1972 Movies

A tribute to fellow artist Sol LeWitt, Baldessari sings lines from LeWitt's thirty-five statements on conceptual art to the tune of popular songs.

Cantinflas, the main character, is present.

Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

Sand, made while Arvanites was still an MFA student, appears to be a dramatic dessert vista with blowing winds, akin to a scene from the iconic film L...

A young boy enters the Shaolin Temple and undergoes rigorous training in traditional martial arts. The film focuses on discipline, endurance, and clas...

"This dates from 1972 and 73. Frustration and anger in the nation and the world. Nothing new about that. The eternal return, and yet a reality unknown...

"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...

Mi Raza: Portrait of a Family is a documentary about the Navarro-Gonzalez family, a multi-generational Mexican-American family living in Chicago's Pil...

A 14-minute color short set in Naples that deals with religious festivals, local traditions/identity, poverty, and religious feeling. It was screened...

Shows, in a light, charming manner, the sequence of change in the plant and animal life of the forest during the spring months.

A mysterious figure leaves the Tower of Babel. It looks for the truth, it looks for life, it joins feasters and people working in the field. The anima...

Kali is the goddess of physical form and transformation in Hindu mythology - thus, the varied textures, colors, and shapes of our transitory existence...

Conceived in 1928/29, but not realised until 1972 with the support of Robert Darroll.

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

Short pinku distributed by Nikkatsu in 1972

"IN PROGRESS is a 20-minute time-lapse movie recording the passage of days and seasons from September through May on a bit of landscape photographed o...