All Films

A Meeting in Department IV F

1972 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

A particular method applied in Yugoslavia in group therapy for alcoholics served as basis for this film.

Spirits of the Polar Night

1972 • 31 min

A documentary on the Northern and Southern Lights. Containing numerous personal accounts of the aurora and lengthy film footage of the phenomenon.

Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization

1972 • 54 min • United Kingdom

Nirad C. Chaudhuri expounds his views on culture, history, religion and society from a comparative perspective.

It Ain't City Music

1972 • 15 min

A series of interviews with and performances by the attendees and musicians at the Warrenton, Virgina country music festival in 1972.

The Dandruff of Metals

1972 • 2 min • Sweden

1972 short film by Håkan Dahlström.

Who Ho Rays No. 1

1972 • 8 min

"The shapes of sound filmed from a computer system that reproduces analog patterns from sounds. This pioneer work in animated computer mandalas is a lyrical, abstract song with analog rhythms."

Juárez

1972 • 13 min • Mexico

Animated biopic of mexican president Benito Juárez.

Scape-Mates

1972 • 29 min • United States of America

In one of his first experiments in video, Emshwiller creates an electronic landscape of both abstract and figurative elements, where colorized dancers are chroma-keyed into a mutable, computer-animated environment. Working with the "Scan-i-mate," an early analog video synthesizer, Emshwiller choreographs an architectural, illusory video space, in which frames proliferate within frames, disembodied heads and hands move within a collage of animated forms, and the dancers and their environment are subjected to constant transformations through image processing. With its witty interplay of the "real" and the "unreal" in an electronically rendered videospace, and the skillful manipulation and articulation of a sculptural illusion of three-dimensionality, Scape-mates introduced a new vocabulary of video image-making.

Rolling Stones Super 8 Footage

1972 • 10 min

Invited to shoot the cover for their 1972 album Exile on Main St., Robert Frank developed a relationship with the Rolling Stones that extended beyond Cocksucker Blues to include this Super 8 short, a jittery montage of the band slumming on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles and gadding about in Mick Jagger’s rented Bel-Air mansion that Frank wryly contrasted with images of poor Black street buskers on the Bowery. Graphic designer John Van Hamersveld ended up using still images and film strips from the Super 8 footage to create collages for the album’s back cover and inner sleeves; the original material is on view in the exhibition Life Dances On. — Museum of Modern Art

Le Château de Pointilly

1972 • 38 min • France

A young woman escapes her father's house and goes to live in the city. There, she realises her father may still be controlling her life through the people she meets.

Die Brücke: The Birth of Modern Art in Germany

1972 • 24 min • Germany

This movement marks the beginning of modern art in Germany. It is the German equivalent of French Fauvism, from which it draws its main inspiration, but it carries an Expressionist and social emphasis that is characteristic of Nordic 'angst.' The artists of Die Brucke were restless creatures, over-sensitive, haunted by religious, sexual, political or moral obsessions. Dramatic landscapes and nudes, mystical and visionary compositions, scenes of the countryside, the streets, the circus, the cafe-dansants and the demi-monde were their principal subjects. Their pure colours blaze in acid stridency, encompassed by rough, dry contours which show the influence of African art and primitive woodcuts. The work of the following is shown: Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Muller, Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein.

Common Wall

1972 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Neighbours in a new house sometimes don't even suspect who might be living behind the wall. They're kind friends out in the street, but each of them fiercely hates the one living behind the thin wall. When will all be revealed and who will win - hatred or friendship?

Sackville, I'm Yours

1972 • 15 min

An amusing portrait of an Art Star, toughing it out in rural New Brunswick, Canada.

Our Friend the Policeman

1972 • 11 min • United States of America

Educational film for young children about police and their presence in society to help them. Also aims to teach basic vocabulary to young audiences.

Wake Up and Apologise

1972 • 51 min • Ireland

In advance of his fight with Al 'Blue' Lewis at Croke Park in Dublin, Cathal O'Shannon interviews Muhammad Ali about boxing, and his life outside the ring. When a fight is coming up Muhammad Ali (formally Cassius Marcellus Clay, junior) admits he deliberately intimidates his opponent. He does this because historically in America black people have always been taught to be subservient.

Ice

1972 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

Short film.

Wind Vane

1972 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Two cameras mounted on tripods with wind vane attachments were positioned about 50 feet apart along an axis of 45 degrees to the direction of the wind. Both cameras were free to pan through 360 degrees in the horizontal plane. There are three continuous 100 foot takes for each screen. The movements of the two cameras, which were filming simultaneously, were controlled by the wind strength and direction.

Mars: An Optic Aspic

1972 • 8 min • United States of America

Set to Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War, Bill Etra's original performance on 9 B&W monitors was shot in real-time on 16mm color film by Woody Vasulka. The 16mm film added some unexpected and welcome color effects that lend themselves to the composition and the choice was made to leave them in.

A Winter's Tale

1972 • 10 min • Soviet Union

One snowy winter day, townspeople were riding a tram. Suddenly, a boy entered the carriage carrying a basket of flowers from the Pioneer greenhouse. He was bringing them as a gift to his grandmother for her 90th birthday. The presence of the flowers made everyone feel warmer— even a brazen drunk put out his cigarette. But then a rude, loud woman got on the tram…

As Três Graças

1972 • 3 min

Matrix III

1972 • 11 min • United States of America

An abstract computer-generated animation set to music by Terry Riley.

Black Cat

1972 • 3 min • Japan

Blending psychedelic animation with haunting music. Centred around a black cat, it explores themes of misfortune and the uncanny through dreamlike visuals and Maki Asakawa’s melancholic song, "Fushiawase to Iu Na no Neko".

En mycket enkel pedagogik

1972 • 50 min

About a school in Belgium founded in 1907 by Ovide Decroly, doctor and pedagogue.

Pari

1972 • 36 min • Iran

Pari is Zackaria Hashemi's short film