1970 Movies

A self-criticism, self-analysis in which Macdonald struggles with his own status as a self-declared “armchair radical.” Wondering what real effect mak...

An experimental pornographic film about a couple having sex with a psychedelic theme.

In Düsseldorf-based filmmaker Lutz Mommartz’s Das Atem des Schafes (The Breath of the Sheep, 1970) we see Scotland as an outsider. Recorded on a trip...

The thousand-year history of yoga.

Indianist Orlando Villas Boas goes deep into the jungle to try and make contact with the elusive Kreen-Akrore tribe, who have slaughtered everybody th...

The documentary tells the history and tradition of frevo in the state of Pernambuco.

This classic BP archive film follows Malcolm Davis, a professional Motocross rider, as he travels to across Europe during the season and it's a great...

Panola’s life was a performance. He was always “on the set.” Wino, tree pruner, possible police informant, philosopher, “the most dangerous X that eve...

The ultimate Walt Disney dog marking time. The bigger the screen the better. Dream machine and time machine.

Rare footage of a September 1970 rally honouring the late Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. One of the...

In conversation with Carol Vontobel (behind the camera) and Nancy Cain, Mary Curtis Ratcliff describes getting her first legal abortion soon after the...

On 26 Aug 1970, 10,000 women marched down New York's Fifth Avenue to mark the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment granting women the...

experimental short film

experimental short film

“I now knew that I'd found a style to interpret an emotional event filmicly. The unabating atrocities of the Vietnam War, the growing protest movement...

The viewer needs to make up their own mind about what they are looking at -- Bataillesque porn or a woman in a summer dress negotiating a barbed wire...

Animation of Marcel B.'s signature

Lowell Bodger, 16mm, silent, black & white, date unknown.