1972 Movies

Pear I illustrates Herbert's obsession with patterns of color as he dallies over curtains, quilts, toys, flowers and other objects, and over lean, you...

A brief look at New York City's Bowery Men's Shelter in 1972, which provides food, and housing and clothing services, to destitute men in the neighbor...

Arthur Is Fantastic is a b/w Fluxus film that portraits Arthur Indenbaum and turns him into a work of art by obliterating the boundaries between art a...

Two young lovers, Mary and Tim, deal with pressure, parents and change in this heartfelt drama.

"'Work, Bike, Eat' is about youth and being young. The intention in making the film was to catch people and the relationships between things in as nat...

Canada Dry presents a Tennessee Ernie Ford Christmas special.

With Illuminated Music #1, Stephen Beck shows off the well-modulated movements possible with a synthesizer that needs no external image source.

A document of a troupe of young dancers performing African dance. You can almost hear the music.

Animated film by Kathy Rose

A fixed camera photographs a fog shrouded landscape, at first totally white but then gradually revealed. The music is 'Japanified concrete'

...Boyer's L'amertube explores the way in which video feedback can create medium-specific distortions in visual perception. -Scott MacKenzie

For After the Colours, Mattijn Seip filmed abstract collages of strips. The first part of the film consists of footage shot by using rotating objects...

A house with constantly changing interiors, surrounded by different types of landscapes, is shown from various angles, in response to music.

Short experimental film produced as part of the "Recherches, Art et Industrie" (Research, Art and Industry) program developed by Claude-Louis Renard a...

This documentary film examines the meanings of the abuse of barbiturates and amphetamines. Filmed in Haight-Ashbury, this film seeks to define the nat...

Bódy Gábor made his experimental film-language series Négy bagatell (Four bagatelles) between 1972 and 1975. Egy bagatell (One bagatelle) is the third...

The second part of Aspects of a Hill by Naomi Levine

The Film Unit at Sheffield University Union of Students produced many fascinating films during the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s. This one, with its surreal la...