Year 1971 - 250

A KRON-TV film documentary featuring the last public concert given by one man band musician Jesse Fuller, in Oakland Museum's Cowell Hall on May 7th 1971. Fuller is seen playing several songs (including 'San Francisco Bay Blues') and bantering with the audience, recalling how he appeared in Raoul Walsh's 1924 movie 'The Thief of Bagdad'. Also includes close-up views of him playing his guitar and fotdella (a foot operated percussion bass) and talking about his playing style. Begins and ends with brief scenes of Fuller walking around his Oakland neighborhood.

A program on Israeli television about the tradition of matchmaking and wedding rituals and customs.

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.

16mm film, color, sound.

Things (and their treatment) are shown repeatedly - a loaf of bread, a sausage, an egg cracked open on the rim of a cup: everyday actions with irreversible, one might say vitally destructive consequences. In the second part, the actions are directed at people, and the anxiety changes because the situations are created deliberately and uncritically. Part three, which could be read as a sober protocol of a relationship, loses the proximity to actionism and performance. Images of a man and a woman alternate with images of windows, mirrors, sofas, and the interior.

The short movie "Peach Tree"

A Silvestre Byrón experimental short film.

Shot over a period of 15 months from April 1969 to July 1970, Motoshinkakarannu captures a tumultuous time in Okinawa’s occupation, offering an unflinching snapshot of Okinawan society that captures the daily lives of sex workers, yakuza, tourists and G.I.s in Koza City.

Animated film parody of Western / Cowboy movies.

A history of the Big Red One in Vietnam, 1965-1970. Part of "The Big Picture" series.

An interim view of the North West New town from David Mahlowe

In this small town “epic,” the people of Whitesburg, KY speak directly to the camera about unemployment, student unrest, and the Vietnam War. The down-home candor of the exchanges presents a revolutionary alternative to the voice-over narration then common in commercial productions. Stripped to the basics, the documentary has an energy and immediacy only possible in a film made by the participants themselves.

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….

Magic glasses allow kids to see the world up close