All Films

Martin Luther King at Newcastle University

1967 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A remarkable event the great American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King makes a powerful speech on a unique visit to Newcastle University.

The Bowler and the Bunnet

1967 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Sean Connery examines the gap and suspicion in the relationship between management and workers in industry, and shows how one Scottish shipyard is trying to change that and what could well be a blueprint for other companies to follow.

Room (Double Take)

1967 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A hand-held camera zooms in and out as it films the objects in a room. The same sequence is presented twice. "In Room, [Gidal] makes deliberate use of the complete repetition of a whole film [...]. The camera's movement is slow and in close up on the objects it passes, causing the viewer to mentally search ahead of its motion, particulary in the repeat". Malcolm Le Grice, Abstract Film and Beyond, 1977

Korean Alphabet

1967 • 7 min • Canada, South Korea

The Korean alphabet, illustrated with animation, spoken, and accompanied by music.

Renaissance

1967 • 10 min • France

To the sound of trumpets, a collection of pulverised antique bric-a-brac begins to reassemble itself, revealing a stuffed owl, a cornet, a hamper, books, a doll, a plate – and a bomb...

Hamlet

1967 • 12 min • Hungary

Shakespeare's Hamlet is rendered in exquisitely expressive pen drawings.

The Asylum of the Insane

1967 • 9 min

Inserts filmed for a retitled version of She Freak (1967), later released by Something Weird Video as a standalone short subject.

Captain Arbanas Marko

1967 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

An animated cartoon which tells of Captain Arbanas Marko, a character who acquires strength when he touches his sword. One evening he conquers a valley where three beautiful sisters live, takes them by force, and returns to be confronted by a fate he has not anticipated.

Theatre In Israel

1967 • 26 min

An English-speaking film produced on behalf of the Israeli Center of the International Theater Institute, providing international audience with an overview of modern Israeli theater, including scenes of renowned Israeli theater productions from the theater season of 1967. The film opens with excerpts from “The Dybbuk” at Habima Theater, and includes scenes from the successful musicals of the Cameri Theater “Utz Li Gutz Li” (Rumpelstiltskin) and “King Solomon and Shalmai The Shoemaker”. Other excerpts include scenes from the plays “The American Princess” by Nissim Aloni at the Seasons Theater, “He Walked Through the Fields” by Moshe Shamir at the Haifa Theater, Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler”, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf”, and more.

Hakob Hovnatanyan

1967 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Exploring the art of Armenian portraitist Hakob Hovnatanyan, Parajanov revives the culture of Tbilisi of the 19th century.

Wien 17, Schumanngasse

1967 • 3 min • Austria

A car drives through Schumann street from its beginning to its end. The drive was filmed in one take, end and beginning of the film being identical with the end and the beginning of the street. The length of the street and the length of the film strip become identical by an apparent equation: space becomes time, space distance becomes time distance/duration.

1933

1967 • 4 min • Canada

The film 1933 made between 1967 and 1968 offers a street scene shot in New York City in the late 1960s from a loft window on the second floor.

The Campaign Volunteer

1967 • 8 min • Germany

Der Wahlhelfer deals with the development of a young trainee lawyer and FDP (Free Democrat Party) supporter who becomes a revolutionary.

Hurra für Frau E.

1967 • 7 min • Germany

Documentary about a single mother.

One Day On Beetle Rock

1967 • 60 min

The experiences of various wildlife in twenty-four hours is explored with a High Sierra background. A weasel and her brood, grouse and a lizard are watched. Then a mother bear and her cubs have adventures. A stag deer oversees everything.

Tetrahedron

1967 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

Following the form of a tetrahedron, the film consists of four regular segments, each covering one topic. It gained a cult status among Split kino-amateurs of older generations.

Goffredo

1967 • 4 min

Short film by G. Fioroni.

anyone lived in a pretty [how] town

1967 • 6 min • United States of America

A visual interpretation of the poem by E.E. Cummings about the life cycle of a townspeople and of one ignored couple.

Lenny Bruce in 'Lenny Bruce'

1967 • 60 min • United States of America

Iconoclast Lenny Bruce appears at San Francisco's Basin Street West in what was his next-to-last live appearance. His act that night consisted of reading allegations and transcripts from one of his several obscenity trials and then commenting on what he'd actually done or said. While there are some "bits" in the performance (including the prison riot with Dutch, the Warden, Father Flotski, and Sabu, the prison doctor), this is much more a social commentary on government intrusion and censorship than it is a comedy routine.

Shaman, A Tapestry for Sorcerers

1967 • 12 min • United States of America

Dedicated to all the magic makers of the world who weave a talisman for man's rebirth in his house of breath.

Family Planning

1967 • 11 min • United States of America

A short Disney film on what planning for a family is and how it works.

The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle

1967 • 48 min • United States of America

Eagles are the channel to the spirit world for a Hopi Indian boy who defies tribal law and frees a sacred, sacrificial eagle. He is banished from his village to the wilderness, but the eagle teaches him hunting skills and cares for him. He eventually returns, only to be bullied and taunted by the other village boys.

Seed Corn Should Not Be Ground – A Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz

1967 • 20 min • East Germany, Germany

Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic works, including The Weavers' Revolt (1893-97), The Peasant War (1902-08), Woman with the Dead Child (1903) and War (1922-23), her famous series of seven woodcuts.

Beskrivning av en tankes rörelse - en film om Sivert Lindblom

1967 • 27 min

A sympathetic portrait of the Swedish sculptor Sivert Lindblom, one of our time's most engaged sculptors for and of the design of public space. Hearing a young Sivert Lindblom (age 36) reason about his world of thought and view of art is an ear and eye opener that leads us back and forth into his unique language of form and imagery. We get to follow how his early discoveries from a point and then to a line lead us to his originally most famous and iconographic work: Sivert's own Profile rotated 360 degrees.