All Films

Johnny's Seven Friends

1967 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Johnny is very fond of Sunday. He goes to look for Sunday, but on his journey he meets the other days of the week and becomes good friends with them all.

The Game of Love

1967 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

A young woman and man are riding bikes through nature, having a good time. When she speeds up, he loses her, and after a while he stumbles across her bike without any trace of her. He stumbles through the forest looking for her, imagining how she kisses him. No dialogue, just "audio credits" instead of titles, saying the name of the film, actors and director.

Winter '64-'66

1967 • 16 min • United States of America

Locales: Nantucket, Kazakhstan, Grant’s Nepal, Colorado, Mt. Kearsange, Iowa, 7th Street. Door golden night room trees fire drip rain blue horse river snow birds green mountain forest dark room mist car trees window ducks are flying. Overtones: Raga Palas Kafi, Grant’s, Slug’s, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed, Raga Rageshri, the wind, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, the Beatles, Piatniksky Chorus.

Why the Swallow's Tail Is Double?

1967 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Soviet animation movie based on a Kazakh tale: a little bird fights against a three-headed dragon.

Suiciders Beware!

1967 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

The problem of suicide among young people in Slovenia. Typical examples are shown through the testimony of the family and acquaintances of the deceased.

R-34

1967 • 26 min

Chambers in R-34 impressionistically documents the work of London, ON collage artist Greg Curnoe through rhythmic and softly focused close-ups. Curnoe’s art intertwines with Chambers’ daily routines: collapsing the art practice of Curnoe with the art of everyday life.

Ship Hotel - Tyne Main

1967 • 33 min • United Kingdom

Documentary profile of The Ship Hotel Public House, Gateshead.

Freedom of Press

1967 • 25 min • Brazil

A panel of Brazilian political scenery in 1967, alternating images of the main events and politicians and specialists' statements about freedom of the press.

Yes No Maybe Maybe Not

1967 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A double projection of images of lapping water and the Battersea Power Station all transformed by negative positive superimposition creating a moving Bas-Relief effect.

Reflektorische Farblichtspiele

1967 • 24 min • Germany

Conceived in 1922 by Kurt Schwerdtfeger, filming only took place shortly after his death in 1966 under the supervision of Rudolf Jüdes.

15 Smallholdings a Day

1967 • 12 min

When the film was made, 15 smallholdings were being abandoned every day. People were moving to the city for better income opportunities and cultural improvement. But were they any happier?

Ffftcm

1967 • 5 min

Renewed income and the ability to work on one's own produced this feeling and work. A Promethean awakening, de-bonding of the human spirit ... reaching for the unfiltered blaze of Light and Life. The driving sounds of heart beat, fanfare for the Common Man and devotional chants. A time of sharing ... a touch of vision in the night.

Spiracle

1967 • 12 min

Portrait studies of Mrs. Hodges, Gail Beavers (the filmmaker’s sister) and Gregory J. Markopoulos.

Watts with Eggs

1967 • 3 min • United States of America

"By 1967, Menken had become interested in the work of Fluxus artist Robert Watts and made a short animation piece, Watts with EGGS, in which she animates his chrome-casted Box of Eggs. The film opens with lights reflected in the eggs (of course), then, through single framing, pixilates a man's hand arranging eggs in different patterns. The hands (those of John Hawkins) fill the box back up with eggs. Next, the eggs do the same routine, but more magically, more serenely, without the assistance of the hands. Menken also introduces a string and a feather duster into animated action, so that the eggs, one by one, seem to be coming directly out of the duster (objects infect objects). By the end, the eggs are magically back in their box." Melissa Ragona

12-12-42

1967 • 11 min

"The modern American dream shown by interviews with an aspiring actress, whose comments are interspersed with complementary excerpts from politicians' speeches." - BFI

Ciao ciao

1967 • 6 min • Italy

Experimental film about people walking away from and towards the camera.

The Maltese Cross Movement

1967 • 7 min • Canada

The film reflects Dewdney's conviction that the projector, not the camera, is the filmmaker's true medium. The form and content of the film are shown to derive directly from the mechanical operation of the projector - specifically the maltese cross movement's animation of the disk and the cross illustrates graphically (pun intended) the projector's essential parts and movements. It also alludes to a dialectic of continuous-discontinuous movements that pervades the apparatus, from its central mechanical operation to the spectator's perception of the film's images... (His) soundtrack demonstrates that what we hear is also built out of continuous-discontinuous 'sub-sets.' Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Marabunta

1967 • 8 min • Argentina

Marabunta, a ceremony in collective anthropophagy involving a six-meter skeleton completely covered in fruit and food, inside of which were live doves and parrots painted with phosphorescent colors that flew out as people were eating.

Hjärtat brinner

1967 • 20 min • Sweden

A film that places the bright and dark sides of life close together. From an understatement beginning, the movie drives up to an ecstatic highlight with a love act between two young people. The orgasm becomes an enormous image flow into the crematorium's death machine.

Vineyard IV

1967 • 3 min • United States of America

Glen Denny observed: "This film is not ocean, it is panther stalking jungle." Camera flows because it is free to move through space.

Kata

1967 • 2 min • United States of America

Nature, gymnastic movements, a cat...

Jungle Madness

1967 • 6 min

"I have mixed the image of the city and the jungle in incongruous situations to make a film of extremes. A montage of abstract liquid pattern and collage animation." - Don Duga

Vineyard III

1967 • 1 min • United States of America

Crashing waves, the cry of a gull, silence.

Het Waterlooplein verdwijnt

1967 • 12 min

In the seventies, Waterlooplein square and the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood faced a great deal of demolition in relation to the construction of Amsterdam’s new opera house, the ‘Stopera’, and the metro system. Van der Elsken did a lot of filming in and around Waterlooplein and its centrepiece, the legendary flea market which faced closure.