All Films

Terra 0/0

1972 • 13 min • Italy

"I repeat the matter of the plane etc. (Referring to the 1971 film Terra): I started here to play swinging themes, like from an airplane flying unbalanced, the effect is amazing, they said."

Baphomet

1972 • 14 min

Experimental short film from Robert de Laroche

Growing Up in Prison

1972 • 51 min • United States of America

In 1958, Charles Starkweather went on a murder rampage that left 11 people dead. He took with him his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend Caril Fugate. When he was captured, the big question became whether he had kidnapped Caril, or she was his accomplice. The jury believed she had helped Charlie, and sentenced her to life in prison. This documentary was made after she had been in prison for more than a decade.

Rencontre avec Paul Delvaux

1972 • 18 min

Interview with Belgian painter Paul Delvaux, an international artist and a sure bet on the art market. In this interview, Paul Delvaux talks about his origins and career. He talks about his painting, in which nothing is ever taken for granted, and the eroticism that emanates from his canvases. He talks about his fear of the blank canvas and his taste for antiquity, passed on to him by one of his Latin and Greek teachers. With great modesty, he recalls his appointments to the Picard Academy and the Grande Académie, his claim to fame. The camera also follows him to the opening of his exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, attended by Princess Paola. Paul-Henri Spaak, former Belgian Prime Minister and fellow student of Paul Delvaux's at the Athénée de St Gilles, recalls some of his memories and the impression Paul Delvaux left on him: "He was already a little in his dream, not on the same plane as us".

Scream (Vol. 2)

1972 • 13 min • Iran

In a satirical collage of Iranian cinema films, the confrontation between FilmFarsi filmmakers and Iranian art cinema ends with the arrest and exile of young amateur filmmakers from professional cinema

King of the Hill

1972 • 13 min

Wherever I am, whatever I do, there is only a me; never a you. Or if there's a you who exists at all, you only exist to slide down and fall. Then I, the king, will move in for the kill and thrust you down from the top of my hill

The King

1972 • 52 min • United States of America

Writes Antin: "Applying hair to her face, the artist moves through a variety of bearded faces seeking the identity most appropriate to her facial structure and satisfying to her aspirations." Antin transforms herself into a man and adopts one of her recurring performance personae, "The King."

Ballet Adagio

1972 • 10 min • Canada

A slow-motion study by Norman McLaren of the pas-de-deux adagio, one of the most exacting and difficult dances of classical ballet. A ballet originally choreographed by the Russian ballet master Asaf Messerer is performed for this film by the internationally known Canadian pair, David and Anna Marie Holmes, to the music of Albinoni’s Adagio. A film to heighten the aesthetic appreciation of classical ballet and to afford observation of the technique and mechanics of the adagio movements.

The Women's Happy Time Commune

1972 • 47 min

The first all-women Western. Set in a fictional 1850, the movie is about one woman's attempt to recruit others for an all-women commune. "..a Warholesque frolic" -- Daphne Davis, Women's Wear Daily " Some great comments about women, men and the pros and cons of living with either." -- Women & Film: International Festival, 1973 "A group of wonderfully idiosyncratic women improvise characters close to their real lives and fantasy lives. Funny, ambling, off-handedly lyrical, the film....is above all excellent for sharing warm feelings in a group." -- Ms. magazine

Interrupted Line

1972 • 9 min

"The middle line marking of the road is filmed through the windscreen of a moving car simultaneously with its own reflection in the driving mirror. The repeated interruptions of the space/time line are as big as a car. The car as a connecting link in time. The cinema as interruption of normal time flow.” – VALIE EXPORT

Maritza

1972 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Based on a Moldavian fairy tale.

Why Doesn't Cathy Eat Breakfast?

1972 • 5 min • United States of America

A narrator tries to figure out “what’s the deal with Cathy?” (but she’s a riddle no one can solve).

The Great Search: Man's Need for Power and Energy

1972 • 13 min • United States of America

Created by Walt Disney Educational and distributed to Schools. Last short released during Roy Disney's lifetime

Murnau

1972 • 3 min

Evocation of the filmmaker, defined by João Bérnard da Costa as "a film about Murnau's ghost on the canvas, prolonging to paroxysm the game of doubles and the game of spectres".

London Me Bharat

1972 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Shot in black and white, London Me Bharat—one of the first Hindi-language films made in Britain—presents a distinctive view of 70s London. After an opening in which an Indian classical score renders familiar landmarks unfamiliar, the film abandons tourist London to explore Southall, home to one of Britain's largest Indian communities. It's an insightful take on an increasingly multicultural city—at a time when, the commentary tells us, the capital's Indian population numbered some 150,000, with another 300,000 elsewhere in the UK.

An Aquarium In Action

1972 • 11 min

Schoolchildren learn how different types of fish play different roles in an aquarium.

True Love

1972 • 9 min

Standard 8 colour film, refilmed and slowed down, edited into a formal work on 16mm film, of camera pan sequences of a woman lying naked. Almost abstract images slide from darkness to light and back, repeated, repeated, in a pattern of repetitions that at some point reverses back to the start again. A small visual love poem, but abstract.

Abort

1972 • 43 min • Norway

A young girl becomes pregnant. She decides to get an abortion, and the viewers gets to observe her until the application for abortion is being processed.

Mudflats Living

1972 • 29 min • Canada

In this short documentary from the 70s, we get a glimpse of life inside an artistic community in the mudflats area of North Vancouver. An anti-establishment group, they live as squatters, rejecting drugs while practicing a philosophy of love for the universe. They also reject the values of mainstream society, as embodied by the mayor of North Vancouver, who wants to turn their “home” into a shopping centre.

Hinterland Who's Who: Blue Jay

1972 • 1 min • Canada

A short public service announcement of the blue jay.

Dog License

1972 • 1 min

One dog eats another dog. Another dog eats that one, etc

Daylight

1972 • 22 min

This film is my bridge from filmpainting to live-action filmmaking. A grant from a former teacher, through the National Counsel of Churches, enabled me to purchase camera, tape recorder, and editing equipment. DAYLIGHT combines filmpainting and live-action techniques. It took two years to make and starts with the words: "And so the journey ends." Although some people at the time called it a very moving film, I haven't looked at it in 20 years.

La Violencia - Gewalt in Guatemala

1972 • 44 min • Germany

Getting Off on the Right Foot

1972 • 26 min

GETTING OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT presented by the SAFETY AND COURTESY DEPARTMENT OF UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD