All Films

Shalom of Safed: The Innocent Eye of a Man of Galilee

1967 • 28 min

A portrait of Shalom, watchmaker, toymaker, carver and engraver, who at the age of seventy, turned to painting. The Hassidic heritage from which his work is derived is evoked in the naive but beautifully concise paintings in which he retells the ancient stories of the people of Israel.

Mariana from Granada

1967 • 34 min • Soviet Union

A choreographic story based on the drama by the famous Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca "Mariana Pineda". The historical drama is based on real events that took place in Spain in the 19th century. Mariana Pineda is a national heroine executed for her political beliefs. The mass scenes of the production feature artists from the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre and students from the Vaganova Choreographic School.

Screen

1967 • 14 min

In this performance piece, three 35mm slides are manually projected 14 times in sequence. The first projection and slide reads "round screen be lighted fourteen times," second through eigth projections show the same slide which is a blank circle, then the ninth slide reads “ninth screen be lighted," moving on to tenth through fourteenth projections of the same blank circule.

Box

1967 • 6 min

In the screen shows a woman and a man in front of a white box. After a while another man comes in and takes away the box. At that point the projection is stopped and the lights in the space are lit. A performer appears from the side of the screen, holding the same size box as the one in the film. The performer walks around the space holding the box, hands it to the audience, etc., and disappears behind the screen. The lights of the space turn off, the film projection continues, with the same box and the man and woman appearing again. In this performance, the awareness of the screening space is articulated by exposing the boundaries between inside and outside of the screen, and between actor and audience.

Postponement, or the man who stroked his own shadow

1967 • 27 min

A naked man crawls around a basement alone, listening to his own voice recorded on tape. "There is nothing to say... almost nothing." Drawing inspiration from Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," introspective thoughts are transformed into vivid images.

Letter Finds its Way Home

1967 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A brief overview of efforts being made across the Soviet Union to deliver lost and inaccurately addressed letters to their recipients, with a particular focus on the work of children's author Agniya Barto.

Confines de sal

1967 • 19 min • Argentina

CONFINES DE SAL is a film made with a grant from the National Institute of Cinematography and with the support of the National Arts Fund's "short film promotion program," and filmed in Argentina. Carlín, the protagonist of this film, was completely ignorant of cinema. This is precisely the first film he has seen in his eleven years of life. This took place in Lucio V. Mansilla (Salinas Grandes, Córdoba), just 190 km from the city of Córdoba, Argentina, in January 1967.

Bardo Follies

1967 • 20 min • United States of America

A shot of a Southern Belle waving to a group of tourists on a pleasure boat ride is looped, multiplied and then melted, creating psychedelic abstract images. “A paraphrasing of certain sections of the Tibetan Book of the Dead in motion picture terms.” - Harvard Film Archive. Originally ran 45 minutes, then was edited down to 30, then 20 minutes. Final version was simply entitled "Diploteratology" and runs 7 minutes, and is the most commonly shown version.

America's in Real Trouble

1967 • 15 min

Tom Palazzolo's rapid-fire, seemingly spontaneous documentary style captures Chicago with pizazz. For more than ten years, Palazzolo has been delivering to us his captured visions – body builders, senior citizens, erotic parlours, weddings, deli owners, and the like – as if he had harnessed them in a cinematic butterfly net. AMERICA'S IN REAL TROUBLE is a patriotic film with music and sound by some of the great unknowns of the past. Lots of overtones, undercurrents, innuendoes, visual similes, counterpoints, puns and contrapuntal movement. Filmed in Chicago, it covers several years of parades and civic events. If you're not moved by this film there's no hope for you.

Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill

1967 • 15 min • United States of America

The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture.

You're Human Like the Rest of Them

1967 • 18 min • United Kingdom

After treatment for a slipped disc in a London hospital, a teacher struggles to convey his thoughts on mortality to his class and fellow staff.

Another Day Of War

1967 • 14 min

Extraordinary film of the U.S. Air Force, including air and ground warfare, and rescues.

River Patrol

1967 • 29 min • United States of America

A Navy Mobile Riverine Force patrols the Mekong Delta and battles with the Viet Cong.

Remembrance: A Portrait Study

1967 • 6 min • United States of America

“The music is by Marilyn Monroe singing ‘Running Wild’ from Some Like It Hot, because it’s a film portrait of Nettie Thomas. She did floors in white women’s homes, like black women did to support their families in the olden days. My mother is sitting in a wicker chair with an ostrich feather boa, a grey worsted wool skirt, a silk belt. For her portrait, I used ‘All Cried Out’ by Dusty Springfield...I was advised by Gregory Markopoulos not to play the music. Because Gregory didn’t think it was proper.” - Edward Owens

Heave Ho!

1967 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Documentary about the stonecutters from Herzegovina, celebrating human devotion for work and the struggle with nature.

Mining Review 20th Year No. 9

1967 • 9 min • United Kingdom

The 237th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the articles: 'Marilyn', 'Sight Restored' and 'North Star'.

The Awful Backlash

1967 • 14 min

“In their starkly minimal film, The Awful Backlash, directors Robert Nelson and William Allan, focus solely on a pair of hands as they begin to unravel what appears to be a tangled fishing line. Any further evidence of the title’s confusing ‘awfulness’ – other than the literal disentanglement of the line remains, however, tentative, left as it were, literally, at a loose end. The viewer knows nothing of the incident that led to this backlash or entanglement; nor of the directors’ initial motive for the title indeed not of any other attempt at blending an additional storyline beyond what is seen. There is, perhaps, one link with a reverse reaction – a sense of gradual recovery taking place, as the thread unfolds from a position of multiplicity back to a singular line.” (Pamela Kember, Rethinking Refunctioning, ‘Awful Backlash’ catalogue, May 2000) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

Talla

1967 • 20 min

Rocky, granite outcrops, a derelict quarry-worker and Dartmoor prison.

The Eighth Day

1967 • 14 min • Canada

"The film systematically shows man destroying man. It is about war and inhumanity. Largely assembled from newsclips and elaborate montage of still photographs. While working on the film, I came to realize that the strongest thing about violence and the most abstract thing about violence is its sequential nature, that war has never stopped, and that it is just the leading of one conflict into another conflict. I could keep this film going forever...." —Charles Gagnon

Georgia

1967 • 3 min • United States of America

Venha, Doce Morte

1967 • 9 min • Brazil

Documentary on an elderly nursing home in Rio de Janeiro.

Poem Field Series

1967 • 35 min

"Each film was constructed using Knowlton's BEFLIX computer language, which was based on FORTRAN. The films were programmed on a IBM 7094 computer. The films were created in black and white, with color added later by Brown and Olvey." --AT&T Archives and History Center

Scratch

1967 • 11 min

LEADER and SCRATCH are extensions of Huot's early interest in minimalism. They are successful in reducing the number of filmic variables so completely that essential qualities and potentials of the materials of film can be felt. While SCRATCH is nothing more than eleven minutes of dark leader with a continuous handmade scratch, the resulting imagery varies a good deal, depending on how deeply Huot dug into the emulsion: when the scratch is shallow, for example, it seems to bead and move up through the image; when the scratch is deep, it seems to remain within the frame, vibrating horizontally.

The Barbershop of Sun

1967 • 10 min • Iran

A short documentary about traveling barbers and their job and their costumers in Tehran