Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

A showcase for the MCAD Animation Workshop 1972 where each student was given one of a series of cells to animate whatever they pleased.

1972 Experimental film by Ian Hugo (Hugh Parker Guiler) starring Yass Hakashima and Renate Boué of the Yass Hakoshima Movement Theatre. Cinematography: Bob Hanson; Music: David Horowitz

While a bachelor party is being held in an apartment, the death of one of the hired girls exposes the fears of men.

Utilizing surveys and reports on the background of cable television, this film explores its place in the world of television, and its future potential as a communication tool in workplaces, educational institutions, the home, and the community. Includes both live-action sequences of people using cable television as a means of accessing information, and animated sequences which explain the history of cable television and how the medium functions.

Timothy Leary at the Village Theatre, Kusama at the Cooper Square Playhouse, Hermann Nitsch “Orgy-Mystery” at the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque; Living Theatre’s “Paradise Now” at BAM; 7th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival, Wards Island, “Television as a creative medium” Howard Wise Gallery and more. – Anthology Film Archives

1972 Documentary about a yearly event in San Francisco. What makes San Francisco different? In the 70's you could invite your friends to Christmas Breakfast and make a musical. Everyone pitches in-artists, models, society ladies, gays, straights, lawyers, bohemians, international types--all the colorful crew that makes the city so memorable.

About the love of a poor Kurdish shepherd and the daughter of a rich man and about their death.

Rock and roll legend Bo Diddley spends a day in Toronto with a young musician, and shares his philosophies and experiences. They hang out and play music together before Diddley puts on an electrifying concert that evening.

An erotic satire that parodies the styles of Fellini, Busby Berkely and Woody Allen, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE WORLD depicts the sexual fantasies of a suburban couple as it explores the follies and foibles of sexual mores and practices.

This film has no literal subject, no frames, only slow continuously shifting colours, cycling around the perimeter of the spectrum. The changes are so slow as to be unseen, yet they alter our perception of colour. Part of a trilogy (Acts of Light), which develops a study of pure colour, based on the notion that film is essentially change and not motion.

A strange and haunting vision of the catharsis involved in the work and leisure expenditure of an apparently non-distinct punch clock commoner, a human with its face masked in bandages. The cold urban landscape is pocked with such sinister everyday events that even the contents of the commoner's briefcase can only reinforce the veils within. Chock full of very special effects.

Proving there is always more than meets the eye, a school hallway water fountain’s use and abuse are the subject of this explorative short film

A house with constantly changing interiors, surrounded by different types of landscapes, is shown from various angles, in response to music.

At the beginning of the film the word FOME (hunger) appears written with bean seeds. The germination of the grains is recorded step by step until it gives rise to exuberant plants, thus creating an ironic metaphor that inverts the meaning of the word. The film refers to the misery that was experienced in certain areas of Brazil in the 1970s. One of the works of the "Quasi Cinema" movement in Brazil.

A surfer, filmed and shown on tv, refilmed on 8mm,and refilmed again on 16mm.Simple loop structure preceded by four minutes of a still frame of the surfer. An image on the borders of apprehension, becoming more and more abstract. The surfer surfs, never surfs anywhere, an image suspended in the light of the projector lamp. A very quiet and undramatic film, not particularly didactic. Sound: the first four minutes consists of a fog-horn, used as the basic tone for a chord played on the organ, the rest of the film uses the sound of breakers with a two second pulse and occasional bursts of musical-like sounds.

"In this now infamous tape, exemplary of his early transgressive performance style, Acconci sits and relates a masturbatory fantasy about a girl rubbing his legs under the table. Carrying on a rambling dialogue that shifts back and forth between the camera/spectator and himself, Acconci sexualizes the implicit contract between performer and viewer - the viewer serving as a voyeur who makes the performance possible by watching and completing the scene, believing the fantasy."

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

What will happen if you give the world in the hands of children to decide about...

Filipino horror comedy movie from 1972.

A film made without a camera: A newspaper glued onto clear film is projected as audio-visual typography. "For NEWSPRINT I glued a newspaper onto clear 16mm film then punched out the sprocket holes to enable the film to run through the projector. Using a strong light I printed ‘newspaper-film’ to copy it onto another strip of film. This shows up the letters and words clearly, which can also be heard as they pass over the sound-head in the projector. Newsprint #2 is a live projection event for two 16mm projectors and two loudspeakers [...] Two identical prints are shown superimposed onto the same screen." -GS.

Traffic left behind precious few concert videos in any form, so this show, from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, is an intrinsically valuable document of the band, even though it does feature a later lineup: Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood, Rebop Kwakubaah, Roger Hawkins, and David Hood. Chronologically, the show comes roughly a year later than the Welcome to the Canteen album. There are some many wonderful shots of the band members from varied angles and all kinds of different lighting, even within the same song, courtesy of video producer Taylor Hackford (White Nights, Against All Odds) but, in fact, this wasn't the ideal version of the group to capture on stage: Winwood had suffered a serious illness the year before, the group was always in a state of flux as far as its line-up was concerned, and they were entering the period of decline that would coincide with the recording of Shootout at the Fantasy Factory.

Arguably the first African film made that engages the topic of slavery. African film pioneer Mahama Traore (more commonly referred to as Johnson), offers an uncompromising narrative that seeks to address totality of the African slave narrative.

What happens if Sweden joins the EEC?

Momotaro was born from a peach, raised by his grandfather and grandmother, and grew up to be a strong child. One day, he sets off on a journey to Onigashima Island with a dog, a monkey, and a pheasant as his companions in order to defeat an ogre that has been ravaging the village.

Vince Collins earliest animation short from 1972, restored by Mark Toscano at AMPAS.

Steamboat trip along the Purus River.

Two men living in a snow-bound town in the mountains fall in love with the same girl

All Women Are Equal is a black and white 15- minute documentary filmed in Nottingham England in 1972, about Paula, a male to female transsexual made by veteran lesbian filmmaker Marguerite Paris (1934-2007). This very early and non-exploitative representation of an ordinary well- adjusted transgendered person is historically significant for its treatment of the subject.

"I repeat the matter of the plane etc. (Referring to the 1971 film Terra): I started here to play swinging themes, like from an airplane flying unbalanced, the effect is amazing, they said."

"The shapes of sound filmed from a computer system that reproduces analog patterns from sounds. This pioneer work in animated computer mandalas is a lyrical, abstract song with analog rhythms."

This film shows the images of a dancing woman who is wearing Kimono overlapping another image which a naked man is dancing. This is one of the original psychological concepts of C.G. Jung. For women, Animus is an image of a man by projection of her mental energy.

a short movie showing a day in the life of Egyptian middle class clerk in early 1970s.

Abstract film by John Whitney Jr., filmed using a long exposure of a photograph of a person.

Youth unemployment is a perennial problem, but this ATV film from 1972 documents a particularly challenging period for a troubled community. Exploring the efforts of central Liverpool’s Bronte Youth Centre, it follows a group of Merseyside school-leavers as they face up to inescapable fate on the dole, trying to fill their time playing table tennis and football.

Experimental film by William S. Burroughs and Antony Balch

A young man starts a new life in a small town near Łódź.

A naked hustler tells his story nonstop. A real wonder-hunk.

Art-naive gallery of craft guilds of Haban ceramics in Slovakia.

The Mulligan Stew group undertake the mission of preparing a meal for young people from all over the world so that each child can sample foods from other cultures. Points out that the essential nutrients can be found in foods from all over the world.

The description of a soldier's first leave of absence

Twenty years ago, twin brothers Adriaan and Paul van der Bijl went their separate ways after an argument that left Adriaan blind. Embittered, Adriaan stayed on in his diabetic father’s mansion, eventually marrying the sick man’s beautiful nurse Marie.On the day of his father’s funeral, which Adriaan does not attend, Paul returns. The brothers’ meeting is not friendly: a shot rings out, and one lies dead. Adriaan tells his manservant, Freddie, that he killed Paul in self-defence. As the two are trying to dispose of the body, a detective knocks on the door. He has been hired to find Paul, who may be a beneficiary in the old man’s will. And to make matters worse, Marie is becoming suspicious as well.

A mysterious figure leaves the Tower of Babel. It looks for the truth, it looks for life, it joins feasters and people working in the field. The animation is based on Pieter Bruegel’s style of painting.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

Chronicles the work of several California dance teachers in a program of dance instruction taught in several California school systems. Shows how the program stimulated the creativity of both instructors and pupils. Bella Lewitzky, Virginia Tanner and Murray Lewis are featured in this film by D.A. Pennebaker about the Impact Program, bringing dance professionals into the public schools.

1972 short film by Håkan Dahlström.

There's no point in fleeing the city, because the problems of the entire country are concentrated there. Montreal's future isn't entirely uncertain: one only has to look at the many American cities that have preceded us in this endeavor to discover the choices available. Thus, we know that bedroom communities are merely a temporary and illusory refuge. Sooner or later, we will have to confront the city head-on and address the very root of the cancer that is eating away at it, in order to transform it into an entity conducive to human happiness.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger's film about Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti (1896-1936).

A documentary about the electrification process of Skopje, with a special historical focus on the city's past. The work of the electricity distribution service, Skopje plant, in maintaining the electricity network. Future perspectives for complete lighting, as well as the implementation of the plan for modernizing services for electricity users.

In three parts: Statice/frameline; Drops; The Cannonball Section. Unpopulated (except for the cheap ending on the Cannonball Section). (Previously shown as SLOW FLUSH.) –A. C. H.

A tale about how a hippopotamus caught the sun and decided to share it with other animals.

This film without words is composed of Pamela Bone's unique photograhic transparencies. Her talent has been said to 'push photography beyond its own limits, liberating it to the status of an entirely creative art form.' Inspired by nature, and being more responsive to feeling than to thought, Miss Bone has sought to express the mystery and beauty of the inner vision through photographic means alone: landscape has the quality of a dream; children on the sea-shore have a sense of their own enchantment, trees are forboding and strange when night moves in their arms. It took Miss Bone twenty years to find the right technique and so overcome the limitations that photography would impose.