1970 Movies

A sketch of materials (and texts) that were to be used in Nor Wood and Migration, this short film has the freshness of an improvisation.

Created in 1968 by Robert Comings and Ben Van Meter in Bolinas, CA. Original sound & music performed on homemade acoustic instruments. Including a ver...

An intimate account of a thousand kilometer journey on a river in the Northeast of Brazil on a self-made raft carrying a small household including tw...

A short film about a boy and his bird Badbade

One of several experimental films shot in the late '60s and early '70s by the recently deceased computer music pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi, Florence is a...

One of the works assembled in the series Sketches. These early sketches, created not without the irony, examine ways of manipulating the video image....

On a rainy afternoon, exasperated Bessie is fed up with getting soaked opening and closing the garage door.

In this short self-portrait, Ubu Films co-founder Perry mines his archive of family photographs, home videos and exhibited 16mm film to fast-forward,...

In his so-called one-minute films, he raises the most important questions of today's human life in a caricature-like manner, but with deep humanity.

Musical documentary shot in Estonia.

"Unavailable until recently, Corrections is Acconci's first single-channel video. Back to the camera, with only his head and bare shoulders visible, A...

A man is smoking. Something itches him and he scratches it. Then this repeats elsewhere. He starts to scratch himself harder and harder and at differe...

In this experimental film we see people in varying combinations walking and crawling through sand and grass and along the waterfront in a very quick a...

A documentary about the miners' strike in Kiruna, Sweden, 1969.

Colony Kitchen was shot by the Pacific Coast Highway in California. Hiding her camera, Hafif filmed a young man pacing back and forth in a restaurant...

The art and life of noted Tabla player Ustad Alla Rakha

An animated cartoon of drawings by young children, who imagine the motor car of today and of the future.