All Films

Atelier Diocletian

1967 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

Experimental short.

Ladies in the Sauna

1967 • 25 min • Germany

A short "report" about the sauna-culture in Finland and Germany.

Amnesie 25

1967 • 8 min • France

Experimental film.

The Liberation of the Mannique Mechanique

1967 • 15 min • United States of America

Although best known for his photography, Steven Arnold also wrote, designed, and directed several groundbreaking visionary films, The Liberation of Mannique Mechanique being the first. Stuart Comer of the Tate Modern (London) said of Mannique: “a macabre, decadent work presenting mannequins and models that travel through strange universes toward possible self-discovery.” Brooklyn-based artist and writer Kate Wadkins in a recent online article observed: “Arnold’s films are dream-like visions of androgynous beings. Their narratives are modern-day fairy tales and reveries about gender — all through the lens of an acid trip.”

A Note from Above

1967 • 2 min

God sends a note to his supporters below, and they obey his every command.

Taxi Meter

1967 • 9 min • Iran

A short documentary about Tehran's taxi drivers and their problem with the new taxi meters.

By the Sea Where We Played

1967 • 26 min • Soviet Union

A short story about a boy who is honest and courageous despite being paralyzed.

Knight of St. George

1967 • 31 min • Soviet Union

Follows the Russian peasant, the Knight of St. George, who turned his arms against his masters during the Civil War.

Hemma hos Thore

1967 • 9 min • Sweden

Thore Skogman sings a medley of his songs at home.

Soliloquy

1967 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Featuring Joan Adler (who also appears in Chinese Checkers), Soliloquy is one of the four early Stephen Dwoskin films that were awarded the Solvey prize at the EXPRMNTL festival in Knokke, Belgium in 1967. “In Soliloquy a girl broods uncertainly over a failed love affair, while the camera roves over her fingers, her cigarette, her knuckles, her lips and the hand mirror in which she peers. In its dark reflection one isolated eye seems a dead thing, twitching; the split between her body and her spoken thoughts becomes a strange bilocation of consciousness; towards the end, an aeroplane drones overhead” (Raymond Durgnat)

Lsd

1967 • 38 min

1967 Navy training film MN-10507-A. Navy physician talks about the dangers of LSD or "Russian roulette in a sugar cube." National Archives Identifier: 6379 "How LSD was discovered, the extreme dangers of using it and how it affects the brain and body."

Memorandum

1967 • 58 min • Canada

A Jewish Holocaust survivor travels through Germany recalling scenes from his memory. This documentary follows a Holocaust survivor in 1965 on an emotional pilgrimage to Bergen Belsen, the last of 11 concentration camps where he was held by the Nazis. He and 30 other former Jewish inmates travel through the new Germany. Scenes still vivid in his mind are recalled in flashback. The memorandum of the title refers to Hitler's memo offering a "final solution" to the "Jewish problem."

Kennzeichen Luftballon

1967 • 12 min • Germany

Based on court records, this award-winning documentary feature film directed by Peter Pewas reconstructs a traffic accident in Essen in which three people were directly involved and in which twelve-year-old cyclist Dieter Pahl was killed.

The Fly

1967 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

A man is standing in the scene when a fly arrives and begins to irritate him. He tries to swat the fly, but it keeps growing bigger to the point where it shatters the scene. Eventually, the man and the fly decide to negotiate.

Money

1967 • 9 min • Poland

A man becomes obsessed with money. He does not expect that if money is the essence of his life, there will be no room for any other values, ​​or for himself.

Houses Fortresses

1967 • 7 min

The roofs of the three houses rise like hats. Three grim faces appear beneath it. They're glued to the walls. A colorful man with a small house on his back wants to settle down next to them. They push their dogs against him. One person-house is dying. The other two watch his funeral with indifference. Lightning sets fire to the second house. The neighbor doesn't help. Past the last man-house passes the colorful man. The man-house wants to go after the colorful man, but his feet are tied with a chain.

Four Questions

1967 • 10 min • Romania

An unusual attempt at cinéma vérité, in which people are asked if they are happy, while city lights flood the summer nights to the strains of a tender croon.

Le Corbusier

1967 • 29 min

Making a documentary on Le Corbusier is not easy, because he is undoubtedly the architect most familiar to the general public but also the most unknown. If most people know his great achievements, such as the Cité radieuse of Marseille, the pavilions of the Cité universitaire de Paris or the Tourettes convent, many are unaware of his works in Moscow, Rio de Janeiro or Chandigarh. Roy Oppenheim pays a vibrant tribute to Corbusier, dismissing the criticisms and darker facets of the character. It presents the career of this pioneering architect, as well as his thinking, the essential principle of which was aimed at the development of human beings and the balance of society. Light, space and greenery are integrated into his large futuristic cities, because according to him the eyes of the inhabitants should be drawn into the distance and not into their neighbor's bathroom.

It's So Far Out, It's Straight Down!

1967 • 30 min

About the London counter-culture scene in 1967, includes early live footage of Pink Floyd playing "Interstellar Overdrive" at the UFO club on 27th January 1967, "Percy the Ratcatcher" can also be heard.

Quick Dream

1967 • 3 min • United States of America

QUICK DREAM, subtitled "A Series of Exorcisms," is the result of this first assignment. As Mouris describes it, “This film is a series of visual experiments with magazine photograph cutouts that make moving collages; coloraid paper; Avery labels; whatever I could think of that might animate. It became the seedbed for everything that followed,” most notably FRANK FILM. As part of the project, the students’ films were subject to a round of guest criticism from artists and filmmakers Robert Breer and Red Grooms, who, as Mouris describes it, “praised our work and encouraged us to continue.” (Yale Film Archive)

The idol of the origins

1967 • 54 min • Mexico

Based on the story The Idol of the Cyclades from the book End of the Game by Julio Cortazar.

The Joy of Life

1967 • 14 min

Starring Chuang Ling and with cinematography by Hu Qi-Yuan, The Joy of Life consists of closeup shots of technically speaking only four simple gestures of pinching on a sugar cube, drinking coffee, lighting a match, and smoking a cigarette, and it is without any lines or specific plots.

Tiger Morse

1967 • 33 min

Mod fashion guru Joan "Tiger" Morse delivers a drug-fueled soliloquy on various topics.

Portrait Subject Object

1967 • 10 min

Directed by Peter Gidal (1967)