All Films

Intrepid Shadows

1966 • 18 min

Alfred Clah was a Navajo artist from a community outside Pine Springs, AZ. He said: "they making films about things out there, the trading post, things you can see; I'm making films about inside: I like to see scenes that people never expected, the legends, the gods."

Metanomen

1966 • 8 min • United States of America

A short, black and white experimental film by San Francisco bay area avant-garde filmmaker Scott Bartlett.

The Shallow Well Project

1966 • 14 min

The Odds Against

1966 • 23 min

A raw, rare short film about the need for a progressive overhaul of the penal system.

Point of View

1966 • 18 min • United States of America

Point of View is a 1965 American short documentary film. The film is about cigarette smoking and health, designed to give young people a wholly new way of looking at cigarette smoking and its health hazards. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Genesis

1966 • 7 min

Ominous commentary on the phases of life.

Cityscape: Impressions of a City

1966 • 2 min • Canada

In this experimental animated short, Ryan Larkin (Walking) creates a series of figures who move across the screen and disappear into a hole. Eventually, the hole metamorphoses into a bridge, on top of which stands the young man from whom the others figures originated.

Toys

1966 • 8 min • Canada

Window shopping children watch as toy soldiers come to life and fight a war with all its unvarnished ferocity and horror.

The Death of the Gorilla

1966 • 16 min • United States of America

A sight/sound combine of exotic imagery shot semi-randomly in superimposition off a TV and then cut to make a fast moving but extremely ambiguous ‘story.’ Gorilla moves through modern man’s myth mind like a runaway train bursting at the seams. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Song 19

1966 • 8 min • United States of America

SONGS 19: Women dancing and a light (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Mosaic

1966 • 8 min

Mosaic, a testament to Chambers’ astute interest in surrealism and Soviet constructivism, features his family prominently and predicts Hart’s epic handling of the birth/maturation/death cycle.

Invocations of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage)

1966 • 1 min • United States of America

"INVOCATION is Higgins' Satie movie... the purest attempt to clear art from any or all historical, esthetic, thematic, ornamental claptrap to regain the lost-eye consciousness." - Jonas Mekas

Trace No. 23

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

Begins with a shot of a demarcation line on an asphalt tennis court. A hand points to the distant landscape, then numbers 408 and 409 appear on a female torso.

Blink

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

Flicker: White and black alternating frames.

5 O'Clock in the Morning

1966 • 5 min • United States of America

A handful of rocks and chestnuts falling, filmed with high speed camera.

Show Leader

1966 • 1 min

It is a picture of me in a stream saluting the audience on the soundtrack.

Portrait of a Miner

1966 • 28 min

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Opus 161

1966 • 20 min

Thomas Wilfred's penultimate lumia work. Metal, glass, electrical and lighting elements, and a frosted-glass screen in an oak cabinet.

Henker Tom

1966 • 10 min

A young couple in Munich, Tom and Sabine, play around all day. But the girl, a model, would rather travel the world. He, on the other hand, is the absolute gamer type.

Captain Celluloid vs. the Film Pirates

1966 • 49 min

Captain Celluloid battles the evil Master Duper and his criminal gang, the League of Film Pirates, who plan to hijack copies of classic films, copy them and sell them to desperate film collectors all over the world.

Strategen

1966 • 10 min

Men try to catch a woman's attention.

Morning

1966 • 17 min

Morning begins with performers dressing and preparing for their day to the accompaniment of clashing male and female internal monologues, and subsequently depicts various characters going about their daily business while we listen in on their thoughts and anxieties.

Sudden Birth

1966 • 22 min

An average cop is thrown off a bit by...a sudden birth.

Bon voyage, Sim

1966 • 5 min • Niger

Monsieur Sim, the president of the Republic of Toads, receives a scoundrel’s welcome from his citizenry after returning from a luxury holiday abroad (disguised as a diplomatic mission).