All Films

Under the Rainbow

1972 • 10 min • Canada

A little good will goes a long way--between persons, and between nations. That is the lesson to be learned from this animated film. It begins with a confrontation between a man who grows flowers and a technologist who operates computers. A flower pops up in the computer room; a computer tape appears in the garden. Each man destroys the "foreign object." When they come face to face they discover that understanding is better than distrust, respect better than hostility.

Mukashi Mukashi Momotarou

1972 • 18 min • Japan

Momotaro was born from a peach, raised by his grandfather and grandmother, and grew up to be a strong child. One day, he sets off on a journey to Onigashima Island with a dog, a monkey, and a pheasant as his companions in order to defeat an ogre that has been ravaging the village.

Our Friend Angela Davis

1972 • 26 min • Soviet Union

Documentary about the visit of US civil rights activist and member of the American Communist Party, Angela Davis, with friends Kendra and Franklin Alexander, to the Soviet Union.

Two Good Friends

1972 • 8 min

Two gold diggers and a robber meet in a parodic vision of the Wild West.

The Choice

1972 • 1 min • United States of America

Flipbooks of all black and white Comedy scenes and Slapstick themselves to no sounds.

Fiddler on the Road

1972 • 40 min • Ireland

Tinsmith, storyteller, and traditional fiddler, John Doherty, travels the hills of Donegal. Here he talks to Sean O'Haughey of the Irish Folklore Commission. John Doherty was born into a very musical travelling family in February 1900 in the Ardara area of Co. Donegal as the youngest of 9 children. The film follows John’s travels and explores the Doherty family’s place in the musical traditions of the countryside. John’s parents were Mickey Mór Doherty and Mary McConnell. Mickey Mór Doherty had a musical inheritance of a couple of generations of both Doherty and Sweeney musicians on his father’s side. Also, Mary McConnell was a sister of Alec and Mickey McConnell, who were very well-known travelling tinsmiths and fiddle players in their day.

The Bridge

1972 • 4 min

Crossing an old bridge in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas, the filmmakers come face to face. They walk towards each other, crossing paths until all that remains is the metal structure of the bridge.

Ikiteirutte Subarashii!

1972 • 21 min

A short based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy-tale Town Musicians of Bremen.

Homosexuals

1972 • 23 min • Denmark

With a focus on the everyday life of a gay couple, and featuring interviews with a number of gay people, the film gives an account of the difficulties faced by this minority.

Threshold

1972 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Le Grice no longer simply uses the printer as a reflexive mechanism, but utilises the possibilities of colour-shift and permutation of imagery as the film progresses from simplicity to complexity… With the film’s culmination in representational, photographic imagery, one would anticipate a culminating “richness” of image; yet the insistent evidence of splice bars and the loop and repetition of the short piece of found footage and the conflicting superimposition of filtered loops all reiterate the work which is necessary to decipher that cinematic image. - Deke Dusinberre

Gulls and Buoys

1972 • 6 min

An abstract view of a seacoast landscape, created by mixing original line drawings and rotoscoped imagery traced from live-action footage, presented against a sound track of seaside noises.

Horizons

1972 • 39 min • Egypt

Experimental Film. Documentary reflects the cultural life in modern Egypt.

Le cinéma en deux

1972 • 7 min • France

The Tree of Courage

1972 • 16 min • Japan

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

Russian Melodies

1972 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Stampcafé

1972 • 12 min • France

Benoît Lamy short film

Letters

1972 • 11 min • United States of America

Dorothy Wiley films four letters - a letter from her friend, a letter from worms, a letter from bugs, and a letter from her son. She and Bob and Diane Nelson whistle popular favorite classics for the soundtrack.

Introduction to Humanities

1972 • 2 min

My first year Humanities class at the San Francisco Art Institute steps before the camera and introduces itself one by one. This film is an appropriate complement to NEAR THE BIG CHAKRA and should be shown immediately after.

Black Delta Religion

1972 • 14 min

Rare 8mm footage of black churches in the Mississippi Delta in 1968. Includes footage from rural church services and a full immersion baptism. The audio is only roughly in sync with the picture, but this makes the film even more powerful and authentic. Produced by Center for Southern Folklore by William Ferris and edited in 16mm by Judy Peiser.

Levitation

1972 • 6 min

1972 Experimental film by Ian Hugo (Hugh Parker Guiler) starring Yass Hakashima and Renate Boué of the Yass Hakoshima Movement Theatre. Cinematography: Bob Hanson; Music: David Horowitz

Little Hawk

1972 • 29 min • Soviet Union

El mundo de la mujer

1972 • 16 min • Argentina

Centered on a trade fair of products for women, the work's sarcastic and biting perspective falls on both the men who build that "world" (workers and businessmen) and the women who support them. Through techniques of distancing, mostly of image from sound, the artist developed a poignant reflection on the social debasement of and discrimination against women carried out by products that supposedly exalt and distinguish them.

Glass Houses

1972 • 20 min

This documentary film examines the meanings of the abuse of barbiturates and amphetamines. Filmed in Haight-Ashbury, this film seeks to define the nature of the drugs and widely varying patterns and degrees of abuse. A broad spectrum of people are included in the film - blacks, whites, Chicanos; adults and young people; poor and affluent.

Cross-Fronts

1972 • 25 min

A super-8mm short from Vito Acconci