All Films

In Between

1972 • 13 min

Short vignettes about adolescents who are beginning to assert themselves.

Sporting Ireland

1972 • 25 min • Ireland, United States of America

Tourist promotional film showcasing the sports and outdoor pursuits of Ireland.

Shadow and the Road

1972 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The film consists of two short stories. "Shadow" explores the struggle between good and evil within human character and emphasizes the need for an uncompromising stance against wrongdoing. "The Road" condemns those who embody a petty bourgeois mentality in society.

Faluszéli házak

1972 • 38 min

A film about the romani people of the village Szendrő in Borsod County.

Fountain

1972 • 10 min • Canada

Proving there is always more than meets the eye, a school hallway water fountain’s use and abuse are the subject of this explorative short film

Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

1972 • 11 min • United States of America

“The frame itself, which divides what is present to consciousness from what is absolutely elsewhere, is tempered here by the breath, tremor, heartbeat of the perceiver. People this given space, if you will, with images of your own devising.” – HF

Why Must We Die?

1972 • 29 min • Sweden

Swedish children's program about death by Margareta Strömstedt. The program tries to answer the questions many children think about - what happens when you die? Why do people and animals die? And why is death so difficult to understand?

Prenatal Care

1972 • 10 min • Cuba

Prenatal care and the advice for pregnant woman to enable a safe and healthy birth.

Dokyumento Poruno: Chikan

1972 • 25 min • Japan

Nikkatsu Roman Porno. (short movie)

Wreck Raisers

1972 • 56 min • United Kingdom

Four children save money to buy a boat but are accused of boat stealing. When the boat is wrecked, they have to raise the wreck to prove their innocence.

Trace

1972 • 8 min

Trace, a 16mm film by Andrew Lugg of Hyperventilation performance by Tom Sherman), shot in the fall of 1971, released in 1972.

Larry Rivers

1972 • 28 min

In free-ranging conversations as he works in his studio, Rivers oppositional nature and independent mind are apparent. He reflects on his past painting and its critical reception, and speculates on his place in art history. Like his art, Larry Rivers is the opposite of self-contained. Alive, gregarious, fraught with feeling, he has always been drawn to poetry and to jazz. His own saxophone playing appears to be an extension of the expressive and experimental character found in his paintings, drawings, constructions, and video works. Rivers is shown at work in his New York studio. He examines a series of his Dutch Masters paintings, inspired by the standard cigar-box image which recalls Rembrandt, as well as several of his iconoclastic portraits. Among these are his naked renditions of the late poet and critic Frank O'Hara and the bold double images of his former mother-in-law, Berdie. He died in 2002.

Apparatus Sum

1972 • 3 min

Frampton on Apparatus Sum: "A brief lyric film of death, which brings to equilibrium a single reactive image from a roomful of cadavers."

Professor Balthazar: The Grand Little Taylor

1972 • 10 min • Germany, Yugoslavia

Sylvester is a master tailor. He designs only masterpieces. When his sister Vivian gets unstoppable hiccups, shaking everything around them, Sylvester’s job is in danger. With humour, Professor Balthazar solves this case too and Balthazartown gets a new, singing train engine.

Damon the Mower

1972 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Inspired by an Andrew Marvell poem, George Dunning sketched short phrases of animated movement on index cards, which were then stuck to a table top and filmed. Animation bared to the bone, and still extraordinary.

Weeny Worm or the Fat Innkeeper

1972 • 11 min • United States of America

"I first saw these creatures at the Bodega Bay Marine Biology Lab. I was amazed - I lived on this planet so long not knowing I was sharing it with weenie worms. They only live a few places in the world. Victor had been working with them for several years doing DNA experiments."

Agrippina é Roma - Manhattan

1972 • 23 min • Brazil

In Manhattan and Wall Street's majestic, neoclassical architecture, characters try their luck, ambiguously posted between the mundane and transcendence.

Circles II

1972 • 8 min • United States of America

A dance film that explores new dimensions in color and space. The film develops like a fugue, with dancers (and giant undulating circle) moving through repeated themes and variations; All the while Brown and Olvey's dazzling color and printing effects electrify the viewer.

Symmetricks

1972 • 6 min

Against a black background and a pulsating beat matching white symmetrical geometric flashes around a central orb, white lines are drawn in mirror images vertical to each other. The images created are generally a myriad of faces in silhouette. Those silhouettes however often take on abstract forms in their entirety.

Algiers, Capital of the Revolutionaries

1972 • 45 min

On independence, Algeria had it written into its Constitution that all revolutionary and national freedom movements could claim political asylum. lt says: “The development of Algeria’s socialism is closely connected to the freedom struggle of people in other parts of the world. lt is imperative for any revolutionary movement to support this struggle and it should never become an object of manipulation or blackmail”.

Dreamwood

1972 • 45 min • United States of America

The oneiric quest of a modern argonaut on a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.

To My Family

1972 • 2 min • United States of America

A short film featuring images of his grandfather’s just-demolished shoe-repair shop in 1972

The Land Where You Live

1972 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Oh for the Wings of a Dove

1972 • 29 min • United Kingdom

A portrait of Mrs Khadeeja Begum, a widowed Pakistani mother of two in 1970s Balsall Heath, Birmingham.