All Films

January '69, oil workers in Northern California struck, and for the first time, students at San Francisco State and University of California were asked to join the union in the struggle. This action added a new dimension to the Movement in California.

In this film, Nauman bounces his testicles with one hand. Shot in extreme close-up, the work is perhaps an ironic reference to an earlier film Bouncing Two Balls Between the Floor and Ceiling with Changing Rhythms, in which he bounced rubber balls. Along with Black Balls, Gauze, and Pulling Mouth, Bouncing Balls is one of Nauman's "Slo-Mo" films which are shot with an industrial high speed camera.

A film about a hunter and his loyal sausage dog who are always ready to help any living being who needs it. The hunter's gun shoots carrots, pine cones, or mushrooms - whatever's needed for a given rescue operation.

Episode of Luiz Rosemberg Filho of the feature film "America of Sex" - made in 1969

An X-ray Vision that goes beyond the surface and explorations of "SPACE ODDITY" into the emotional expressions of sensual ecstasy and orgasm. Using a technique I call "FLYING CAMERA" where I use a lightweight camera to roam over the human female body to create the illusion of flying bodies. Also experimenting with quick intercuts of black and white abstractions that create grays in between. Music is a collage of Edgar Varese's "IONIZATION" and Luciano Berio's "VISAGE" with Kathy Berberian's vocals.

A girl, Carol Lee, adopts a mischievous crow, but has to work hard to keep it from being shot by a farmer who hates crows.

A Seminole Indian captures a falcon on its yearly migration, but it yearns to be free.

Sand or Peter and the Wolf is a loose interpretation of the fable Peter and the Wolf, in which a boy's fear of the dark, the woods, and the wolf, is confronted and resolved. The film shows the extraordinary graphic possibilities of one of nature's most ordinary substances, sand.

Abstract visual poem celebrating the freedom of bodies moving through water. A filmmaker unconcerned with plot films the practice of an olympic swimming team and creates a visually stunning work.

This film documents a rally in San Francisco sponsored by the Black Panther Party. Kathleen Cleaver, Bobby Seale, and other speakers addressed thousands of protesters demanding more rights for African Americans and calling for the release of Huey P. Newton.

A cuckolded husband is oblivious to his fed-up wife and her lover in this farcical menage à trois.

A West African folk tale about a spider who is presented with a dilemma when each of his six sons saves his life and he must determine which one he should reward.

Jason Goldframe, a film producer, is always the best and the first! It's his ambition to be the very first to achieve the inconceivable: making a 270mm film. Obsessed as he is, he even wants to be faster than his shadow. One evening he succeeds…

Documentary with beautiful black-and-white CinemaScope shots, which combined impressive scenes from a trip to the Ukraine with historical reminiscences. The censors criticized the "too narrow and too intimate view" of the Soviet Union; they didn't like the fact that bells were ringing, that a chauffeur from the film crew or an elderly peasant couple recalled the horrors of war or that Nikolai Gogol and Yevgeny Yevtushenko were quoted - that was considered backward-looking. Without the knowledge of the filmmakers Karlheinz Mund and Christian Lehmann, the film was shortened and mutilated; the seventeen minutes that were allowed for a public screening are only the torso of a large draft.

A bear wants to destroy a little bird's nest but all other birds come to help. A war bursts out between birds and animals.

The action of the film is direct: Holt walks through the tall grasses of a swamp while filming with her Bolex camera, guided only by what she can see through the camera lens and by Smithson's verbal instructions. The viewer experiences the walk from Holt's point of view, seeing through her camera lens and hearing Smithson's spoken directions. Vision is obstructed and perception distorted as they stumble through the swamp grasses.

Says Karen Treanor of the film: “The Minibike Ride” is Jim Jennings’ oldest extant film, shot when he was a student at Oakwood Friends’ School. For years, it was shown at Danbury High School (CT), until the print of it disappeared". Also screened shortly after completion for members of the avant-garde clique-- the film was called 'intriguing' by Nathaniel Dorsky.

The entire process of puppy birth, photographed in detail is produced to introduce the concepts of human and animal reproduction to children.

The conflict comes to a head; student Melville proposes that the Basic Regulations Assembly should "like Lysistrata" refuse to deal with the Ministry of Culture and not adopt any Basic Regulations until the Dahrendorf Plan is off the table. The students propose that no basic regulations be passed until the government has improved the Higher Education Act. The motion is rejected by 10:25 votes. Riots interrupt the meeting.

A "remix" of Hollis Frampton's film Artificial Light.

"Location: a ballet company, Mrs. Cordua training alone, training together with another person, head exercises, body exercises, leg and arm exercises, supporting herself, working in the ballet room, taking off her makeup in the dressing room, undressing, washing herself carefully, treating all of the sweaty places of her body (armpits, anus, genitalia), getting dressed, opera house corridors, canteen, driving through the city, typical buildings, shops, factory complexes on the way; apartment—opera house and back, her husband reading the newspaper, sitting, lying down, working, smoking, cooking potatoes, eating potatoes, opening the mail, drinking coffee, filming, caring for feat, mouth, while saying something amusing, hand movement (beheading gesture meaning it is finished), a TV film, dancer relaxing in private, smoking, discussing, disparaging, a TV film, drinking tea, the end: that certain shine in Mrs. Cordua's eyes!" (HHK)

Ivan Ladislav Galeta's first experimental film displays a narrative structure and a philosophic/mystical idea – we begin nowhere and we end in nothing, at the starting point. From a hidden position, the camera follows a man in a black coat who approaches passers-by asking directions without taking his hands out of his pockets. The passers lift their hands and point their fingers at the direction he uses to continue his way.

Experimental short that intersperses, through an associative montage, images of animals in the zoo and images of a military parade in the city of Rosario. This short film is part of a series of films recovered from Chaco cinema pioneers.