All Films

Coming Soon

1966 • 5 min

Color UCLA Student Film, the UCLA Film and Television Archive. "A satire on American war movie trailers, in this case a film on the Vietnam war starring Rock Balls. Bitterly commenting on patriotism vs. humanism in its uninhibited comic style, this film has as its key scene a soldier running through a military graveyard while waving a gigantic American flag"--Creative Film Society 16 mm. film rental & sale catalogue, 1975.

La montagna del sole

1966 • 13 min • Italy

The hard work of a family of farmers during hay-making season.

Kharab-abad

1966 • 9 min • Iran

Short documentary by Ebrahim Golestan

Een Portret van

1966 • 18 min • Netherlands

The painter Frank Lodeizen filmed at work and in his surroundings.

Stuf

1966 • 9 min • Romania

Experimental documentary with surreal images. A film poem about the cane, in winter, the fishermen of the Danube Delta incur into the frozen water.

Stillborn

1966 • 14 min • United States of America

Stillborn, also winner of the MPD Student Film award for the best film made by a student enrolled in a college course in cinematography, is an experimental film at times abstract in its execution. It tells the story of a boy and girl who meet out in the middle of nowhere. As he looks upon the young girl's face he imagines what life with her might be like. His imagination runs wild as he thinks of the blissful episodes such as marriage would bring, as well as the entrapment he could suffer. At film's end he makes his decision. Use of the negative image for one sequence is extremely effective.

Once Upon a Prime Time

1966 • 17 min

This short fictional film is a zany spoof of TV content with plenty of violence borrowed from the very source it seeks to parody. Our protagonist is a housewife who has lost her family to the television set. Suddenly, her home is invaded and her life is taken over by characters that seem to spring from the V screen. Initially, she attempts to get the intruders out of her house. But eventually, she begins to see that perhaps a life on TV wouldn’t be so bad after all. Will her distracted husband even notice her departure?

Apples

1966 • 5 min • Argentina

Happening by Narcisa Hirsch, where she gives free apples in the street while we hear passersby's comments.

Black Video 1

1966 • 59 min

7-inch reel, 1/2-inch videotape.

Hoffnung - Fünfmal am Tag

1966 • 30 min • Germany

Electric locomotives in the West, steam locomotives in the East. This report from Bebra uses "observations at a German train station" to illustrate the division of Germany. This was the terminus of the "interzone trains" that carried East German pensioners to visit relatives in the West. While the widening gulf between family members is noticeable, the residents of Bebra have made their peace with the division, not least of all because some of them profit from it financially.

No

1966 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Three boys during their games have found a weapon forgotten from the war and then a new dangerous game begins.

La ventana

1966 • 12 min • Spain

A woman looks out of a window.

Avocada

1966 • 37 min

"a study of high-art writhing. Carole Morell writhes as if she were born to writhe in movies; writhes like a movie star among flickering candles and smouldering camera movement. Avocada has a percussive Peruvian soundtrack. It is steeped in blue green shadows. It is incomparable and nutritiously beautiful. It is a film possessed of gilded glamour"

The Magic Stone

1966 • 24 min

Brothel

1966 • 45 min

Brothel is a 45-minute color film starring Mario Montez, Jack Smith, Piero Heliczer, Tosh Carillo, and Francis Francine.

S.F. Trips Festival: An Opening

1966 • 9 min

Van Meter had three camera rolls of 7242 Ektachrome EFB, which he fully ran through his camera each day of the 3-day Trips Festival. The end result was three 100 ft. rolls of film that each had been triple exposed in-camera, each layer of exposure representing a day of the festival. Aside from just two or three necessary structural edits, Ben spliced the three rolls together essentially unedited. This was then set to a soundtrack that was achieved in roughly the same manner, via triple layering of sound he recorded throughout the festival; He calls the film “a documentary of the Trips Festival from the point of view of a goldfish in the punch bowl.”

Archangel

1966 • 9 min

This film presents a series of flickering frames of primary colors to groaning tape manipulations. ‘Though I have worked extensively in various media, from music to poetry to film to performance to multimedia and installation art, there is a single thread that runs through most of my creative work: I am fascinated by the potential of light and sound to produce sheer magic.’ (V. Grauer)

Casqueiro

1966 • 15 min • Brazil

Il lagno

1966 • 11 min

The Lagno is the canal that crosses Naples, collecting its debris to stop even before reaching the sea. Around its dirty waters, the film outlines a cross-section that is anything but oleographic of the Neapolitan capital, immortalized already in the advanced industrial era and still wearing the signs of war and desperate poverty. After a few spoken notes, the sound commentary is entirely inhabited by a ghostly composition.

USA: Poetry: Frank O'Hara and Ed Sanders

1966 • 27 min

This episode focuses on Frank O'Hara and Ed Sanders. Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Frank O'Hara belongs, with Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery, to the "New York Poets" group. His work is characterized by acid wit. Ed Sanders is publisher of an underground literary magazine, a pacifist and leader of a rock and roll group known as "The Fugs". Both poets challenge the prevailing prejudices of our society. For Ed Sanders this has already led to some legal difficulties.

A Home For Gary

1966 • 13 min

Urban renewal in New Castle, PA displaces black families. Thankfully manufactured homes are built on an old baseball diamond and Gary is happy again.

The Moonlight and the Glasses

1966 • 8 min • Japan

An adaptation of Mimei Ogawa's short story. It was a night with a beautiful moon. An optician visited an old lady who was living in a house alone just outside of town. Since she has gotten older and her eyesight has weakened, she bought a pair of large-rimmed glasses made of tortoise shell...

Große Liebe

1966 • 19 min • Austria

A young painter loses his lover and rich patron in a mysterious car accident. He searches the scene for clues, finds a gateway and disappears into it before his friend's eyes. What awaits him is a kind of otherworld where, in addition to a host of macabre spirits, his former lover appears. Like all this place's other occupants, she too attempts to eat the only obviously living being around.

Kyiv Sketch

1966 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A city symphony, whose protagonist is autumn Kyiv in the middle of the 1960s. The colours of the city are captured on the go, highlighted with jazz accents by composer Volodymyr Huba.