All Films

Traveling Fairs

1966 • 26 min • Spain

A documentary about traveling fairs in Spain.

Castle One (The Light Bulb Film)

1966 • 20 min

A film made with found newsreel footage combined with sequences of a flashing light bulb. It is projected with a real flashing bulb hanging in front of the screen as a film performance.

Spring Came to My Brother Charlie's Flat

1966 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Experimental short film from Yugoslavia. A woman and a man are making out on a bed, when suddenly an odd fellow with a chandelier enters the room. Suspense grows as they have a drink together...

9 Minutes

1966 • 10 min • United States of America

Time counter, in seconds and minutes.

It Must Be The Neighbors

1966 • 13 min

Neighbors would rather talk trash about each other rather than deal with the health hazards their yards have become. It's their children who do the "adult" thing and carry off the refuse that has become a breeding ground for vermin and bugs.

Readymade

1966 • 2 min • United States of America

Color test strip from developing tank.

Sun Flight

1966 • 5 min • United States of America

The story of Daedalus and Icarus

The Other Side

1966 • 10 min

"Men and women, face pressed against the wall, go sideways, step by step. They can not possibly cross the street." - kortfilmfestival

Angel Blue Sweet Wings

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

An experimental film poem in celebration of life and visions. Techniques include live action, animation, montage and found images. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Meet Me, Jesus

1966 • 14 min • United States of America

The theme is apparently the birth and growth of civilization, its ultimate destruction and rebirth; however, MEET ME, JESUS is actually about loss: the loss of innocence, dignity and hope. The film's final irony is our usual compensation: "If these wings should fail me Lord, meet me with another pair." MEET ME, JESUS is a compilation film using found footage as well as original material and hand painting on film. —Canyon Cinema

Time of the Locust

1966 • 12 min • United States of America

A film about the war in Vietnam, compiled from American news-film sources, Vietnamese cameramen and suppressed Japanese television footage. Music by Morton Feldman. Voices of Lyndon Johnson, General Khy, army field commanders are juxtaposed to the reality of the war.

Liebe 1

1966 • 13 min • Switzerland

The Fish That Nearly Drowned

1966 • 10 min

The terrifying tale of a fish with no air!

Run

1966 • 5 min • Taiwan

On a morning in 1966, as requested by the director, artist Shiy De-jinn ran around the Renai Road Roundabout, while an 8mm camera tagged along. The runner, wearing a striped outfit, keeps striding forward to some unknown finish line, his eyes looking around from time to time; suddenly, a crowd of motorcycles appears and engulfs him.

The Position

1966 • 6 min • Poland

Intrigues, tricks, brawls (and a social commentary) all of that for a free place on beach…

L'énergie du sommeil

1966 • 6 min • France

Film Scraps

1966 • 10 min • Austria

Material actions: Otto Muehl. Montage of left-over film material from film scraps, amateur films, film leaders, recordings of material happenings, etc. Edited according to an exact plan (60 blocks of 10 takes each), then largely drawn over. My most destructive film, the "model for a futuristic newsreel." (E.S.jr.)

Everyday Life in Bygone Days in Tokyo

1966 • 17 min

A German camera crew filmed this record of family life in Tokyo. The children go off to school and father works in the factory. It was the start of the industrial boom in the so-called Showa time. Labour was still cheap. TV sets were hand soldered. Many parts were still manufactured in small home industries. Finally the family gathers again in their tiny homes. Futons behind the wall doors. A time Japanese are still nostalgic about.

Altisonans

1966 • 19 min • Sweden

Swedish composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl’s image-sound composition Altisonans is an experimental film addressing the relationship between Earth and space. The word ‘Altisonans’ can be translated as ‘that which resounds from space.’ The film was initially made for Swedish television, where it premiered on 25 September 1966, and was the first time the composer transposed a sonic idea into visual material.

Dimensions

1966 • 12 min • Canada

This short film for kids offers a lesson in proportions in which simple actions achieve surprising results. A man wants a door in a wall. He draws a rectangle and, presto! There is an opening. In the same way, he conjures up furniture. If too high or too low, the raising or lowering of a finger puts everything right.

Box Lunch

1966 • 17 min

A nudie cutie released by Something Weird Video.

Garments

1966 • 3 min • Italy

This very short film portraits Luciano Fabro recording the breast of the Florentine art critic Carla Lonzi on a piece of paper, drawing a circle with a pencil, cutting it, producing a cone, wrapping it with a needle. Film, 16mm, digital transfer, colour, silent

Robbery on Oak Hill

1966 • 4 min • United States of America

A cowboy is held up at gunpoint, but after the fight both men walk off hand in hand.

Lullaby

1966 • 9 min

The cameraman tells his yet-to-be-born child, Pamir, “Listen, I am going to tell you the story about my village.” The people of the village are constantly working, the camera lingering on the hands. The landscape. The traditions and rituals of the people. A woman with a tambourine. The spinning shamanic dance of an elder. A mother swinging a cradle gently. The newborn admonished not to forget the Motherland.