1972 Movies

A sardonic narrator drones on about safely using modern conveniences, intercut with footage of the often catastrophic failure of antique flying machin...

A London park and artist Chris Welsby runs repeatedly into frame and off into the distance; his actions contrast with the more leisurely activities of...

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 t...

«A hand at the top right of the screen throws three dice. They tumble, become still, are picked up and thrown again. The scene is projected on two lar...

Shot in black and white, London Me Bharat—one of the first Hindi-language films made in Britain—presents a distinctive view of 70s London. After an op...

The nearest Wagner ever got to religion was worshiping himself. Using opulent music he delivers his audience to an easy, pseudo-mystical experience. I...

The film starts with an extreme close-up of television static. Through a series of carefully controlled processes, the abstract nature of the image (w...

TO LIVE WITH HERDS is a film about the Jie, a predominantly pastoral people of northeastern Uganda. Following a period of relative isolation under the...

An elegiac documentary about Krzyżtopór Castle in the village of Ujazd, southern Poland. Built between 1627 and 1644 by Krzysztof Ossoliński. It was o...

A man talks about his odd jobs.

"Mardøla Blues" - A small group of non-violent protesters try to save the river environment around development of a hydroelectric power plant in 1970.

Traces bronze from its discovery in Mesopotamia in the third millenium BCE to the 20th century.

“Farocki’s ten-minute short film is composed of shots of an AFN DJ at work…and of a car ride, whereby the camera points out of the car (through the wi...

A seemingly funny story set in a seaside shanty town consisting of cramped beach huts with no view of the sea; crying children in a car, enough luggag...

This movement marks the beginning of modern art in Germany. It is the German equivalent of French Fauvism, from which it draws its main inspiration, b...

A 1972 Spanish language documentary written and directed by Nicolas Guillen Landrian.