1972 Movies

A deeply silly stop motion film starring a quartet of fruit, made by four boys from St. Thomas of Canterbury grade school in Chicago. It won an award...

Produced by the Junior League of Miami, this is a comprehensive history of Miami and Dade County, from its earliest history through the 1926 Hurrican...

A man working on a clay sculpture has his excess clay come to life and begin to mess with him.

On the subject of this film and its title, Pettena comments: “In March 1972, coming out of the studio of a local TV channel in Salt Lake City, after g...

"Steve Kolpan, video artist, at exercise." -Description from Portable Channel catalogue

In 'Software', the pixel lights of the industrialized world (electrical power) are re-formed in the speckles and patterned light of the video screen:...

Rape by an African foreman leads to the the mounting revolt of the labour force in an African colony. While some are forced to accept their condition...

A film which is ironically related to the habit of immediate detection of meanings and textual interpretations in a representational film. The film pe...

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

16mm b&w film

"'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...

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

Presents a portrait of Mahalia Jackson, who spread the religious music of Black Americans from congregations in small churches to vast audiences throu...

Short documentary film that addresses the negative impact of imperialism in Latin America, focusing on the Chilean situation. Among images that denoun...

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

USA 1972, 16mm, colour, sound, 16 min Print courtesy Canyon Cinema (Tate Modern)

Footage from the shoot/editing of Her Love (Excerpt).

Short animated film.