1972 Movies

An emotional condemnation of the U.S.’s role in the war in North Vietnam, composed of photographs by Thomas Billhardt, this film depicts the dire livi...

"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 o...

The daily lives of a group of young people who use drugs are documented on film. The soundtrack features a mix of rock music and interview excerpts. T...

The tools people adopt to try and control nature. In parallel with the early history of Van der Keuken's child.

Standard 8 colour film, refilmed and slowed down, edited into a formal work on 16mm film, of camera pan sequences of a woman lying naked. Almost abstr...

About an elderly woman in a country house, spending time with her only companion, a goat.

For Landscape for Fire, Anthony McCall and members of the British artist collaborative Exit followed McCall’s pre-determined score to torch containers...

A short documentary about the life of nomads.

Animated short by Magdalo Mussio.

A film of playful observation, without commentary, catching in a few simple animated line drawings the images people project of themselves in the way...

"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...

“Apotheosis, which is developed from images made in the radiation treatment of human cancer, is the most beautiful and the most subtly textured work i...

“In “Refraction,’ the camera is set so that the leaves of a large tree fill the frame. Green ordinary leaves which move in their baroque ways under th...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experime...

Katsuhiro Yamaguchi and Hakudo Kobayashi presented the video performance Eat at Video Hiroba's first exhibition, Video Communication DO IT YOURSELF KI...

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

A short piece done in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1972

A fervent Christian counterculture movement in the 1970s takes hold of the West Coast and redefines evangelism through new approaches to worship, musi...

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