All Films

Diarios Patagónicos 2

1972 • 11 min • Argentina

DIARIOS PATAGÓNICOS 2 explores Narcisa Hirschs everyday life, travels and friends that reveal their working methods.

Help-Line

1972 • 5 min

Short documentary

At the Cinema

1972 • 9 min • Bulgaria

The Street

1972 • 18 min • Iran

A youth heads to the city for a job, but after no luck, he ends up having to steal.

Cassady in the Backhouse

1972 • 23 min • United States of America

The film was shot on the property of writer Ken Kesey in La Honda, California, in 1965 and depicts Beat Generation figure Neal Cassady high on amphetamines and speaking in a stream of consciousness.

Soil

1972 • 17 min

This work depicts the sculptor Kiuchi Masaru's creative studio and the work without any verbal explanation.

This Is Our Profession

1972 • 26 min • Soviet Union

The film tells about the hard work of glassblowers at the Moscow Factory of electro-vacuum devices.

Rendez-vous Mit Jacques Offenbach

1972 • 31 min • Belgium

Rendez-vous...includes La pipe (1968), La pluie (1969), and Un film de Charles Baudelaire (1970) in its compilation, among others...

Selling Out

1972 • 22 min

Selling Out is a 1972 Canadian short film for cinema and TV directed by Tadeusz Jaworski, and written and produced by Jack Winter. The film is a dramatization of a farmer’s last day on his ancestral farm on Prince Edward Island as he is faced with the Public Auction of his family home and possessions. On the one hand, it is a simple, poignant tale of personal loss, alienation and the displacement of the old at the end of life. On the other, it is a political statement about the loss of Canadian Heritage, land and economy to foreign capital. It was nominated for an Academy Award (Short Subject) in 1972. It was named Best Documentary at the 24th Canadian Film Awards.

Patriotism

1972 • 9 min • United States of America

A short on the meaning of patriotism and how you can get involved.

Square

1972 • 4 min • Poland

Zbigniew Rybczynski's series of pictures to the music of Kazimierz Serocki.

The Shores of Phos: A Fable

1972 • 10 min

Phos equals light, but then I did also want that word within the title which would designate place, as within the nationalities of "the fabulous" - a specific country of the imagination with tangible shores, etc. The film adheres strictly to the ordinary form of the classic fable. - Canyon Cinema

Drug Talk: Some Current Drug Programs

1972 • 22 min • United States of America

Explores the issues junior high and high schools were facing surrounding teen drug use. Looks at several very integrated public schools and programs being developed in them to prevent drug abuse. Includes the police lecture, the ex-addict, the youth organizer, and the "rap room." Anti-drug program organizers seek students' perspectives and knowledge about drugs. Some nice images of 1970s teens looking very stoned.

Concert to All Our Neighbors

1972 • 60 min • Yugoslavia

"Concert to all our neighbors" - music and comedy on new years eve 1972 from Belgrad, Yugoslavia.

Drunken Cherries

1972 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A curious rooster learns the horrors of alcohol addiction. Instructive cartoon-pamphlet about the dangers of drunkenness.

Keep on Turning

1972 • 3 min • France, Netherlands

In Wiertz and Verbeek's kinetic, kaleidoscopic opus Keep on Turning (1974, 3 min, 16mm, sound) cubes convey, rotate and shift in tandem.

Tup Tup

1972 • 10 min • Italy, Yugoslavia

The quick tempo of life in polluted cities makes patients out of people. Neurosis is an everyday occurrence.

And You, Friends, Wherever You Sit…

1972 • 10 min • Soviet Union

One boy had a coherent musical quartet of bunnies that skillfully and beautifully played their instruments. However, a bear, a donkey, a monkey and a goat came, replacing the old members. But will they take the place of previous masters only by force and faux pas? After all, as it turned out they have no necessary skills...

The Inner Eye

1972 • 20 min • India

At the age of 54, Binode Bihari Mukherjee, an accomplished painter, lost his sight following an unsuccessful cataract operation. He continued to create art despite his loss of sight. The documentary explores Binode Bihari’s inner eye that guides his fingers to create art.

A Day More

1972 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

"Dan više" is about a mudbath near the small Serbian town of Bujanovac that is famous for healing illnesses. People cover themselves from head to toe in mud and then float on the water: Vlatko Gilić created a ghostly, surreal scenario, whose everyday quality is concentrated into an allegory of human suffering and quest.

Turning Torso Drawdown

1972 • 11 min • United States of America

“…(a) serialist comparison-contrast of the variations in nine naked male and female torsos.

T H I R

1972 • 43 min • United States of America

T H I R is taken from "Ten Hundred Inch Radii" an intermedia performance of film and music (1972-1975). Filmed with a Beaulieu 16 mm around Keene Valley, New York in the Adirondak Mountains in 1971-1972. T H I R original soundtrack recorded in 1972. T H I R new soundtrack "One Large Rose" (T H I R edit 2015) recorded in 2008. Recorded in Christianskirsche (Hamburg, Deutschland), May 16 and 18, 2008. Final mix at Experimental Intermedia October 13, 2008. One Large Rose edited at Experimental Intermedia, February 1, 2015.

Transformations

1972 • 9 min • United States of America

A coven of witches gather in Vermont in a feminist collective’s transporting short that shakes off patriarchal scrutiny during the women’s ceremony, where they’re free to remake reality before our eyes. TRANSFORMATIONS creates an intoxicating alchemy from the witches’ interactions with nature: an attempt, as Hirschfeld remembers, to “use the act of filmmaking to heighten experience.”

Paper Shoes

1972 • 8 min