1972 Movies

On 25 August 1972, the jazz rock fusion band, Mahavishnu Orchestra, led by guitarist John McLaughlin with musicians Billy Cobham, Jerry Goodman, Rick...

He preaches while she teaches! Filmed in the Carolinas, A woman and a preacher form a deadly and criminal duo while taking sexual and financial advant...

The tone is lyrical, the voices are real, the bodies are sketchy: A couple talks at the phone and in bed (a casanova and his victim). "You helped me,...

Schoolchildren learn how different types of fish play different roles in an aquarium.

A short film about a roller-coaster ride of a friendship between two imaginative young girls.

Titled Power, Tretti's sophomore film was a sort of Mel Brooks' History of the World, in which Tretti explored the history of mankind from one precise...

Standard 8 colour film, refilmed and slowed down, edited into a formal work on 16mm film, of camera pan sequences of a woman lying naked. Almost abstr...

The tools people adopt to try and control nature. In parallel with the early history of Van der Keuken's child.

A sardonic narrator drones on about safely using modern conveniences, intercut with footage of the often catastrophic failure of antique flying machin...

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...

An early short by Sally Cruikshank. Running through various anthropomorphized creatures, this short lack a real sense of narrative.

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...

The nearest Wagner ever got to religion was worshiping himself. Using opulent music he delivers his audience to an easy, pseudo-mystical experience. I...

The film starts with an extreme close-up of television static. Through a series of carefully controlled processes, the abstract nature of the image (w...

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...

An elegiac documentary about Krzyżtopór Castle in the village of Ujazd, southern Poland. Built between 1627 and 1644 by Krzysztof Ossoliński. It was o...