All Films

Poem Field No. 3

1967 • 10 min • United States of America

In this pioneering work of early computer art, geometric groupings of monochrome patterns and words are created with the program BEFLIX, which was developed in the 1960s by Bell Telephone Laboratories programmer Kenneth Knowlton.

Awakener [16mm version]

1967 • 13 min • United States of America

13 min., sound, 1967

Terra animata

1967 • 7 min • Italy

Luca Maria Patella composed a series of performative actions by his wife/collaborator Rosa Foschi and playwright Claudio Meldolesi in a sparse landscape. Bodies, objects and natural features are shown from different perspectives and angles, proposing a sort of visual harmony within the silent film. Through geometry, texture, movement and stasis, Patella animates, creating a sense of communion with nature on a similar wavelength to Ana Mendieta’s actions, and with a stark difference to the comparative coldness and objectivity that the work of land artists of the contemporary era would reflect.

Bogen

1967 • 1 min

Changing landscape as the same day progresses.

Getting Ready for the Festival

1967 • 5 min • Taiwan

In these freckled, disjointed montages of everyday life, we see a faint hint of an upcoming festival as the theatre troupe sound its drums; the children either sit and gaze, or clamber to see the lead actress. This 8mm roll of film was found after LONG Sih-liang passed away in 2012 and is now shown for the first time in 51 years.

Consuming Women (Women As Consumers)

1967 • 4 min

A short from Procter & Gamble which reminds you that women exist and that they may be considered consumers.

Flammen

1967 • 12 min • East Germany, Germany

During the Nazi era flames were used to burn books, homes and people. Flames were a response to resistance. With the help of source documents from the time Weiss sketches a character portrait of German fascism.

Fusion

1967 • 16 min

A kaleidoscopic collage of colours and dehumanised modern dancers, making subtle use of double exposure and electronic music. Shapes move and grow to form designs which are reflected. turned. twisted and finally fragmented. to reveal an understanding for the infinitude of design.

Night School for Interns

1967 • 13 min

A nurse gets the hots for a female patient and soon a pervert is spying on them.

Naked Flower: A Fable of Love

1967 • 13 min • United States of America

The beautiful Elaine was once sexually attacked as a child by her creepy and perverted gardener.

My Cup Runneth Over

1967 • 13 min

A bra salesman goes door to door to meet ladies.

Push You Pull Me

1967 • 8 min • United States of America

Created by shooting static live action scenes in overlapping exposures, rapidly fading in and out, using the variable shutter on his camera. Instead of rewinding, he simply reloaded the roll and continued double exposing. The scenes include a mix of individuals and settings. As an example, in one scene there are two women chatting. Double exposed on that scene is a news broadcast on a television screen. Exposed again on that scene is a woman cleaning her bed, and so forth. There are up to 12 layers of overlapping images at any given time. The sound track for this film was made by Byron’s sister, Mary Grush. She used a technique called “piano string music” in which the piano is played like a harp and an attached microphone distorts the sounds, producing an almost electronic effect.

Dernier rôle

1967 • 3 min • France

Schwarzhuhnbraunhuhnschwarzhuhnweißhuhnrothuhnweiß oder put-putt

1967 • 10 min • Germany

This film is a poetic endeavor about Life and Death. A brown hen was selected to convey motion. The soundtrack is a collage of approximately 200 beginnings and endings of different musical pieces.

Anima Mundi

1967 • 12 min • Sweden

Anima Mundi is a filmic interpretation of mythological motifs, primitive rites and notions taken from samic culture in northern Sweden. Carved figures and forms in black and white represent a pagan world of signs, and esoteric symbolism that pays scant attention to the public mind or the ephemeral quality of life and out inevitable fate. (Filmform)

What's the Difference?

1967 • 14 min

The Xerox 2400!

猶予、もしくは影を撫でる男

1967 • 26 min • Japan

Hinterland Who's Who: Red Fox

1967 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series provides an introduction to the red fox.

Hinterland Who's Who: Canada Goose

1967 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the Canada goose.

Poem Field No. 7

1967 • 4 min

"Calligraphic computer animation of the enigmatic poem 'There is no way to peace- Peace is the way.' Black and white animation is colored by Brown/ Olvey. This film with soundtrack by John Cage is a lyric accidental stylization of christian myth/crosses. The patterns are written by random programs on a computer with help by Ken Knowlton." S.V.

Isolated

1967 • 17 min • Australia

“An impressionistic documentary. Black and white, alcoholics, blind people, wheelchairs...the down and out in Sydney. I was greatly influenced by documentary films I saw at the Workers’ Education Association Film Group. Real images were cut together with footage I’d shot in Waverley Cemetery—a cemetery here in Sydney—in a sort of symbolising where I suppose we all finish up, whether we’re handicapped or not! The film has no narration. Someone said I ought to have a composer write a soundtrack, so I went to great lengths...working with musicians in a studio. It was completely new to me, and I wasn’t really comfortable with it.” (Paul Winkler)

Luzon Headhunter

1967 • 25 min

Luzon Headhunter is one of the most unusual films yet produced. It is filmed in the rugged highlands of the Mountain Province of Luzon, in the Philippines. It tells a story of deliverance from demon power and proves that Christ is the answer for any people

Narcissus, film experience

1967 • 11 min • Italy

Pirelli takes close-up details of her body in a diary-like format.

Ronnie Bird - Les Bon Mots

1967 • 7 min • France

TV short for the series Bouton Rouge.