All Films

Line drawings, flowing freely across the screen, suggest a head-in-the-clouds feeling as Claude Gauthier recalls a lost but sweet love of other days. Part of the Contemporary Songs of French Canada series.

A film by Orlando Bomfim Netto, member of the Capixaba Collection.

As a senior at Yale College in 1968, Doob was invited to participate in the Scholars of the House Program, a senior honors program that required students to create, in lieu of regular classes, “a finished essay or project which must justify by its scope and quality the freedom which has been granted.” Rather than pursue a more traditional written work, Doob initially chose to make a film, an unorthodox approach that had not been previously attempted. In the end, Doob chose to make two films to fulfill the requirement, beginning with COSTUMED DANCER. The film is a progression of images of a dancer, shot and printed on high contrast stock, and stacked in the printer in a number of layers so as to create multiple images of the dancer, moving from single image to multiple image in a kind of phasing. It is cut to music composed by Doob’s friend David Sewall, who was the subject of one of Doob’s later films, LONDON SONGS (1972). (Yale Film Archive)

Short film produced by Brigham Young University. As Rick becomes associated with hippies, the concern of an adviser and an unpleasant experience help him to realize the importance of some of the things he thought he could give up. Shows how love and persistence can bring back the "lost sheep."

In this film a car engine is animated with the pulse and passion of wheeled competition and of love. In French with English titles at head.

A revelation of the distant universe, accomplishing through film animation what even the most far-seeing telescope cannot do. The film explores the fourth state of matter, the plasma that fills the infinite void between stars and galaxies. Single atoms in space, or planets as large as the sun, are each seen to have their own magnetic fields, attracting to themselves streams of invisible particles just as iron filings are drawn to a magnet. This has the same awe-inspiring quality as the earlier Universe, with colour adding to its wonder and dimension.

The Japanese version of the 1968 '44 Gatti,' an Italian song from the TV program Zecchino D'Oro. It was introduced in the Japanese NHK TV program 'Minna no Uta' in 1969.

Partially inspired by James J. Gibson's The Perception of the Visual World (Boston, 1950). Made by aiming a 16mm camera in a slow spiral across the sky. Unlike the aesthetic overfitting we find in much putatively hallucinatory art, Graham here reduces things to a usefully predictive basement reality: the alteration of one’s sense of time. A quote from Diedrich Diederichsen on Tony Conrad’s Yellow Movies might also be apt here: “In the early psychedelic avant-garde, if one wishes to save this word for once from its present reduction to a few formal motifs in pop music and poster design, there existed thus a very specific alliance between the critique of capitalism and mysticism that had to do, among other things, with an evocation of a different temporality.” Here, in one simple gesture.

Made during the Vietnam War. He proposes a reflection on two ways of killing...

Portrait of the rural school of Mina Delina.

Produced at the start of the golden age of Azerbaijani animation, Akhundov and Efendiyev’s Jirtdan (meaning “small” or “dwarf”) is a magical little treat in which the titular tiny hero and his brothers must outwit the child-eating Div.

A documentary examining the December 5, 1967, demonstration against Dow Chemical's manufacture of napalm during the Vietnam War and its recruitment on The University of Iowa campus.

A documentary film about the writer Antanas Vienuolis.

Soundtrack: MADE IN AMERICA, by William Russell.

After winning independence in 1961 from the British, President Julius K. Nyerere set to instill ideas of self-development, self-governance and social justice in Tanzania. This short film describes the idea of African Socialism aka. "Ujamaa" as a response to the challenge of development in terms of the pressures under which newly emerging nations labor and emphasizes the strength of working together for the benefit of their nation.

Nauman, his head cropped from the frame, is shown bouncing in the corner of his studio. Here, however, the images were recorded with a fixed camera that was inverted rather than turned on its side. -- EAI

First transmitted in 1969, this film looks at a handful of the 280,000 railwaymen who work in Britain, especially the men who worked on the former Midland and Great Central routes, as they reflect on their changing industry. Inside Sheffield Railway Men's Club former steam locomotive crew discuss the transition from steam to electric and diesel engines, and heatedly debate their respective merits. Meanwhile, on the Manchester-Sheffield line a former steam locomotive driver remembers what it was like to go through the Woodhead Tunnel, where driver and fireman had to crouch down to avoid the fumes and get breathable air. Signalman Michael Gatonby reveals life inside the signal box, one of the loneliest and busiest jobs on the railway line.

With the participation of Danish and foreign artists. Creation of a printing house, film screenings, production of the Potato Opera, etc.

This cartoon film tries to portray the importance of family planning and the ultimate dangers leading to an utter chaos in the absence of proper population control.

First transmitted in 1969, this programme shows the life and career of military musicians. It follows young bandsmen recruiting as junior musicians at the Guards Depot, Pirbright, to becoming regimental musicians at Kneller Hall Military School of Music.

An experimental film that attempts a lyrical interpretation of the concepts of love and anxiety. The two concepts meet as two people, separated by a wire mesh. The separation is sought to be annulled from both sides. Sound and image express an abstract mood experience around the two concepts. The film experiments with polarizing colors. (DFI)

In an eastern city, a biting flea appears, which begins to jump from one person to another.

TV-documentary about the German painter Carl Spitzweg

A paraphrase of H.C. Andersen's fairy tale of the same name. Visual acid for the eyes. (DFI)