A Nail

A Nail 1971

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16mm film, color, sound.

1971

Le Western

Le Western 1971

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Animated film parody of Western / Cowboy movies.

1971

Understanding Composition in Art

Understanding Composition in Art 1971

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This short documentary explains the importance of formalist elements such as positive/negative space, texture, color balance, and rhythm in painting and sculpture. The film characterizes these various compositional strategies as being universal, but foremost stresses their manifestation in twentieth-century art.

1971

Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch?

Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch? 1971

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"Take a circle as big as you want, just come back to the place you started from before sunset. All the land you go around is yours."

1971

Serigne Assane

Serigne Assane 1971

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Popular comedy on traditional society and pamphlet against maraboutism. Two stories follow each other: a young typist is raped by a marabout who will not be worried, while a young man, opposed to the laxity of the brotherhoods of the administration, resists multiple solicitudes.

1971

Still Life

Still Life 1971

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"A voyage into red cabbage and shells. Shells transform themselves into orange canyons. Cabbage as the universe! A painter's film. Soundtrack: the sound of the sculptures of the Baschet brothers." - RS

1971

Needle at Sea Bottom

Needle at Sea Bottom 1971

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Influenced by the early theories of Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948), in Needle at Sea Bottom I sought to create and implied time and space not found in either of the component images…the power of still awareness is literally depicted…. The film’s title is taken from the name of a specific named movement in the Tai Chi Chuan.

1971

Saturday Club Meeting

Saturday Club Meeting 1971

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On the first and third Saturday of each month, Master Choy Kam-man has a club meeting with all of his students who have completed at least one course in Tai Chi Chuan. Together, the students practice their form and Master Choy helps them to correct their movements….

1971

Dream of the Sphinx

Dream of the Sphinx 1971

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Gore's second solo film, DREAM OF THE SPHINX is highly representative of his fluid, expressive line work and characteristic traversals through space. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with CalArts and iotaCenter in 2009.

1971

Landscape

Landscape 1971

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"Entertaining study of the visual fluidity of the landscape between two majors cities (New York City and Boston). The visual concept of Megalopolis is shown graphically, the ecological implications of: the car that built the road, the road that built the megalopolis, come to life." - L.N.S.

1971