All Films

Pink Freud

1972 • 9 min • Argentina

Algérie Couleurs

1972 • 16 min • Algeria, France

"Film shot on the 'bench' from hundreds of photos, buildings, streets, towns unusually colorful for a North Mediterranean eye. The editing was composed on a score because the shots are generally very short, up to two images, and they do not follow each other "cut" or crossed but in "racket". The progression of shots varies from faintly colored recognizable to strongly colored unrecognizable. The soundtrack is composed of Arabic music that gradually turns into free-jazz. » Mannheim Festival, 1973

Bowery Men's Shelter

1972 • 11 min • United States of America

A brief look at New York City's Bowery Men's Shelter in 1972, which provides food, and housing and clothing services, to destitute men in the neighborhood.

Nail

1972 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Four short tales with regular nails as main characters.

Acaba de Chegar ao Brasil o Bello Poeta Francez Blaise Cendrars

1972 • 47 min • Brazil

Reconstitution, through photos, films and texts, of the arrival in Brazil of the poet Cendrars, in 1924. Tributes received, visits throughout the country and the desire to make a "100 percent Brazilian film". Testimonials from figures who lived with the intensity of the core of modernist artists: Tarcila do Amaral, Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade and Di Cavalcanti. Scenes from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, São Martinho Farm and the 1924 Revolution. Scenes from the movie LES HEURES CHAUDES DE MONTPARNASSE. Reference to Aleijadinho and Febrônio Indio do Brasil.

Patagonia

1972 • 9 min • Argentina

Patagonia reflects Hirsch's close connection to Argentina’s natural world and the people around her.

Lur-da-Lur

1972 • 8 min • Soviet Union

About the love of a poor Kurdish shepherd and the daughter of a rich man and about their death.

The New Adventures of Baron Munchausen

1972 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Munchausen is scheduled to meet with young readers at the Pioneer Palace. But his failure to follow the rules of the road will lead to the most incredible adventures, which the famous baron will tell you about truthfully.

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

1972 • 19 min • Portugal

“I think my film represents above all the proof to those who want to understand and accept it, that poetry can’t be filmed, that it is useless to try” - João César Monteiro

Game

1972 • 40 min

One of the early documentaries that Child made before turning towards the experimental cinema, and whose footage she repurposed for her later work, MUTINY (1982-83), GAME is a portrait of a prostitute and pimp in downtown Manhattan.

Incantation

1972 • 8 min

Using rapidly edited, superimposed images of plants, trees, water, the sun and the moon, Incantation weaves a dynamic tapestry of organic forms and textures, combining its images with a fierce rhythmic intensity so as to suggest a kind of natural force. The film was shot entirely in the camera, in 8mm, according to a pre-arranged, music-like score, and then blown up to 16mm using a home-made optical printer. The accompanying sound track, a chant taken from Islamic liturgy, is breath-based and brings the film into the form of a prayer. Written by re:voir. - Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Sludge Grubs

1972 • 7 min • United States of America

8mm/Super 8 early silent short films by the Chiodo Brothers, inspired by Ray Harryhausen, included on the 4K remastered Arrow Video Blu-ray of ‘Killer Klowns from Outer Space’

Sem Título I

1972 • 23 min

The Pretender

1972 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A little rabbit constantly pretends to be sick to exploit the kindness of a bear, but his trick is eventually uncovered, revealing a fable about trust and sincerity

La segunda primera matriz

1972 • 15 min • Mexico

La segunda primera matriz (The second first womb) told visually and poetically a story about humanity, from its origin to the Space Race, as a new frontier. In a first section, amongst shots of clouds, swirls and darkness, it referred to the origin of life. (...) After the launch of a rocket and images about exploring space, the film shows a woman naked in the country. The camera makes a slow tilt down of her body. When passing by the pubis, the camera follows a drop of blood that slides by the leg. When it reaches the floor, a parade of miniature war tanks appear, red, like the ones previously shown. The film ends with a sign that says 'But you can also give birth to nothing'.

Teaching a Plant the Alphabet

1972 • 18 min

“[A] rather perverse exercise in futility,” this tape documents Baldessari’s response to Joseph Beuys’s influential performance, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare. Baldessari’s approach here is characteristically subtle and ironic, involving ordinary objects and a seemingly banal task. The philosophical underpinnings of Baldessari’s exercise are structuralist theories about the opaque and artificial nature of language as a system of signs. Using a common houseplant to represent nature and instructional flashcards to represent the alphabet, Baldessari ironically illustrates this theorem. That language is the structuring element of the tape—the length of the tape was determined by the number of letters in the alphabet—enforces the connection between language and art, a recurrent theme in Baldessari’s work.

Throbs

1972 • 7 min • United States of America

Coming in the wake of a whole movement of wild, ecstatic, psychedelic films loaded with unchecked energy and abandon, Throbs demonstrates a remarkable subtlety and restraint, as Fred explores variations in loops and cycles, weaving unlikely combinations of found and original footage to envelop us in a free associative dream world. —Mark Toscano. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

In questo modo vorrei fare l'autobiografia

1972 • 1 min

Short by Studio 970/2.

Instalment

1972 • 7 min • Denmark

What happens when Adam and Eve have borrowed money for everything they own and have? Then they end up in the hamster wheel, like everyone else, who consumes beyond their means. Humorous fable about the blessings of the installment system - and its consequences. (DFI)

Rape

1972 • 30 min • United States of America

Rape, a 30-minute documentary on the crime of rape. First broadcast on CBS in Los Angeles, December, 1972. It is considered the first major television program on the crime of rape.

...And Then It Happened

1972 • 18 min • United States of America

The film "And Then It Happened" follows two school bus drivers known for their safety records. During routine rides, a series of distractions and misbehaviors from the students lead to a disastrous accident, injuring several classmates. The narrative explores the challenges of managing rowdy children on a bus and the consequences of their actions, highlighting the importance of safety and the hidden struggles of the students.

Tlaxiaco, tierra de nubes

1972 • 27 min

The market town of Tlaxiaco dresses in multicolors when its inhabitants gather to sell their merchandise and thus obtain a resource to subsist.

The Scarlet Flower

1972 • 28 min • Soviet Union

A short version of S.T. Aksakov's fairy tale.

Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control

1972 • 29 min • United States of America

“A ‘baroque’ summary of film’s historic internal conflicts, chiefly those between narrative and metric/plastic montage; and between illusionist and graphic space.” – HF