Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

Michael Lee uses a 16mm Bolex camera to explore various zooming and framing techniques to photograph images from National Geographic Magazines. The silent film was made in 1972.

A golden boy descends into an illuminated room to discover the great brass bed of an Edwardian beauty. As he opens her seaman's chest of jewelry and velvets he discovers old photographs that come to life. When he draws a mirror out of the chest he sees her face in it as well as his own -- which draws him into a kaleidoscopic vortex... and into her arms.

María Ramos, a young woman of peasant origin, arrives in the capital and finds work as a domestic servant. Her life is divided by the attraction she feels for two men: the young man in the house where she works, who soon seduces and deceives her, and the teacher who teaches her to read and write. She soon becomes a seamstress in the neighborhood and later a sought-after designer. Her love for the teacher becomes clear.

This film that can be called an auditory variation on Alchemy, in which the volume of microphone feedback increases and decreases according to the distance from the subject. “This is a work of minimal cinema that continuously zooms out on a flower blooming in the darkness, as a paradoxical approach to the act of seeing.” (Tsuneo Nakai)

French documentary about the Continental Circus.

Fake documentary, inspired by Igor Stravinsky's text “Noise pollution not only transforms nature, but also its ruler, Man”. The director and scriptwriter wonder to what extent man is capable of adapting to the abundant noise he is exposed to. At the centre of the film is the Schokker family. When their son Rudy cries, he produces the sound of a fighter jet.

A tour of the Scottish new town of East Kilbride.

The film compares human evolution to that of the chicken. Just as the chicken once lived freely in nature, but now only has a function as a broiler and egg incubator, human evolution has gone from a life of its own to becoming a slave to technology.

LAST OF THE PERSIMMONS opens with a black-and-white image of a main inflating helium balloons in the shape of rabbits. Onto this image Mr. O'Neill places two mirror images an old Fleischer-style cartoon elephant comically licking its mouth as if in anticipation of yet another layered image, that of a ripe persimmon. —Manohla Dargis, "In the Studio's Shadow, An Avant-Garde Eye," The New York Times, 11/8/2004

“Using exciting juxtapositions of shade and movement, this silent and surreally poetic film examines subtle changes of light and landscape in New York. NEW YORK NEAR SLEEP exploits the basic potential of film for capturing light refractions. Hutton imposes on this film the aesthetics of still photography and uses as a structural device the duration of perception of the subtle reflection of movements and illuminations.” – Bill Moritz, Theatre Vanguard

Nirudaka, a man rejected from the people around him just because he's ugly, falls for a beautiful blind girl, Sundari. After their marriage he and his mother try to cure her blindness although Nirudaka doesn't like it because he thinks her wife will not be happy with his appearance.

Old Léon lives an hour outside Paris, in the company of one of his daughters, his son-in-law and his granddaughter. The latter agrees to take him to see his paralyzed cousin Adolphe in a Paris hospice. He takes the opportunity to visit his first wife, trying to get news of his daughter Louise, who is dead but whom he prefers to believe is alive. What remains is the haunting memory of the daffodils he planted for her...

The letters of an immigrant from Gytheio who went to America at the turn of the 20th century.

A look at the city of Stirling, Scotland and its surrounding area

One of two Georgian animated films from Two Novels.

The story of Kemal, a brothel owner who raped his sister and then killed his partner.

The plight of a magician named Pflug, an egotist who thinks he is a gift to the world. Assembling a group of oddities for his act, he learns who the real freak is.

With a critical eye, the film wanders through the streets of Kreuzberg and captures the voices of workers who report on their difficult working conditions and the lack of kindergartens. The film is the result of a collaboration between DFFB students and the Kreuzberg-Nord neighborhood group. It provides interesting insights into the struggles of the neighborhood group with the Senate for funds and rooms to accommodate the children.

Mehmet Kumru is a literature teacher at a private school. Mehmet, who is naive, is expelled from school because he has difficulty controlling his class. At this point, he receives a job offer. Leyla, the young and beautiful daughter of a wealthy man who lives in a mansion, has failed her literature class. Leyla dreams of becoming a singer. However, her father is opposed to Leyla's plans to become a singer. Mehmet Kumru is hired to teach both literature and music at the mansion. The father's true intention is to distract Leyla and dissuade her from pursuing a career on stage. However, Leyla will use Mehmet for her own purposes.

When he gets separated from his unit, Laforet (Roger Van Hool) becomes a de facto deserter during 1939 fighting in the French provinces. Most of the story concerns his love affair with a local farmgirl, as he competes for her affection with a refugee from Spain. When he presses her to make a decision between them, the choice doesn't go in his favor. Soon after this he joins up with the Resistance movement.

hong kong film

Experimental short contrasting the grey interior of a house with the vibrant colour of its garden. Sunlight shines through leafy trees. The camera zooms in until the image is out of focus. When it zooms out again, it reveals sunlight through leaves reflected in the window of a house. From inside the house, we see a woman, in colour and fully dressed, walk by a window. Outside, the camera and photographer are seen in a mirror. The woman, in black & white now and inside the house nude, walks around a large room, trapped. Further images of the naked woman are interspersed with colour images of the garden outside: pond, lilies, etc. Eventually, the image of the cameraman and his mirror returns and the reflection in the window and the sunshine through trees are repeated.

"A film version of a videotape. In it my drawings are animated and colorized by using computers. Walter Wright and Richard Froeman were on the computers. John Godfrey helped with the video editing. I did the sound score. The original tape was done on 2" high-band color videotape, two computers, a Paik-Abe video-synthesizer, with studio chroma-keying and multi-generation video editing." A version of Computer Graphics #1, one of Emshwiller's very first video works.

Feature film.

Between is a highly-wrought piece of structuralism which makes no concessions to its audience…it implicates viewers in what is happening on the ‘other side’ of the screen… and one is fully conscious of the role of the photographer. The camera is made to approach a lit screen in a viewing theatre before turning full circle to approach the projector… the trip was made only once, but the sequence is repeated by an intricate process using successive generations of prints – a print from a print etc… Here there is a progressive deterioration of ‘quality’ and the image breaks up into signs and symbols and finally into abstract fragments. What we have then is a clear case of art as truth through fabrication, with the imperative that the fabrication, the contrivance, must be revealed…

Short documentary about Ilija Dzhadzhev, Macedonian musician who plays Hawaiian guitar.

In this drama, a Louisiana black man has brought his family to Los Angeles to fulfill his dream of opening his own bakery. For him, it was a great gamble as he had no credit, and little money. Still, he manages to get the bakery going. Unfortunately, the business is not able to sustain itself and the fellow is forced to close it down and take a sanitation job.

The vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.

A colour anamorphic musical look at London's Heathrow airport over 24-hours in November 1971. The subject was shot entirely at Heathrow airport without recording any direct sound. LHR's many layered tracks were all compiled, recorded and laid in post-production.

The oneiric quest of a modern argonaut on a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.

Since Kulla has a short stature, he is considered to be unfit for becoming a secret agent. However, he gets ecstatic when the opportunity arises and he gets the chance to fulfil his dream.

A historical comedy set in the 1850s, a rich land owner, Tobias Rouke, deals with interesting pioneer folk such as a traveling preacher peddler, mounted police and his crazy wives.

An official falls victim to hooligans. He recognizes one of the attackers at a party organized by his director.

Batwoman and Robin meet the Queen of the Vampires is a 1972 Filipino action horror film directed by Tony Cayado (Kamay na gumagapang, Dracula Goes to R.P., Living Dead) from a screenplay by Greg Macabenta.

A group of friends plan to smuggle a ton of marijuana from Mexico to the US by using a hot-air balloon.

Video about the political situation in Northern Ireland that coss-pollinates cinéma vérité with the nightly news, mixing on-the-scene images with a collaged soundtrack of field recordings, statistical data, and pertinent history.

Hier deutsche Volkspolizei (1972) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike and Peter Vatter. Commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR, the film provides an in-depth look at the operations of the Deutsche Volkspolizei (People's Police). It showcases various aspects of their daily work, from patrolling and traffic control to community engagement, emphasizing their role in maintaining public order and safety within East Germany. Produced by the DEFA Studio, the documentary reflects the state's interest in documenting the work of its institutions and presenting them as integral to the well-being of society.

The story revolves around the Minangkabau Hanafi and his friend, the half-French half-Minangkabau Corrie du Bussée. Although Hanafi is Minangkabau and a Muslim, he considers European culture to be superior and has many European friends.

In Manhattan and Wall Street's majestic, neoclassical architecture, characters try their luck, ambiguously posted between the mundane and transcendence.

The story focuses on the professional stage of the driver Carlos Alberto Pairetti, during his time with the official Ford Argentina Road Tourism team. However, this story takes place in a fictitious reality in which the former champion of the category has a brother named Nicolás, with whom he forms a love triangle.

A 1972 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Jovan Acin, starring Slobodan Perović, Renata Ulmanski and Marko Todorović.

Starring Som Dutt, Helen, and Ramesh Deo, the film delves into the macabre as a scientist's pursuit of knowledge leads him down a dark path.

Animated Short

On many working sites where workers spend years away from their families, every visit is an event. A husband climbs down from a potentially fatal construction site to meet his wife for lunch.

The Greek Women Servants' Association is chaired by Despoina, who fights for the rights of the union's members, and in particular against Bigos, who seduces all the maids.

Houshang Farzad Mirza (Reza Arazam Sadr), from his hometown of Isfahan, has gone to New York to study for a tragedy, and his scholarship goes down ...