1970 Movies

A film about the legendary Estonian choir director and the soul of song festivals Gustav Ernesaks.

A film by J. & O. Duran.

Radi The Judge

Kathak is a classical dance from Northern India. Both Hindu and Muslim rulers patronized this dance form giving it the status of a court entertainment...

The film observes and records the people travelling, adding to this very simple but effective visual set a pure (and magic) pot pourri of designed and...

The first of Robert Polidori's completed moving-image works – which was presented at the Jewish Museum in a Film-Makers’ Cinematheque program on May 2...

Among the Yoruba of Western Nigeria and Dahomey the Gelede cult honours the earth spirits, the ancestors and especially the Great Mother. The festival...

"A disk of wax soaked with lighter fluid is placed on one end of the balanced plywood. I run toward and Jump on the other end, catapulting the wax ove...

A boy called the Pygmy escapes to the park after failures at school. There he meets two hooligans who persuade him to break into his car.

A father takes his son to a truly magical toy store.

A study of life on remote Nukumanu Atoll, a Polynesian outlier of Papua New Guinea. Traditional culture has survived, but over-population and extensiv...

A sadean "huit clos". Originally inspired by Octave Mirbeau's Garden of Torture. A banquet organized by a lord (Hervé de Luze) and his companion (Anne...

Shots of a street filmed from a swing. An additional shutter has been mounted in front of the camera, creating a pulsating flicker effect. This causes...

The building of a giant open-cut copper mine on the island of Bougainville brought profound change to local landowners. Despite royalties, training pr...

This short film captures the beauty of a process that has persisted since the Stone Age. Sharing one of the recurrent stylistic motifs of the Georgian...