Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

Model cars come to life in this action-packed picture about a VW that is pushed around by larger cars and decides to fight back.

A black male dancer in a white room, white noise and variable shutter speeds in camera editing, reflections on dance, race, the gaze, the OTHER, play, voyeurism and spontaneous response.

Scratched film with pyrotechnic effects.

Wracked with the guilt of his wicked past, Tai Pang changes his name and tries to make a new start in life. But others cannot forget and he is forced to defend himself for his past transgressions.

A musical illustration of life, where road traffic chaos breeds anger and frustration, but the rail network is fast, smooth and relaxing.

"A double projection of buildings exploding in slow motion, in forward and reverse, that 'was intended as mantra, to run perpetually, viewer to enter/leave at any point." - Scott MacDonald

The construction of an aluminium smelter in Invergordon, Scotland.

A bomba film of nature and sexual passions

Ekta Jeev Sadashiv is a 1972 Indian Marathi-language comedy drama film directed by Govind Kulkarni, starring Dada Kondke and Usha Chavan as leads.

Directed by Vasant Painter. With Uma Bhende, Arun Sarnaik, Manikaraj, Barchi Bahdur.

Shows, in a light, charming manner, the sequence of change in the plant and animal life of the forest during the spring months.

Richard Martin has captured the choreography of a dancer, shooting the performance nine times as a way of accentuating contrasts and producing an abstract composition of form and movement. In the video, contrasts gradually increase until the dancer’s gestures are but abstract black and white movements. The music remains while the commentary disappears.

This film documents the Sagicho Fire Festival, which takes place in the eight communities constituting Oiso, a town located in the warm climate along Kanagawa Prefecture’s Sagami Bay. It begins at the year’s end with an event in which children take the lead. With the new year, an okariya shelter is constructed in town for the dosojin guardian god. Then, saito bonfire structures are burned on the beach and young men perform a tug of war in the water.

A painter falls in love with a woman he painted, until he paints himself into the painting, and his oilpaint-self and the woman begin an affair from which a child is born.

Soundtrack: Music by Andres Lewin Richter.

A vital, physical and spiritual journey of a woman going through a love crisis, set in the port area of ​​Valencia.

A documentary that investigates the changing role of women and sex in society. Tales such as a female Satanist, stewardesses who are trying to show more skin, and a female doctor who's patients are nude military recruits are showcased

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.

Pursuit of a dog biscuit inside a glass bottle creates the type of narrative suspense that draws us into the action on the screen.

A look at the univeristy town of St Andrews.

Karola Hattop juxtaposes the many media images of confident working women and the men who support them with a naïve reporter who finds out that in practice equal rights are often quite a different matter. Somewhat pushy, he seeks out women at the hairdresser’s and in the maternity wear department, joins functionaries in their cars, crashes wedding parties and sneaks into museum tours for children. A revelatory curiosity full of the casually captured mundane drabness that was often revealed more clearly in student films than in comparable DEFA productions.

A child plays with flowers, butterflies and birds. Suddenly a huge man dressed in black appears. He begins to teach the child a lesson about plant and animal species. The teacher has many hands, each holding a pointer and killing all the beautiful species he talks about.

Poézis is, via the sculptures of a simple woodcarver, a cultural imprint of the life of the peasantry.

Conception is an abstract work that refers to origins and archetypes.

World War II veteran Ray LeClair relives his marches through a haze of alcoholism on Winnipeg's Historic Main Street. The film draws from Ray's two battlefields, war and the street.

[…The] first of a series of one-minute films to replace television commercials.

The events that lead a man to commit suicide.

A bleak portrait of the average patient who spends the night sobering up.

Essay by political observer Valentin Zorin, impressions of his visit to the United States, the course of the election campaign. New trends in US politics and public sentiment. Interviews in English with US officials on American policy, new trends, and improving relations with the USSR. Political debate. Promises, plans of politicians. Nuclear policy. Disarmament issues. Presidential candidate programs. 1972 year.

Cantinflas, the main character, is present.

A sexual harasser goes out with a schoolgirl and after falling into prison, he remembers his childhood and his attacks on young people.

Abstract patterns are animated to explore the optical effects of filmic colour and geometry.

Short documentary about diamond cutting in the Antwerp Diamond district.

A 1972 short full of autobiographical trivia.

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the grizzly bear.

A film about German painter Max Ernst made by Gérard Patris.

The voice of a narrator shows the background of the port, its construction, the functions of each facility, the repair of fishing boats in the workshops and the creation of cooperatives and shipyards.

Made in collaboration with Gerry Schum

This performance, at London's Lisson Gallery, documents Graham's project of psychologically restructuring space and time. Graham writes, "Two people who know each other are in the same space. While one predicts continuously the other person's behavior, the other person recounts (by memory) the other's past behavior. Both performers are in the present, so knowledge of the past is needed to continuously deduce future behavior (in terms of causal relation). For one to see the other in terms of the present (attention), there is a mirror reflection or closed figure-eight feedback/feedahead loop of past/future. One person's behavior reciprocally reflects/depends upon the other's, so that each one's information is seen as a reflection of the effect that their own just-past behavior has had in reversed tense, as perceived from the other's view of himself."

Comedy where three friends meet at a bar table to drink and tell their adventures. A sailor exaggerates in his drinks while listening to an exciting "strip poker" narrative that ends in a tremendous orgy. When he gets home, the sailor has a nightmare, where he is chased by wild women on a paradise island.

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 house with constantly changing interiors, surrounded by different types of landscapes, is shown from various angles, in response to music.

Thaddeus Stevens leads the attempt to impeach President Andrew Johnson in 1868.

A teenager uses his interest in surfing to create a profitable business, learning valuable lessons in economics.

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

A super-8mm short by Vito Acconci

“[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.