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Considers the condition of women in continental America. Shows how women in countries such as Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela are objecting to their traditional roles as wives and mothers and are striving for more control over their lives.

Doubletalk is a 1975 short film directed by Alan Beattie. The film follows a young man who picks his girlfriend up at her family home and meets her parents -- and the audience is privy to their private thoughts and impressions. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

In the French countryside it's the day for peasants to kill a big fat pig. The slaughter goes on for a great part of the day as they work to store 140kg worth of meat.

Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of appearance, are Robert Breer, John Terry, Steve Ascher, Richard Leacock, Jon Rubin, Frank Daniel, Ed Emshwiller, Ann McIntosh, Terry Lockhart, Standish Lawder, Jerome Liebling.

One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera and used multiple exposures. They would then be projected in various combinations though usually as a four-screen. Rosa Canina was always show in the bottom right-hand corner

Begins with rocks, tree trucks, plants in glow of light, ends with green and gold forest scene.

There was no Soviet actor who could claim a greater popularity than Raikin. He was allowed the impossible: to be a satirist. Even during the height of government approved Anti-Semitism, Raikin was a figure to be reckoned with. He was known and beloved by all, his razor-sharp wit admired - and feared. In fact, president Putin met his future wife at a Raikin show. The film follows Raikin to his shows, on stage, and backstage, during rehearsals, at rest, and during conversations with his friends, including legendary Soviet jazz singer Leonid Utesov, film director Yuli Raizman, the poet Bella Ahmadullina, and the American film director George Kukor.

An animated parody of television commercials and the television audience. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

An animated version of the Oscar Wilde story about a conceited firework rocket, whose pride hides his downfall in the world.

The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage the viewer to free associate and to fantasize a kind of narrative. - BM

A portrait of legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray while he is working as a film professor at a college in upstate New York.

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood’s headlining concerts at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas 1973.

Ten deliberately untitled films, each separated on the reel by several ft of black leader. #1 begins with blue negative face of child, ends with single centered eye; #2 begins with blowing snow, ends with lamp stand and lights of the city; #3 begins with landscape/sunset thru mist, ends with window sill; #4 begins with green tiled bathroom, ends with golden mirrored image of cameraman; #5 begins with back of airplane seat, ends with horizontal streaks of bold light; #6 begins with brown light thru quartz crystal, ends with candle wick burning and circled by boiling gold flecks; #7 begins with raccoon in rose light, ends with fading face of child; #8 begins with white lamp post, green tree leaves, and window, and ends with flashing window light on brown wall of motel room; #9 begins with rocks, tree trunk and plants in glow of light, ends with green and gold forest scene; #10 begins with flash of scratched "lightning," ends with moving dot, screen fading out.

A filmed essay about the painter Bouts.

The documentary depicts Bowie on tour in Los Angeles, using a mixture of vérité sequences filmed in limousines and hotels, and concert footage. Most of the concert footage was taken from a show at the Los Angeles Universal Amphitheatre on 2 September 1974 (Also featured are excerpts from D.A. Pennebaker's concert film shot at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973). Cracked Actor is notable for being a source for footage of Bowie's ambitious Diamond Dogs tour, and also for showing Bowie's fragile mental state during this period.

A journey behind the shooting on the set of Salò, a backstage by Gideon Bachman, recorded during the realization of the torture scenes, enriched by long interviews with actors.

Little Kati spends her summer at her grandma's. Her playmates are the village boys and the whole countryside - animals, flowers, the wind and stones. Kati conjures up the sun and floats above the fields of flowers and the whole universe. There is no borderline between reality and the magic world. Is it possible to play the same game also at her home in the city?

Kiss live at Midnight special TV show

“It all begins with how you feel on a bridge… You see how other people are busy and how you experience it yourself and so it becomes something about people.” The artist Marian Plug speaks to filmmakers Stansfield/Hooykaas while composing her large and intricate silkscreen “The Bridge.” After filming the many different types of bridges around Amsterdam, they interview workers who clean, paint and repair the bridges. Anchored by a buoyant electronic soundtrack by British composer Delia Derbyshire (known for her groundbreaking work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop), the filmmakers brought Derbyshire to Amsterdam for the shoot, so that they might create ideas together and so that she could experience the rhythms of the city. The film explores different ideas of work, connection and positioning: a bridge means something different to a builder, an architect or someone walking over it.

The New Wave is the seminal compendium of independent video work in the early 1970s. Written and narrated by Brian O'Doherty, this overview of the emerging video field includes examples of guerrilla television and "street" documentaries, early explorations with image-processing and synthesis, and performance video. This historical anthology includes excerpts of tapes by the following video pioneers: Stephen Beck and Warner Jepson, Peter Campus, Douglas Davis, Ed Emshwiller, Bill Etra, Frank Gillette, Don Hallock, Joan Jonas, Richard Serra, Paul Kos, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, Willard Rosenquist, Dan Sandin, James Seawright, Steina Vasulka, TVTV, Stan Vanderbeek and William Wegman.

One of Lotte Reiniger's very last animated silhouette films, issued both in French and English versions.

Get Like You Used To Be, Spare Me A Little Of Your Love, Rhiannon, Let Me Down Again, I'm So Afraid, Oh Well, Green Manalishi (with The Two-Pronged Crown), World Turning, Blue Letter, Hypnotized

J. M. Barrie has an evening with George Bernard Shaw. Later, alone at home, he hears the voice of his dead mother.

Based on a poem by Samuil Marshak about an incredibly absent-minded man from Leningrad.