1972 Movies

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.

Film, 16mm, black and white, mono sound.

A short film featuring images of his grandfather’s just-demolished shoe-repair shop in 1972

"I first saw these creatures at the Bodega Bay Marine Biology Lab. I was amazed - I lived on this planet so long not knowing I was sharing it with wee...

The experiences of a young girl help to focus attention on some psycho-social aspects of the venereal disease problem. Written and directed by Rolf Fo...

Hans-Dieter Grabe accompanies Mendel Schainfeld on his second journey to Germany.

Shot in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, the film captures artist Rubens Gerchman’s happenings.

In Manhattan and Wall Street's majestic, neoclassical architecture, characters try their luck, ambiguously posted between the mundane and transcendenc...

A concert film/mockumentary posing as live news coverage from the 1972 National Surrealist Party Convention, interupted by news flashes from Monster I...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experime...