All Films

Bekim Fehmiu Visits Albania

1972 • 10 min • Albania

Albania and neighboring Yugoslavia officially broke ties in 1948. But in 1971, the Hoxha regime was honored to welcome the ethnic Albanian actor Bekim Fehmiu (1936-2010), at the time an international star in Yugoslav theater and film. Before his trip to Albania, Fehmiu had appeared in the popular Italian television smash The Odyssey (1968) and the Cannes-winning I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967). Dokufest will also feature a photo exhibit of recently-discovered still images taken during Bekim Fehmiu’s Albanian visit.

Julie

1972 • 51 min

Writer/director Blake Edwards chronicles his wife Julie Andrews' decision to star in a TV variety show while balancing her home and family life.

Jesus People

1972 • 46 min

A fervent Christian counterculture movement in the 1970s takes hold of the West Coast and redefines evangelism through new approaches to worship, music, and lifestyle.

Teach Our Children

1972 • 36 min • United States of America

DocumentaThis film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that caused prisoners to take drastic steps toward securing their basic rights. The film questions the reactions of prison warden Oswald, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller and President Nixon, as well as the death of 31 inmates and prison guards from bullets fired by the National Guard. Through on-site footage taken during and following the rebellion, and follow-up interviews with inmates, this film relates a powerful message concerning prisoner's rights and provides an important historical document. A Third World Newsreel production.ry about the 1971 rebellion at Attica State Prison.

Friends

1972 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

About an elderly woman in a country house, spending time with her only companion, a goat.

Le reel du pendu

1972 • 57 min • Canada

Feature-length documentary filmed in three locations as far apart as possible: Louisiana, Acadia and Quebec, but where Le reel du pendu is played – a musical piece performed on the violin, harmonica and guitar or the accordion for over two hundred years. Through this improvised music of a death row inmate, the spectator is invited to discover for himself “the sound of the French in America”.

The Trans-Am Challenge

1972 • 7 min

On the racetrack fierce competitors, off the racetrack the best of friends, Mark Donohue, probably the most complete race driver in the world today, and George Follmer, battle it out in the Trans Am ten-race series.

Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale

1972 • 3 min • United States of America

This, the third of the Sexual Meditation Series, might also be seen as a triangular portrait of Julia and P. Adams Sitney and Jane Brakhage.

The House on Highbury Hill

1972 • 60 min

The path of righteousness is a stony one. And Lo! for Daniel it is stonier than most.

The Odyssey of Fans

1972 • 30 min • Albania

A comedy about a group of fans who cause mischief.

Wolfman vs. Baragon

1972 • 2 min • Japan

Wolfman instantly appears from behind some trees where he is reputedly abused by armed Japanese army tanks, he allegedly flees and later battles Baragon at a burning construction site.

Ken Goodwin's Year

1972 • 37 min

Follows comedian Ken Goodwin at home and on stage during one of his most successful years.

Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

1972 • 45 min

Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir describes the problems faced by works in one of Paris’s working-class suburbs.

Incontro con Maria Carta

1972 • 41 min

In this 1972 film, Maria Carta, considered one of the most beautiful voices in the folk music scene and one of the most gifted artists in Sardinia, interacts with the actor Riccardo Cucciolla. Maria Carta recites verses and sings songs of the Sardinian tradition and conveys in her art the essential lines of Sardinian identity and culture.

Tomos in Picture

1972 • 31 min • Yugoslavia

Tomos factories in Buzet, Senožeče, in the Netherlands and in Africa.

Bermondsey

1972 • 35 min • United Kingdom

John Mortimer's play about the tangled love life of an East London pub landlord.

Ōoku poruno otsu bo ne arasoi

1972 • 60 min • Japan

A demon lurks within a woman's body! Even though they refuse to let it be just for one night, these forbidden women writhe in madness night after night!"

Maurice D...

1972 • 11 min

With Maurice D, an enigmatic silent film that could be situated somewhere between Luis Buñuel's Un Chien andalou and Alfred Hitchcock's La Loi du silence, another extremely rare auteur, Maurice Diament, is brought to light. The anxiety-inducing effect of his film was to be increased tenfold by the sound of the metronome that was supposed to accompany the screening.

Hiss and Hers

1972 • 6 min • United States of America

The Blue Racer's wife wakes the Blue Racer up and sends him out for food. He encounters the Japanese Beetle, tries to eat and capture the Beetle over and over, but fails. First "The Blue Racer" cartoon.

Industrial Area

1972 • 27 min

Eye Myth Educational

1972 • 1 min

"I've printed each single frame 12 times or 8 times [...] This permits people to study a it little more [...] There's a horseman, a woman and a moth in this movie." -S.B.

The Wold-Shadow

1972 • 3 min • United States of America

A stand of birches. Sunlight brightens and dims, revealing more or less of the woods. A little grass is on the forest floor. Is there a shape in the shadows? Something green is out of focus. The light flashes, and the screen goes dark from time to time. We look up close at the bark of trees. Is the god of the forest to be seen?

Space and Light

1972 • 20 min • United Kingdom

An award-winning wordless documentary that explores the architecture of the then new St. Peter's Seminary which is now seen as one of the most important post-war buildings in the United Kingdom. The film was made in celebration after architect Jack Coia was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in 1969. Winner of the Medalla de Bronce at the Fifth Union of International Architects Festival in Madrid (1975).

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

1972 • 14 min • United States of America

John Carradine narrates the Washington Irving story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman.