Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

Should a private citizen have the right to criticize the president, as shown in the story of John Adams vs. Matthew Lyon, 1798.

"This dates from 1972 and 73. Frustration and anger in the nation and the world. Nothing new about that. The eternal return, and yet a reality unknown to a child. I have featured children in many of my films and the 'Loss of Innocence' theme is often present or implied. The film involves sound that goes both forward and backward, images of American football violence, a lot of scraps going around and around to nowhere. There is also a child, (our daughter Rebekah) and a tricycle. Each viewer will have a unique response. Eye of the beholder." –Abbott Meader

In River Film, Fulton creates a portrait of the Roaring Fork River and its tributaries, the central artery of life near Aspen, Colorado, where he resided for many years.

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.

An extraordinary, lucid and lyrical documentary of Morocco, unique in that it conveys both the exterior and interior values of the country. "The richest, boldest and most subtly disciplined evocation of a place that I have ever seen on film. It is as if all the impulse toward lyrical pattern had found an objective correlative in the walls, the steps, the tiles, the dense calligraphic decoration, the shaded windows and veiled eyes of the city." – Roger Greespun, New York Times

Beautiful tough girls mingle with a group of rowdy bikers.

A psycho starts killing women (including a striptease dancer) and raping their corpses. When that doesn't work out for him, he digs up graves and has his way with the bodies. Police attempt to trap the corpse rapist by baiting him with a beautiful policewoman.

Guilty by Reason of Race was produced and reported by veteran producer Robert Northshield and incorporated historic footage and photographs with contemporary interviews with Japanese Americans as well as those who advocated for incarceration at the time to tell the story of Japanese American removal from the West Coast and their subsequent confinement in concentration camps. Several former inmates are filmed visiting the places where they had been incarcerated, including Amy Uno Ishii, J. H. Takeda, and Betty Kozasa visiting Santa Anita and activist Edison Uno (who was an adviser to the film's producers) at Amache. It is also notable for including an interview in Tokyo with renunciant Masao Amachi, who recalled that he had "lost confidence" in the U.S. and felt that no matter who won the war, that he "would always be looked at as a Jap."

Early Vancouver drama by Morrie Ruvinsky

About the importance of digital marking of the area on postal envelopes for faster sorting of letters and timely delivery to their addressee.

An inspiring story of young men who use basketball to spread the gospel.

A 1972 film directed by Shin Sang-ok and starring Yoon Jung-hee. For this film, Yoon Jeong hee won the Best Actress Award at the 10th Blue Dragon Film Awards in 1973.

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.

Seamus Heaney travels across Lough Erne in Fermanagh, visiting early Christian sites and the settlements of the English and Scots who made their homes on the loughside.

In connection with the UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm in 1972, the Moderna Museum sent out an invitation to all schools in Sweden. The country's schoolchildren were invited to participate in an exhibition in the museum. This was to be the schoolchildren's opportunity to express themselves publicly. The film is an attempt at a synthesis of all the opinions and ideas that this enormous exhibition contained.

At a Baskin-Robbins, customers and employees talk about their favorite ice cream flavors.

A parable about cuckoos laying their eggs in other people's nests, and gullible birds feeding cuckoos.

Shot inside Sandra Nelson's A.O. Club in King's Cross and featuring a young Mark Lewis (Cane Toads), legendary Kings Cross doorman, Peter 'Half Mo' Crofts and several notorious Kings Cross strippers; STAGE is a common story of abandonment. A rarely seen time capsule of Kings Cross.

Imai films the floor of a room. A 16mm home movie that gives a small impression of how an artist’s mind works when toying with a medium new to him., that of a recording camera. Subtle shifts suggest a drama unfolding out of seemingly nothing.

Surreal patterns and organic forms apparently suspended in blank space, frozen still or wheeling slowly like galaxies, flashing like meteors or coiled bursts of fire in hues of blue, gold, and molten red. Using Argon, Krypton, and Helium-Neon gas lasers, Laser Images, Inc. has for some time been perfecting devices for altering laser light to produce different kinds of exciting images. This motion picture employs music (electronic, classical, and rock) in combination with the rhythms of the kaleidoscopic laser forms, to showcase the diversity and interest of laser images.

Childcare centers and their importance in child development.

My little daughter sits on my lap. Accompanied by the musical sounds of breathing, I tie us together with transparent gauze bandages. We are in any case inseparably joined.

An Astronut cartoon

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 study of city life.

This film, commissioned by the Penarroya workers on the eve of their strike in February 1972, presents their demands against the powerful LE NICKEL-PENARROYA-MOKTA trust, which constitutes the majority of the industrial activities of the Rothschild group.

Feature-length documentary filmed in three locations as far apart as possible: Louisiana, Acadia and Quebec, but where Le reel du pendu is played – a musical piece performed on the violin, harmonica and guitar or the accordion for over two hundred years. Through this improvised music of a death row inmate, the spectator is invited to discover for himself “the sound of the French in America”.

Women, smoke, and color in a desert.

Tomos factories in Buzet, Senožeče, in the Netherlands and in Africa.

A procession of fantastic creatures from the worlds of H. Bosch, R. Crumb and T. Dine.

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.

A legal clinic is formed in inner city Montreal.

Ex-fisherman Billy Crane in Brampton, Ontario, at an industrial job with regular hours. Here he tells why he left Fogo Island and says he has no regrets. (See also Billy Crane Moves Away.)

The BBC Radio Ballads were groundbreaking documentaries produced by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Charles Parker in the late 1950s and broadcast on the BBC Home Service. They were masterpieces of radio, weaving the voices of rarely-heard communities with songs written from and about the recorded experiences of the interviewees. The third programme in the radio series, Singing the Fishing features the men and women of the herring fishing fleets of East Anglia and Northeast Scotland. It was based on 250 tapes of conversation with fishermen and their families, a wealth of material described by Parker as "all but overwhelming". MacColl and Seeger hit paydirt with the discovery of Sam Larner, an 80-year old ex-fisherman from Norfolk who was also a singer with a large repertoire of country songs,

Turkmen culture, traditions, rituals, way of life, through a story of the well builders, a highly respected profession, where there are no rivers, most of the country is desert, and underground water is found by the signs of a green stem, the sound of the sand, a light cloud. A successful construction ends up in a mistaken place without water. Then the leaving and sense of loss.

Short by Studio 970/2.

An imagistic, interior interpertation of the experience of being lost on a mountain.

Short film by acclaimed polish director Zbigniew Rybczynski. Included in The Workshop of the Film Form

A feminist film about cows made in the heart of America's conservative dairyland.

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

A comic anti-alcohol mini animation from the early years of Ekran studio.

Adult animated parody retelling of the classic family tale.

We begin with a fragmented portrait of Činča, between the stories she tells and the thoughts of those surrounding her. In The Head, a girl is confronted with the possibility of dying. Intermezzo focusses on the moments of abstraction amid the hustle and bustle of a city. In Our Stock Exchange, unemployed people seek work. Second Floor, Basement shows us a hospital where only two floors separate birth and death.

This shot-on-a-shoestring adventure spectacle reimagines Pittsburgh’s South Side as the site of a holy fortress under attack from an airplane gunner.

A film in Super-8 by Sérgio Péo. Documentary scenes from everyday life and performance gestures are mixed in this fast montage of images produced on the streets of Rio. Phrases written on the asphalt (or extracted from signs and newspapers) punctuate the entire film.

A pixillated romp across the great Northwest in which Sergeant Swell of the Mounties, riding an imaginary horse, runs afoul of a trio of unlikely Indians on imaginary war ponies resulting in a humorous caricature of old Western movies.

Documentary of a jazz drummer giving a lesson to one of his female students.

A short film by Tatjana Ivančić showing the life forms of a lake.