Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

1970's instructional film on how to ride your moped and how not to ride your bike. Step Training Film No. 1.

USA 1972, 16mm, colour, sound, 16 min Print courtesy Canyon Cinema (Tate Modern)

Alberto takes part in a revolution in Portugal and escapes to Belem in Brazil. There work in the jungle you make him change his worldview.

Ice is a film of a film rephotographed through 50 pounds of ice. The soundtrack is a loop - sound equipment recording underwater.

A concert film/mockumentary posing as live news coverage from the 1972 National Surrealist Party Convention, interupted by news flashes from Monster Island, where the president is denied entrance to the forbidden city, but does meet his nemesis, Glutomoto.

My first year Humanities class at the San Francisco Art Institute steps before the camera and introduces itself one by one. This film is an appropriate complement to NEAR THE BIG CHAKRA and should be shown immediately after.

GROUP VII: PORTRAIT OF DIANA (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) PORTRAIT OF ANDREW NOREN (1972, 4 min, 16mm, silent) These films are personal light portraits. I consider them unique and beautiful.

In Forbidden Joy (1972), director Imelda Sheen utilizes many avant garde techniques to tell the mysterious story of a woman picnicking in a cemetery with a toddler by her side. The films plays with mood as it changes styles of music from African, to funk, to soul, to classical, while black-and-white footage shows us a glimpse of the rough streets in the woman’s past. —Trisha Lendo

Animated short. Joshua encounters a small red blob, which proves to be unexpectedly affectionate.

Conceived in 1930, but not realised until 1972 with the support of Robert Darroll.

"IN PROGRESS is a 20-minute time-lapse movie recording the passage of days and seasons from September through May on a bit of landscape photographed on an Iowa farm. The camera doesn't move (though there are two or three slightly different locations) and it is so nearly passive that at one point frost is allowed to form on its lens, and at another the dew turns its image into a glamorous haze.

A solitary hero mysteriously arrives to free a village after the vicious warlord Tiger Master (Chen Hsing) takes control of the town and his thugs terrorizing the residents in this kung fu classic presented by the Wu Tang Clan. As the skilled fighter begins to dispose of the Tiger Master's goons, he must face off against a series of dangerous warriors and intimidating weapons, setting the stage for a climactic showdown.

The Film Unit at Sheffield University Union of Students produced many fascinating films during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. This one, with its surreal landscapes and alarmingly prescient storyline, is definitely on the imaginative outer limits of their collection. It has five men on the run from a controlling state organisation that is capturing the population on 3D film images, thereby making everyone dispensable.

Film starring Farida Jalal, Sheetal Kumar and Rajdeep

1972 film from India starring Chandrakala, Jyothi Lakshmi and Shobha

1971 Indian film from Dhirubhai Desai starring Jeevan, Om Prakash and Shashikala

1972 film starring Ashok Kumar, Suresh Chatwal, Alka, Paintal, Jagdeep, Nazneen