All Films

This Is No Time for Romance

1967 • 28 min

Film

1967 • 15 min

Before the three feature films, Mario Schifano directs the camera towards the people around him to create real film diaries. His friends, his time partner and the artists he frequented are portrayed in their everyday life or object of the mechanical gaze of the camera, a filter through which to look at the outside world.

Black Liberation

1967 • 37 min • United States of America

Produced in collaboration with Malcolm X and narrated by Ossie Davis, this call to arms layers revolutionary text from multiple sources with gritty, shot-on-the-streets-of-New York footage of African-American struggle. A forgotten masterpiece from radical filmmaker, theorist and founder of Cinéma Éngagé, Édouard de Laurot.

Batgirl

1967 • 8 min • United States of America

At the Gotham City library, Barbara Gordon helps Bruce Wayne find a book on butterflies so he can prove a point to a friend, a millionaire explorer. As Bruce and his youthful ward, Dick Grayson, are leaving they spot the villainous Killer Moth and three of his henchmen and, suspecting they are up to no good, determine to return as their superhero alter-egos, Batman and Robin. While the Caped Crusaders are donning their costumes, the criminal quartet knock out the millionaire, lock Barbara in an alcove and prepare to spirit their victim away. When the Dynamic Duo attempt to capture the crooks, they are encased in Killer Moth's silk cocoon. Is this the end of our Gotham City heroes? And why does a beautiful librarian have a cowl and a cape hanging in a convenient closet?

The Room

1967 • 7 min • United States of America

The film depicts the memories of a room. As the camera holds on this unchanging environment, the occupants, spanning several generations, appear and disappear in vignettes of their lives. The people come and go–'the room' remains the same.

Rail

1967 • 14 min • United Kingdom

"Rail" captures British Railways at a major turning-point in its history. In certain respects, this was a period of considerable upheaval and loss. There was a facing-up to the increasing need for a big modernisation drive. Full and speedy electrification, or the wider promotion of diesel-power on remaining lines, became a matter of top priority. Geoffrey Jones recorded a rapidly disappearing world of everyday steam travel, with its labour-intensive rail workforce : some of the footage in "Rail" (recognisable from "Snow") dates from around 1962.

The Boy Who Flew with Condors

1967 • 49 min • United States of America

The true-life adventure of Chris Jury, a California teenager who goes from admiring the endangered condors' flight to sailing sky-high with them. Inspired by his new friends, a sailplane instructor, a NASA test pilot and a budding glider pilot, he risks it all for airborne thrills. But to earn his wings, he'll have to navigate a dangerous storm. Will he come through with flying colors?

Defa 70

1967 • 35 min • East Germany, Germany

Test film for a 70mm film stock produced in East Germany.

Heimweh nach der Zukunft. Max Steenbeck erzählt

1967 • 59 min • East Germany

Documentary on physicist Max Steenbeck

Computers

1967 • 12 min • Poland

How does a computer work? It’s easy! This educational film vividly explains the principles of the binary system, which is the underlying operating concept for digital machines.

Lsd-25

1967 • 25 min • United States of America

The dangers of LSD are driven home to teenagers in this classroom training film, which is "narrated" by an LSD tab. The "tab" tells kids that he is "a depth charge in the mind!" and various teenagers are shwn babbling about their LSD experiences. "Experts" are presented who warn that LSD makes kids "paint themselves green" and has various other horrible side effects, the most serious of which is that it gives users a police record, and that there is "no known way of getting your fingerprints out of a police file once they're in there."

Das Seminar

1967 • 32 min • Germany

About Cats, Beatniks and All Sorts of Other Things

1967 • 12 min • Czechoslovakia

Young people meet Bohumil Hrabal, who talks about anything but himself.

Life in a Tin

1967 • 6 min • Italy

From being born until his death, a man spends most of his time "imprisoned" in boxes.

The Mailbox

1967 • 14 min • Soviet Union

Novruzali brings a gift from the village to the Khan as usual. The Khan writes a letter to his friend living in Yerevan, promising to come there with his wife and to tidy and heat the house where they will stay. He sends Novruzali to the post office to put the letter in the mailbox. And instructs him not to give it to anyone. Novruzali, who does not know what mail is, puts a letter in the mailbox for the first time in his life. Not knowing the rules, he waits near the mailbox. When the postal worker takes the letters from the mailbox, Novruzali thinks he is a thief and confronts him.

Buffalo Airport Visions

1967 • 19 min • Canada

An experimental investigation of Toronto street life and youth culture.

Eveil

1967 • 16 min • France

Awakening is sort of the history of mankind transposed through the dream world of Peter Foldes who conceived, directed and designed this original work.

Cayuga Run

1967 • 18 min

Hudson River Diary: Book 1 "Chronicles the journey of a train named Cayuga as it travels from New York to Poughkeepsie. There is something profoundly sentimental as you make the trip. You may never have been to this part of the world but you are concerned and you care about it after you see the film." – Bob Lermann, Today's Filmmaker

The Big Shave

1967 • 6 min • United States of America

A young man walks into a meticulously clean and sterile bathroom and proceeds to shave away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene.

Missa of Zen

1967 • 3 min

In Missa of Zen, a TV screen, filmed from an extremely oblique angle, appears as a ghostly, flickering sliver at the side of a darkened frame. The images playing across its surface are rendered abstract by the perspective: we witness the transmission of information, but at a great distance. Isolated in silence and darkness, the television set slips into the realm of the unheimlich — an uncanny object, at once familiar and unfamiliar. Situating mediated America at the crossroads of missa — Latin for the Christian mass — and Zen Buddhism, Paik highlights the connections between mass culture and the transcendental.

Six Men Getting Sick

1967 • 4 min • United States of America

Lynch's first film project consists of a loop of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces.

Sex in Today's World

1967 • 28 min • United States of America

An examination of changing sexual attitudes in the United States, including comments on the personal and sociological significance of the changes of the time.

Lund

1967 • 32 min

Gösta Werner makes an unsentimental trip back to his old student city. gauging it's past and it's future.

Sabre and Foil

1967 • 8 min

The ancient and deadly sport of fencing, demonstrated by world masters in competition. The film is not a record of individual duels but it does capture the cool, merciless attack in a way to focus the eye on every swift maneuver. The cold clash of steel on steel, the staccato pound of feet, the strange, sculptured postures of the masked, white figures - all make absorbing, convincing viewing.