Year 1971 - 259

A strange street singer and a poor girl's love story...

‘Games of waves, of light and of the camera. The vertical becomes horizontal, the ground rises to the sky as the sky comes to replace it, the sun covers itself with water while the water launches an attack on the sun.’ C. Brunel

Sequel to "The Birth of Electronic Music: Part I" (1971) The 2nd installment covers the slightly more modern era.

This installment covers "electronic" music from 400 BC to 1950, including analog techniques such as the "soundhouses" of the 17th century to the glass harmonica, before finally moving along to early electronic instruments such as the Dynamophone and the Ondes Martenot.

The story of the romance between the son of a ranch owner and an indigenous woman devoted to Ceferino Namuncurá.

After the name of a recent lottery winner is announced in the newspaper, hundreds of letters are sent to him, asking to borrow or receive some of the money.

A woman wakes up, gets dressed, makes breakfast and walks down the street. This daily ritual becomes extraordinary seen in a trance-like structure of continuous lap dissolves and continuous spectral color shifts.

An auditively disturbing account of the desert landscape of the island of Lanzarote in formal, rhythmic and associative correspondence with the music of Luis de Pablo.

Educational short about verbs.

A "poor" family who can no longer pay their rent. Together with other "poor people", they think about how poor people can help themselves. The only option they see is to rob a bank...

After a general view of the city Ghent, its horizon and roofs, we are confronted with views of streets and houses in one particular district that is threatened with demolition. A poster announces protest actions against the demolition of the Patershol district.

ACI Films takes you to the county fair.

A set of short pure color studies, usually exploring one dominant hue. Most of these works were studies for longer projects. The last four "migraine" studies are rhythmically based around the five-cycle-per-second oscillation pulse of the typical fortification illusions preceding a migraine attack; this onset period, with its visually dynamic effects, is reported to be a quite vibrant and enjoyable state.

Summer of '70 on the Adriatic: fun at the beach, a beauty contest, water skiing, holiday hedonism. A postcard of endless indifference when growing up in Yugoslavia.

A woman who was hitchhiking ends up in the hospital after being raped. She relives the incident in nightmarish slow-motion, questioning her choices.

Film by Ray L. Birdwhistell produced by the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute

Children will delight in this introduction to primary colours and their combinations--an animated film in which little elf-like creatures make all the discoveries. They emerge from three circles painted red, yellow and blue. When they venture into a circle of another colour they find that they, too, change colour. Their every movement and posture is designed to convince and amuse.

Mohamed Aboulouakar’s diploma film from VGIK in Moscow, based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway.