Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

16mm film, black and white, sound.

16mm film, color, sound.

Documents the life and works of filmmaker Pat O'Neill, showing the making of a select group of films and discussion of these films by O'Neill.

In a 2.5 minute sequence, a simple series of ordinary gas station events is seen intermittently through the opening display. This sequence is then divided and rearranged 7 times in reverse order. Each time the divisions are greater in number (smaller in size) until finally the film appears to move smoothly backwards, divided by a single frame. The inspiration for the film as well as the title is derived from information theory where a 'moment' is defined as the shortest duration at which no distinction can be made between units of information. This work is a demonstration and exploration of the line between human information and machine information. It dynamically reveals film's basic unit, the frame.

Presented by Centron Educational Films, "Drinking Driver: What Could You Do?" is a 1972, color, anti-drunk driving film. The film presents three scenarios where teenagers are forced to make decisions about drinking and driving, and looks at the consequences of these decisions. The film asks, “What could you do?”

16mm, b&w, 6'00

VAMPEER is told through a color mist and floating vales. A non-narrative film in the tradition of the Weber-Watson "Fall of the House of Usher" (1928) VAMPEER retains all the genre clichesbut uses them atmospherically. It is a Gothic, surrealistic study in color and light. –D. D.

Taking place during the women’s liberation movement, Idemitsu filmed the Womanhouse which became her first 16mm film work. Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro jointly organized the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) in 1971. The Cal Arts Feminist Art Program group performed for the audience at Womanhouse in 1972. They transformed an old run-down mansion in Los Angeles into Womanhouse. In the kitchen a progression of sculptured breasts gradually turned into fried eggs; one bathroom contained a mass of Tampax, and if you opened the linen closet you found a trapped mannequin.

In the village of Buti, on Monte Pisano, oral tradition preserves the memory of a type of popular theater known as Maggio, which died out around 1952, the year of the death of one of its last directors, Angiòlo Bernardini, who passed away at the age of 82. The director, with the help of the old prompter, handwritten notes on the scripts, and the actors of yesteryear, now elderly, attempts to stage this theater again, recited and sung in octosyllabic quatrains.

Visual comment on things made of plastic from their massed produced beginnings to their appearances in the environment and finally to the garbage dump.

For After the Colours, Mattijn Seip filmed abstract collages of strips. The first part of the film consists of footage shot by using rotating objects that were located between the camera and the collage. The image is thus split, causing a hypnotic effect. The second part of the film consists of a single shot of collages that keep changing. The images are interrupted by shots of flat colour surfaces.

John Quincy Adams and Thomas Marshall clash over a gag rule preventing antislavery petitions to be introduced in the House.

An experimental film documentary of a playful little girl exploring nature.

Stiff formal exercises of the young dancing pupils and hot beat rhythms in the discotheque.

Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.

An upbeat comical animated collage telling the story of a man attempting to fly with artificial wings.

One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera and used multiple exposures. They would then be projected in various combinations though usually as a four-screen.

Rape by an African foreman leads to the the mounting revolt of the labour force in an African colony. While some are forced to accept their condition of slaves, others prepare themselves to fight back at the armed repression.

"This Bit of That India" is a layered reflection on youth culture, diversity, progress, education, technology and sexuality. The film juxtaposes documentary moments that celebrate individual freedom with a theatrical performance of Federico Garcia Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba", as a metaphor for repression and conformity.

1972 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

A silent film

"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.

Lapis Lazuli, (29 mins) - Mystical transformation, music and poetry, with Bill Fortinberry and Susan Darby, shows them meeting simultaneously on different myth-planes.

Bollywood 1972

In this episode, actress and theater director Elise Hoomans.

Literature teacher Dmitry Alekseevich has a free hour between classes. But even during this time, he continues to worry about his students' problems and their relationships with their parents. A real teacher has no free time.

Artist Saul Field uses a selection of his colour engravings from his book "Bloomsday" to interpret in film the life of James Joyce's Leopold Bloom.

Film report on the VII District Children's and Youth Spartakiade in Quedlinburg, combined with a presentation of sports education in the GDR in kindergarten, at school and in the company sports communities (without speaker and commentary).

A profile from 1972 of celebrated Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid on the occasion of his 80th birthday. In this film he talks about his uncompromising life and the ideas and circumstances that have shaped its progress.

Indigenous people of north have an old legend about the mountain of stone idols Man'-Pupy-Nor. Once upon a time giants-man eaters invaded the land of mansi. They went and devoured everything on their way. But then the sky split into lightnings and villians belt-dropped into the ground turning to stone. Their copper shields and giant maces decorated with diamonds are still laying somewhere near covered with leaves and overgrown with wild herbs.

"Antti Peippo's first documentary as a director is a different kind of tourism film of Suomenlinna fortress - a dark and gloomy portrait of a monument to totalitarianism and oppression." - Short Films by Antti Peippo DvD

A short version of S.T. Aksakov's fairy tale.

A film by Tom Chomont

A dreadful story about a pub keeper's daughter named Kacenka who liquidates a herd of robbers and so revenges for the death of her father. The commentary of the film imitates the style of old folk shopkeepers'songs.

A hybrid film-video work that combines moving image technologies, electronic manipulations, performance and installation.

Follows police patrol cars 901 and 904 as they ply the streets of Pittsburgh, responding to diverse situations.

Women pray for their men who are far away, in foreign countries where they work to earn money for better life.

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.

This video documents the first cablecast of Austin Community Television (ACTV) in which George Stoney and a group of University of Texas students assembled playback equipment on a hilltop at the cable system's head-end.

Unfinished and lost film, which would originate the Cycle of Marginal Cinema of Teresina in Piauí, starringbyClaudete Maria and Torquato Neto,hewas shot using a Super-8 camcorder.

Michael Lee uses a 16mm Bolex camera to explore various zooming and framing techniques to photograph images from National Geographic Magazines. The silent film was made in 1972.

Landscape for White Squares features individuals emerging out of a dense fog, carrying large, square, white sheets.

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

Feature film by John Abraham and Raj Marbros

During the civil war, Two rival balloonists plan to race their giant balloons against each other. Circumstances beyond their control force them to unite and become spies for president Lincoln. Thanks to their brave and unique war efforts, the president forms the Aeronautic Corps as a wing of the union army of Potomac. From then on, the sky's the limit in danger and excitement.

“It’s not how it used to be.” The words of Cézar Néwashish resonate throughout this short documentary that explores the history of the Atikamekw community of Manawan, Quebec. Less than a century old in name, Manawan embodies the experiences of so many Indigenous communities across Canada. Where once they practised their customs freely on a vast territory, the arrival of the Europeans would eventually mean the restriction of their cultural practices and confinement to a reserve named Manawan.

The second part of Aspects of a Hill by Naomi Levine

Educational film about a small boy whose wonderful imagination gives magic to an old broken whistle.

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.

Standard 8 colour film, refilmed and slowed down, edited into a formal work on 16mm film, of camera pan sequences of a woman lying naked. Almost abstract images slide from darkness to light and back, repeated, repeated, in a pattern of repetitions that at some point reverses back to the start again. A small visual love poem, but abstract.

An elegiac documentary about Krzyżtopór Castle in the village of Ujazd, southern Poland. Built between 1627 and 1644 by Krzysztof Ossoliński. It was occupied until 1770 when it was destroyed by the Russian army during the military actions against the army of the Bar Confederation. Nowadays, the castle is classified as a permanent ruin. The film is a powerful meditation on lasting tradition and historical decline; The images are accompanied by a folk ballad about the castle’s history, performed by the village choir from Iwaniska.

Set during the reigns of the last five kings of the Capetian dynasty and the first two kings of the House of Valois, Tha Accursed Kings begins as the French King Philip the Fair, already surrounded by scandal and intrigue, brings a curse upon his family when he persecutes the Knights Templar. The succession of monarchs that follows leads France and England to the Hundred Years' War.

Frampton on Apparatus Sum: "A brief lyric film of death, which brings to equilibrium a single reactive image from a roomful of cadavers."