All Films

Sommergäste bei Majakowski

1967 • 24 min • East Germany, Germany

Biographical search for traces of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) in Georgia. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement.

Homage to Lal Bhahadur Shashtri

1967 • 9 min • India

A reflection on the life and death of India's second Prime Minister, Lal Bhahadur Shashtri.

6-18-67

1967 • 4 min • United States of America

6-18-67 is a short quasi-documentary film by George Lucas regarding the making of the Columbia film “Mackenna's Gold”. This non-story, non-character visual tone poem is made up of nature imagery, time-lapse photography, and the subtle sounds of the Arizona desert.

Subjectivity

1967 • 4 min • Germany

A concise blast of feminist film making, Sander's first film is a tense yet playful four minute short that dissects a typical urban scene at a bus stop on a busy street in Berlin.

I Don't Want to Be Filmed

1967 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A test film for black-and-white television, made by Mosfilm in 1967. A girl dreaming to be in movies got a call from Mosfilm, asking her to be filmed. She enters the dreamy bubble that is called filmmaking. The film was commissioned by the Research Film and Photo Institute. It features famous actors and directors, including Georgy Vitsin, Georgy Georgiu, Pavel Vinnik, Grigory Alexandrov and others. Some of them play themselves.

Girl on the Ball

1967 • 60 min • Soviet Union

The story of a nine-year-old boy Denis, who first enters the circus. The new world captures his imagination. He falls in love with a little actress, an equilibrist — a girl on a ball. After a while, Denis persuades his father to go with him to the circus again. But the performances in Moscow ended, the fairy flew away to another city... Once, being in a museum, he sees a painting by Pablo Picasso "Girl on a Ball". In this picture he recognizes his love — Tanya ...

The Song of Assisi

1967 • 2 min • United States of America

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Assisi in 1967, this short documents his time in the city known for its spiritual associations. The footage was later incorporated into his 2003 compilation film Travel Songs (1967–1981).

Mothers

1967 • 40 min • Japan

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

The Brick Dollhouse

1967 • 55 min • United States of America

Five women explain to the police the events leading up to the murder of their roommate, an exotic dancer.

Christopher Tree

1967 • 10 min • United States of America

This film, photographed and edited by Les Blank, produced and directed by Pieter Van Deusen, documents a spontaneously improvised concert by musician Christopher Tree. With his one-man orchestra, including 40 Tibetan temple gongs, flutes, tympani and wind chimes, Christopher Tree whirls and weaves his sound tapestry within a pristine forest. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Adventures of Mowgli: Raksha

1967 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Episode 1. A small child falls into the jungle in the wolf family. He liked the mother wolf Raksha, which gave him the tiger Sher Khan. The wolves raised a human baby named Mowgli. But life in a wolf pack is subject to the law of the jungle. The Council of the pack should decide whether Mowgli live among the beasts or eaten by Shere Khan.

Notes on the Circus

1967 • 12 min • United States of America

Jonas Mekas transforms footage of the Ringling Brothers Circus into a rapid-fire montage set to music, structured in four segments that highlight different acts. Earlier images reappear in later sections as background to new performances, with the accelerated pacing of the clips mirroring the rhythm and energy of the soundtrack.

Jim Decker Builds a Longliner

1967 • 19 min • Canada

By using film as a catalyst for change, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their daily concerns. This film shows how one of the Islanders built a longliner (a fishing boat using long lines) with the help of his friends, overcoming the problems of financing and the lack of tools and government support.

The Song of Italy

1967 • 15 min • United States of America

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels through Italy in 1967, this short captures scenes from the country’s cities and countryside. The footage was later included in his 2003 compilation film Travel Songs (1967–1981).

The Song of Avila

1967 • 3 min • United States of America

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Avila in 1967, this short records his impressions of the city, inspired by Meher Baba’s teaching that it was one of Europe’s holy places. The footage was later incorporated into his 2003 compilation film Travel Songs (1967–1981).

The Boundary

1967 • 20 min • Soviet Union

An animated film based on a folk tale about a clever soldier who saved his fellow countrymen from a foolish tsar and a robber named Zmey.

The Country of St. Patrick

1967 • 29 min • Czechoslovakia

A Czech documentary filmmaker's cinematic travelogue of Ireland.

Tolerance

1967 • 10 min • Switzerland, Yugoslavia

A group of eccentrics are playing. A little man wants to join in but is always sent away and is finally murdered. In heaven he meets others of his kind and plays with them but a still tinier man wants to crash their games.

I Am 20

1967 • 18 min • India

Those born on Independence Day in 1947 were selected from different parts of India and interviewed to know their hopes and desires, ambitions, hobbies, fears and frustrations and the result is this unique film.

The Black Dress

1967 • 45 min • Poland

A stark, two-character chamber drama about Joanna, a middle-aged woman who returns from the camps after World War II. Seeking out her deceased husband’s mother, she cannot bring herself to reveal the truth about his fate. Instead, she invents a story to spare the grieving woman further pain. What begins as a compassionate lie soon entangles Joanna in an ever-growing web of deception, as more people who know the truth become drawn into her fragile fiction.

The Comedians in Africa

1967 • 11 min • United States of America

Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians.

The Mercer Family

1967 • 9 min • Canada

The Mercer family discusses the pressures that force the young people to leave Fogo Island and their families.

Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution

1967 • 55 min • United States of America

Documentary about young pop and rock musicians producing music as "a symptom and generator" of social unrest and generation gaps.

Railroad Man

1967 • 29 min • United States of America

The story of the railroad man in his role in keeping the trains moving on the rails.