana Mendieta. By scratching and painting directly onto the film’s emulsion, she formed a filmic pai...

This is the first part of a history about the history of paper.

Werner von Mutzenbecher created Rom 70/71 with an Agfa Microflex super-8 camera, during a residency at the Istituto Svizzero (Swiss Institute) in Rome...

One frame of film for each page: the history of human knowledge becomes an illegible, strobing stream of images.

Portrait of a provincial family with fourteen children.

“Where the North Begins” was one of the 4 original regional portrait films commissioned for the first season of Ontario Place (the others being "North...

A short puppet animation. Winner of the Oofuji Noburou Award.