1972 Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

A forecast of how the year 2000 could be.

A series of six, roughly ten minute body art videos - selected from an original twelve - produced by Friederike Pezold between 1973 and 1977, and orig...

A composite of four excerpts from an original, now unavailable open-reel tape shot by the German art collective Telewissen in 1972 as part of their ex...

Jochen Gerz's first video of his performance art, filmed by the monitor. Gerz stands alone in a landscape and calls "Hello" into the camera from a 60-...

Działania (Activities) documents a four-day action in a Warsaw television studio which can be understood as a “visual free-jazz concert,” or an attemp...

A short film by Hans-Jakob Siber.

1970's instructional film on how to ride your moped and how not to ride your bike. Step Training Film No. 1.

"Visits four cooperative "living experiments" in Portland, Oregon during the 1970s, where cohabitants form alternative relationships to the nuclear fa...

The times they were a-changing.

The road is a perilous place, in part because there are so many jerks behind the wheel. As the narrator informs us, "Do anything you can to rid yourse...