1972 Movies

A quest film about a young man on a wondrous and strange trip around the world has more in common with medieval mystery plays than with most modern fi...

A mystical performance about the sea and the earth based on a Yoruba folk tale.

Mexican feature film

The film covers the welcome given to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Delhi after his release from Pakistan and his return to Dacca.

A virgin husband and a lustful woman pretending to be a virgin, Umi, are about to spend their wedding night together. The husband, textbook in hand, i...

In 1972 I burrowed myself into Paris with an even stronger determination, this time not for all of Paris, just to steal her ‘diamond’, The Eiffel Towe...

16mm, b&w, 6'00

Short pinku distributed by Nikkatsu in 1972

Chair Film by Gill Eatherley is a three-screen presentation of an optically-printed filmic rumination on that mundane, brilliant invention, the chair.

The director interviews inmates at a girls' reformatory while they prepare a performance of Cinderella.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Paul McCarthy’s “Red Poster Tapes,” created in 1971-72, faithfully carry out a series of straightforward but bizarre instructions: “I Smear Vaseline o...

This short film depicts a "typical" Australian family in the 1970's.

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

Film starring Adoor Bhasi, Jayabharati and Prem Nazir

This film presents the historical development of lighthouses in Canada, and shows the conversion from keeper-maintained lights to automated equipment.

Comedy where three friends meet at a bar table to drink and tell their adventures. A sailor exaggerates in his drinks while listening to an exciting "...

Ruy Santos documents Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Theater, one of the city’s most significant architectural landmarks.