1972 Movies

“Farocki’s ten-minute short film is composed of shots of an AFN DJ at work…and of a car ride, whereby the camera points out of the car (through the wi...

This movement marks the beginning of modern art in Germany. It is the German equivalent of French Fauvism, from which it draws its main inspiration, b...

A 1972 Spanish language documentary written and directed by Nicolas Guillen Landrian.

A forecast of how the year 2000 could be.

A series of six, roughly ten minute body art videos - selected from an original twelve - produced by Friederike Pezold between 1973 and 1977, and orig...

A composite of four excerpts from an original, now unavailable open-reel tape shot by the German art collective Telewissen in 1972 as part of their ex...

Jochen Gerz's first video of his performance art, filmed by the monitor. Gerz stands alone in a landscape and calls "Hello" into the camera from a 60-...

Działania (Activities) documents a four-day action in a Warsaw television studio which can be understood as a “visual free-jazz concert,” or an attemp...

A short film by Hans-Jakob Siber.

1970's instructional film on how to ride your moped and how not to ride your bike. Step Training Film No. 1.

"Visits four cooperative "living experiments" in Portland, Oregon during the 1970s, where cohabitants form alternative relationships to the nuclear fa...

The times they were a-changing.

The road is a perilous place, in part because there are so many jerks behind the wheel. As the narrator informs us, "Do anything you can to rid yourse...

USA 1972, 16mm, colour, sound, 16 min Print courtesy Canyon Cinema (Tate Modern)

During a nocturnal drive through the sleeping city of Darmstadt, a large, luminous X is projected from the vehicle onto the walls of buildings.

The letters of an immigrant from Gytheio who went to America at the turn of the 20th century.

Alberto takes part in a revolution in Portugal and escapes to Belem in Brazil. There work in the jungle you make him change his worldview.

Ice is a film of a film rephotographed through 50 pounds of ice. The soundtrack is a loop - sound equipment recording underwater.