1972 Movies

Short by Walter Bockmayer.

The times they were a-changing.

"A simple, entirely unaffected portrait of a family which happens to be black" is how Sid's Family was described by a Monthly Film Bulletin reviewer a...

The film shows celebration of Day of the Republic., held in the village of Novigrad Podravski (Croatia) in 1972. The performers were pupils of the ele...

Ground-breaking Australian TV documentary on gays and lesbians. It was the first to feature a gay male kiss on Australian television.

The Belgian poet Christian Dotremont, organiser of the COBRA movement, invents a graphic writing system

A parable, photographed in live-action, about the use of eating utensils in India. Doubling as a social commentary, this film also examines the signif...

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...

The film is a brief evocation of a town, Aix-en-Provence, by the friendly vision of one of its old inhabitants. He brings back some anecdotes which de...

Short animated film.

This video documents the first cablecast of Austin Community Television (ACTV) in which George Stoney and a group of University of Texas students asse...

A young German Jesus-like figure journeys somewhat aimlessly through the poverty of Glasgow's Gorbals, New York, and Calcutta, encountering eccentrics...

"In another exploration of nonverbal communication, the camera moves back and forth, each time catching one of Acconci's hands in an expressive gestur...

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

"Just as outrageous is Curt McDowell's CONFESSIONS. McDowell, a graduate student at San Francisco Art Institute, opens his film with a confession to h...

Inspired by an Andrew Marvell poem, George Dunning sketched short phrases of animated movement on index cards, which were then stuck to a table top an...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at educational practices in junior schools across the West Riding of Yorkshire.