1972 Movies

In 'Software', the pixel lights of the industrialized world (electrical power) are re-formed in the speckles and patterned light of the video screen:...

In 'Vortex', the intense subjectivity of techno-psychedelia converges with the technological gamesmanship of the space race. The subject matter, howev...

Documentary film.

"The Åkerblom Movement" - Attempted murder and perjury are not usually associated with a Christian movement. But members of Maria Åkerblom's cult wou...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Traces bronze from its discovery in Mesopotamia in the third millenium BCE to the 20th century.

“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...