All Films

It Came From Love

1972 • 58 min • United States of America

It concerns Mr. Zeno, sent to save the planet Love, with just 24 hours alloted for him to complete his mission. Wearing a cheap fish-head makeup job, he fetches specimens from Earth to reproduce with his own people.

Sei-shin fudoki 4: Kamakura jôen

1972 • 30 min • Japan

Short pinku, distributed by Nikkatsu in 1972

Con bravura

1972 • 33 min • Poland

Originally, Munk intended Eroica to be a triptych with Con bravura being the first part, but he ultimately gave up on this film, deeming it weaker artistically than the two counterparts. Con bravura is about conspiracy conflating the paths of a rather unconventional nun and an intrigued young man – each of them bears secrets and the encounter could incite a flaming romance, though one suffocated by war.Munk set the film in the mountain capital of Zakopane and its vicinity, allowing breathtaking views from a cable car and using his experiences of the Nazi occupation in the area to add gritty reality. The director plays a cameo as a priest with several of his industry friends also making appearances.

Raz, dwa, trzy

1972 • 7 min • Poland

Two young men change their clothes and explore abandoned rural scenery.

L for Logic

1972 • 14 min

Remember your driving test? Step back into the 70s brogues of this young learner and see how much you recall.

Astrolabe of God

1972 • 30 min • United States of America

A hybrid film-video work that combines moving image technologies, electronic manipulations, performance and installation.

Go Girl

1972 • 27 min

Pilot for failed TV series

Abid

1972 • 5 min • India

“Unlike a cartoon film, which is a rapidly moving series of photographed drawings, in pixilation, a moving object is shot frame by frame, and then through clever editing made to appear in motion. By its nature, this movement is agile, energetic and unpredictable just like the pop art movement.” [Pramod Pati]

A Bus - For Us

1972 • 15 min • Canada

After repeated attempts to obtain service from the public transportation authorities, these suburban Ottawa residents finally decided to do it themselves.

Oslofilm: Kongen

1972 • 14 min • Norway

King Olav unveils the King Haakon statue. The film follows how Nils Aas' elegant monument of King Haakon VII was created, from the studio at Ekely, to its place on the pedestal where it stands and shines.

The Genie with the Light Touch

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

Buzz Buzzard attempts to con Woody once more, using a fake magic lamp and a mouse as the genie.

Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace

1972 • 28 min • United States of America

A shocking exposé of the deplorable conditions and abuses from the Willowbrook State School for children with intellectual disabilities.

Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971

1972 • 45 min • United States of America

At work on his Elegies and Windows series, Motherwell examines his place in the Abstract Expressionist movement, which he calls the first original American movement in the "mainstream," and its practitioners "the last romantics." He distinguishes between his large paintings and his intimate papier collée. Motherwell recollects the state of American art in the 1940s and the impact of European emigré painters on the younger generation of emerging artists. He discusses the significance of collage, or papier collée, as an artist's medium and explains how he first became involved with this process. Motherwell offers his interpretations of earlier directions in art and his response to the object oriented painting that emerged in America in the 1960s. A unique document of one of the founding members of the New York School. He died in 1991.

For the Love of Pizza

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

A woodpeckers take on the Red Riding Hood tale.

The New York School

1972 • 55 min

The band of American artists known as the New York School toyed with tradition and rebelled against the Renaissance.Feeling as though free association yielded their best results, the painters, poets and performers of the New York School took a surrealist approach that was concerned less with aesthetic and more with expression. Those associated with the School were unified by their desire to create from within. They created a monumental, dramatic art that remains a singular expression of the crucial modern quest for individuality and personal freedom." Never knowing exactly how their pieces would turn out, the artists of the New York School embraced their own complex humanity and worked from a place of bold, sporadic realness.

The Special London Bridge Special

1972 • 48 min • United Kingdom

In 1972, the Arizona State Park bought the London Bridge. Tom Jones (as himself) is magically transported to the bridge's new location where he, befuddled, sings with other celebrities, has adventures and gets kidnapped by “the villain”.

Breast Orgy

1972 • 14 min

Tisztelt cím!

1972 • 12 min • Hungary

Everyone is reaching retirement age. Some are happy to go, others regret that their active phase of life is over. The reporter asks retiring postmen and postwomen about the farewell they are now receiving at work. And they tell their stories. They tell us why they love their jobs, the relationships they've built up over the years with the people they've met on the job, and how much they'll miss WORK...

How a Sausage Dog Works

1972 • 8 min • Poland

Polish animated short film that uses unconventional film techniques such as cut-out, drawing, filming miscible fluids and scratched images. Also uses non-camera technique such as drawing directly on film. The film is a humorous lecture on the internal structure of a dachshund. Parodying popular lectures at the same time, it contains a message about the superiority of the products of living organisms' techniques and calls for respect for the environment.

Oreno Shimokita

1972 • 26 min • Japan

Shohei Imamura’s short documentary.

Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

1972 • 16 min

This early work belongs in the company of Paik and Yalkut's classic collaborative "video-films," including Video Tape Study No. 3, Beatles Electronique, and Missa of Zen. To the accompaniment of the abrupt sonic interjections of Fluxus-affiliated composer Takehisa Kosugi, Yalkut's black and white film records brief, masked actions: an arm with clenching fist; a pair of faces, visible only about the eyes, which squint, gaze, and rest; Paik eating a slice of bread. Reminiscent of Beckett's theater, as well as the minimal movements of 1960s avant-garde dance, Cinéma Metaphysique is a study in gesture and stillness, noise and silence.

The Mathematician and the Devil

1972 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A mathematician offers to sell his soul to the devil for a proof or disproof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Based on "The Devil and Simon Flagg" by Arthur Porges.

Chick Corea & Return To Forever 1972

1972 • 43 min

Chick Corea & Return To Forever performing Live in Molde, Norway, August 1972. Chick Corea (p, el-p) / Joe Farrell (ss, fl) / Stanley Clarke (b) / Airto Moreira (dr) / Bill Tragesser (perc, voc). Tracks: 1. Spain 2. Crystal Silence 3. 500 Miles High

Foka the Handiman

1972 • 19 min • Soviet Union

The blacksmith Foka accidentally saves the princess from foreign suitors.