Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

Historical drama starring Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri and Vanisri

A martial arts master accompanies a beautiful singer with equal kung fu abilities to an ultimate showdown.

An awkward wedding rehearsal at which the in-laws meet

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

I wondered what it would feel like to see another image at the moment the bubble bursts. I wondered if there was a crucial difference between splicing another image onto a frame just before the bubble bursts, and splicing another image onto a frame just after the bubble bursts, so I created this work to watch that moment over and over again.

Danzan, a young man from Malin, will work in the brigade headed by Banzragch who came to lay a communication line in one of Khanga's villages.

Koos and his daughter Patrys are living happily in a tiny fisherman's village, but then a rich, sophisticated young man sweeps Patrys off her feet, and takes her to live with him in Johannesburg.

Short documentary about the process of extracting gold to be worked as goldsmith.

"The performer is framed within the open window facing the camera one story above the street below. When a car, van or truck passes below, he asks, 'what color is that car?' An off-camera voice, Jack Wendler, the gallery owner, describes the vehicle while the performer bites into a chocolate and describes its characteristics until another one comes along. This continues until all of the chocolates are gone." - David Askevold

An educational film about engineering, modern technology and problem solving; filmed in New York, Philadelphia, Michigan and Newark. Produced for the Engineers Council for Professional Development, Inc.

Code Blue is one of the earliest existing films created by Henry Hampton’s Boston-based documentary company Blackside Inc., which produced the Emmy Award-winning civil rights series Eyes on the Prize. Blackside became the largest African American-owned film production company of its time and was home to many filmmakers from diverse backgrounds, including African Americans, immigrants, and women.

The two filmmakers use the style of direct cinema to film the Italian/Polish backyard wedding shower of a young couple, Ricky and Rocky. The pair show off their wedding gifts and guests and relatives express their approval of the shower to the filmmakers.

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...

The statues—solid, unmoving—become vessels of time, capturing the quiet tension between permanence and decay.

Police agent Camelia is assigned the investigation of a drug smuggling ring. Pro wrestlers-crimefighters El Soberano and the "Hermanos Rojo" (El Valentino and Félix Ramírez) will be working with her. Meanwhile, the sinister Dr. Gandía assembles his gang of evil wrestlers -- including El Asesino, El Araña, El Yancy, and La Bruja Maldita -- to warn them about the imminent arrival of Soberano and the Hermanos Rojo. The heroic grapplers must not be allowed to meddle in Gandía's business.

RAINDANCE plays directly on the mind through programmatic stimulation of the central nervous system. Individual frames of the film are imprinted on the retina of the eye in a rhythm, sequence, and intensity that corresponds to Alpha-Wave frequencies of the brain. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Slim Ben Fredj is a young man selling postcards to tourists in Kairouan. Frustrated and suffering in his wretched and miserable home, he spends most of his time wandering near hotels that are inaccessible to him and gazing at gorgeous women he will never be able to have.

A tour of the last public stable in New York City. Employees and visitors express their enjoyment of the stable's amenities and unease about its future.

The Strawbs perform tracks from their 1972 concept album accompanied by strange and often surreal imagery.

Overture for KA MOUNTAIN AND GUARDenia TERRACE was performed live by Robert Wilson and the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds at 147 Spring Street, NYC, for six hours each day, from 6-9AM and 6-9PM, between April 24-30, 1972. The sizeable cast featured such downtown luminaries as dance critic and poet Edwin Denby, dancer Andy De Groat, theater critic Stefan Brecht, and Wilson’s grandmother, Alma Hamilton. This preservation print was made directly from the 16mm camera original which was discovered in Anthology’s basement along with a group of empty film cans. Archivists at Anthology and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (the repository of the Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection) were able to salvage the film and identified it as the most extensive extant documentation of OVERTURE. No soundtrack has surfaced for this film, but its majestic images and wild inventiveness are like a music all their own.

Broadcast in 1972 on the program *Nom des chansons* on Télévision Suisse Romande, this documentary features a rare concert and performance by the French singer and poet, a key figure of the French underground. Combining sung and spoken poetry, theater and improvisation, it features her partner, composer and multi-instrumentalist Areski. In conversation with journalist Jo Excoffier, she reflects on personal fears, memories of the Algerian War, and intimate moments of everyday life.

In pre-independence India, Kotaiah steals bread, ending up imprisoned for 12 years. Later, as the reformed mayor Dayanidhi, he protects his niece and her lover from persecution, dying contentedly after her wedding.

Experimental short by Iwata Yūji

A children's animation describing the events leading up to Easter and the Resurrection.

Belfast, 1971: children playing in the rubble of a bombed‐out home, the funeral of a young man, bitter women blowing celebration whistles after the shooting of a British soldier, a young boy and girl discussing their knowledge of guerrilla weapons, young people in a pub singing boozily sentimental songs about past wars and victories, a housewife staggering out of her home after having been hit in the face by a soldier's stray rubber bullet.

Film comprised of footage of the works of art created by Russian-Georgian artist, Zurab Tsereteli.

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

The heroes of the documentary are military recruits from the Baluty neighborhood in Lodz. We follow their story from the moment of the military commission to the first exercises on the training ground. The film features, among others, "In the raspberry chruśniak" by Bolesław Leśmian and the song "When one day I will call you again" by the band Czerwone Gitary.

A 1972 Burmese black-and-white drama film, directed by Thukha starring Nyunt Win, Cho Pyone, Kyauk Lone, Thein Maung and Jolly Swe.

A man who adds up columns in his account book at night snaps. This is the story of a breakdown on the threshold of the irrational.

Mi Raza: Portrait of a Family is a documentary about the Navarro-Gonzalez family, a multi-generational Mexican-American family living in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, made by anthropologists/filmmakers at the University of Illinois Chicago, Paul Hockings and Susan Stechnij.

In the films Untitled (#6), Untitled (#7) (both 1972–6) and Untitled (#8) (1976–7) images of cells mix with galaxies, underlining the circular shape as a crucial element of Palolo’s work.

Under the sign of Amadeo. A century of art.

A film about the romani people of the village Szendrő in Borsod County.

Short film by Rhody Streeter & Tony Ganz.

Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir describes the problems faced by works in one of Paris’s working-class suburbs.

Shows women how to cope with physical assault. Warns against dangerous situations, such as walking alone at night and driving alone, and prescribes several methods of self defense, such as kicks, the heel grind, and the knee lift.

Tourist promotional film showcasing the sports and outdoor pursuits of Ireland.

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

"These two reels (A-1~4, B-1~4) of MODELS I think are unusually important works. You are certainly one of the filmmakers to so explicitly direct your effort to the amazing aesthetic question of the internal calibration of consciousness. It is a work, which so completely bares the brain of its receiver that the total life message can transmit across the thread of your work directly, without complication, or artifice or diversion. Such complete communication has crossed the boundaries of embarrassment and speaks in a voice of convincing spirituality" – Tony Conrad, in a note to Iimura, February 20, 1974

The entire ground is covered with paving stones. The paver continues to work until he reaches the edge of the forest. The trees fall one after the other. When he stands before the last tree, he experiences an epiphany and begins to retreat.

I once had a vivid feeling, basking in the sunlight in a field listening to the murmuring of melting snow, that I was surrounded by sensations, sounds and sights. I wanted to express that feeling.

When will it be Saturday? The best recipes for spending your desired free time vary. Some start washing cycles, others leave the city for nature, immerse themselves in their favorite book or relax looking into the bottom of a glass of beer. However, time away from work not only brings a sense of freedom, but also obligations and expectations.

With Maurice D, an enigmatic silent film that could be situated somewhere between Luis Buñuel's Un Chien andalou and Alfred Hitchcock's La Loi du silence, another extremely rare auteur, Maurice Diament, is brought to light. The anxiety-inducing effect of his film was to be increased tenfold by the sound of the metronome that was supposed to accompany the screening.

1972 BBC production of the Verdi opera

A Hector Heathcote short

A biography of James Weldon Johnson whose career included music, poetry, and public service. Includes a visualization of his poem The creation, with a reading by Raymond St. Jacques. Johnson, most known for his poem, “The Creation”, was active in civil rights, and was the first Black man admitted to the Florida Bar. This biography of Johnson includes a dramatic reading of “The Creation”. Johnson wrote the lyrics to "Life Every Voice and Sing".

Arriving for the school celebration, parents go to extreme lengths to iron out all the wrinkles from their boisterous children. They find they are helped in this by the rigidly strict dance teacher. The domineering commands of the lumbering teacher who cannot bear clatter of any sort and the hammering bars of the piano deconstruct the children and uniformize them in accordance with the ideal of adults: first they turn into oafish garden gnomes, then motionless mushrooms, graceful swans, and finally bounding deer.

About the dominance of plastic in everyday gadgets and design.

When a young man encounters the body of his old friend by the sea, he tries to uncover the truth about the cause of his death.