All Films

Love

1972 • 24 min • Yugoslavia

On many working sites where workers spend years away from their families, every visit is an event. A husband climbs down from a potentially fatal construction site to meet his wife for lunch.

Triangles

1972 • 3 min

Abstract animation punctuated by found footage, cut to the song White Light / White Heat by The Velvet Underground.

Our Cultural Heritage

1972 • 19 min • Iran

Aslani takes us on a mesmerizing journey through Iran’s archaeological sites of Chogha Zanbil, Kerman, Damghan, Yazd, and Kerman, narrating the tale of the Sufi mystic Daghoughi through a 13th-century poem by Rumi. The Pahlavi Ministry of Culture, expecting a far more conventional documentary, kept the film from being shown. It was only in 2024, when Aslani set out to digitize the film, that he discovered two reels had been lost. MoMA presents the world-premiere of Aslani’s re-edited version, which seeks to recapture the meditative flow of his original work despite its missing sequences.

The Flim Flam Man

1972 • 29 min

The Stews shun Mulligan when he refuses to follow the direction of a fad diet promoter. Mulligan is ultimately proven correct, but not without some anguish on his part.

Neuron

1972 • 5 min

Abstract patterns are animated to explore the optical effects of filmic colour and geometry.

Trabalhadores Rurais

1972 • 7 min • Brazil

El Indio Figueredo

1972 • 12 min • Venezuela

A musical documentary on Ignacio "Indio" Figueredo the greatest popular harp player and composer from the Venezuelan plains.

Cube Transformation Study

1972 • 1 min

Short study of a cube transforming to random points and back.

Jornalismo e Independência

1972 • 12 min • Brazil

Beyond Kicks

1972 • 28 min • Canada

In the early 1970s, a group of young volunteers, the Free Youth Clinic of Winnipeg, operated a "crisis bus" to rescue young people experiencing bad drug trips, usually from LSD.

Rocío y los detonadores

1972 • 56 min • Spain

'Rocío y los detonadores' is a television musical that includes a fictional script with musical and dance performances. Directed and written by Fernando García Tola, it is an eclectic, bizarre and unusual work that, with Rocío Jurado interpreting herself, portrays in detail many notable points of the province of Granada and mainly its capital. In 'Rocío y los detonadores', Rocío Jurado is a famous singer whom two rival gangs want to kidnap. These bands will steal the artist from each other while they dance to the songs that she is singing through the streets of Granada.

Rate of Change

1972 • 18 min • United States of America

This film has no literal subject, no frames, only slow continuously shifting colours, cycling around the perimeter of the spectrum. The changes are so slow as to be unseen, yet they alter our perception of colour. Part of a trilogy (Acts of Light), which develops a study of pure colour, based on the notion that film is essentially change and not motion.

Pat O'Neill

1972 • 29 min

Documents the life and works of filmmaker Pat O'Neill, showing the making of a select group of films and discussion of these films by O'Neill.

Hot Nasty

1972 • 14 min

Hot Nasty is a humorous documentary short set entirely inside a Chicago massage parlor called Big Bertha’s. The film features interviews with the women who work there, openly sharing funny stories about how they got into the business, dealing with different patrons, and so on.

He Left on a Bright, Sunny Day

1972 • 12 min • Poland

Every year, on June 13, for the past thirty-two years, the villagers have gathered to remember one of their neighbors who left his home on that day in 1939 and never returned. His nearest and dearest did not receive information about his death.

The Computer Generation

1972 • 30 min

Stan VanDerBeek, experimental filmmaker at work with friend and computer expert Wade Shaw, at the sophisticated new (1972) computer at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and discussing the inevitable interaction of computers with artistic creativity. Clips from several VanDerBeek films.

America, America

1972 • 20 min • Sweden

A song sets the tone, followed by an animated collage in which Super 8-film, photographs, drawings, slides, detritus and fragments from music and popular culture are used and processed. A mobileand intense portrayal of a changing country, America, America was Åsa Sjöström’s exam film at Royal College of Art in London in 1972. (Filmform)

Diurnal Music

1972 • 10 min • Bulgaria

A child plays with flowers, butterflies and birds. Suddenly a huge man dressed in black appears. He begins to teach the child a lesson about plant and animal species. The teacher has many hands, each holding a pointer and killing all the beautiful species he talks about.

The Little Mole as a Painter

1972 • 11 min • Czechoslovakia

The twelfth episode of the famous children cartoons about little Mole. In this one Mole finds a set of colors, paints the fur and feathers of all animals and together they frighten a bad fox so that he runs away.

The Nightingale

1972 • 22 min • Japan

A stop-motion adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale.

Doctor Chieko no sei to ai no series: Ai no karute

1972 • 28 min • Japan

Short pinku, distributed by Nikkatsu in 1972.

Let The Summer Pass

1972 • 10 min • Romania

A public service announcement condemning the ominous obstacle of social parasitism and delinquency amongst wayward youth unwilling to contribute to Romania’s socialist advancement.

Igaku hakase Matsutsukubo Kôhei no iigaku kôza 3: Kaikon

1972 • 42 min • Japan

Short pinku

Conserving Our Environment: Use and Reuse

1972 • 13 min • United States of America

A 1970s educational film about the environment and conservation.