1971 Movies

An animation film based on a Latvian folk tale.

The story of a sex offender who committed murders by changing his clothes.

The screen is empty: the artist stands off-screen — he breathes in and out, his stomach moving into and out of the frame.

Inspired by the life of Rishi Aurobindo, it’s a Bengali classic portraying the life of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh beginning from his return to India in 1892 to his life in Pondicherry in 1910. This film shows a detailed narration of his early life, marriage, interact...

They are just 17 years old when Gaby and Eva receive the offer to play in a feature film that ambitious Hamburg filmmakers want to make. Despite their youth, the girls are suspicious because they have already experienced a lot. On the other hand, that would be...

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

Good Morning is a 1971 short film directed by Ken Greenwald, with Roger Carroll and Vern Rowe. It follows a man who wakes up hoping to have a good day, but reality keeps getting in the way. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

On June 20th, 1971, thousands of Spanish Republicans from all around Europe meet up in Montreuil, France to take part in an event initiated by the French and the Spanish Communist Parties, to protest against Franco's dictatorship.

Culled mostly from archival footage, this thought-provoking first volume of the Hidden Agenda series relays the little-known history of an elite group of power brokers who wield considerable influence over world affairs. Tracking the growth of the world's larg...

Man-li, Xiu-zhen, and Chun-mei leave Xiangshan for Taipei, each seeking love, money, or stability. Before reaching the city, they encounter predatory men; in Taipei, work, wealth, and intimacy draw them into danger. Blending sexploitation with female-centred m...

Single-channel digital video, transferred from Sony CV 1/2-inch video tape, black-and-white, sound

In 1968, Wakefield Poole filmed an exhibition of Andy Warhol's work at the Whitney Museum. He edited ANDY "in-camera" as he filmed it, then created a collage soundtrack and presented a print to Warhol as a birthday gift. When BOYS IN THE SAND opened in New Yor...

The film tells the story of Murat's struggle to rescue his brother Yusuf from a drug gang. Murat is left disabled while trying to save the lives of workers in an accident at his factory. Despite being confined to a wheelchair, he does not give up on life. One...

A relatively amateurish horror film that still works. Based on a short story by William Faulkner.

The footage, in order of appearance, is: 1. rock strata – along the banks of the Niagara River, before it empties into Lake Ontario, 1975, while an artist-in-residence at Artpark, Lewiston, N.Y. (Originally a three-screen panorama study); 2. flow patterns of...

In this short black and white study Benning uses dissolves, shifting camera angles and cross-fades to experiment with narrative structure.