1971 Movies

As the Carter Family sings "Wildwood Flower" an elaborate embroidered border is created around an image of a nude woman riding slowly toward the camer...

This early performance tape is an example of what Acconci has termed his "quasi-ESP exercises," in which he explores mental concentration and intuitio...

30 minutes of images with music by Anthony Moore

In these three exercises, Acconci plays with trans-gender illusions, manipulating and altering his own body parts to suggest sexual transformations.

Based on fairy tales about an evil stepmother, a lazy daughter and a hardworking stepdaughter.

Edited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

"I made this film when I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, after graduating from Smith a semester early. It was my reaction to California. [The...

2 episodes of CBS Reports from 1971: POWs Pawns of War Pts 1 and 2. "Summary: CBS documentary on treatment of US prisoners in North Vietnam and Viet...

A public information film about the dangers of intestinal parasites, hosted by Ro-Revus the Frog and Nutty the Squirrel. Produced by the Malnutrition...

Full of the youthful energy of the 1970s, this experimental work is an essential entry in the counterculture canon and features a score by Egyptian co...

Based on legendary Enrique Blanco from Dominican Republic, a military defector chased by Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship.

A mapping of an image of the linear passage of '16mm film frames' and 'emulsion scratches' onto actual 16mm film strip (the unperceived film 'print')/...

A section from ROLLS: 1971, which I feel stands well on its own. The continuous field of falling snow appears to break into three planes or zones of d...

An early study of light, form, movement.

For the exhibition Twenty-Six by Twenty Six at the Vassar College of Art Gallery in Poughkeepsie, New York, Matta-Clark created a performance inspired...

The Tuna Estudiantil de Cayey interprets several melodies of popular Christmas music. Special emphasis of typical musical instruments such as guitar,...

When a scientist finds a cocoon a woman emerges from it. She is being chased by two faceless monsters who are collecting specimens for a museum.