All Films

In Winter

1967 • 12 min • Canada, United States of America

Peter Jennings instructs the viewer on some of the finer points of snowmobile racing, especially how it will help you be "in with the in-crowd."

15/67: Tv

1967 • 4 min • Austria

Kren frames the image to suggest a proscenium, with a view to the harbor that conveys a literal sense of “tele-vision”. The static framing of the image and the clearly stratified mise-en-scène can hardly provoke interpretation. The sight of the girls does so all the more. Kren, the gentle voyeur - who turns the viewer into a secret accomplice - observes three teenagers, and probably like them, awaits a rendezvous. (Thomas Trummer)

Five Filosophical Fables

1967 • 47 min • Japan

Donald Richie’s classic is, in the words of Yukio Mishima, an outrageous farce, and a pitiless indictment of all our false ‘human’ values. As an allegory of an ‘all-consuming’ Tokyo family cannibalizing each other in a Tokyo park, it attains the highest reaches of black humour.

Traffic Trouble

1967 • 7 min • United States of America

In this one, the spy hound is trying to prevent a traffic jam of various remote-controlled cars.

Fantasimissimo

1967 • 52 min • Sweden

A Swedish family musical by Beppe Wolgers.

Black Trip 2

1967 • 3 min • United States of America

“An internal probing of the violence and mystery of the American psyche seen through the eye of a black man and the Russian revolution.”– A.T.

The Blacksheep Blacksmith

1967 • 6 min • United States of America

The half-blind Sir Blur, who is both knight and mailman, torments a blacksmith with his bumbling.

The Painter and the Engines

1967 • 21 min • United Kingdom

The Painter and the Engines (1967) follows painter David Shepherd’s race against time to record on canvas the magic and romance of steam during the locomotives’ last weeks at South London’s Nine Elms sheds.

Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon

1967 • 5 min • United States of America

Nelson sets minimal, repetitive imagery against a looping recording of his daughter Oona, which goes gradually from sweet to curious to mysterious to cacophonous as the loops overlap each other. Since its premiere alongside The Great Blondino and other shorts in April 1967, the film has rarely been seen. It stands out as a more textural piece from Nelson, which, rather than retreating into pure abstraction or bland trippiness, subtly transmits an undercurrent of its ominous source material. —Mark Toscano. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Traps

1967 • 22 min

Working for the first time with sound, I made TRAPS, a film scripted in jail on hearing of an acquaintance’s suicide, and LEAH. Both are “portraits” of alienated young women. TRAPS is harsh in both form and content, with long takes speaking to the camera juxtaposed against long silent sequences as, in an argument by accretion, the grounds for alienation are piled up. Ostensibly a “documentary self-portrait” made by the woman of the film, TRAPS’ seemingly uncohesive segments crystallize only at the last moment when the neutral narrator (and alleged “editor” ) informs the viewer that the woman committed suicide.

The Boy and the North Wind

1967 • 13 min • Japan

Hans was making bread and North Wind was blowing all the flour out of his bowl. He decides to visit the North Wind in his castle to ask him to stop and for compensation. Based on a Norwegian fable...

Flight 401 to New York

1967 • 29 min

Documentary following airline stewardesses on a flight from Iceland to New York. We see a regular day in the air and how they spend their time in the big apple.

Condemned and Possessed

1967 • 13 min • Belgium

Non-professional players try to create the poetic world of Jean Genet in filmic terms.

Expo Faces

1967 • 1 min

16mm film transferred to video, black and white, sound

Yip-Out

1967 • 2 min • United States of America

Aesop Takes a Walk

1967 • 10 min • Romania

Experimental animation film, with a visual focus on geometrical shapes and straight lines

The Ceramic Mural

1967 • 20 min • United States of America

Educational film; giving a step by step account of the design and construction of a unique ceramic mural.

The Eye That Hears

1967 • 18 min • Iran

A night with Bahman Mohasses famous Iranian Painter

Vincas Svirskis

1967 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A film about a great folk talent, Vincas Svirskis (1835-1916), a carpenter who traveled from village to village. His shelter, his family, his property was replaced by oak sculptures, crosses, his image left, people forgot his tomb, but his works remain - a monument to the master...

After the Flood

1967 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

A 8mm experimental short.

Orgia

1967 • 12 min • United States of America

A fragment of an abandoned, long work concerning St. Teresa of Avila. A sexual orgy symbolizing the decadance of modern society. Maas, who acts in this film, plays the devil while a wild orgy goes on in his living-room. There is the fantastic drag queen doing her job in the bathroom while frenzied love-making, to the incomparable baroque-jazz music of Tiji Ito, is carried on in Maas's baroque apartment. The camera in bird-swift flight depicts a scene of total decadence as Andy Warhol's Jackie Kennedy careens through the air. By way of explanation: the opening scene shows the director handing out masks to the actors-the same ones used in LSD WALL by John Hawkins. The taking of LSD was part of the original script.

H. C. Artmann

1967 • 42 min • Austria

H. C. Artmann transforms himself into some of the characters he invented, who bring his texts to adventurous life.

Monash ’66

1967 • 31 min • Australia

A series of Resnais-like tracking shots are interspersed with candid interviews with “freshers” by Maudson and co-writer Robin Laurie.

The Ravens

1967 • 4 min • Switzerland

The Ravens was the couple's first sand animation film and the prelude to a unique work.