Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

The ancient art of Tai Chi transitions seamlessly into the fluid movements of bowling. Exact date of production unknown.

A boy injures himself at school and feels... just awful, until the school nurse renders first aid.

A simple home movie of a cat is reprocessed through a 'Zip-a-tone' dot pattern making a complex of layers. In combination with freeze frames, positive and negative, and color motion, this work attempts to visually construct a system of overlays like those in Baroque musical composition.

Superman takes a commercial airliner to Istanbul in order to help out with criminal organisation baffling the local police.

The tone is lyrical, the voices are real, the bodies are sketchy: A couple talks at the phone and in bed (a casanova and his victim). "You helped me, you made me strong, but you can't blame me for anything. When somebody loves so blindly, they pay with their life."

An early short by Sally Cruikshank. Running through various anthropomorphized creatures, this short lack a real sense of narrative.

Little Susan needs glasses. Her obvious nearsightedness is ruining her social life, hindering her education, and impeding the development of one of the world's all-time great ice hockey players. Unfortunately, Susan herself does not seem to realize there is a problem and she has apparently been abandoned by her parents. Luckily, a kindly teacher gives her a book about a little girl struggling with the exact problem facing Susan.

About an awkward and absent-minded boy Kubanyshbek, who only saw himself brave and strong in his dreams. But after spending the summer at his uncle’s place on Issyk-Kul, he grew stronger, matured, and was finally able to stand up for himself.

An adaptation of Franz Xaver Kroetz's play by the Theater of Courage, Vienna.

A series of six, roughly ten minute body art videos - selected from an original twelve - produced by Friederike Pezold between 1973 and 1977, and originally shown as an installation in 1977. Each video features a part of Pezold's body up close in black-and-white, slowly moved and molded over the runtime.

Jochen Gerz's first video of his performance art, filmed by the monitor. Gerz stands alone in a landscape and calls "Hello" into the camera from a 60-meter distance until he is hoarse with exhaustion and breaks off.

A hand-made film of a circular form that fluctuates in rhythms of light and sound.Cycles 1 is made by sticking paper dots onto the surface of the film and to its (optical) sound track. On projection these separate instants are converted simultaneously into picture and sound.The gaps between the dots gradually decrease until a fusion of the material occurs; the separate image-moments coalesce into a pulsating ball of light; simultaneously we hear rhythmic sounds fusing into a continuous rising drone.These transformations are taking place in our perceptual systems, for if we examine the physical strip of film, no such change is seen. Apparently we register time through our optical and our aural senses in very different ways, one chemical, the other mechanical.

A short film by Hans-Jakob Siber.

This bullet is stamped with the inscription 'Remington Peters 12' and yet is not mentioned in Remington's catalogue. It consists of 20 small steel arrows.

The times they were a-changing.

Satirical short comprising wartime footage, purporting to be from the Soviet Film Agency and depicting a successful bomb strike on Washington.

About a love triangle. Unidentified takes by Arne Mattsson.

The boundaries between memory, dream, and reality blur, leaving only the sensation of something once known, now slipping away.

Layers of architecture fold into one another, shifting perspectives where walls breathe and structures seem to disintegrate into light.

In the morning, a little boy and his mother congratulate the father on his birthday. The father receives a lighter shaped like a toy pistol as a gift. The dangerous‑looking “toy” attracts the child’s attention, and he becomes fascinated by the flame. The story serves as a cautionary tale, emphasising that children should never play with fire.

The struggle for housing in Rome, in the area of Magliana. Self-organization is opposed to the mediation of political parties, especially the Communist Party, and emerges as the only way for the emancipation and re-appropriation by the exploited.

The Belgian poet Christian Dotremont, organiser of the COBRA movement, invents a graphic writing system

compilation film designed to commemorate the Foundation 21st birthday. Compiled from: THE BIG CATCH; GHOSTS AND GHOULIES; DAVEY JONES' LOCKER; CRY WOLF; MR. HORATIO KNIBBLES

An investigative (but frequently humorous) documentary on the surveillance activities of the New York City Police Department's Bureau of Special Services, known as the Red Squad. "An extraordinary political film, in which the spies - Red Squad and undercover police assigned to infiltrate the American Left - are in turn spied upon. The result: a photographic exposé of faces and agents in action, fully identified by name and title." - Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art

Conceived in 1928/29, but not realised until 1972 with the support of Robert Darroll.

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

A playful concoction of computer produced images, a few hand-animated scenes and shots of lab equipment. Made largely from left-overs from scientific research.

Abraham is a young sculptor who does not quite understand the changing world in which he lives. During a visit to the village, he falls for the youngest wife of his uncle. They form a relationship but are discovered and Abraham flees to the city.

The director interviews inmates at a girls' reformatory while they prepare a performance of Cinderella.

This witty and startlingly candid look at the 1972 Republican National Convention is a classic work of guerrilla television, and an alternative time capsule of an era of dramatic change in American politics, media, and culture.

Directed by Samir Uf.

Four sequences, filmed over a two-month period, portray aspects of the lives of the people of Tununak, a village on the south-western coast of Alaska.

1972 Indian Film

Packed with rare interviews, press conference footage and live clips, this documentary provides a comprehensive look at heavy metal pioneers Led Zeppelin. Inspired by numerous musical genres, including blues, jazz and folk, the innovative band created a unique sound that continues to resonate today. The program includes a press conference featuring Robert Plant and Jimmy Page discussing the 1980 death of drummer John Bonham.

Baldessari progresses from simple, static images, such as a rock in an empty room, to complex narrative scenes, like a woman eavesdropping on her next-door neighbor. Through the gradual integration of cinematic techniques—motion, color, sound, acting, editing and arc—the artist inverts the traditional Hollywood model, stressing structure over narrative coherence.

Bollywood 1972

A testimony of the torture experienced by José Efraín Labana Cordero in an anti-guerrilla camp called TO3.

A sci-fi/occult/psychedelic performance film set to an original soundtrack by Rhys Chatham. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

"In this now infamous tape, exemplary of his early transgressive performance style, Acconci sits and relates a masturbatory fantasy about a girl rubbing his legs under the table. Carrying on a rambling dialogue that shifts back and forth between the camera/spectator and himself, Acconci sexualizes the implicit contract between performer and viewer - the viewer serving as a voyeur who makes the performance possible by watching and completing the scene, believing the fantasy."

A one-frame long experimental short film from Yugoslavia.

After 15 years of studies in France, a young man returns home and is named Director of Architecture. Accompanied by his wife, he sets out to pay a visit to his family in his native village where he comes face to face with the harsh realities of daily life.

Filmed among the Bedamini people of the Great Papuan Plateau, this documentary focuses on Tidikawa, a spirit medium whose role is to communicate with ancestral spirits during trance. Set within longhouse communities that periodically relocate to clear new gardens, the film records subsistence activities such as hunting, gardening, sago gathering, and timber cutting, alongside moments of domestic life and loss. Ritual practices are documented in detail, including a séance involving Tidikawa’s spirit child and the Golyagi initiation ceremony marking the transition of seven boys into adulthood.

Based on Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. This film used two pinscreens. In front of the main pinscreen, they installed a second, smaller one. This second pinscreen could be rotated thus giving more of an illusion of three-dimensionality

Hal Jepsen's coverage of the 1971 Expression Session. This was a surfing showcase event without judges, scores, winners, or losers, featuring a select group of the world's best surfers.

A barber takes on the household chores and caring for the baby, since his wife sings in nightclubs and is constantly busy. His hardship touches the heart of the neighborhood baker, who gives her consent for the barber's nephew to marry her daughter.

1972 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

A real visual massage for the viewer's eyes, with brief images of films, advertising spots, news and reports in dizzying succession, filmed directly from television. Recovered by the Basque Film Library in 1991, from the only existing copy.

A short documentary about the life of nomads.

Addresses the epidemic of venereal diseases (VD), specifically gonorrhea and syphilis, emphasizing the importance of awareness, prevention, and treatment. It dispels common myths about how these diseases are transmitted and highlights the serious consequences of untreated infections. The film urges individuals to seek medical help promptly if they suspect they have VD, as both diseases can be easily cured but can lead to severe health complications if left untreated. It also stresses that anyone can be affected, regardless of their background, and encourages open communication about sexual health.

General views of a girls' football match.

BBC documentary on street games and songs in Belfast. The footage of children playing is contrasted with the violence of the Troubles and poverty of the city's working-class districts.

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