All Films

How Long Does Man Live?

1967 • 60 min • Hungary

This two-part film examines the plight of the working class. In part one, an elderly factory laborer goes to work in his last days before he is forced to retire. He leaves the factory life he has always known and goes home to his wife. In the second part, a young farm boy goes off to an industrial trade school to prepare for the very work the old man left behind. The old man loses his freedom by forced retirement while the young man loses his freedom by becoming a worker faced with a lifetime of factory work.

The Decision

1967 • 13 min • Italy

End of a Revolution

1967 • 26 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about Bolivia after the death of Che Guevara, and at the trial of Regis Dubray.

Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo

1967 • 37 min • France, Mali

Beginning of the sextenary festival of the Sigui among the Dogon of the Bandiagara cliff in Mali. This first ceremony takes place at the village of Yougo Dogorou. The men, shaved and dressed in ritual clothes of the Sigui, enter the public square dancing the snake dance. They honor the terraces of the famous dead of the last sixty years and go to drink the sacramental millet beer.

Jak w niebie

1967 • 3 min

An elderly deaf man working on an armchair in a workshop talks about his deafness and how work helps him to forget it.

The Way It Is

1967 • 56 min

This documentary (first of a five-part series on education) examines the battle to educate at Junior High School 57-a slum school in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto. In September 1966, New York University's Clinic for Learning, backed by a Ford Foundation grant, began an educational rehabilitation program at the school. The object: to reach apparently unreachable and disinterested students before they become drop-outs. Cameras look in on a seventh grade class, observing new approaches to working with disadvantaged youngsters: challenging students to be more aggressive in their studies; permitting class members to hold arguments pertaining to their lessons; and attempting to establish more personal contact between teachers and students. There are also problems. Discipline is poor among the students, who must be taught to have respect for themselves and for the education they can get.

Wehrertüchtigung

1967 • 3 min

Experimental film depicting military service in a grotesque way.

And... We've Got Sabor

1967 • 25 min • Cuba

Legendary rumba musician Alberto Zayas serves as a guide for this vibrant journey through Cuban musical history and culture. The short features interviews, footage of impromptu street performances, and studio recordings.

Airshaft

1967 • 4 min • United States of America

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears of downtown N. Y. loft buildings. A potted plant, fallen sheet of white paper, cat rests on the foreground door-ledge. The flow of the image is interrupted, partially and then wholly dissolving into blackness; the picture reemerges, the objects smear, somewhat double, edges break up... and again the serene image scintillatingly looms into view. Focus shifts abruptly between foreground and background planes, creating a strong volume-illusion. The fragile image then shines forth for one last time before dying out.

Shadow of the Apple

1967 • 9 min • France

An animated short film from Robert Lapoujade.

Psychedelic Cinema - Mesmerized by Uncertainty

1967 • 1 min • United States of America

Between 1967 and 1969, Ken Brown shot Super 8mm films to project alongside live music at Boston’s premiere rock club The Boston Tea Party. The resulting films, now cobbled together into 3 themed segments, stand today as an amazing window on another time.

Crowds

1967 • 40 min

Shot in Manhattan over a period of several years, the main theme of “Crowds” is contained in its two sole subtitles: “Crowds besmirch our city streets” and “Certain elements make Crowds visually tolerable.” I tried to capture the grotesque and the beautiful - following people and incidents relentlessly. Some of the highlights of the ‘guided documentary’ include; a 3 foot, elderly and bizarrely dressed hunchback women as she totes a shopping bag of crumbs to fed the swam of pigeons encompassing her, street trash - both human and otherwise, perverts, bums and other assorted eyesores, exquisitely attractive men and women contrasted against filthy degenerates and freaks. Creative cinematography and montage enhances the many scenes and stories I waited for, or stumbled upon, during the several years of filming.

Smoke

1967 • 42 min • Vietnam

A short film by Tran Vu

B for Block

1967 • 9 min • Denmark

The block constitutes the common denominator of all symbols. It is offered for sale by the Minotaur to all people in the labyrinth of life and causes both grave attention and hilarity, distress and delight in a highly informal way. (DFI)

The Park

1967 • 32 min • United Kingdom

A day in a park, from the gates opening to their closure at dusk.

The Consecration of Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral

1967 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A day to remember - celebration and consecration in Liverpool.

Birth of Character

1967 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Early in the morning, the children start their journey to kindergarten, hand-in-hand with their parents. There is no shortage of activities for the little ones here - under the supervision of the kindergarten staff, they play sports, have health checks, dance, sing and play, and lunch and bedtime are not forgotten.

Ripples

1967 • 1 min • United States of America

Ripples uses images cut together to visualize the mind's eye of an architect as he considers his next project.

One Hand - 30 Swords

1967 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Yugoslavian experimental short film.

Jüm-Jüm

1967 • 9 min • Germany

In “jüm-jüm” by Dore 0. and Werner Nekes, a girl swings for 10 minutes in front of a movie screen, on which is painted a phallus (slightly abstract and fairly large) The perspective is such that the girl appears to be swinging into and out of the phallus. It is one who is content to see through the specific event. the work exhausts itself in a trivial aspect, the literary. This is most comfortable for the critic: the literary content of a work is easiest to reproduce in a literary form of criticism.

Nörgel & Söhne oder was vor 9742 Jahren vormittags neun Uhr begann, Teil 1

1967 • 10 min • East Germany

The history of money goes back to when people decided to settle down. They look for a physical equivalent to exchange goods… Nörgel and his family move from one place to another in search of tools to make their work easier. They also start to produces their own tools. Part one of the animation trilogy Nörgel & Sons.

A Girl and Things

1967 • 10 min • Soviet Union

This dialogue-free short film, Devochka I Veshchi (A Girl and Things), was one of Mikhalkov’s first student films, made under the tutelage of Mikhail Romm, himself a legendary filmmaker. It is a modernist (and very Soviet) look at a young girl’s interaction with the world around her and displays many of the strengths of the director’s later work, including his attention to milieu and his sensitivity to young performers.

Good Morning, Children

1967 • 12 min • Poland

After finishing her training a young woman returns to the village of her birth to teach but encounters resistance from the children's farmer parents.

Christmas with the King Family

1967 • 48 min

The King Sisters are back with their family to celebrate their favorite holiday in this 1967 Christmas special. The family shares some of their favorite Christmas songs. This show includes many touching moments, including King Sister Alyce dedicating "I'll Be Home for Christmas" to her son away in the army, who then surprises her on the show and they finish the song together.