Afọ 1971 - 262

A strange street singer and a poor girl's love story...

‘Games of waves, of light and of the camera. The vertical becomes horizontal, the ground rises to the sky as the sky comes to replace it, the sun covers itself with water while the water launches an attack on the sun.’ C. Brunel

Sequel to "The Birth of Electronic Music: Part I" (1971) The 2nd installment covers the slightly more modern era.

This installment covers "electronic" music from 400 BC to 1950, including analog techniques such as the "soundhouses" of the 17th century to the glass harmonica, before finally moving along to early electronic instruments such as the Dynamophone and the Ondes Martenot.

After a general view of the city Ghent, its horizon and roofs, we are confronted with views of streets and houses in one particular district that is threatened with demolition. A poster announces protest actions against the demolition of the Patershol district.

ACI Films takes you to the county fair.

A set of short pure color studies, usually exploring one dominant hue. Most of these works were studies for longer projects. The last four "migraine" studies are rhythmically based around the five-cycle-per-second oscillation pulse of the typical fortification illusions preceding a migraine attack; this onset period, with its visually dynamic effects, is reported to be a quite vibrant and enjoyable state.

Summer of '70 on the Adriatic: fun at the beach, a beauty contest, water skiing, holiday hedonism. A postcard of endless indifference when growing up in Yugoslavia.

The film tells about how on the Leningrad radio programs were created for children, about how the child perceives a fairy tale told on the radio. The film features the Honored Artist of the RSFSR, known to all Leningrad children Maria Petrova and People's Artist of the USSR Alexander Borisov.

Experimental film responding to the controversial Industrial Relations Bill of 1971.

Koo In-Gap who became a millionaire by investing on real state is a primary target for his two executive directors Park and Song's sincere fawning. In-Gap tries to please his new mistress in the bed, but he isn't strong enough. All kinds of massaging and herb medicine are supplied for his improvement of strength, and finally he becomes very strong by having some variously mixed food. But exerting himself too much for his mistress's pleasure he dies.

A woman who was hitchhiking ends up in the hospital after being raped. She relives the incident in nightmarish slow-motion, questioning her choices.

Film by Ray L. Birdwhistell produced by the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute

An animated film about one man's attempt to bring about changes in his community through participation with fellow citizens and the local government. A discussion-starter with a dual ending, for groups exploring methods of bringing about change.

Mohamed Aboulouakar’s diploma film from VGIK in Moscow, based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway.

Footage of American bombing of Vietnam.

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, from autumn 1970 to spring 1971. As he wanders the city streets in the afternoons, the artist captures, without any preconceived intentions, urbans details, or micro-events that draw his attention. Mutzenbecher describes Rom 70/71 as "reflex cinema" and develops a spontaneous form of filmed diary about a location, in this case a city, without focusing on human presence.

When the Nazis took power, the Jewish artist Leo Haas (1901-1983) was arrested in his Czechoslovakian hometown. He spent the next six years in different concentration camps and became known for the paintings he did in the Theresienstadt camp. This film presents Haas as a political artist and resistance fighter and celebrates him as a socialist caricaturist dedicated to the GDR.