.Yl 1971 - 256

A documentary about the Baul singers in rural West Bengal.

A week in the life of Salamou, a young potter who lives in the village of Bakin Dabagui in Ader, Niger, where a terrible famine due to two years of intensive draught is rampant.

A programme about the Icelandic actor, Brynjólfur Jóhannesson, with excerpts from some of his most famous performances.

Starting at Upminster Hall, built in the 16th century, the film covers the Tithe Barn, Gaynes Lodge, Upminster Clockhouse, High House, The Old Cottage, Great Sunnings, Howard Hall, Great Tomkyns, Upminster Station and Upminster Windmill. A labour of love, the film took John Wynstanly over a year of working evening and weekends to research the history, obtain permissions for filming, record the sound track himself and carry out the filming. This film is from the collection of Havering Local Studies and Family History Centre, a member of the London's Screen Archives Network.

Independent documentary about police infiltration of the Black Panther Party.

8mm film by Wyndham Wise.

Shot over one day, this program records the events and protests in Washington DC on May Day, 1971. This was the day when one of the most disruptive actions of the Vietnam War era occurred in Washington, DC, when thousands of anti-war activists tried to shut down the Federal government in protest at the War.

Exploring textures and patterns in nature.

Shot at the first Earth Day in 1970, this new release features Allen Ginsberg reflecting on the state of American culture and society at the end of the 60s. In April 1970 the first Earth Day in Philadelphia was actually a week of celebrations for Mother Earth. This film was shot in and around the city, with cameo appearances and observations by the likes of Terry Southern, Jerry Rubin, mayor John Lindsay, and Wavy Gravy. But the film features Allen Ginsburg, both at the main event on Belmont Plateau and during a van ride across Pennsylvania, in which he riffs on American culture and society, at a meal at HoJo's and reading a poem on the banks of the Susquehanna. The talk is of polarization and the battle for the soul of America. Fifty years later, the argument goes on.

“Drug Use or Abuse” focuses on the differences between utilizing drugs which have been prescribed by a doctor versus illicit drug use and abuse.

Documentary based on painter Augusto Rivera.

Archive footage of the University of St Andrews in 1971 gives an insight into what it was like to be a student at the University over 40 years ago.

On the occasion of the GDR Landeskulturgesetz (Law on the Conservation and Protection of the Environment), passed in 1970, the speaker explains the various aspects of environmental protection through vivid, visually pointed examples. The film repeatedly refers to the fundamental contradiction between exploitation and preservation of nature in a developed industrial state but is unable to resolve it.

Many times the decisions on economy matters made by the highest parliamentary bodies are not very thoughtful. But the opening ceremonies of new built industrial structures are always carefully prepared, not as carefully as the funeral ceremonies of the same companies.

A forty-minute black-and-white tape done in 1971. Fried is seated at a table, trying to run the gauntlet of choices while ordering in a restaurant. He keeps answering the waiter’s questions with more questions.

Experimental film about the poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz.