Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

Shifted From the Side is conceptually identical to To And Fro... and was probably made the same afternoon. The object used to demonstrate five possibilities of what could—but not necessarily should—be the artwork is a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes. As in To And Fro..., the camera is static. The pack is on the right side of the screen; as the text is read, the pack is shifted back and forth. The hand retreats from the object each time an act is completed before sliding it from side to side across the table.

Based on the short story “Too Late” by Latvian writer Egils Lukjanskis about one family that helped a German soldier during World War II.

The film tells the story of the final stage of the Great Patriotic War, focusing on the military operations on the fronts from March to May 1945.

"For Anne Kofke" "RIVERS, particularly, reveals many interesting qualities. There is a sensability in it that I am willing to trust to the end, no matter what weaknesses the film contains. The attitude, the feeling is right, and most of the images are right. Strong lyrical qualities. A beautiful merging of personal incongruities and irrelevancies. Good use of superimpositions. The only time the film fails (to me) is in its ovvasional frame freezes which look like infatuations in otherwise healthy lyrical footage.... I find Jon Voorhees a rare new talent and I am looking forward to more of his work" Jonas Mekas, Village Voice, March 1973

In this two conferences about Vietnam, people denounce the violence of the american government. Veterans speak about their experience, the control of the media over the representation of the war and establish a link between what happens in Vietnam and how black people are treated in the United States.

The story comes from the classic novel. The task was to capture the magical Ibong Adarna to cure their father's illness. The one who can bring home the bird will be the heir to the throne.

Part of the Logical Propositions series. 16mm, colour, sound

Documentary about the major strike in the metal industry in November/December 1971 in North Württemberg-North Baden. The IG Metall strike is regarded as the biggest strike in Germany since the Weimar Republic. The aim of the collective bargaining was a wage increase of 11%; in the end, 7.5% was agreed.

1972 Gitai super8 short film

Documentary filmed during the third and fourth months of a successful six month work-in by women workers at Sextons Shoe Factory, Fakenham, Norfolk. Faced with redundancy, the women employees of the shoe factory occupied the building and began producing leather goods as a co-operative.

Three farmers decide to leave their village, where the spring has dried up, and move to the city. Salem, the youngest, rebels because he cannot find work. A young woman plays the role of conscience to the villagers who remain in front of their televisions watching the modern world, without changing their situation. Their difficult search for work raises the issues of unemployment, rural exodus, and emigration.

Short directed by Roger Gnoan M'Bala.

A slow-motion study by Norman McLaren of the pas-de-deux adagio, one of the most exacting and difficult dances of classical ballet. A ballet originally choreographed by the Russian ballet master Asaf Messerer is performed for this film by the internationally known Canadian pair, David and Anna Marie Holmes, to the music of Albinoni’s Adagio. A film to heighten the aesthetic appreciation of classical ballet and to afford observation of the technique and mechanics of the adagio movements.

Embodying Rainer’s aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and tableaux vivants to explore issues of power and gender that influence the emotional lives of her performers.

Kali is the goddess of physical form and transformation in Hindu mythology - thus, the varied textures, colors, and shapes of our transitory existence: the many from the one .... A de-attachment from conventional seeing, with its naming, values and judgments. Weight lifters, drill teams, skyscrapers, majorettes, forests, trains, Pacific Ocean, military schoolboys, conveyor belts, fog .... A structural use of dissolves, fades, and layered sound to carry the momentum of the film. Felicity Facility.

A girl tries to reconcile her father and her brother, because she loves both very much. She tries to reform her brother by making sacrifices, which shakes his core.

“The changing dots, ectoplasmic shapes and electronic music of L. Schwartz’s ‘Mutations’ which has been shot with the aid of computers and lasers, makes for an eye-catching view of the potentials of the new techniques.” – A. H. Weiler, N. Y. Times

Marta goes to Lorenzo's bar to bring Matías home. His father's untimely death and Elena's betrayal have left him bitter. As they leave, they are confronted by Pedro. Matías smashes a liquor bottle over the hunchback's head; for this, he is sentenced to one month in jail.

1972 Gitai super8 short film

Although Freude was most instrumental in the Bay Area film community through her company Serious Business (1972–83) which rented and sold films by women, especially animation, she made a few films that spoke authentically to women’s experience. Often interpreted as a film that forefronts the repetitive and futile nature of traditional women’s circumscribed activities, the sound track carries the real message: "I won’t stop trying till I create a disturbance in your mind."

A television film about the creative journey of the People's Artist of the USSR Vera Petrovna Maretskaya.

"Monuments" is an attack on the meaning of monuments, here in Düsseldorf / Germany.

Writes Antin: "Applying hair to her face, the artist moves through a variety of bearded faces seeking the identity most appropriate to her facial structure and satisfying to her aspirations." Antin transforms herself into a man and adopts one of her recurring performance personae, "The King."

A butterfly collector seeks the last missing piece of his collection.

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter

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.

La segunda primera matriz (The second first womb) told visually and poetically a story about humanity, from its origin to the Space Race, as a new frontier. In a first section, amongst shots of clouds, swirls and darkness, it referred to the origin of life. (...) After the launch of a rocket and images about exploring space, the film shows a woman naked in the country. The camera makes a slow tilt down of her body. When passing by the pubis, the camera follows a drop of blood that slides by the leg. When it reaches the floor, a parade of miniature war tanks appear, red, like the ones previously shown. The film ends with a sign that says 'But you can also give birth to nothing'.

This four-episode Swedish documentary series by Arne Sucksdorff draws on footage shot over four years in Brazil—especially in the Pantanal wetlands—and is narrated from Sucksdorff’s personal diary. It combines images of plants, animals, landscapes, and daily camp life with moments of tension (e.g. threats to wildlife) and reflection on humanity’s relationship with nature.

A through trip down Simpson Pot and out of the Valley Entrance of Kingsdale Master Cave. Filmed over a dozen trips, it features cavers from the Happy Wanderers Cave and Pothole Club. It was commissioned by BBC Leeds, and was first broadcast on BBC One in October 1972.

A series of complaints directed at the camera that nobody wanted to take care of before. It turns out that the complaints focus on policemen, a sergeant, and a master corporal.

70s Queen of action movies, Virginia and son, Robin Aristorenas teamed up for this spectacular adventure in the 1972 movie, Batwoman and Robin

A young merchant learns the art of transforming himself into a tiger, on condition of him adhering to some rules. Using his skills, he takes revenge on those who had tortured and attempted to harm him. However, as he breaks the rules he had promised to observe, he pays the ultimate price.

Mexican feature film

From the Psychedelic Series 1968-1972 / Painting on Film, Optical Printer work, Multiple exposure, pioneering techniques from Psychedelic era.

The film tells the story of the love between Susran and Mizago, two Circassians fighting for freedom against the Russians in the Caucasus. Susran is the leader of the Circassians fighting against the Russians in the region. Susran falls in love with Mizago while dancing with her at a party. Mizago is the daughter of Karabata, a Circassian who collaborates with Russian Colonel Rakimov. Upon learning this, Susran goes to Karabata's house. However, he is ambushed and captured. Meanwhile, Susran's comrades-in-arms, Kanshav and Çelemet, kidnap Mizago. Susran will try to escape from Colonel Rakimov's clutches and reunite with Mizago.

Presented by that King of Sleaze Harry Novak comes this film about a woman who leaves her film career in Rome(no longer wanted) and comes to stay with her sister who married a millionaire. While there she devises a plan for her brother-in-law's brother and servant to have sex with her sister after being drugged with a an aphrodisiac in the hopes that her brother-in-law will divorce her sister and marry her. Whew! Some plot.

In this film a man reels off a list of racy film titles using very explicit language.

A parody of several popular movies such as A Man and Woman (1966) and The Last Relic (1969).

Bódy Gábor made his experimental film-language series Négy bagatell (Four bagatelles) between 1972 and 1975. Egy bagatell (One bagatelle) is the third part of this series which is a unique experiment to show the film frame's meaning-altering nature. The etude can be divided into two parts. In the first part, we see the dance of a drunk man. The second shows a sociologist's lecture.

Kadir Ağa falls in love with a cabaret dancer. There is nothing he won't do for her. Various schemes are devised to take every last penny of Kadir Ağa's fortune. He leaves his home and children behind and goes far away with the cabaret dancer. Kadir Ağa realizes too late that he has been caught up in a cruel game and that they only wanted his money.He loses his home, his homeland, and his lands for this cause. Years later, he encounters an incident involving his own children. The truth comes to light. His children have grown up, and the bar woman's daughter is being loved by Kadir Ağa's younger son. The events unfold...

Buzz Buzzard attempts to con Woody once more, using a fake magic lamp and a mouse as the genie.

"THE SUNSHINE SISTERS looks like a 1944 postcard that was shot in black and white, but colored with garish grease pencil reds, yellows and greens. Likewise, the film sounds like the scores of at least two-dozen grade B melodramas mixed together with an egg beater. The results are hilarious, ludicrous and incongruous - a love comic book of doomed women and handsome, nefarious young men caught in a web of dramatic cliches, pushed ad absurdum. Elvira Cartwright, dying of movie star disease, is seen alternatingly clutching her waning heart and being taken unfair advantage of in some of the most bizarre places imaginable. Sarah Cartwright wears a phony leopard skin jacket, pointy plastic sunglasses, and gold-toned sandals .... The sisters are played by Jan Lash and Ainslie Pryor. Musical compilation is by Bob Cowan." – program notes, Film Forum, New York

A film in three movements. In the first one, we find a historical synthesis of Brazilian architecture, from the slaves' dwellings to the Ministry of Education Building. In the second segment, architects such as Burle Marx, Lina Bo Bardi, Grigori Warchavchik and Joaquim Cardoso talk about architecture's social function. In the third movement, inhabitants of some Brazilian cities discuss the space they live in.

Analysis of the Republic, from the end of the War of Independence to the beginning of the insurrection against the dictatorship of General Fulgencio Batista.

The Dreamer That Remains is a documentary produced by Betty Freeman and directed by Stephen Pouliot in 1972. Here is the director’s original cut along with his commentary. If you’ve never seen Partch or his instruments before, this is the place to start.

Whilst working on previous time-lapse films, I found that colour film tended to record the actual colour of the light source rather than local colour when long time exposures were used. Using this phenomenon, Colours of this Time records all the imperceptible shifts of colour temperature in summer daylight, from first light until sunset.

Cast as an “electronic erotic seductress,” the multiple costumes and roles performed by Jonas critically examine the ever-changing, but consistently unequal roles of women. The camera gazes at Jonas, implicating the viewer in the work and further, with her body. Her intentional de-synchronization of the monitor's receiving and transmitting frequencies results in the on-screen image's repeated vertical descent. Creating a sense of fragmentation, the vertical roll relentlessly pounds at the images of the artist as she moves through a series of performed identities. Characterized a "disjunctive self portrait" by the Electronic Arts Intermix, the image content of the work is strongly mediated by the mirror-like function of the camera, scrutinized by the lens and subjected to violence by the vertical roll.

Documentary about youth in Austria. Peter Patzak and Walter Kindler traveled the country to speak with young people of a wide variety of different social classes and environments.

Two cameras are connected via a switch and the recordings are blended into a picture on the monitor. Layers of various body parts are made in order to form analogies of body-scapes, an anagrammatic of the body: ear instead of nose, vulva instead of mouth...