All Films

Oslofilm: Kloster

1972 • 16 min • Norway

The Lunden monastery is a Dominican convent established in Oslo 1952, and is the only contemplative monastery in Norway.

Chinese Ping-Pong

1972 • 14 min • Denmark

An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 1970, partly during the Chinese players' exhibition tour in Denmark immediately after the SOC. First of all, it is a film about their style, about the artistic culmination that is ping-pong at its best, it records China's comeback into the international sports world.

Thirsty for Love: Sex and Murder

1972 • 60 min • Turkey

An introvert party goer in '60s makes it a habit of kidnapping meretricious female models to hidden spots out to wild nature to rape them, and of returning them to their homes nevermore.

Ave Maria

1972 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The horrors of war in Asia by Americans are set to the music of Ave Maria.

Violence and Vandalism

1972 • 13 min

Violence and vandalism are bad m'kay?

Navidad

1972 • 22 min • Argentina

Timed 1, 2, 3

1972 • 11 min • Japan

Visually, each section of the film is composed of 10-second spans of clear and dark leader, arranged in a progressive fashion so that at first there is more and more light and less darkness, then vice versa.

Roaches' Lullaby

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

A humorous short documentary which features interviews with three zealous New York City roach-haters who demonstrate their own extermination techniques and recount - in hilarious detail - their own personal experiences with cockroaches. Includes an original musical composition lamenting the presence of this pesty insect in urban life

An Examination of Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange

1972 • 29 min

An examination of Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ on Camera 3 (1972)

Hunted

1972 • 41 min • United Kingdom

A man holds an estate agent hostage in an office, threatening to shoot people from the window.

In a Spiral Circle

1972 • 6 min • Soviet Union

The young intelligentsia is trying to film fantastic stories and silent films.

The Magic of Walt Disney World

1972 • 29 min • United States of America

A look at the many attractions, resort hotels, and other amusements at Walt Disney World in its first year of operation.

King Porno

1972 • 48 min

Documentary about the founder of of Private Magazine, Berth Milton Sr. Here he is depicted as a cool, international playboy, driving around in luxurious cars and piloting his own private plane.

George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972

1972 • 28 min

Courtesy of The Freedom Archives 1972, 28 min. This extraordinary video is from a 16mm film “work print” made in 1971–1972, and includes interviews with George Jackson, Georgia Jackson (George and Jonathan Jackson’s mother) and Angela Davis, while she was still in the Marin County Courthouse Jail, before her acquittal. We have not been able to identify the other prisoners. As you will see, the film has no titles or other credits. The discovery of such amazing, previously unknown historic materials always leaves us thrilled and in awe, deepening our understanding of those times and affirming the mission of the Freedom Archives.

Üks helin mul helises rinna sees

1972 • 39 min • Soviet Union

Three lyrical short stories: about locksmith Toomas, captain Hermann and gardener Ferdinand. Three different areas of life and fate, but a common longing for beauty.

Vincent the Dutchman

1972 • 58 min • United Kingdom

A long, brave reach for a portrait, not of an intimate, private love, but of an inspiration, an icon, a man only ever sketched obliquely however many times he painted himself.

Correo de guerra

1972 • 13 min • Spain

Short Spanish film from 1972.

Korytarz

1972 • 5 min • Poland

An anonymous character is trying to get out of a strange corridor.

How Wives Sold Husbands

1972 • 10 min • Soviet Union

This cartoon is based on a humorous Ukrainian folk song about how wives decided to sell their disgraced husbands. One wife wants to get rid of the reveler, the other - from the drunkard, the young woman is tired of the old man, the worker is lazy, and the tall - the husband is too small in stature.

Easy Money

1972 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Teleplay based on the story of the same name by Evan Hunter. The traveling salesman Jerr Talbot joins the publishing house "The Bible For Home". Publisher Matthews comes up with dishonest tricks to sell the Bible for maximum profit.

Recital

1972 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

The film shows celebration of Day of the Republic., held in the village of Novigrad Podravski (Croatia) in 1972. The performers were pupils of the elementary school, members of the local amateur theater, and one soldier.

Hot Dogs for Gauguin

1972 • 22 min • United States of America

A down-on-his-luck photographer determined to capture visual magic and fame. He concocts an intricate plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty and sets his camera to record the exact moment of its destruction.

Face to Face

1972 • 16 min

"In this exercise in nonverbal communication, Acconci explores facial expressions, and their psychological resonance, as a mode of performance narrative." - Electronic Arts Intermix

Zombies in a House of Madness

1972 • 4 min • United States of America

A short film where jail house poet, Michael Beasley, reads his poetry illustrated by footage taken inside the San Francisco jail, in 1972. Music by Country Joe and His All-Star Band.