All Films

Diogenes Perhaps

1967 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

One lonely person wanders an absurd world searching for happiness.

From Dawn to Dusk

1967 • 8 min • Hungary

This etude made up of captured snaps having a sociographic impact and expressive photo-collages by Dezső Korniss is the satirical apotheosis of the single, working urban woman from the second half of the 1960s.

Hand Tinting

1967 • 6 min • Canada, United States of America

Hand Tinting, a five-minute silent study of young girls dancing, swimming, and observing one another by Joyce Wieland, […] has a quality that is reminiscent of cognitive dilemmas in some of her other films but that has few counterparts in avant-garde cinema of the sixties.

An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

1967 • 3 min

Adolfas starred in, directed, and edited this Vietnam comedy, produced by Pola Chapelle and shot by Jonas Mekas.

Greyhounds of the Sea

1967 • 27 min • United States of America

The Germany of Today

1967 • 15 min • United States of America

This film surveys the history of Germany's political systems from Charlemagne to modern times, looking at the regional differences that were the inheritance of the independent states of the 18th century and considering the 19th-century wars of unification, World War I, and Nazism.

Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim

1967 • 60 min • United States of America

Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim is a 1967 television special starring Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, accompanied by Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. A truly memorable television event, the third annual special finds Frank joined by the dazzling Ella Fitzgerald in a historic pairing of the two preeminent vocal talents of the era. As if that weren't enough, Antonio Carlos Jobim accompanies Frank for an intimate medley of classics, including The Girl From Ipanema.

Barbara and Her Furs

1967 • 9 min • France

Short film for the french TV program "Dim Dam Dom". A love letter to Barbara Steele and Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs.

Tamer of the Wild Horses

1967 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

A tamer of horses discovers a large mechanical horse. A conflict develops when the horse tamer attempts to tame the horse and the horse attempts to destroy the man. Considers the relationship between man and technology.

The Doctrine on Creation

1967 • 26 min • Japan

Borrowing the title from John Huston’s The Bible: in the Beginning (1966) (Tenchi Sozo in Japanese), Okabe aimed to paint the zeitgeist of the period by collecting and exposing the world around him and himself.

Absurd Encounter with Fear

1967 • 2 min • United States of America

A man approaches a woman in a field.

9 Variations on a Dance Theme

1967 • 13 min • United States of America

Bettie de Jong performs the same dance nine times, starting and ending in a reclined position. As the film proceeds the camera becomes more and more adventurous.

Snows

1967 • 18 min • United States of America

This is a newly restored version of documentation of the 1967 group performance Snows, which was built out of Schneemann's outrage and sorrows over the atrocities of the Vietnam War. An ethereal stage environment combining colored light panels, film projection, torn collage, hanging sacks of colored water, "snow," crusted branches, rope, foil and foam was the set and setting in which an audience-activated electronic switching system controlled elements of the performance/installation. Images from film, slide and live action propel silent, ghostly performers to become aggressor and victim, torturer and tortured, lover and beloved, as well as simply themselves in this breakthrough mixed-media film performance. (The film Viet-Flakes is a central element).

The Bed

1967 • 20 min • United States of America

James Broughton's counterculture masterpiece about nudity and a bed.

Superartist

1967 • 21 min

Documentarians Juan Drago and Bruce Torbet follow a surprisingly relaxed and open Andy Warhol, at the peak of his powers in 1965 and 1966, around his bustling original "Factory" in midtown Manhattan. Warhol experiments with an early videotape machine, recording a beautiful, laughing Edie Sedgwick - his "superstar" of the moment - for the video portion of "Outer and Inner Space," his filmed record of the "live" Sedgwick juxtaposed against her video image on an adjacent monitor. Also captured is a Warhol show at the Leo Castelli gallery, including the famous Mylar "Clouds," as various unnamed art dealers and critics muse in voiceover about the meaning and significance of Warhol's work.

La tana

1967 • 30 min

A man lives holed up in an old house, inherited from his ancestors, seeking refuge from the threats of the outside world. Between waking and dreaming, he is the helpless witness to his own disintegration.

Il culto delle pietre

1967 • 15 min • Italy

In Raiano, Italy, the feast of S. Venanzio is celebrated every year. Beside the official celebrations, the most secret and oldest ceremony is the "Cult of Stones": the devotees enter the caves where the saint used to live according to tradition, and rub their bodies on the stones to heal from evil.

Children

1967 • 8 min

Children play. First shown normally, then shown in reverse.

The Death of Federico

1967 • 47 min • Finland

Spanish poet Federico García Lorca is condemned to death by Captain Nestares after an absurd interrogation that serves to make it clear to the people that the Spanish Civil War is a war of ideas, and that there is no place for individuals like Lorca in Spain.

Tabaco tapado

1967 • 18 min • Cuba

Columbus discovered America and also tobacco. The Indian was exterminated but tobacco persisted.

The Price of a Life

1967 • 30 min • United States of America

Ex-con trying to make good in the outside world with the help of his parole officer in New York City. Filmed on 16mm black and white film on a 12 inch reel.

Kerb Drill with Batman!

1967 • 1 min

Educational short film showing Batman in England teaching children how to cross the street correctly.

The Great Blondino

1967 • 42 min • United States of America

Shooting in 1966 without script, story, or any narrative preconception, Nelson and Wiley created a masterwork of ‘60s independent cinema. The Great Blondino follows an anachronistically attired young fellow as he navigates a beguiling, sometimes troubling world with a curiosity that opens us wide to the filmmakers’ inspired, freeform vision. In many ways, the wonder of Blondino may echo the excitement of invention and exploration that Nelson and Wiley experienced in the making of the film. Utterly exuberant and freed from rote cinematic restriction, it embodies an artistic rigor and direction that also prevents it from ever seeming too unhinged. An incredible feat of tightrope walking. —Mark Toscano. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

The Trip

1967 • 7 min • United States of America

An office drudge goes on a cruise and winds up a castaway on a tropical island. He soon meets his man Friday in the form of a friendly ape.