1972 Movies

Abstract animation punctuated by found footage, cut to the song White Light / White Heat by The Velvet Underground.

A painter falls in love with a woman he painted, until he paints himself into the painting, and his oilpaint-self and the woman begin an affair from w...

What were the young people doing during this beautiful summer of 1972? A survey takes us to the side of the working world and its summer topography: S...

An experiment in "video cubism." Two rows of three cylindrical water glasses are lined up to fit the frame of the monitor. The glasses disappear, then...

This film documents the Sagicho Fire Festival, which takes place in the eight communities constituting Oiso, a town located in the warm climate alon...

Short by Studio 970/2.

A love story between the children of two feuding families.

Animated short. Joshua encounters a small red blob, which proves to be unexpectedly affectionate.

Named after the horror film White Zombie and the rom-com Red Dust (both 1932),White Dust follows the friends and family of Keen while they explore ar...

In this film a five-year-old named Debe refuses to let his mother Di!ai go gathering without him. Di!ai appeals to her daughter N!ai to entertain the...

"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...

Untitled (Tea Party) is a short silent film. The camera slowly zooms into a sunlit clearing in a forest where Ader, formally dressed, is crawling towa...

In a sly twist on the methodology of the 18th-century "philosophes" who classified the laws and history of the world in massive encyclopedias, Baldess...

An early short by Sally Cruikshank. Running through various anthropomorphized creatures, this short lack a real sense of narrative.

Four children save money to buy a boat but are accused of boat stealing. When the boat is wrecked, they have to raise the wreck to prove their innocen...

A drawn-on-film animated short

A TV drama about the friendship between 21-year-old Vilant, who after an accident is stuck in a wheelchair, and the small kid Gere.

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