1972 Movies

Despite its name it really is a film with cats in it that multiply and dissolve through the use of prisms, mirroring and optically printing.

“Skala’s films combine the principles of informel painting and abstract expressionism applied to the media of film. His approach was based on the manu...

In Forbidden Joy (1972),director Imelda Sheen utilizes many avant garde techniques to tell the mysterious story of a woman picnicking in a cemetery w...

An immersion into the experimentation carried out in the Research Service of the ORTF, based on interviews with Pierre Schaeffer, founder and director...

A movie about the culture clash in Tunisia between Swedish aid workers and local people. Swedes and Tunisians both give their views on the current pro...

About how the puppy Tyap and the kitten Mika became friends.

Based on a Moldavian fairy tale.

Based on the fairy tale by Keria Kurbannepesov "Kongurja's Tale"

A film about Hussein Yavari, a player of ney.

The visual ‘documentary’ material in House Movie comprises essentially ‘home movie’ footage. While the great majority of this material was staged, re-...

A silent film

Originally, this was a four-minute time-lapse film that was shot continuously over a twenty-four-hour period. The camera was positioned on a busy path...

In this film, a group of women and children gather sweet, fresh /ole berries and sha roots. The younger women, led by N!ai, bait a nest of wasps. As t...

This film, shot in 1952-53, documents the scarification ceremony called "marking" which was traditionally held for Ju/'hoan boys after they had killed...

In this film a five-year-old named Debe refuses to let his mother Di!ai go gathering without him. Di!ai appeals to her daughter N!ai to entertain the...

Animated short. Joshua encounters a small red blob, which proves to be unexpectedly affectionate.