All Films

Wind

1972 • 9 min

A child's first discovery of wind--the silent, invisible something that tickles his fancy, ruffles his hair, ripples the grass around him--portrayed here in winsome animated drawings. But the artist also shows the elemental force that carries all before it. Without words but with sound effects, this is a film of universal appeal.

The New Embodied Sign Language

1972 • 56 min • Germany

A series of six, roughly ten minute body art videos - selected from an original twelve - produced by Friederike Pezold between 1973 and 1977, and originally shown as an installation in 1977. Each video features a part of Pezold's body up close in black-and-white, slowly moved and molded over the runtime.

Nosotros en el Cuyaguateje

1972 • 9 min • Cuba

A 1972 Spanish language documentary written and directed by Nicolas Guillen Landrian.

Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

A simple home movie of a cat is reprocessed through a 'Zip-a-tone' dot pattern making a complex of layers. In combination with freeze frames, positive and negative, and color motion, this work attempts to visually construct a system of overlays like those in Baroque musical composition.

Yamakagashi

1972 • 5 min • Japan

The interactions of troops and prostitutes near the Naval Air Facility Atsugi (Kanagawa Prefecture), animated from a child’s perspective. Aihara’s works of this period often contain a documentary view of Japanese society at the time of his childhood.

Sans titre 1

1972 • 1 min • France

Powdered White Wings

1972 • 8 min • Japan

An upbeat comical animated collage telling the story of a man attempting to fly with artificial wings.

Just Awful

1972 • 8 min

A boy injures himself at school and feels... just awful, until the school nurse renders first aid.

Murer rundt fengslet

1972 • 12 min • Norway

A short film about the prison system and the incarcerated, seen from the inside as well as from the outside. Norwegian director Anja Breien's short is a response to the headlines of its time.

River Film

1972 • 12 min • United States of America

Landscape for Fire

1972 • 7 min

For Landscape for Fire, Anthony McCall and members of the British artist collaborative Exit followed McCall’s pre-determined score to torch containers of flammable material across a field. McCall describes it: "Over a three-year period, I did a number of these sculptural performances in landscape. Fire was the medium. The performances were based on a square grid defined by 36 small fires (6 x 6). The pieces, which usually took place at dusk, had a systematic, slowly changing structure." The work brought the grid — a conceptual focus for many artists in the 1970s and after — into a natural landscape, merging it with the vagaries of outdoor space and fire.

Sunshine Singapore

1972 • 7 min • Singapore

"Sunshine Singapore pairs lurid, dream-like visuals of 1970s Singapore with music which leads the viewer through a variety of moods – oscillating between the languid and exotic, to the unfailingly upbeat – embodying the contradictions facing a nation on the cusp of modernity. In a departure from the detached quality of black-and-white archival footage, Gour offers a hopeful imagination of Singapore then and showcases his playful infatuation with its urban environment. A 4K restoration of Sunshine Singapore was made possible using the surviving 16mm film print preserved by the Asian Film Archive and restored by Cineric Inc. in 2018." (Asian Film Archive)

Partridge

1972 • 2 min • Canada

François Néwashish was the only one in his family from the Atikamekw community of Manawan not to go to residential school. He recollects a story of hunting with his father and how the spirit of the partridge protects children.

The Canoe

1972 • 5 min • Canada

Utilizing engineering ingenuity that is centuries old, Atikamekw elders Agatha and Cézar Néwashish build a small-scale version of a birch-bark canoe. With their expert hands, a stunning work of art is created.

Hinterland Who's Who: Robin

1972 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the robin.

Hinterland Who's Who: Grizzly

1972 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the grizzly bear.

Hinterland Who's Who: Wolf

1972 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the wolf.

Seagrams Nightmare

1972 • 52 min

An odd comedy skit/salespitch for Seven Crown liquor for bar owners.

Coal Confession

1972 • 3 min • United States of America

Addressing the camera, Segalove confesses to plagarizing her 5th grade report, The Story of Coal.

The Journey

1972 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

The camera pans as a woman goes up a stylish modernist lift.

My Village, A Village Among Others

1972 • 17 min • Tunisia

The story of a village located in southern Tunisia suffering from emigration in the 70s'. This film depicts the wide ranged consequences emigration has on the land and lives of the last remaining members of this village.

Document

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

Two disembodied male colleagues direct Lynda Benglis, who sits between a monitor and a camera lens loudly exclaiming her vision for the video we’re watching. Playing with the idea of originality and how the reproduction of images troubles fine art categories, Benglis affixes a double portrait of herself to the monitor screen and draws moustaches on both likenesses. Document ends with Benglis writing the video’s title and “copyright, Dec. 1972” directly on the monitor underneath the photograph, validating this video accomplishment as an original artwork.

Irvington To New York

1972 • 4 min

"Images seen from a train are transformed into a multi-layered visual experience. In quick flashes and single frames, the film builds momentum as it concentrates on the texture of landscape, towns and industry along the Hudson River. Time becomes compressed equalizing past, present and future images into a richly saturated montage. The sound of the train magnifies the intensity of a visual onslaught." - RS

On

1972 • 5 min

"Sexuality as a trip. Superimposed images of Chinese restaurant signs, store fronts and city lights over the intense coupling of an involved pair of lovers. A sexual fantasy with humor as the juxtaposition of the commercial message is parodied." -RS