1972 Movies

“Skala’s films combine the principles of informel painting and abstract expressionism applied to the media of film. His approach was based on the manu...

Through a series of still images, the bright, inquisitive and beautiful faces of the children from the Atikamekw community of Manawan are seen at play...

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,...

"'Work, Bike, Eat' is about youth and being young. The intention in making the film was to catch people and the relationships between things in as nat...

Godina was ordered to make a short film glorifying the army, but instead made a film about making love, not war. The censors hacked it up, but he mana...

an animated look at digestion

One of the earliest films made by Australian director Roger Donaldson (Sleeping Dogs),this curio chronicles the dawning of the Age of Aquarius in Aot...

Set during the reigns of the last five kings of the Capetian dynasty and the first two kings of the House of Valois, Tha Accursed Kings begins as the...

Mexican feature film

Shot in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, the film captures artist Rubens Gerchman’s happenings.

A concert film/mockumentary posing as live news coverage from the 1972 National Surrealist Party Convention, interupted by news flashes from Monster I...

Scratched film with pyrotechnic effects.

At the beginning of the film the word FOME (hunger) appears written with bean seeds. The germination of the grains is recorded step by step until it g...

Short animated film.

Using the village of Ulyakhino in the Gus-Khrustalny District of the Vladimir Region as a case study, the filmmakers chronicle the changes taking plac...

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

General views of a girls' football match.

This 1972 filmstrip from a small publisher in Peoria with a memorably-gruff narrator is a biography of 20th century author Franz Kafka, and includes g...