All Films

The Sculpture of Ron Boise

1966 • 12 min • United States of America

Poetic documentary about this famous contemporary metal sculptor, showing him at work on one of the last pieces completed before his untimely death, some say from the three "D's," Drink, Drugs and Dissipation, but more accurately from the three "S's," Struggle, Starvation and Systemic disintegration. The viewer witnesses the step-by-step process of creation as the artist collects, cuts, shapes and welds cast-off materials into a sensitive human figure. The film concludes with a cine-poem in which Boise's works are elements in an overall abstract experience.

Symmetry

1966 • 11 min • United States of America

"Stapp was one of the greatest animators working in the 1950-1975 era, using stylized, often pointillist abstract imagery, in a floating world sometimes surrealist, at other times reminiscent of Japanese "ukiyo-e" illustration. His spectacular 'Symmetry' is his greatest film, a fantasy of dancing images breaking apart, spinning, and converging." -Academic Film Archive of North America

Cowboy Wash Up

1966 • 4 min • United States of America

After a hard day's work, a cowboy cleans up for the camera.

Four Passes of the Invisible Hand

1966 • 10 min • United States of America

A cinematic journal exploring the relationship between musical and film structures.

Fluxfilm No. 21

1966 • 1 min • United States of America

This is fluxfilm No. 21 and without a title

First Love

1966 • 28 min • Soviet Union

Another call during a night shift awakens the memories of Sergei Alekseevich, an ambulance doctor, about his first love for a front-line nurse.

Interferences

1966 • 9 min • Sweden

An abstract animation with influences by Hans Richter, based on Eric H. Olson's optochromy, staged and set to music by Jan W. Morthenson.

Icarus

1966 • 11 min • Poland

A modest tailor sews a cape in his basement. He would like to use it to fly. Modern machines change other people. The tailor remains the same, old-fashioned person. Persecuted, he escapes on the sewing machine and rises into the air. He flies among the zodiacal constellations. Earthly pursuers follow him and shake hands with him. However, this is just another dream of a modern Icarus.

Jane on a Train

1966 • 3 min

Short film from 1966

Le Sénégal et le Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres

1966 • 29 min • Senegal

Promotional newsreel of Dakar, selected to host the first edition of the World Festival of Black Arts. The report features the history of the city, its architectural and commercial evolution, its air and maritime connections, its natural beauty, hotels and tourist attractions. Organised by Léopold Sédar Senghor on the initiative of the magazine “Présence Africaine” and the African Cultural Society, it was an unprecedented event in the cultural history of the African continent. The first festival was held in Dakar on 1-24 April 1966. Participants included André Malraux, Aimé Césaire, Jean Price-Mars, Duke Ellington, Joséphine Baker, Langston Hughes, Aminata Fall, Robert Hayden and many others. All the arts were represented: literature, music, dance, film and visual arts.

He

1966 • 9 min

Surreal film melding documentary footage of Chicago and its residents, featuring fast paced montage sequences set against a rollicking 1960s musical backdrop. The film aptly deconstructs the absurdities of contemporary American life, particularly the thick fog of patriotism engulfing the country at the time.

The Hole

1966 • 6 min • Bulgaria

A man falls in a hole on his walk, he sees another person walking on the same path and makes sure he's not the only one to get injured.

Roundabout

1966 • 9 min • Poland

A lonely, middle-aged man enjoys the “Życie Warszawy” newspaper with a cup of coffee. His thoughts fly out of the room, move over the tenement house like a balloon. The world is full of grey, middle-aged men like him.

Eastbourne: Sun Trap of the South

1966 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Charming 60s travelogue inviting us to enjoy the delights of Eastbourne, where the sun always shines!

Venus and Adonis

1966 • 19 min • United States of America

Venus and Adonis offers a playful retelling of the Classical myth. Filmed at Chicago's North Avenue Beach, filmmaker Tom Palazzolo plays the handsome young Adonis who is seduced by Venus, the goddess of love, depicted by Natalie Jarnstedt.

Four

1966 • 4 min

The Last Throw

1966 • 47 min

The film takes us back to World War II. Hitler’s soldiers capture the hero of the film and taking the caprice of an SS officer as an opportunity, he saves his own life and his friends thanks to his accurate throws into a basketball hoop.

Ekta

1966 • 6 min

This film by Frank Eidlitz contains close-ups of art and design objects on display, as well as light experiments. Objects that appear on film include details of a religious fresco, Jean Arps’ ‘Lion of the Cyclades: Seated’ (1957), metallic sculptures and glass prisms. Some sections are filmed within the exhibition ‘Light as a Creative Medium’, which was curated by Gyorgy Kepes at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in 1965, organised in conjunction with MIT. Interspersed throughout are some of Eidlitz’s light experiments, playing with light, colour and movement. The soundtrack is similarly experimental, consisting of fragments of music, radio voices and electronic noise.

AtmosFear

1966 • 6 min

"An extraordinary film, which powerfully evokes the feeling of the city, but more important, a film of fine graphic design." - Lenny Lipton

The Courier

1966 • 20 min

Three Air Force men, a courier, a driver and a plain clothesman are assigned to pick up some important documents in Kingsbury Hall, UNH.

Nbc

1966 • 6 min

This short film features Frank Eidlitz’s early experiments with light, colour and motion. Commissioned by the television network National Broadcasting Company (NBC) to reinterpret the station’s classic peacock logo, Eidlitz produced a series of film experiments with kaleidoscopic spinning lights. To create these visuals, Eidlitz covered a series of disks with pieces of reflective paper and fluorescent colours, which he then placed on an apparatus that spun the disks at a high speed. The motion could be varied and stopped at any time, allowing the artist to create varying designs and images. Opening with a close-up of a woman’s face covered in reflected lights, the majority of the film is comprised of flashing lights and spinning colours. The NBC peacock symbol appears intermittently throughout the film, at the forefront of the image.

The Gordian Pot

1966 • 12 min • Soviet Union

A man with a stomach ache cannot get into the bathroom while it is occupied by his flatmate.

The Nile in Egypt

1966 • 10 min • United States of America

Contrasts ancient and modern methods of irrigation along the Nile. Discusses the benefits of the dam at Aswan. Shows how the Nile brings fertility to Egypt and serves as a vital artery of transportation.

Don

1966 • 11 min

Movie-installation by graphic-designer AQUIRAX UNO.