All Films

Tchou-tchou

1972 • 14 min • Canada

This short children's film by Co Hoedeman tells the story of 2 children and their encounter with an angry dragon, all represented by colourful building blocks.

The Left Overs

1972 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A blossoming friendship between a businessman and one of his flatmate's ex-girlfriends is challenged when she answers a phone call and inadvertently reveals to his boss that he has been fraudulently claiming expenses.

The Inner Scar

1972 • 60 min • France

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

Romance with a Double Bass

1972 • 40 min • Yugoslavia

Lyrical story about a young double bass musician who travels with fellow musicians out of town to play at a wedding in a summer house. A thief and a girl, a bride at a wedding, will unexpectedly determine his fate. In a film without dialogue, music has a special role.

Nippet

1972 • 17 min • Soviet Union

A modern fairy tale tells the story of an inseparable character living in a children's fantasy world, the mischievous animal Nippet.

Co kdyby...?

1972 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

A humorous story about people who before doing anything imagine all possible unpleasant consequences of their action and in the end decide that they better do not do anything.

The Boy Who Turned Yellow

1972 • 55 min • United Kingdom

John and his class visit the Tower of London, where he loses his pet mouse. He falls asleep during a lesson on electricity, but with some help, he learns about it, invades the Tower, and saves his pet.

Albertine ou Les Souvenirs parfumés de Marie-Rose

1972 • 18 min • France

France, 1972. Albertine, a teenager in rebellion against school, the rancid family and religion, asserts her rights to a sexuality without obstacles. Wiith her friends, and the right to the abortion for the minor ones. With her friends, she campaigns for the rights to sexual pleasure and abortion for minor girls.

At Low Tide

1972 • 7 min

Arms outstretched, a masked god stands on a clifftop surveying the rocks below and sees a sailor lying drowned in a rockpool, while a mermaid makes tiny silver boats. The god approaches and embraces the mermaid. Filmed on the Dorset coast.

The First Murder

1972 • 29 min • Yugoslavia

Based on the novel "Šta bi učinio Zobec?" (What Would Zobec Do?) by Svetozar Vlajković. It's a short movie about a young man who is afraid of being turned down by a girl.

Patrząc pod słońce

1972 • 42 min • Poland

Holidays spent by a couple in love are disrupted by the appearance of a stranger.

Acera, or the Witches' Dance

1972 • 13 min • France

In mud flats along the coast of Brittany we watch acera, small ball-shaped mollusks that are about two inches in diameter. They rest in mud; then, in water, they dance, their skirt-like hood spreading like a dervish's cassock. They spin and spin. The film adds musical accompaniment. We watch them mate and secrete eggs: acera are both male and female, and can form chains with other acera in which they simultaneously mate as a male and as a female. The eggs hatch, and the cycle begins again.

L’autoportrait d’un Pornographe

1972 • 13 min

A photographer specializing in black and white softcore pornography struggles to cope with the decline of his trade in modern Paris.

Joyce at 34

1972 • 28 min • United States of America

After giving birth, Joyce attempts to regain her position as a filmmaker while also caring for her new baby. The changes to both her and her husband’s professional lives are remarkable and frustrating. The new parents love the baby but must recognize the limitations she puts on their careers.

Islands of the West

1972 • 27 min • United Kingdom

A tour of the landscape and wildlife of the Western Isles in Scotland.

The Water Cycle

1972 • 26 min • New Zealand

An award-winning short exploring man-made impacts on New Zealand’s water cycle.

Fire in Her Bed!

1972 • 60 min • United States of America

Lovely and free-spirited young hippie singer Donna goes to Los Angeles, California to seek fame and success in the Hollywood music scene. Donna records an album and falls in with a party hearty bohemian crowd which leads to the inevitable decadent descent into sex, drugs, and booze. Can Donna get out of this wild lifestyle in time? Or is she destined to meet a grim untimely end?

One Thousand and One Trifles

1972 • 8 min • Poland

A collection of mechanical-biological hybrids from the artist's workshop and a variety of rules written on different boards, gathered in order to secure projects and for entertainment.

Eat the Document

1972 • 52 min • United States of America

Eat the Document is a documentary of Bob Dylan's 1966 tour of the United Kingdom with the Hawks. It was shot under Dylan's direction by D. A. Pennebaker, whose groundbreaking documentary Dont Look Back chronicled Dylan's 1965 British tour. The film was originally commissioned for the ABC television series Stage '66. Though shooting had completed for the film, Dylan's July 1966 motorcycle accident delayed the editing process. Once well enough to work again, Dylan edited the film himself. ABC rejected the film as incomprehensible for a mainstream audience.

A Fada do Oriente

1972 • 53 min

A 1972 Portuguese language drama/adventure film written and directed by Júlio Bressane, starring Rosa Dias and Elyseu Visconti.

White Dust

1972 • 33 min

Named after the horror film White Zombie and the rom-com Red Dust (both 1932), White Dust follows the friends and family of Keen while they explore archetypal characters of Hollywood and myth. These unresolved episodes look back to American film serials.

A Pousada das Chagas

1972 • 20 min • Portugal

A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.

Gluttony

1972 • 48 min • Yugoslavia

A TV drama “Gluttony” is part of the unfinished “Seven Deadly Sins” cycle. The main subject of this story is a dedication to one of the greatest biblical sins – gluttony itself.

The Emperor's New Clothes

1972 • 52 min • United States of America

Two con men convince a king that they have woven for him a suit made of magical cloth that only stupid or incompetent people are unable to see. Not wanting to seem dull, everyone pretends to admire the king's new clothes although he is completely naked.