All Films

Huviline filmikaamera

1972 • 9 min • Soviet Union

"I'm a master at filming, I have a film reel inside. I don't need simple eyes, I have a lens instead!"

Documenta 5

1972 • 53 min • Belgium

Held in Kassel between June and October 1972, documenta 5 was organized by “master curator” Harald Szeeman, and remains one of the most important international exhibitions of the last few decades. Entitled Interrogation of Reality—Picture Worlds Today, it brought together works by Marcel Broodthaers, Christian Boltanski, Arnulf Rainer, Claes Oldenburg, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha, and could be considered the first instance of an “exhibition as spectacle.” Introducing the different sections (“Artists’ Museums,” “Individual Mythologies”) and protagonists, the film is both a report on the trends and pacesetters of the time, and an approach to the phenomenon of documenta, sidestepping and questioning the definitions of exhibition makers, as well as of artists, of an exhibition, and of contemporary art.

Visiting Summer

1972 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Two groups of vacationers almost started a fight near the river, but instead decided to arrange a sports competition.

The Brother Rabbit And The Brother Fox

1972 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A fox was famous in the forest for his cunning and wit. But a boastful rabbit once called himself more agile, which, of course, the fox did not like. And in order to protect himself from unpleasant situations, the rabbit tried to avoid meeting with the ginger rogue. But one day the fox’s funny trap worked...

Risen Indeed

1972 • 5 min

(aka CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST)

Peed Into the Wind

1972 • 54 min • United States of America

An hour-long saga of Mick Terrific, rock 'n' roll star, and the cast of 50 he encounters on his search for "Mr. Wonderful." “PEED INTO THE WIND smears across the screen like one of those dirty underground comic books. It’s loaded with a lot of big scenes and unusual looking people that make this epic resemble a clogged toilet. Unfortunately, since several of the performers were not as loyal as Ainslie Pryor and John Thomas, the plot is difficult to follow but in no way hinders the sewer-like sequences. It’s quite enjoyable and possesses the releasing power of an enema.” –George Kuchar. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Mina - Live Dalla Bussola

1972 • 40 min • Italy

Mina live at a concert on September 16, 1972, at the Bussola nightclub in Tuscany.

Des jeunes femmes disparaissent

1972 • 20 min

First version

Betty Tells Her Story

1972 • 20 min • United States of America

A woman tells the story of how she bought an expensive dress that she never got to wear, and then tells the story again focusing on her feelings about the events she described.

Moose Call

1972 • 5 min • Canada

Elders Mariane and Athanas Jacob – of the Atikamekw community of Manawan – demonstrate a moose-call horn constructed from bark. The beautiful horn is a vital tool in attracting moose, an essential animal in their culture and community.

School Vandalism

1972 • 9 min • United States of America

Explores school vandalism by re-creating a true incident involving four youths. Discusses motives and consequence of vandalism.

Fos-sur-mer

1972 • 24 min

Shot in the commercial harbor of Fos-sur-Mer in Southern France, this film denounces the destruction of the region and the poor living and working conditions caused by industrialization and exploitation by oil corporations.

Plus Electrification

1972 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Plus Electrification, 1972, directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. Soyuzmultfilm. Executed with Disney-like animation by one of Soyuzmultfilm's leading directors of films for children. "Plus Electrification" triumphs the USSR's drive to bring electricity to every town and village. It was a tenet of Vladimir Lenin that electrification plus Soviet power [vlast] would lead to Communism. Electricity is shown dramatically uniting the economies of USSR and the Eastern bloc countries through production of consumer goods like Czech crystal and Hungarian buses.

Refuge

1972 • 22 min • United States of America

A documentary about the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order in London.

Portrait of David Hockney

1972 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Filmed at the time Hockney was painting Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, Portrait of David Hockney is made up of a limited number of shots, observing the periphery details of his flat and studio. Each view is held so as to focus on its particular qualities and composition and, with the accompanying soundtrack of off-screen phone calls, conversations and musings, builds up a picture of Hockney’s daily life.

Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1)

1972 • 5 min

“A portrait of the filmmaker, Paul Sharits, in particular response to energies he generated one May afternoon in 1971.” –Hollis Frampton

The Candy Machine

1972 • 4 min

The man just wants a piece of candy. The candy machine just wants a piece of the man. A cartoon employing a novel xerox technique to combine animation and live action.

Series 4

1972 • 7 min • Canada

This experimental short documents the clash, sometimes obsessive, sometimes glorifying, between humans and their mechanized environment. Using photographs, the animator creates varying perspectives through optical manipulation and changing colour, achieving bold and provocative effects.

Vigilando reprimere

1972 • 22 min • Italy

A prison escape gone wrong. A man and a woman meet in an apocalyptic scenario, in the midst of an obscurantist wave of repression of consciences.

Flyaway

1972 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A concise and poetic story of a man whose model airplane vanishes over the sea.

Mahavishnu Orchestra Live On BBC 1972

1972 • 30 min • United Kingdom

On 25 August 1972, the jazz rock fusion band, Mahavishnu Orchestra, led by guitarist John McLaughlin with musicians Billy Cobham, Jerry Goodman, Rick Laird and Jan Hammer, performed a set of spiritual, intense, instrumental songs from their first album "The Inner Mounting Flame" at the Paris Theatre, London for BBC-TV, accompanied by psychedelic visual effects.

Steep Turns

1972 • 9 min • United States of America

A study of motion and form, mixing real images with computer generated graphics.

Home, James

1972 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Actor James Mason returns to his Huddersfield roots. Harking back to his childhood memories, he remarks how the town has changed and developed but the people have remained the same.

Beatrice Cenci

1972 • 15 min

A true story, fillmed in Rome with both actors & non actors. in the 1500's Roman life was often a nightmare - Count Cenci tortured his family, raped his daughter, murdered his sons, created general havoc. Beatrice got her revenge, before she lost her head. A hectic, hysterical nightmare built of intercutting, movement & emotion.