Friday A/V Club: Avant-Garde ACLU Ads of the 1970s

In 1974, the New Mexico Civil Liberties Union commissioned eight
public service announcements from Godfrey Reggio, a filmmaker who
would later achieve fame as the director of the arthouse hit

Koyaanisqatsi. The result was a series of mysterious
little movies that mostly refuse to explain themselves. (You’ll
have to wait for ad #6 before a narrator shows up to talk about
what you’ve been watching.) The spots’ theme is the feeling of
being watched and manipulated by some omnipresent force, and they
feel less like traditional PSAs than like fragments from a
psychedelic
’70s conspiracy thriller. Enjoy.

Hat tip: Kate
Crawford. For past editions of the Friday A/V Club, go here.