.Yl 1971 - 249

In 1971, Alan Schneider directed an historic video taped performance of Samuel Beckett's Krapps Last Tape, starring Jack MacGowran. The play dramatized an old man’s struggle to repossess his youth by searching through reels of audiotape. This performance was originally intended for television but never shown and subsequently put away and forgotten for nearly twenty years. The videotape has been restored and will remain a memorial to the late Jack MacGowran, Alan Schneider and William Ritman.

Exploring textures and patterns in nature.

The naive paintings of an ordinary man who works as a watcher in a building.

Experimental film about the poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz.

Tévy dresses as a boy in order to participate in a class given at Padamok school. Tévy falls in love with Panchapoi, one of her close classmates. But when Tévy’s true identity is revealed, the son of a Cham millionaire falls madly in love with her and asks her parents’ permission to marry her…

1971 / 8mm / color / sound

The documentary is a record of a marriage ceremony that took place in April 1971 and was performed in accordance with Ainu traditions at the request of the young bride. There were two hurdles to overcome in the realization of the ceremony: first, a group of Ainu had to be convinced, who were against a revival of the tradition. Secondly, there were only a few members of the community who knew the details of the ceremony at all, since most of them had already been celebrating a wedding in their own style for over 80 years.

A student discussion film regarding the economic, infrastructural, and environmental impacts of the American highway system

Moseka, a young woman from Zaire, travels to Belgium to study. With her braided hair and traditional clothes, she is the laughingstock of her fellow students who strive to look European, adopting wigs and European clothing. The film tells of the depersonalization of young Africans when they enter into contact with the European culture.

Edmundo Scivano returns to his hometown after years of failure in his political career. Discredited, he seeks the support of his countrymen to get his life back on track, but finds only contempt and disappointment in his path. Dissatisfied and angry, Scivano decides, insanely, to make a pact with the devil to obtain power and wealth to plot his revenge.

In a modern Africa, where the music of James Brown is starting to arrive, young people are coming into conflict with the older generations. A musical comedy that tells the story of a girl who wants to become a singer. Her father would rather see her embark on a safer career. But the girl leaves school and, with her mother's help, succeeds in convincing him to send her to the country to study traditional music. Thanks to her stay in the villages in the company of a sociologist friend, the young girl discovers the deep African roots of Afro-American music. When she goes back to the city, she begins to write songs combining Afro-American soul and traditional music

12 minutes. 6 pages of text. 180 lines. 90 photos 2 lines per photo. 45 photos of the new Agadir. 45 photos from the slums of Morocco.

"Bruce Benton's four‐minute “Sympathy for the Devil” uses the classic Rolling Stones recording to lend a sort of frayed irony to a collage of news reel shots of President Nixon, the Vietnam war, Gov. George C. Wallace, riots, Billy Graham and lots of other ducks that aren't sitting as much as they are lying down, exhausted." - Vincent Canby, New York Times, Nov. 19th, 1971

“Chop” is the bad dream of a French prisoner condemned to death and fearing the guillotine.

Short film.

The great sick nowadays, the traffic, is always under observation. Methods and studies to attempt to decrease harmful discharges. But if planes and trains are constantly under control, the same goes for cars and pedestrians, where an infringement can often cause collateral damage to other drivers and / or pedestrians as well. Examples of how in some cases reckless driving can cause serious damage. Safer driving, on the other hand, can avoid further aggravating the problems of the very sick person. Preserved and digitized by the National Cinema Impresa - CSC

A1 Directions A2 Honky Tonk A3 What I Say B1 Sanctuary B2 It's About That Time B3 Funky Tonk

16mm film, black and white, sound.