Against the backdrop of mounting racial unrest in the late 1960s, this 60 second public service announcement, commissioned by the Unitarian Universalist Black Affairs Council and produced by Blackside, Inc., likens racial prejudice to a child playing with a loaded weapon.
Between 1877 and 1885, an English photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, conducted detailed experiments analyzing human and animal motion using rapid photography. In 1968, John Straiton took the published works of Muybridge and created from them a fascinating and hilarious film. A tribute to the serious maker of the first nudie before the invention of movies.
Hewlett-Packard computer model 9100 Computing Calculator. Physics class uses computing calculator and X-Y plotter in class. Early educational application of computers.
Porcupine helps his friend Rabbit sew a shirt
Steve Miller Blues Band sequence by prominent San Francisco filmmaker Ben Van Meter.
A series of interviews with the leaders of the Paris riots of May and June, 1968.
A campaign film against GLC attempts to raise council rents. Includes: footage of tenants’ demonstrations; tenants’ meetings at which report-backs are given on the proportion of tenants in various areas withholding rents in protest; burning effigy of Horace Cutler, Tory leader of GLC; T&GWU support for tenants’ demonstration, under pressure from membership (porters).
Composed of eight short films, this film is the first "action" of the Roman collective of Cinegiornali Liberi : a counter-information and cinema project "di tanti per tanti" promoted by Cesare Zavattini in 1968. Extract from Bulletin n ° 1 of Cinegiornali Liberi : "Proposals, protests, denunciations, interrogations, accusations, defenses, Vietnam, God, heart transplants, art, drugs, cowardice, classes, the moon, peace, peace war. Such may be the elements of the Cinegiornali Liberi . Cries or speeches? Messages of one, five, or ten minutes? In color or in black and white? [...] Well, you have to experience everything."
In montage form, this short film focuses on a group of young men in an American city as they smoke and loiter on its rooftops.
In 1967, a few months after the famous exhibition Arte povera-Im Spazio at the gallery La Bertesca in Genoa (when the critic Germano Celant defined the first guidelines of arte povera), Alighiero Boetti, at the age of 27, had a solo show at the Turin-based gallery Christian Stein. The first part the film explores the works assembled with iron, wood and industrial materials (Eternit, camouflage fabric, enamel paint), then shifts to the reactions and relations with the works of the audience at the opening (the artists Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Ceroli and Giulio Paolini, and the dealer Gian Enzo Sperone are recognisable). The black and white images are accompanied by a saxophone improvisation by Carlo Actis Dato. —Tate Modern
The film begins with a photo shoot, shown in a sequence of often frontal views and counterviews, in which Michelangelo Pistoletto photographs Maria Pioppi, encouraging her to assume different poses and to interact with various objects. The negatives of the photographs gradually appear over the flow of images. The images once hung on the walls, are subjected to a series of bizarre performative actions by a group of young people, as if at an opening (including the artist Ugo Nespolo and the filmmakers Renato Ferraro and Gioachino Nichot), who then shift into a dance with playful and erotic overtones. Two versions of the film exist, one developed positive and one negative. —Tate Modern
A documentary on the miracle which took place in the Usturt Mountains which is now a holy shrine where people go to worship.
A popular and gifted teenager draws concern from his teacher when she discovers that he doesn't care about education, has no plans for the future, and methodically does the bare minimum to pass his classes.
"An attempt to make a portrait of my wife." (HHK)
The Leap is impressive for its mixture of pure video space with representational filmic space. Thus an ordinary man seems to interact physically with videographic apparitions, moving in and out of different time space realities, fluctuating between the physical and metaphysical with each stride of his leap toward freedom. —Gene Youngblood
Amateur movie showing a fire.
