Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

Hal Jepsen's coverage of the 1971 Expression Session. This was a surfing showcase event without judges, scores, winners, or losers, featuring a select group of the world's best surfers.

Gosho Kalimanski, a clerk living the big city, finds difficulties to stand the endless noise around him.

A Black Man can't catch a cab in New York.

A young man becomes entangled in a murder accusation and must fight to prove his innocence.

Elders Mariane and Athanas Jacob – of the Atikamekw community of Manawan – demonstrate a moose-call horn constructed from bark. The beautiful horn is a vital tool in attracting moose, an essential animal in their culture and community.

Set in 1997, this short sci-fi film narrates the story of a normal world that slowly degenerates into an amoral and lifeless place.

Valtteri and Sepe, two ordinary white-collar guys from southern Finland drive up north to implement a plan they've been hatching for months. Because they simply love the taste of lamb, baked "robber-style" in a hole dug under a campfire, they forge their car's number plates and other important documents just to be able to poach sheep grazing on the roadside without getting caught. Lots of man talk around the campfire, aided by lots of booze. The summer may be wet, but the vodka is definitely dry.

The story is about a small penguin named Vin who sets off for the first time by himself.

Pakistani army gang rape Bangladeshi women before they are liberated by Indian army.

A grimly amusing look at life in Sun City, Arizona, a gated retirement community. The Best of Your Life was the first film that Streeter and Ganz made for The Great American Dream Machine.

A horse becomes a man.

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Nelet and Marieta, two foster siblings from different social classes, were raised together in the country during their childhood, united by milk kinship. Upon meeting years later in the city, the affective bond between the young man, now a factory worker, and the young woman, will come into conflict as a result of the class boundaries and differences that separate them. Docudrama loosely based on the short story "El femater", by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.

Documents the life and works of filmmaker Pat O'Neill, showing the making of a select group of films and discussion of these films by O'Neill.

1972, 59:04 min, b&w, sound. In 1972, TVTV brought their low-budget, free-form journalistic techniques to the floor of the Democratic Presidential Convention in Miami. Using lightweight, 1/2-inch Portapak equipment, which allowed them greater mobility and spontaneity than the networks, the TVTV crew moved around the Convention floor with ease and speed. They came away with shrewd, sardonic portraits of the politicians, delegates and voters, providing an irreverent picture of the behind-the-scenes political maneuvering. TVTV's close coverage of the California delegation, as well as the successful battle to unseat Chicago mayor Richard Daley and his delegates, exemplifies the collective's verite methods. Presented without commentary, TVTV's candid, close-up coverage offers a revealing look at one of the foundations of the American political process.

A previously isolated Appalachian region is infiltrated by seven travelers, who seek to create a Utopian community with the residents. A television documentary crew films the fraught interactions.

One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera and used multiple exposures. They would then be projected in various combinations though usually as a four-screen.

The court trial of the 1933 arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin by a Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe. The incident took place only four weeks after Adolf Hitler sworn as the German chancellor The film was damaged and only 23 mins are preserved.

A story about Skid Row in Los Angeles that examines the lives of the men who live and die on 5th Street.

On August 15, 1972, during the dictatorial government of General Lanusse, twenty political prisoners belonging to the PRT- ERP, FAR and Montoneros, escaped from Rawson prison in the Patagonian province of Chubut.

A mystical performance about the sea and the earth based on a Yoruba folk tale.

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.

Adel, who has been released from prison after four years, travels to Yazd to visit his friend Davood, but finds him to be an alcoholic. Leila, a dancer whom Davood is fond of, tells Adel that in his absence, a wicked man named Teymour has arrived and gradually taken control of Davood’s caravanserai. Teymour is also trying to take possession of Davood’s sister...

Portrait of a national icon: iskelmä or popular schlager legend Olavi Virta (1915–1972), as an old, lost and lonely man. When the film was screened for the first time, people all over Finland went ballistic – they couldn't take the sad sight of their tango's greatest voice, the incarnation of postwar wealth and glory in ruins.

A concise and poetic story of a man whose model airplane vanishes over the sea.

The story of a village located in southern Tunisia suffering from emigration in the 70s'. This film depicts the wide ranged consequences emigration has on the land and lives of the last remaining members of this village.

A London park and artist Chris Welsby runs repeatedly into frame and off into the distance; his actions contrast with the more leisurely activities of others passing by. The camera remained stationary at shooting and a hand-clap to synchronise sound at the start of each take is not edited out. The piece has the appearance of a film loop but it becomes clear that it is a series of different takes.

A story about a group searching for Japanese treasures and meeting an old man living with his gorgeous daughter.

The process of making refractory bricks.

This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists' cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food was designed and built largely by Matta-Clark, who also organized art events and performances there. As a social space, meeting ground and ongoing art project for the emergent downtown artists' community, Food was a landmark that still resonates in the history and mythology of SoHo in the 1970s.

A man raises four wolf pups, hoping to release them back into the wild.

"The film stars Bone, originally named Basil Catbone, a creature who survived several life threatening events to die at the age of 17. He was one of my mentors and a cherished friend. When this film was shown in Europe many years ago, someone called him the 'Charles Bronson of cats'. Dogs feared him, but with humans he was gentle. [...] A little girl awaits a school bus. A spider awaits its prey. Through it all, Bone, a feline Zen master, walks stolidly ahead, implying, perhaps, that there might be a means to resolve this, and we see him choose to balance himself and move on down the line, walking the path of the middle way." –Abbott Meader

In his early childhood, Aziz lost his father, and his mother remarried a collective farm miller, Ustozakir. The boy spent all his time at the mill, helping his stepfather, and when he grew older, he completed a driving course. After his mother's death, Ustozakir marries a young woman. When Aziz sees his mother’s jewelry on the bride, he rips it off and runs away from his stepfather's house. After getting a job as a driver, he meets Muhabbat. The young couple falls in love, but their love is hindered by the fact that, according to an old tradition, Muhabbat has been betrothed to Gaib since childhood, and he insists on marrying her. After the girl rejects his official proposal, Gaib attempts to abduct her. However, Aziz and his friends thwart his plans.

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.

Filmed presentation of Flame Orchard, a 20-foot (6-metre) field of burning gas flames that respond to music, designed by György Kepes in collaboration with William Walton, Paul Earls, and Mauricio Bueno, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., 1972.

An alien spaceship lands on earth, and its inhabitant decides to help a trio of children prevent their village being destroyed to make way for a new motorway.

One of two Georgian animated films from Two Novels.

Static images of an old country house are combined with voices of the past to evocative effect. Haunting and nostalgic, ‘Return’ conveys the life that exists in old, abandoned places.

Two high school seniors who are bored with school and decide to skip class one day to go to the train station cinema, which causes some trouble. They are happy that they will soon be leaving school and have illusions about working. One of them is seen at the beginning of an automotive apprenticeship.

Shy accountant Fink suddenly gains a reputation as a notorious lover when he fabricates a fling with visiting film star Ria Ray to impress his boss’s daughter, Gerty. When Ria hears the rumors and shows up determined to expose the truth, Fink’s made-up scandals come crashing down around him.

A brief interview with Johnnie Didge followed by a demonstration/performance.

Short film depicting a man and woman smoking.

Red Guards were a student movement supported by Mao Zedong in 1966-67 during the Cultural Revolution. A group of students at Qinghua University who issued 2 big-character posters in May-June 1966 called themselves Red Guards. The students criticised the university administration of elitism and bourgeois tendencies. In August 1966 Mao Zedong expressed support for the Red Guards. This gave the student movement political legitimacy and it spread outside Beijing. The Red Guards started to attack the Four Olds and marched across China to eradicate old ideas, old cultures, old customs and old habits. Ultimately the struggle between different Red Guard factions led to a chaotic civil-war-like situation. During 1967-68 the Peoples Liberation Army got the movement under control and restored social order. Beginning late 1968 members of the Red Guard movement were sent to the countryside to undergo re-education. We met and filmed them in August 1971.

Ethnographic film by Jorge Preloran presents a portrait of a well-preserved colonial church in the small town of Yavi, Jujuy Province, Argentina. A voice over narration by Zenaida Wayar, the church's caretaker for over forty years, provides the history of the church and the region.

A film about a lion.

Fleeting 8mm views of the Rhode Island coast reach beyond the home movie towards deeper mysteries of light and presence. With window-framed shots, intimate shadows and a few sly self-portraits, Marjorie Keller gestures towards a subjectivity of the light touch.

A woman tells the story of how she bought an expensive dress that she never got to wear, and then tells the story again focusing on her feelings about the events she described.