.Yl 1971 - 254

About small and large events in a city at war.

Early experimental film from Claude Champion.

Documentary about the EEC debate in Norway.

The main character in this three-act visual gag is an apple, subjected to extremes of lightness and heaviness. Méliès’s camera magic enchants it in such a way that, in the most realistic shot, it ultimately seems the least real.

The material for this compilation guerrilla video was created thanks to the work of nearly thirty filmmakers who, using the then-new Portapak portable cameras, recorded from within the protest movement the mass demonstrations to end the Vietnam War that were held in early May 1971 in Washington, D.C. Footage of participants' discussions, strategy planning, and spontaneous happenings alternate with the documentation of police violence, stays at police stations, and improvised detentions. The first edited version tried in vain to get airtime on NBC, while the updated version of the original compilation adds informational subtitles for today's viewers and underscores the hope that the established order and repressive power can be overcome non-violently through solidarity and shared emotion.

In this film, heavily inspired by Man Ray's collage work L'enigme d'Isidore Ducasse (1920) and the poetic energy of Lautreamont's Les Chants De Maldoror, Franco films a number of incunabulae (a swing machine, an umbrella), ancestors of fecund inspirational symbols for modern and contemporary art, which hold a privileged position among the objects described by Lautreamont.

A haunting Christmas short film from Québec about a lonely man and a mysterious wolf-like visitor. Created by Claude Roussel and Gilbert Gratton for the Ministère de l’Éducation, Philidor became a cult memory for many who saw it on television in the early 1970s.

Documentary by Jesús Enrique Guédez.

The well-known illustrator Werner Klemke uses his drawings to teach the youngest bookworms about the value of reading. Taking this as a starting point, Lotte Thiel presents the GDR as a land of books whose capital is Leipzig. Figures and images from the 1971 International Book Art Exhibition underscore the significance accorded to books as a tool for shaping the “socialist personality”.

Commissioned by the German Book Traders’ Association, Lotte Thiel follows the preparations for the 1971 International Book Art Exhibition, prominently supported on screen and on the soundtrack. The tradition of this fair is recalled, from its predecessor BUGRA 1914 to the first IBA in 1927 and the subsequent events that took place every five to six years starting in 1959. Award-winning illustrations can be viewed in detail.

A parody of the creative freedom of fashion in overly in-depth amateur movies.

A sermon to the stockbrokers for the Big Board.

Abstract, geometric forms, became the basis for the most outstanding works of the avant-garde sculptor Katarzyna Kobro. With her 'Spatial Compositions', she created her own artistic language, with which she aroused a lot of criticism, which was based on the traditional assumption that a sculpture should be a compact, modelled mass. However, the task of "Composition" was to shape forms that were to come into being. Kobro, however, still wanted to change the space surrounding people with her own art.

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Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Émile Cohl, the brilliant inventor and self-taught artist Louis Van Maelder created a body of work of unparalleled richness and inventiveness by drawing directly onto the film strip.

A young man arrives at a mansion on an errand. As it gets late, the charming lady of the house invites him to stay and seduces him, while her elderly husband is left to wither away, consumed by his memories.

The actor in question is George C. Scott. Many of his co-workers on the film The Last Run (1971) talk about what it is like to work with the famed actor.

A group of young friends got together for a hike and decided to invite a colleague who had never been on such a trip before. To be on the safe side, the newcomer took everything he needed with him, including many books on first aid in the wild. At first, the young people made fun of the "overly proper" tourist, but in the end, he turned out to be the most experienced.