1972 Movies

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

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

An experimental videotape recorded in real time of flutist G.S. Sachdev.

A profile of the Italian painter and sculptor Lucio Fontana (1899-1968),who made his mark on 20th century art with his concept of Spatialism. He prop...

A concert pianist plays a fugue on a naked woman's body.

Ernie Gehr's short, silent film [...] shows two young girls, almost children still, on a New York street. Both wear blue, one washed out blue jeans, t...

In an impressionistic fashion without commentary or interviews, Smihi follows the work of the painter and educator, Arno Stern, who established the Cl...

In 1972 I burrowed myself into Paris with an even stronger determination, this time not for all of Paris, just to steal her ‘diamond’, The Eiffel Towe...

A look at the univeristy town of St Andrews.

A half-horse, half-man pursues a young woman who turns herself into the same figure. Using a spare animation style, Straiton deals with a mythological...

Annett Wolf has had many lives, and it’s not over. Now 85 years old, she has moved to Halifax (Canada) with the hope of filming a snow wolf, a vision...

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...

Early video work by Hermine Freed utilizing 360-degree panning shots

The BBC Radio Ballads were groundbreaking documentaries produced by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Charles Parker in the late 1950s and broadcast on t...

Short documentary about the process of extracting gold to be worked as goldsmith.

A child plays with flowers, butterflies and birds. Suddenly a huge man dressed in black appears. He begins to teach the child a lesson about plant and...

Two neighbors play backgammon with such passion that they don't notice anything happening around them.

A documentation of the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami by a group of mediamakers working under the auspices of the Women's Video News Service