Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

Zaiton comes under the influence of the spell cast by a snake spirit. With her body under possession, she incapacitates her father and is lured to a hypnotised rendezvous with the snake spirit in his harem pit. The spirit takes on an anthropomorphised form and charms Zaiton, convincing her that her fiancée Rahim is a philanderer. Rahim and Zaiton’s father turn to a wise shaman to rescue Zaiton.

A train's passengers tries to make the engine even faster, using very unique ways.

1972 American movie

A passionate poet feels abandoned at the places of amusement in the Boulevard.

Shot in the commercial harbor of Fos-sur-Mer in Southern France, this film denounces the destruction of the region and the poor living and working conditions caused by industrialization and exploitation by oil corporations.

The visual ‘documentary’ material in House Movie comprises essentially ‘home movie’ footage. While the great majority of this material was staged, re-enacted, or otherwise planned in advance, it is documentary inasmuch as the ‘actors’ play themselves and participate in familiar events in a familiar setting which does not represent, but is, their actuality. Taking into consideration the film’s musical form, it might be said that in terms of documentary, House Movie is an exaggeration of John Grierson’s definition.

Short film made with stop motion animation techniques.

This film evolves from several years’ observation of the sexual energy which charges the world of business and the qualities of palatial environ which this energy often creates. It is one of the most perfect films it has been given to me to make. – S.B.

The film relates the beliefs the author held for a certain time concerning water and diving into it. It all begins with a dive and with a whirlpool that never existed; two visual prototypes on the basis of which the mischievous view of the author created a filmic inversion of water and its flow, of the diver and of the imaginary whirlpools. This expansion, unforeseen in spontaneous natural phenomena is, however, foreseen by the very little spontaneous nature of the diver, who, after repeated efforts, ends by realizing a plunge which is at once fatal and desired.

Satirical musical comedy using animation technique. It is a study of 80 Amlash sculptures.

Nirad C. Chaudhuri expounds his views on culture, history, religion and society from a comparative perspective.

A spacecraft containing an army of small malevolent creatures arrive with an intent to destroy the earth. But first, they must learn how people behave and feel, and therefore proceed to gather information.

Lost Zulueta's short

A modern fairy tale tells the story of an inseparable character living in a children's fantasy world, the mischievous animal Nippet.

“Lines and rectangles are the geometric shapes basic to ENIGMA, a computer graphics film full of subliminal and persistent image effects. In a staccato rhythm, the film builds to a climax by instantly replacing one set of shapes with another, each set either changing in composition and color or remaining for a moment to vibrate strobiscopically and then change.” – The Booklist.

A lonely woman enters a bus and gets closely observed by all the passengers in a strange and intriguing manner. She doesn't understand anything about those stares and doesn't know how to react to them. What could possibly be wrong with her?

Several short films from the first class of graduates of the National School of Experimentation and Film Production (ENERC), from 1965. 55 years telling stories.

The wandering of a young man of about twenty years, Cyrille Dupuis, who seeks a reason to live, by cotering situations and characters each time disappointing.

Filmed in Neversink, New York in 1972 by Jacob Burckhardt

Stock car racing has caught on in in Lancashire, and beating the hell out of his 'mod stock' is Dave Neil's idea of a good Sunday out. The Fanatics follows Dave as he attempts to qualify for, and win, the Northern Championship race.

Frank Darrow of the Wenatchee Youth Circus, applies his makeup for a show

The film tells the story of the martyrdom of the adherents of the secret anti-Nazi organization " The White Rose ", shows the action carried out by the Scholl brothers in Munich while secretly printing the leaflets and distributing them to the University; however, they are discovered by the rector who denounces them to the Gestapo and let themselves be arrested without any resistance. The original footage, which shows the actions of the students against Nazism, alternates scenes in which a group of young people today discuss the images seen, but not limited to this: they reconstruct the facts, research and interview the witnesses of the time, in particular a doctor from Bologna, who was involved in the Scholl case and had to flee to Italy, where he joined a partisan organization towards the end of the war.

Are you dangerously addicted to boring old movies? The BFI was nearing its fortieth year of curing such an affliction when this animated promotional film was made to sell its virtues.

An old mountaineer goes to the mountains with his friend. Due to the avalanche, he gets stuck in the mountains. The federation of professional mountaineers sends a team to save him, and on the other hand, the children of this mountaineer go to rescue their father too. Both groups arrive almost simultaneously...

In her first show Jasperina de Jong sings songs about Sibylle, the last striptease dancer, about a Bach concert with a Woodstock vibe, about a nunnery where everyone gets addicted to mind-altering substances, about a provincial girl who travels to Amsterdam, and many more.

A young girl becomes pregnant. She decides to get an abortion, and the viewers gets to observe her until the application for abortion is being processed.

By using simple systems of counting and measuring in film, Iimura has drawn attention to the complexities of our time perception – memory, rhythm, phase – and the interaction between coucious conception of time, and the physical perception of its passing. Iimura is a significant and singular filmmaker, but also one of the most important 'conceptual' artist working in any medium. – Malcolm Le Grice, Time Out, April 1975, London

Three lyrical short stories: about locksmith Toomas, captain Hermann and gardener Ferdinand. Three different areas of life and fate, but a common longing for beauty.

A poetic impression of the beauty and perfection of the work of the Dytrych bell casters, who cast new bells from bells destroyed by the war.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the ecology of European deciduous woodland and the diversity of wildlife it contains.

This color educational film is about data processing. This was made in 1972.

A silent film by Jim Jennings

Short work.

Cukrarna, an old building where the poets Murn and Kette once lived, is an important place in Ljubljana. For a long time this building has been the refuge for different people of all occupations and age, a small gallery of tragic human destinies.

Isamu Noguchi talks about his career in this documentary featuring Ezra Pound.

The story of Hugo, a young Andean Peruvian man who begins to question his own roots and future after a trip across Europe, full of culture and knowledge without prejudices, opens his mind. Starring the real Hugo Sotil, one of the best and most successful Peruvian soccer players of the 70's, known as "El Cholo".

A photographer specializing in black and white softcore pornography struggles to cope with the decline of his trade in modern Paris.

Indonesian jungle adventure.

Documentary short about Brazilian medium Chico Xavier.

All over North America young people are rejecting orthodoxy of all kinds and embracing new cults, new forms of self-discovery, from Krishna to bio-feedback. Group dynamics, encounter groups, transcendental meditation, Eastern philosophy, communal living, return-to-nature, re-energized evangelism--all are roads to salvation according to the individual's belief. This film takes a discerning look at them all, from Canada to California.

In the small village known as Vila do Vale Verde live three great friends: the young Piconzé, the parrot Papo, and the pig Chicão. The three lead a peaceful and quiet life in the small community where they live, but one day, everything changes: Bigodão, a famous bandit from the region, attacks the town and kidnaps Maria, Piconzé's girlfriend, forcing the three friends to embark on an adventure full of dangers and excitement to rescue the girl and defeat Bigodão.

Benoît Lamy short film

Film performance, using a back projection screen as well as several projection sources, including a red and green source close together (requires 3D glasses).

"Sky Blue Water Light Sign is best seen in total innocence. My guess is that if one knows what he or she is looking at before seeing this little film, half of its excitement and a good deal of its meaning disappears. Seen in total innocence, though (and maybe I’m exaggerating the importance of this), SKY BLUE WATER is a wonder. With Gottheim’s Blues and Frampton’s Lemon (for Robert Hunt), it is one of the happiest, most uplifting short films I’ve ever seen.” – Scott MacDonald, Idiolects" -- Scott MacDonald, Idiolects. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Two days in the life of six kids who work for Omar, a dwarf, in a huge garbage dump outside of Caracas where they scrounge bottles, paper, cloth, and whatever they can find to recycle.

In a sly twist on the methodology of the 18th-century "philosophes" who classified the laws and history of the world in massive encyclopedias, Baldessari devises and then subverts his own system for cataloguing the world. In a matter-of-fact tone, he states that he is going to present a precise, methodical inventory of objects, progressing from small to large in size. Drawing on his own collection of found objects, he exhibits and describes a seemingly arbitrary series of over thirty disparate items. By undermining the viewer's empirical perception, video ultimately is proven to be a flawed medium for the indexing and classification of the world.

A teenage girl describes the clash with bureaucracy and housing perturbations her parents experienced.