All Films

In 1972, Bucher shared Bodyshells, a series of movable, wearable sculptures which are remembered as her first significant body of work, and her first exploration into wearable sculpture.

The people of Teges Village in Bali practiced Kecak Rina, a traditional dance they have never done before. Sardono and his colleagues came to the village as their mentors. The villagers were divided into groups. The atmosphere brings up unexpected emotions among them when the first rehearsal took place.

Created for the first Japanese exhibition dedicated to video art, Video Communication: Do-It-Yourself-Kit, this work documents protests outside the Chisso Corporation headquarters in central Tokyo. Hazardous byproducts from the company’s chemical plants had caused severe mercury poisoning—and, consequently, a neurological disease—in Minamata’s livestock and inhabitants. Nakaya filmed the sit-in with a handheld video camera and installed a battery-powered television monitor on-site, allowing the demonstrators to watch themselves by playing back the recordings of their actions.

Turkmen culture, traditions, rituals, way of life, through a story of the well builders, a highly respected profession, where there are no rivers, most of the country is desert, and underground water is found by the signs of a green stem, the sound of the sand, a light cloud. A successful construction ends up in a mistaken place without water. Then the leaving and sense of loss.

Shepherd Akmurad narrates the story of his helpers, Turkmen sheep dogs, protecting the herd day and night. One dog, Adzhar, saved Akmurad’s life by tearing a snake apart. Then the story of Adzhar’s ancestor who died from longing to see his master after his master died. The unbreakable connection between generations, between the animals and humans.

16mm short by Laura Grisi.

Based on the homonymous story by Andrea Granchi in the form of a parodied biography, the film retraces and uses, on the edge of a marked and sometimes bitter irony, that heterogeneous accumulation of materials, documents, images and objects that represent a life starting from childhood. The key to the work lies in the inversion of the natural relationship of youth-old age, in the paroxysmal and comic-pathetic exorcising of 'passing time' and in the paradox of a reverse 'career' in which, in the name of conventional and deceptive ideals of success and health, the protagonist progressively loses pieces of himself, declines and transforms until the final rhetoric epilogue.

The cosmos in a cabbage.

The film raises the problem of moral development of a child. It explores how the social environment shapes children's moral feelings.

Short by Studio 970/2.

Following unrest on the Falkner housing estate in Liverpool, This Week investigates incidents of racially-motivated violence and tension between communities. Interviews with local residents contain strong language as they relate encounters with skinheads, police discrimination and social deprivation. The events can be seen as a prelude to the Toxteth riots which took place nearly a decade later.

David Loeb Weiss completed a short documentary called To Make a Revolution about the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), a revolutionary Marxist youth group closely allied to the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party.

TI-PRI (The Mud House, 1972) is a poetic homage to subsistance farming in Brittany and at the same time a militant warning against the loss of Breton culture and language. When the film screened in Oberhausen in 1973, resistance against the oppression of minority languages and cultures within centralized France was at its peak. TI-PRI was director Philippe Cassard's first film.

A girl receives a magic ball from outer space. She plays, the ball ricochets around the four walls of the frame. The ball morphs into a balloon and carries her into outer space. A distinctly modernist piece.

On the subject of this film and its title, Pettena comments: “In March 1972, coming out of the studio of a local TV channel in Salt Lake City, after giving a live interview on a program broadcast in the morning, I saw some boxes that contained many small reels of 16 mm film that were being thrown away. I had the idea of putting my hands in and grabbing as many reels as possible, and that is what Idid. Then without checking their content, I joined the filmstrips together and showed them that evening (at the end of a public lecture on my work), presenting the whole thing as one of my films and seeing it myself for the first time.” They were out-of-date promotional films, many of them in two copies, commercial advertisements as well as electoral propaganda. So the screening proved particularly provocative for an audience that had come to attend a “cultured” lecture and found themselves, in an insistent manner, treated as an audience of “advertising skits.”

Short film by Robert Filliou.

A brief history of the various harvesting techniques since wheat has existed.

The ruins of Oradour: there were 672 victims, burned and methodically massacred by the Nazis. In the face of resurgent fascism, it is forbidden to forget.

A vital, physical and spiritual journey of a woman going through a love crisis, set in the port area of ​​Valencia.

The staircase becomes a real prison, which traps the individual.

Short documentary produced by the Department of Cinema and Television of the "Central Única de Trabajadores CUT" (1972), with the objective of promoting the Balnearios Populares, medida N°29 del Programa de Unidad Popular.

In this two conferences about Vietnam, people denounce the violence of the american government. Veterans speak about their experience, the control of the media over the representation of the war and establish a link between what happens in Vietnam and how black people are treated in the United States.

A film about the Skuodas motoball team "Bartuva".