1972 Movies

A film on the edge of genres, both a home movie about the author's young daughter up to her second birthday, and a structural film.

A document of a troupe of young dancers performing African dance. You can almost hear the music.

Early video work by Hermine Freed utilizing 360-degree panning shots

A parody of a gangster movie. A group of Africans arrange to meet on a beach near Abidjan to organize a hold-up. They are ready to kill and they take...

Michael Lee uses a 16mm Bolex camera to explore various zooming and framing techniques to photograph images from National Geographic Magazines. The si...

A man is busy with his own image in an empty building, and in a cinema.

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 te...

A theatre performance by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, directed by Olga Lipińska in 1972. The role of Chopin was played by Leszek Herdegen, and George Sand -...

A crowd of champagne-riddled art patrons witness and react to the unveiling of a fountain sculpted by Richard See and the filmmaker. The fountain coll...

"This dates from 1972 and 73. Frustration and anger in the nation and the world. Nothing new about that. The eternal return, and yet a reality unknown...

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

Four teenagers and a narrator discuss ways in which to recognize and correct pronunciation problems.

The well-worn trope of the “intrepid white explorer attempts to explain the ways of African tribes” is subverted in a masterful fashion by Horace Ové...

"Glimpses into a day in the life of three children. The three are busy with their lives. We see them, but what are they thinking? My camera screws up,...

"Sunshine Singapore pairs lurid, dream-like visuals of 1970s Singapore with music which leads the viewer through a variety of moods – oscillating betw...

Second statement that recounts the betrayal of a group of electricians from Celaya, who join the official unionism breaking the unity sought by the de...

Short film by American director James Pasternak.

1972 Mexican experimental film by Cooperativa de Cine Marginal

For seven minutes Waśko filmed the wall of the Film School in Łódź; he then cut up the film stock, mixed up the fragments and edited them together ran...

An early short film from Gábor Bódy.