All Films

Centenerians of Chechen-Ingushetia

1972 • 47 min

Searching for the source of highlander's longevity

Inca Light

1972 • 17 min • United States of America

An impressionistic film shot in Cuzco, Machu Picchu, and outlying villages of the Andean center of Peru's Inca Empire. Inca Light captures in a fast fluid motion impressions of life today that refer us to the past society that has also dwelled here.

St. Andrews by the Northern Sea

1972 • 21 min

A look at the univeristy town of St Andrews.

Beauty Knows No Pain

1972 • 26 min

In 1940, the Kilgore College Rangerettes became the first dancing drill team in the nation. They have been performing at half-time shows during college football games ever since.

Homeless Kongurja

1972 • 21 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairy tale by Keria Kurbannepesov "Kongurja's Tale"

Tiger Balm

1972 • 10 min

"After two years of massive didacticism in black-and-white [Hapax Legomena (1971-72)], I am surprised by Tiger Balm, lyrical, in color, a celebration of generative humors and principles, in homage to the green of England, the light of my dooryard… and consecutive matters." - HF

The Horse

1972 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

A horse becomes a man.

Professor Balthazar: Some Like It Cold

1972 • 10 min • Germany, Yugoslavia

Professor Balthazar rests in the mountains in the winter, and at the seaside in the summer, where he meets friends. His vacation is active. His ingenious invention will protect his friend Hans’s mountain village from an avalanche, which will in turn solve the problem of his other friend, from the coast.

Sugar Factory

1972 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Cukrarna, an old building where the poets Murn and Kette once lived, is an important place in Ljubljana. For a long time this building has been the refuge for different people of all occupations and age, a small gallery of tragic human destinies.

The Eruption of Hekla 1947/8

1972 • 23 min • Iceland

The film, which is based on earlier footage taken by Steindór Sigurðsson, Árni Stefánsson & Guðmundur Einarsson, describes the volcanic eruption in Mt. Hekla in 1947/1948.

Fekete macska

1972 • 49 min • Hungary

As the unforgettable Auntie Zsófi, the unforgettable Dajka Margit lives with naive simplicity and wisdom in her secluded little villa. Everyone is in a hurry around her, but she puts the cottage cheese dumplings or the casserole in her oven every day with a healthy spirit. He sells his peach orchard for good money to help his daughter. Lawyer and Bunko, two petty criminals, get wind of the money, but they don't count on the ingenuity of the fair old woman and her fearsome flatmate, the black cat.

Four-Eyes

1972 • 45 min • Soviet Union

About an awkward and absent-minded boy Kubanyshbek, who only saw himself brave and strong in his dreams. But after spending the summer at his uncle’s place on Issyk-Kul, he grew stronger, matured, and was finally able to stand up for himself.

I Miss Sonja Henie: The Making of a Film

1972 • 26 min • Yugoslavia

Documentary focusing on the making of "I Miss Sonia Henie"

The Legend of Lapot

1972 • 28 min • Yugoslavia

In a remote mountainous village elderly people no longer deemed productive are stoned to death.

O Desconhecido

1972 • 50 min • Brazil

This Tiny World

1972 • 15 min • Netherlands

Oscar Winning documentary short about antique mechanical toys.

A Palace Uprising

1972 • 28 min • Albania

The two brothers Qetsor and Erlet often break their friends' toys. One night, Qetsor watches a dream in which the toys rebel against him.

GaudÍ

1972 • 8 min

A vivid sampler of the great Barcelona architect-sculptor’s work in situ, Sokoloff constantly is seeking out the most anthropomorphic images embedded in the intricacies of Gaudi’s buildings.

Doldrums

1972 • 18 min

"The New Jersey Turnpike and downtown New York in rain and shine. Trailer trucks, overpasses and industrial wastes become natural wonders. The stream of trucks is often gay but sometimes ominous. After a thunderstorm, the pike gives way to charming and sexy shoppers on 14th Street. Real sounds and wonderful color." - Edmund Leites

In the Hotspot of Variola

1972 • 18 min • Yugoslavia

Documentary movie about the spread and the fight against the variola vera virus (smallpox) in Yugoslavia in 1972.

XPZ-Bibliotek

1972 • 12 min

A spacecraft containing an army of small malevolent creatures arrive with an intent to destroy the earth. But first, they must learn how people behave and feel, and therefore proceed to gather information.

Chuva de Brotos

1972 • 50 min

Comedy where three friends meet at a bar table to drink and tell their adventures. A sailor exaggerates in his drinks while listening to an exciting "strip poker" narrative that ends in a tremendous orgy. When he gets home, the sailor has a nightmare, where he is chased by wild women on a paradise island.

The Tide of Traffic

1972 • 28 min • United Kingdom

The Tide of Traffic is a 1972 British short documentary film directed by Derek Williams, made by British Petroleum as a contribution to the UN Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm 1972. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Monument Research

1972 • 46 min • Germany

In this essayistic piece, the only finalized installment of the television series "Fiction - Non Fiction", commissioned by Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB), Günter Bruno Fuchs is— among other things— raising money for the demolition of the Siegessäule, while quoting Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert.