All Films

CAN: The Free Concert

1972 • 51 min • Germany

The experimental German krautrockers CAN's legendary "Free Concert," recorded in Cologne's Sporthalle, Germany, on February 3, 1972. The circumstances of this Cologne show were unusual. Rather improbably for such an experimental band, Can actually scored a chart success in Germany with "Spoon," which would later be tacked onto the end of Ege Bamyasi.

The Feelings Are the Same

1972 • 42 min • Denmark

Interview-based documentary about the conditions for gays and lesbians in Danish society.

Ivan Lackovic-Croata

1972 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary about the naive painter Ivan Lacković-Croata.

Street Musique

1972 • 9 min • Canada

Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the music, but his own beat is more boisterous than that of the musicians. The illustrations range from convoluted abstractions to caricatures of familiar rituals. Without words.

The Stuntman

1972 • 7 min • Poland

From cowboys to cannons, diving to racing, perhaps nothing can stop this stuntman

The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters

1972 • 44 min • United States of America

All of Universal's greatest classic monsters gather at the Transylvania Astoria Hotel for Frankenstein's monster and his bride's Friday the 13th midnight wedding.

Aru Nûdisuto Kurabu no Kiroku Hadaka no Shima

1972 • 31 min • Japan

Short pinku

Enigma

1972 • 4 min

“Lines and rectangles are the geometric shapes basic to ENIGMA, a computer graphics film full of subliminal and persistent image effects. In a staccato rhythm, the film builds to a climax by instantly replacing one set of shapes with another, each set either changing in composition and color or remaining for a moment to vibrate strobiscopically and then change.” – The Booklist.

Walking America

1972 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The USA is not only about skyscrapers and highways, street bustle, and car herds. America is fields and forests, deep rivers and endless expanses, hot south and snow-covered north, high mountains and vast valleys where ordinary Americans live, work, suffer and rejoice.

What Is a Cat?

1972 • 13 min • United States of America

Presents the history of the domestic cat, tracing the animal as a house pet and as a symbol of mystery and worship from ancient Egypt to the present day. Offers hints on the care and treatment of cats in homes of today.

Don't Forget, Don't Forgive

1972 • 30 min • Argentina

On August 15, 1972, during the dictatorial government of General Lanusse, twenty political prisoners belonging to the PRT- ERP, FAR and Montoneros, escaped from Rawson prison in the Patagonian province of Chubut.

A Private Collection

1972 • 12 min • France

A witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk's own collection of vintage erotica. Originally intended as part of his 'Contes immoraux', it was released first as a separate short, and is therefore marks the turning-point between Borowczyk's career as a highly-regarded animator and surrealist filmmaker, and his subsequent career in the sexploitation field.

In the Jungle There Is Much to Do

1972 • 17 min • Uruguay

A father tries to make his little daughter understand the reason for his political imprisonment. The jungle serves as an allegory of society and the hunter as its danger.

Dancers in School

1972 • 28 min

Chronicles the work of several California dance teachers in a program of dance instruction taught in several California school systems. Shows how the program stimulated the creativity of both instructors and pupils. Bella Lewitzky, Virginia Tanner and Murray Lewis are featured in this film by D.A. Pennebaker about the Impact Program, bringing dance professionals into the public schools.

Terror da Vermelha

1972 • 35 min • Brazil

Brazilian poet Torquato Neto's only incursion on filmmaking, "Terror da Vermelha" is an avan-garte horror film shot with a Super 8 camera at Teresina, Piauí.

Remington Cal. 12

1972 • 14 min • East Germany

This bullet is stamped with the inscription 'Remington Peters 12' and yet is not mentioned in Remington's catalogue. It consists of 20 small steel arrows.

Congo

1972 • 12 min • Brazil

An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.

History of Manawan - Part Two

1972 • 21 min • Canada

Atikamekw elder Cézar Néwashish continues to recount the history of the community of Manawan that first began in The History of Manawan: Part One. As Christianity and European customs take deeper root in the community – abetted by residential schools and aggressive assimilationist government policies – seemingly irreversible changes to significant customs begin to unfold. Despite these struggles, the people carry on. This short is part of the Manawan series directed by Alanis Obomsawin.

Gold Diggin' Woodpecker

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody Woodpecker in the old prospecting days.

Life with Video

1972 • 15 min • United States of America

A male TV personality makes intimate contact with a female viewer through the TV set.

Labor rhythms of Checheno-Ingushetia

1972 • 52 min • Soviet Union

Documentary film about the labor activity of residents of Chechen-Ingush ASSR

Sexana

1972 • 17 min • France

A surreal, erotic spin on Alice in Wonderland.

Butterfly

1972 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The film is devoted to the theme of careful attitude to the nature. It tells us how one of butterflies which are caught by the boy, grows till the huge sizes and the hunter appears in the net. Having tested bondage, the boy lets out the captives.

Bildabläufe

1972 • 5 min • Switzerland

Experimental film with a doll.