All Films

Conveyor Belt

1972 • 10 min

This is a film which I keep changing. It's a structural comedy starring people's garbage, shot in the Harpur college snack bar; indigestion yellow. The beginning of thinking and working in a particular way with image-sound/image-silence relationships. –H. K.

En el País de Bella Flor

1972 • 22 min • Colombia

The ruler of the land of Bella Flor promises positive improvements by joining forces with a foreign suspicious robot. Soon, Pico Fino and the inhabitants of Bella Flor realize they've been deceived and a revolution begins to bloom.

All Women Are Equal

1972 • 15 min

All Women Are Equal is a black and white 15- minute documentary filmed in Nottingham England in 1972, about Paula, a male to female transsexual made by veteran lesbian filmmaker Marguerite Paris (1934-2007). This very early and non-exploitative representation of an ordinary well- adjusted transgendered person is historically significant for its treatment of the subject.

Pira

1972 • 15 min • Brazil

A film in Super-8 by Sérgio Péo. Documentary scenes from everyday life and performance gestures are mixed in this fast montage of images produced on the streets of Rio. Phrases written on the asphalt (or extracted from signs and newspapers) punctuate the entire film.

The Most Important Person - Where Does Food Go?

1972 • 5 min

This short employs animation and live action to teach young children about their digestive system.

George & Needles

1972 • 12 min

In the line-up of great Australian realist films of the '70s, this short student film, nominally a documentary, is the most in-your-face and "gritty" realist film you will see. It's powerful and unforgettable. "It's a ground-breaker, venturing into the dark, slovenly lives of a couple of outsiders", said Nigel Buesst.

Fix

1972 • 6 min • Japan

16mm, b&w, silent, 5'00

Refraction

1972 • 4 min

“In “Refraction,’ the camera is set so that the leaves of a large tree fill the frame. Green ordinary leaves which move in their baroque ways under the wind. In a sense it is shocking to put on film such ordinary things, things which could be so easy to dismiss. Yet this undemanding, pleasant image hides something. The image IS of what one hypnotically stares at in forgotten moments, amd from which one wakes, when shapes make themselves up in it. These furtive possibilities confront the delimiting, all-eyes-cinema. The intimate sensation is made to bear on the public circumstances of film, provoking new readings of the moving leaves. As the image presses its quiet offerings on the viewer, a subtle interaction occurs between changes of speed in the camera and wind as they, in different ways, accentuate or diminish the speed of the fluttering leaves."

The Umbrella

1972 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

Ogg is a dreamer, a bizarre, unconventional being who enjoys playing and constantly makes up new situations. His true friend Eva is in vain trying to explain the real purpose of the object he is having fun with. In Ogg’s hands the umbrella will remain practically unused, but it will nevertheless turn into an extremely inspiring toy.

Moment

1972 • 23 min • United States of America

In a 2.5 minute sequence, a simple series of ordinary gas station events is seen intermittently through the opening display. This sequence is then divided and rearranged 7 times in reverse order. Each time the divisions are greater in number (smaller in size) until finally the film appears to move smoothly backwards, divided by a single frame. The inspiration for the film as well as the title is derived from information theory where a 'moment' is defined as the shortest duration at which no distinction can be made between units of information. This work is a demonstration and exploration of the line between human information and machine information. It dynamically reveals film's basic unit, the frame.

Earth Point Project—Mirror

1972 • 10 min • Japan

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

Le Chant des signes

1972 • 17 min • France

Le Chant des signes by Yves-André Delubac makes an image reappear and multiply from the very word, but with difficulty and after long black shots. This short film, which makes maximum use of the black screen, could pass for an experimental film, but it is not experimental in the sense that we give it. It is a "theoretical and rhetorical work" on the difficult birth of an image that extracts itself from the black. Nothing to do with Kubelka or Frampton. It's a film that comes directly from what one could read in Cinéthique or Cahiers at the time. This appearance of the image is like a Caesarean section from the text.

More Warmth Among Human Beings

1972 • 1 min

Short film depicting a man and woman smoking.

Twilight’s Play with a Mirror

1972 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A bright avant-garde message of amateur cinema about society, the individual, the search for oneself and one's time.

Cinca

1972 • 29 min • Yugoslavia

We begin with a fragmented portrait of Činča, between the stories she tells and the thoughts of those surrounding her. In The Head, a girl is confronted with the possibility of dying. Intermezzo focusses on the moments of abstraction amid the hustle and bustle of a city. In Our Stock Exchange, unemployed people seek work. Second Floor, Basement shows us a hospital where only two floors separate birth and death.

About The Piglet Who Knew How To Play Checkers

1972 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A funny story about a smart little pig who played checkers very well. He beat the donkey and the horse, and then went to look for the strongest in the forest, which, of course, was the wolf. This is how their confrontation began, because the wolf did not want to gain fame among the forest dwellers, who turned out to be weaker than the pigs in checkers...

Chair Film

1972 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Chair Film by Gill Eatherley is a three-screen presentation of an optically-printed filmic rumination on that mundane, brilliant invention, the chair.

National Geographic

1972 • 11 min • Australia

Michael Lee uses a 16mm Bolex camera to explore various zooming and framing techniques to photograph images from National Geographic Magazines. The silent film was made in 1972.

Some Plates

1972 • 3 min • United States of America

16mm film, color, sound.

99

1972 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary about Ilija Dzhadzhev, Macedonian musician who plays Hawaiian guitar.

Une histoire d'autrefois

1972 • 15 min

By the fireside, a grandmother tells her grandson the story of the poet who lived in the Château de Rochechouart...

Jack in the Fox

1972 • 7 min • United States of America

Claymation and doll based short film depicting the passionate, libidinal exploits of a variety of dolls, small claymation people, claymation Mickey Mouse, claymation skeleton, and others, to the accompaniment of cheerful jazz flute musics.

Teacher

1972 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Allanyaz Utanyazov, in Nukus, the capital of Karakalpakya, breadwinner of the family since he was 12, and now harvests corn, teaches children English, and builds houses in the village, depending on the season. Repeating images: the sun rising, the ship sailing, the house being built. A Karakalpak saying: “If you want to sail, build a ship of good deeds” – like the protagonist does.

Elements

1972 • 11 min

Beginning with black, the potential, adding only the basis of the film phenomenon, the film ritual, the concepts of causation, and primordial semiotics, the work is an annunciation. –L. H.