1972 Movies

A journey by lugger along the north-west coast and by 4WD vehicle into the rugged Kimberley. A classic adventure showing pearling, fishing, tribal Abo...

Short animation from Pierre Veilleux. Honoured as best Canadian short animation in the Canadian Film Awards (precursor to the Genies). Here the anima...

From a hole in the ground I unearth the last egg, I drink it, I carefully bury its remains again. A situation of non-hope: "to hope for something" mus...

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Conceived in 1927/28, but only realised in 1972, with the support of Robert Darroll.

In many ways the sister film to 'Horse of Mud', Al-Abnoudy’s graduation film at the Film School in Cairo is a portrait of Cairo’s street performers. T...

Through a series of still images, the bright, inquisitive and beautiful faces of the children from the Atikamekw community of Manawan are seen at play...

One of my first 16mm films, made without a camera as an experiment in how to visualize rhythm. It equates four simple shapes with four simple sounds,...

Ilike to go to oregon hills/ Iroll down with my arms because/ Iwant to go slower/ Iam scared. –J. K.

An early short film from Gábor Bódy.

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...

Rapidly-shifting images of what appear to be a greatly magnified mass of tangled fibers convey the effect of taking a voyage through a wad of steel wo...

I wondered what it would feel like to see another image at the moment the bubble bursts. I wondered if there was a crucial difference between splicing...

Featuring a vehicle equipped with tanks of oxygen, Fresh Air was an interactive performance that allowed people on the streets of New York to breathe...

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the robin.

A narrator tries to figure out “what’s the deal with Cathy?” (but she’s a riddle no one can solve).

Released a year before Roe v. Wade, this short film by Amalie Rothschild lays out the dire realities of illegal abortion, interviewing women from a va...

Covers the disagreements between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton in the 1790s on how our new government should be conducted.