All Films

The Illustrated Hitchcock

1972 • 50 min

Film director Hitchcock discusses his life and career in long talks with Pia Lindstrom (newscaster and daughter of Hitchcock star Ingrid Berman) and with film historian William Everson. Excerpts from several films illustrate these interviews. Discussion topics include: what is fear?, method acting vs. film acting, the difference between the usual "Who Done It" mystery and what he considers to be real suspense. His choice of leading ladies and why (Bergman, Baxter, Kelly, Marie Saint, Leigh, etc.).

Trafficopter

1972 • 10 min • Canada

This short film is a portrait of Montreal as seen from a local radio station's traffic helicopter. Freeways, interchanges, bridges and downtown arteries are laid out in miniature. A seething, teeming spectacle, this film presents a unique view of the city with comments by the traffic guide, Len Rowcliffe.

Professor Balthazar: Cloud and Clear

1972 • 10 min • Germany, Yugoslavia

The town of Dryland has been without rain for five months. Daniel the cloud, in charge of delivering rain to the town, is on holiday and no one can find him. A delegation of citizens go to Professor Balthazar for help. He invents a cloud tracer and sets out to find Daniel.

Wild Honey

1972 • 13 min

A woman holds a man at gunpoint in the woods.

Shades of Sherlock Holmes!

1972 • 7 min • United States of America

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a vampire attack in the streets of London.

Workers '71: Nothing About Us Without Us

1972 • 47 min • Poland

Robotnicy - Nic o nas bez nas tells a story about Gdańsk Shipyard and its workers after so called Grudzień 1970 (1970 protests). After those events Edward Gierek replaced Władysław Gomułka as party first secretary and promised redical change in style and methods of ruling. Kieślowski shows the skepticism of workers and their attitude to party members. He also pictures conflicts inside the party (PZPR) and usual work in shipyard. The political criticism of this movie made it a target of censorship – it was suspended and cut against the will of director.

Мастер из Кламси

1972 • 24 min • Soviet Union

Ingmar Bergman

1972 • 55 min • Sweden

Portrait of Ingmar Bergman, made while he was working on The Touch, about his professional and private life in the early 1970s.

Colours of this Time

1972 • 3 min

Whilst working on previous time-lapse films, I found that colour film tended to record the actual colour of the light source rather than local colour when long time exposures were used. Using this phenomenon, Colours of this Time records all the imperceptible shifts of colour temperature in summer daylight, from first light until sunset.

Red Squad

1972 • 45 min

An investigative (but frequently humorous) documentary on the surveillance activities of the New York City Police Department's Bureau of Special Services, known as the Red Squad. "An extraordinary political film, in which the spies - Red Squad and undercover police assigned to infiltrate the American Left - are in turn spied upon. The result: a photographic exposé of faces and agents in action, fully identified by name and title." - Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art

The Huntsman

1972 • 16 min

(1972) An adaptation of a short story written by Toronto writer, David Lewis Stein, based on his boyhood experiences of retrieving golf balls from the rough.

Here is Canada

1972 • 28 min • Canada

Viewers outside Canada, and Canadians themselves, here have the pleasure of looking at, understanding, and discovering the many facets of this vast land, presented in choice film footage that is at once informative, visually appealing, and absorbing.

Phaethon - The Son of the Sun

1972 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Cosmonauts investigate an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They believe that it might be the remains of a planet. Parallels are drawn to the Greek god Phaethon, who in Greek mythology was the son of the sun god Helios.

Television as a Creative Medium

1972 • 6 min

In 1969, Howard Wise presented the landmark exhibition TV as a Creative Medium at his eponymous gallery on 57th Street in New York. The exhibition is recognized as the first in the United States devoted to video (or television) as an emergent art form. Jud Yalkut's silent 16mm film footage is a vibrant document of the seminal works in the exhibition, including Nam June Paik's Participation TV, Paul Ryan's Everyman's Mobius Strip, Thomas Tadlock's Archetron, Eric Siegel's Psychedelevision in Color, Charlotte Moorman's first performance of Paik's TV Bra For Living Sculpture, and Ira Schneider and Frank Gillette's installation Wipe Cycle.

Spend It All

1972 • 41 min • United States of America

Another short documentary of "Real Food, Roots Music, and People Full of Passion for what they do!", Spend It All is Les Blank's spirited look at the French-speaking Cajun community of southwest Louisiana. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Dotremont-les-logogrammes

1972 • 14 min

The Belgian poet Christian Dotremont, organiser of the COBRA movement, invents a graphic writing system

Compromiso con Chile

1972 • 15 min • Chile

Made by Fernando Balmaceda in 1972, it is a documentary that shows the presence of the State Technical University throughout Chile through its provincial headquarters, with teaching, scientific research, technological development, cultural extension and the relationship with the historical moment of the country.

The Exploitation of Man by Man

1972 • 40 min • Chile

How long will workers be subjected to exploitation? This is the question posed by this documentary, which explores the employer-worker relationship in the country. It conducts a critical examination of the historical inequality in Chile, perpetuated by foreign imperialists and Chilean capitalists. In the same vein, it delves into the implementation of Agrarian Reform under three different administrations: Alessandri, Frei Montalva, and Allende.

Casual Ties: Casualties

1972 • 13 min • United States of America

The experiences of a young girl help to focus attention on some psycho-social aspects of the venereal disease problem. Written and directed by Rolf Forsberg (maker of Parable, Stalked, Ark, One Friday).

Show Biz Beagle

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

Buzz Buzzard scams Woody into buying a talking dog when actually, it's a mouse under the dog's hat who does the talking.

Well, Just You Wait! 5

1972 • 9 min

Volk is spying on Zayats with a spyglass "hidden" in a birdhouse..

Who Were the Ones?

1972 • 7 min • Canada

This short film was created by a group of Indigenous filmmakers at the NFB in 1972 and is essentially a song by Willie Dunn sung by Bob Charlie and illustrated by John Fadden: "Who were the ones who bid you welcome and took you by the hand, inviting you here by our campfires, as brothers we might stand?" The song expresses bitter memories of the past, of trust repaid by treachery, and of friendship debased by exploitation upon the arrival of European colonists.

Refrain

1972 • 11 min • Poland

A story about everyday life funeral in the 70s.

4th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival

1972 • 27 min

Yalkut's rare historical document was recorded at the 4th Avant Garde Festival in 1966, which was held outdoors in Central Park. It featured over 65 events with artists, musicians and performers, including Allan Kaprow, Dick Higgins, Al Hansen, Christo, Shigeko Kubota, Joseph Beuys, and Alison Knowles, among many others.