Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

The poor man found a jug of butter and began to dream about how he would become rich now.…

Short film by António Palolo.

A profile of student Merly Leadford on her struggle to find her place at the University of Washington as a member of the Makah tribe.

In their efforts to better their children’s education, the residents of this small West Virginia community found themselves face to face with an unfeeling, bureaucratic political structure. "Struggle of Coon Branch Mountain" documents their fight for a better road and decent schools, an effort that includes organizing the community, setting up their own school, and finally a march on the governor’s office. The film ends with a partial victory and determination to continue the struggle, and will be of interest to community organizers, as well as students of education, public policy, and rural issues.

Documentary about the Provisional Irish Republican Army, produced in 1972; copy found by BBC in 2019, never aired in full.

Footage from the shoot/editing of Her Love (Excerpt).

This is one of the films produced by Toei, who began producing educational films in 1954, as a teaching material film for schools. It tracks how many percent of the 10,000 eggs of the American White-tailed worm can safely become adults. During the observation process, the raison d'étaté of other natural enemies, as well as the clever mechanisms of natural balance are revealed.

Possible Possum and his friends want to go to their annual hayride, but their neighbor won't let them cross his property.

Models, Reel 2 (B-1~4) consists of four works and is dealt with, different from Reel 1, symbol/words, and the logic in film. First "Counting 1 to 100 or X" is made of four 100feet films and the number of 1 to 100 are replaced by multiplied (10, 20,40,80) Xs, which may be "read" as numbers through repeated perception.

The adventures of Possible Possum and his swamp-bound friends.

Violets Are Blue consists of a number of 'chapters' in which he uses many personal re-filmed 8mm films in 16mm loops, thereby isolating them and altering their personal meaning to fit a different context.

Short documentary about the naive painter Ivan Lacković-Croata.

With the support of short interviews with employees from the Lyon and Paris regions (Conflans Sainte-Honorine), as well as that of Pierre Sarger, architect and urban planner from Ivry, who discusses its transformation into a dormitory town, this program addresses the thorny issue of public transport for workers far from their workplace. Travel time, comfort in transport, its cost, its frequency, walking, all elements that harm the quality of life of employees and considerably limit their free time: this is because working conditions are almost as important as the work itself. The film includes beautiful shots of urban traffic (buses, suburban trains, cars), or pedestrians, and crowds walking, either in the street, in the metro, or leaving factories. (source: Media-Scérén)

Lassie, the Turner family, Gene Fox, and a small group of animals oppose Aaron Lipton's plan to build property on a reservation.

During the liberation struggle two organisations, the FLOSSY and the NLF, were fighting against the British occupation troops. Mainly the petit bourgeoisie and trade unionists from the Crown Colony of Aden supported the FLOSSY. The leadership of the NLF came from the rural areas and had the support of the peasants and the tribes. Although the NLF had liberated large tracts of the country, it did not seem to stand a chance in the decisive battle for Aden. However, the NLF won and took over the administration in the areas that had been formerly occupied by England. The film is about this revolution. lt shows how land reforms were implemented and describes the effort to find an economically self-supporting and politically independent system. Later, South Yemen came totally under the control of the Soviet Union. The German Democratic Republic was in charge of the political police and the dream of an independent revolution evaporated – as it did in Cuba.

A look at the production of whisky at Scotland's Glenfiddich distillery.

Video autobiography from age six to thirteen. Scenes and narrative shot on location, ending with a video transfer of the actual 16mm film footage of the artist's elaborate wartime Bar Mitzvah.

The love story of Astghik goddess and Vahagn, full of struggle, difficulties and boundless loyalty.

Homophobic educational film about sexual abuse.

Two men, each living off the land in the remote Alaskan wilderness, face danger and adventure with little help from modern technology.

Icebox Classic was made shortly after Arvanites moved to New York City to pursue his artistic career. It shows the hand of the artist outlining each of the myriad food products inside his refrigerator, while a classical music program plays in the background. “I was satirizing my art school experience where professors put up still lifes in class and then put on classical music.” By “drawing” in video Arvanites demonstrates not only how out of touch some of his classroom experiences felt, especially in relation to his own multi-media practice, but also his desire to deconstruct the romantic, idealized vision of the “the artist at work.” [AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara]

Sand, made while Arvanites was still an MFA student, appears to be a dramatic dessert vista with blowing winds, akin to a scene from the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia. Gradually the blowing sands give way to reveal a microphone recording the sound, destroying any kind of mythic imagery. [AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara]

A video made for RAI by Videobase in 1972

The process of distilling whisky at a group of Scottish distilleries.

Directed by Krishna Patil. With Nargis Banu, Dinesh Ghate, Asavle Guruji, Dinkar Inamdar.

Directed by Govind Kulkarni. With Maya Jadhav, Vasant Khedekar, Bhalchandra Kulkarni, Gulab Mokasi.

Film by Ian Hugo.

A man working on a clay sculpture has his excess clay come to life and begin to mess with him.

Inspired by dreams and nightmares, Honey Moon Lane unfolds with a series of absurdist entanglements in the heterosexual love life of a man and his loved one. For better or for worst, this film is as engaged in the unraveling of amorous film clichés and fantasies than it is in the spirited creation of a somewhat schizophrenic and hysterical emotional space.

The first Nass El Ghiwane Artistic Soiree was broadcast on national television.

An experimental film showing young children exploring the mystery of plant growth. While watching their planet’s development, the children sing, write, recite, talk, film and make collages about plants. They revel in the elements of water, earth and sun which provides the plant’s nourishment.

In this essayistic piece, the only finalized installment of the television series "Fiction - Non Fiction", commissioned by Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB), Günter Bruno Fuchs is— among other things— raising money for the demolition of the Siegessäule, while quoting Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert.

A film about the Skuodas motoball team "Bartuva".

hands off student unions supports the students’ struggle to preserve the autonomy of their union from the conditions of state control embodied in Thatcher’s education proposals. It includes footage of demonstrations in Oxford, Birmingham and Brighton; talking heads of various student activists; a section dealing with the role of students in late capitalist society; various speakers addressing mass meetings; a solidarity speech by Clive Jenkins (ASTMS) plus an interview with Alain Krivine, French Trotskyist leader in May ’68.

A journey in a territory where man-made and iconic artifacts are.

A film by Cioni Carpi

A TV film about the preparations for Wojciech Fortuna's return from Sapporo, after he won the Olympic gold medal.

A film which is ironically related to the habit of immediate detection of meanings and textual interpretations in a representational film. The film perversely plays with the processes and mechanisms through which cinematic meaning is produced. Kwiek divided it into two parts. In the first, the screen is completely dark as the artist describes the process of making the film. The second part is a silent projection of the film that Kwiek described in the first part. Within this structure, Kwiek collides visualisations of two kinds. Mental images of a given situation, created in our minds and based on Kwiek’s story from the first part of the movie, collide with the actual images of the situation, recorded on a film and perceived by the viewer in the second part.

A girl receives a magic ball from outer space. She plays, the ball ricochets around the four walls of the frame. The ball morphs into a balloon and carries her into outer space. A distinctly modernist piece.

A corporate documentary about the construction of the hydro-electric power plant at Búrfell, from the beginning in 1966 until the inauguration in 1970.

Based on the homonymous story by Andrea Granchi in the form of a parodied biography, the film retraces and uses, on the edge of a marked and sometimes bitter irony, that heterogeneous accumulation of materials, documents, images and objects that represent a life starting from childhood. The key to the work lies in the inversion of the natural relationship of youth-old age, in the paroxysmal and comic-pathetic exorcising of 'passing time' and in the paradox of a reverse 'career' in which, in the name of conventional and deceptive ideals of success and health, the protagonist progressively loses pieces of himself, declines and transforms until the final rhetoric epilogue.

A short piece done in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1972

A short piece done in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1972

A short piece done in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1972

A concert pianist plays a fugue on a naked woman's body.

A half-horse, half-man pursues a young woman who turns herself into the same figure. Using a spare animation style, Straiton deals with a mythological subject that reveals his personal sense of humour. A beautiful film, set to original music, that is stunning in its simplicity.

In Street Sentences from 1972, Davis invites passersby to spontaneously give a personal statement to the camera. The result is a collage of political, poetic, and personal messages that generate a diverse and remarkable portrait of the time.

Shepherd Akmurad narrates the story of his helpers, Turkmen sheep dogs, protecting the herd day and night. One dog, Adzhar, saved Akmurad’s life by tearing a snake apart. Then the story of Adzhar’s ancestor who died from longing to see his master after his master died. The unbreakable connection between generations, between the animals and humans.

Animated short by Magdalo Mussio.

Created for the first Japanese exhibition dedicated to video art, Video Communication: Do-It-Yourself-Kit, this work documents protests outside the Chisso Corporation headquarters in central Tokyo. Hazardous byproducts from the company’s chemical plants had caused severe mercury poisoning—and, consequently, a neurological disease—in Minamata’s livestock and inhabitants. Nakaya filmed the sit-in with a handheld video camera and installed a battery-powered television monitor on-site, allowing the demonstrators to watch themselves by playing back the recordings of their actions.