Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

In the new world of high-speed highway driving, there are a host of new dangers to take into account.

About the courage and resourcefulness of three tankers of different nationalities, who showed solidarity and protected the girl from the wolf.

Traces bronze from its discovery in Mesopotamia in the third millenium BCE to the 20th century.

A phone sex company caters to all manner of sexual degeneracy, including "whipping," "girl and horse" (!), "elbow licking" (!!), "man and bear" (!!!) and - uh - "tittie fondling" (!!!!), in this softcore comedy that's currently unavailable.

Early video work by Hermine Freed utilizing 360-degree panning shots

The film is inspired by the epic poem, "Astrapogiannos", of the Greek poet, representative of the Heptanese School, and politician, Aristotelis Valaoritis, and refers to the life of Lambetis, the son of Astrapogiannos.

"Steve Kolpan, video artist, at exercise." -Description from Portable Channel catalogue

Biopic of notorious criminal and self styled folk hero Leonardo Manicio, better known as Nardong Putik, who credited his magical amulet for giving hime special powers.

Having completed his studies in England, Don César returned to his family's farm in Sardinia. He finds that the local peasants are living in terror of a cattle rustler, Marras, and his accomplices. Don César begins by lodging a complaint against Marras. But this was only the beginning of his plan: to catch the thieves in the act, he installed an alarm system around his property. One night, the beam of a searchlight sweeps across the property and the bandits must flee as quickly as possible. In revenge, Marras kidnaps the daughter of César's foreman. But she cleverly deceives her guardian and escapes. Marras sets off in search of Maria. Meanwhile, César and his foreman scour the region for her. It all ends in violence and bloodshed. Marras and the foreman are shot dead. César and the girl are unharmed.

In the years following the People's Revolution of 1921, the anti-revolutionary group led by Dambijantsan, named Ja Lam, terrorized the people and organized a conspiracy against the new government under their control. There will be adventures in the activities of those who fought without love

Short film about the importance of sport in the GDR

A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. "It's super-intellectual. A fable-musical-philosophical-chanchada", Mautner says. He also affirms that the work focuses a lot on the longing for Brazil, on the will that the exiled had to return to their homeland. The idea came from conversations between the musician and his old father, "always talking about the pre-Socratics", he recalls. Glauber Rocha states that "The Demiurge" is the best film "of" and "about" exile.

Two gentlemen are having an argument. How heavy is their disagreement?

Pari is Zackaria Hashemi's short film

An illustration of the difficulties women encounter when they seek to achieve economic integration and equality with men in a country at the height of revolution.

This film was shot a frame at the time using laborious extreme optical close-ups. Anonimatograph: the reanimated image of an unknown amateur at the beginning of the century who becomes middle class as he focuses on friends, movie camera in hand, indoors and outdoors surrounded by war and by his sisters. I have tried to reconstruct an extravagant film diary from which I have painstakingly torn out little pages of frames. These frames were exposed and abandoned on negative on a number of photographic reels, cut together at random in two sixty-meter reels in 35mm and acquired by me for 500 Lire from a flea-market vendor. Many frames were shot vertically, others only partially exposed, sometimes properly developed, sometimes not. I tried to animate these little reels using a flicker technique with light stroboscopic touches; in short, a film that could not be recommended to anyone.

"This film documents the U.S. tour of Lebanese singer Fayrouz (sometimes spelled Fairuz), and her troupe of 60 dancers and musicians, across eleven cities between September 29th and October 23rd, 1971. Fayrouz's husband and brothers composed all of the music for her tour, which was sponsored by the Forum for Arab Art and Culture of California" (US National Archives).

The behaviour of a one-dimensional stimulus in a linear interval.

Animated biopic of mexican president Benito Juárez.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

A parable, photographed in live-action, about the use of eating utensils in India. Doubling as a social commentary, this film also examines the significance and status that people attach to their artifacts.

Three alien criminals from the planet Tryzzia are exiled to a distant planet for their heinous crimes. The planet is Earth! Who will stand against these evil extra-terrestrials and thwart their killing spree, or are we all doomed?

“Prizren - the City of Resources and Beauty” is a documentary directed by Zvonimir Saksida and produced by Zastava Film in 1972, which presents the history, traditions and beauties of Prizren with the aim of promoting the touristic potential of the city. Discovered in the Lumbardhi Cinema archive, it was screened for the first time during the exhibition “At Once Vague and Unavoidable: Modernities 1945-1989” produced as part of the partnership between Lumbardhi Foundation and Oral History Initiative within the project “Prizren Urban Memoryscapes” supported by Franco-German Cultural Fund, the French Embassy, the German Embassy, Municipality of Prizren and Sharrcem. The restoration and digitization of “Prizren - the City of Resources and Beauty” was made possible by the partner of the project, the French National Audiovisual Institute - INA and the French Embassy.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

Gerda Diddens' "Sprookje, of l'homme-objet" and "Découpage" form a very funny double metaphor about cinema and machismo.

Film starring Ratan Chopra, Tanuja and Prem Nath

The year is 1972, two years before the regular newsreel produced by the Sahia Studio – known as The Week in Pictures – was discontinued. Sahia started producing the newsreel at the beginning of the 1950s, as an extension of the Sound Newsreel produced by the National Cinematographic Office. Production ceased in March 1974, after newsreel had been made obsolete by television news.

A documentary film experiment consisting of repeating the same sequence of shots ten times, depicting a flowerpot falling from a tenement window. The shots gradually lengthen, revealing new details about the world depicted.

About the distance between the political leadership and the common people. Here illustrated in connection with the referendum on the EEC.

A collection of three short stories: "Veekandja," "Armastab!," and "Tüütu muusik."

Eighteen-year-old Pásztor Béla joins the communist party.

Tells the story about the friendship between a promising architect and his friend, the son of a wealthy building contractor. Some beautiful girls are the cause of their “inseparability” being severely disturbed.

“A tribute to the Swing Era evoked by skillful intercutting of rare material examining the varying fortunes of five ex-Basie sidemen. It looks at the years between 1930 and 1945 when Swing was in its heyday. Features a large number of artists including: the Count Basie Band, Buddy Tate, Earle Warren, Buck Clayton and Gene Krupa.” - BFI

Because of her childlessness, married woman takes her best friend’s suggestion to pretend pregnancy and then adopts her child. Unfortunately the secret is then found out by the scum, who terrorizes and extorts her for escalating amounts of money.

Short pinku, distributed by Nikkatsu in 1972

Ten young women who used to live together at boarding school meet in a café and tell each other spicy stories from their lives and those of schoolmates.

Short by Studio 970/2.

During a football match, one of the teams' goalkeepers is approached by his wife, who starts an argument.

16mm Kodak Reversal Film, 1972. Transferred to Video and digitised with Screenplay Graphics approx. in 2018

Early 1970s documentary that shows all the sexual positions and modes of having sex 1970s style.

A brief look at New York City's Bowery Men's Shelter in 1972, which provides food, and housing and clothing services, to destitute men in the neighborhood.

A super-8mm work documenting Acconci's audio installation piece in the Sonnabend gallery in 1972 of the same name.

Three women are isolated in a bedroom. A little pig is first loved as a pet, but is later castrated. Symbolizing the wretched man. Out in the dark, a dangerous man, Dracula, is a constant threat.

“[A] rather perverse exercise in futility,” this tape documents Baldessari’s response to Joseph Beuys’s influential performance, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare. Baldessari’s approach here is characteristically subtle and ironic, involving ordinary objects and a seemingly banal task. The philosophical underpinnings of Baldessari’s exercise are structuralist theories about the opaque and artificial nature of language as a system of signs. Using a common houseplant to represent nature and instructional flashcards to represent the alphabet, Baldessari ironically illustrates this theorem. That language is the structuring element of the tape—the length of the tape was determined by the number of letters in the alphabet—enforces the connection between language and art, a recurrent theme in Baldessari’s work.

A portrait of the renowned Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto by the radical experimental filmmaker Eino Ruutsalo. Shot in the summer of 1972 at Aalto’s experimental house in Muuratsalo the film briefly and accurately covers the growth, development and creativity of the master architect, presenting his most important work.

A simple home movie of a cat is reprocessed through a 'Zip-a-tone' dot pattern making a complex of layers. In combination with freeze frames, positive and negative, and color motion, this work attempts to visually construct a system of overlays like those in Baroque musical composition.

"In PUBLIC DOMAIN...(Frampton) recapitulates cinema's infancy in a series of direct quotes from such notable primitive works as RECORD OF A SNEEZE (FRED OTT'S SNEEZE) and SANDOW FLEXING HIS MUSCLES, two 1894 Edison kinetoscopic shorts, as well as literal pieces of cinematic juvenilia (child wading at the beach, another throwing a tantrum at home, three women merrily blowing bubble pipes, and the finale, a melodramatic weighing of a newborn attended by an anxious father, doctor, and nurse)–all readily retrievable/quotable fragments from our finite federal version of the 'infinite film,' the paper print collection at the Library of Congress."–Bruce Jenkins

compilation film designed to commemorate the Foundation 21st birthday. Compiled from: THE BIG CATCH; GHOSTS AND GHOULIES; DAVEY JONES' LOCKER; CRY WOLF; MR. HORATIO KNIBBLES

An investigative (but frequently humorous) documentary on the surveillance activities of the New York City Police Department's Bureau of Special Services, known as the Red Squad. "An extraordinary political film, in which the spies - Red Squad and undercover police assigned to infiltrate the American Left - are in turn spied upon. The result: a photographic exposé of faces and agents in action, fully identified by name and title." - Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art

The documentary presents a political view of the period in question, using archival footage to illustrate historical events. Its approach seeks to offer an objective and detailed perspective on the events that shaped Argentine history during those decades.

Directed by Mohamed Lamine Merbah.

At the age of 54, Binode Bihari Mukherjee, an accomplished painter, lost his sight following an unsuccessful cataract operation. He continued to create art despite his loss of sight. The documentary explores Binode Bihari’s inner eye that guides his fingers to create art.