Operating on the frontier between art and architecture, Graham Stevens builds inflatable forms and environments that create a dialog between poetry and hyper-technology. Engaged in a critical approach to architecture and opposed to its “rootedness,” Stevens advocates an art of air and movement.
‘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.
Different eras and geographical locations have their own dreamscapes. Here, however, the mythical El Dorado is a mining site. Tambek does not simply document miners’ lives, but creates an image of a secluded universe far away from social norms, one that engenders a unified space between reality and dream.
An early film by Marilú Mallet (as Maria Luisa Mallet) created for the Education Ministry's Department of Culture under Salvador Allende's Popular Unity government. The film combines images with intertitles that present the disparity in land distribution, economic opportunity, and civil rights between the indigenous Mapuche people and Chilean Whites/Mestizos. - KG
Educational short about verbs.
A chinese documentary.
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.
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.
A teenager's dreams collide with social expectations and gender-based stereotypes when she finds that, despite her parents' assurance that she can be ‘anything she wants to be’, reality presents another story. One of the first and most widely used consciousness-raising films of the growing Women’s Movement, this film helped give voice to a generation of women whose expectations, opportunities and career choices were extremely limited.
Mohamed Aboulouakar’s diploma film from VGIK in Moscow, based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway.
The basic image derives from a shot of women in (Edwardian era) dresses standing along the edge of the ocean. Within this eight-second loop, [Rimmer] cuts shorter ones. For example, the activity of a central group of three women is cut so that the figures repeat certain motions over and over and over again... Rimmer also chose to use the forms of surface imperfections, the scratches and dirt patterns, as bases for his loops... Although working in a disciplined style of re-structuring cinematic forms, his highly orchestrated creations have inspired great admiration both from cineastes and the more general public. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.
Ten works commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council were broadcast, unannounced, by Scottish TV in August/September 1971. Later, seven were compiled as TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces).
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.
