All Films

Odyssey of a Dropout

1966 • 20 min • United States of America

Scott, a high school dropout, has no diploma, no job, no future and finally no girl. He is faced with the decision of continuing his education or continuing a life without hope or meaning.

Safety After School

1966 • 10 min • United States of America

Shows the safety hazards three boys encounter when they leave school. Pictures how they learn proper safety procedures to cope with several situations.

Animals and How They Communicate

1966 • 10 min • United States of America

Demonstrates how animals use sight, sound and movement to communicate fear, presence, interest and many other aspects of behavior.

Rent Collection Courtyard

1966 • 35 min • China

Propaganda documentary on landlord Liu Wencai, depicted as the archetype of the exploiter of peasant farmers.

Three Neighbours

1966 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Dog, cat and mouse fight for sausage.

Gyorgy Kepes

1966 • 14 min • United States of America

This film focuses on Gyorgy Kepes, an influential Hungarian-American artist with whom Frank Eidlitz studied in 1966. Kepes, a professor at MIT, founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) in 1967 to facilitate the intersection between art, science and technology. The film, though silent, features Kepes speaking at a seminar. It includes title cards towards the beginning, including one introducing Gyorgy Kepes and another showing a brochure for a symposium accompanying the exhibition in January 1966. It also includes close-ups of Kepes’ influential books, including editions in a variety of languages.

Zoom: Jean-Luc Godard, 1966

1966 • 13 min • France

Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard engages in a sociopolitical debate with French government official Jean St. Geours

Down by the south Keltma

1966 • 9 min

South Keltma may seem an ordinary river from the first sight, but it's meaning is huge. Keltma connects the White Sea with the Caspian sea, north and south!

Screen Test [ST109]: Dan Foster

1966 • 4 min

1 of 2 screen tests of Dan Foster, by Andy Warhol

Screen Test [ST2]: Charles Aberg

1966 • 4 min

Charles Aberg, in a black turtleneck sweater, squints warily at the camera, which films him in a tight close-up of his head.

Life in Australia: Hobart

1966 • 20 min • Australia

Life in Australia: Hobart shows scenes illustrating daily life, industry, recreation and the tourist features of Hobart, Tasmania.

Screen Test [ST19]: Timothy Baum

1966 • 4 min

The art collector Timothy Baum, in the mod style of the mid-1960s with a high collar and long sideburns, seems unable to relax, repeatedly swallowing, taking deep breaths, and even speaking briefly to the camera.

Adventure Playground – London

1966 • 6 min • Australia

A film about recreation and learning, made during the Cantrills’ four-year residence in London, similarly tinctured by Herbert Read’s notions about children’s education as self-directed, creative, and free. The adventure playground provides a space in which children can shape and reimagine the environment according to their own sense of play.

Webster Groves Revisited

1966 • 51 min

On February 25, 1966, an installment of CBS's critically acclaimed documentary series, CBS Reports, focused on the daily lives and dreams of teenagers growing up in Webster Groves, an affluent suburb south of St. Louis, Missouri. 16 in Webster Groves was followed, seven weeks later, by Webster Groves Revisited, an unprecedented though carefully planned defense of the contents and conclusion presented in the original telecast that incorporated the responses of Webster Groves' residents to their earlier portrayal and their rebuttal to the image of their community presented to the nation-at-large.

A Day in the University Town

1966 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary.

This Most Gallant Gentleman

1966 • 11 min • Ireland

Documentary captuing the occasion, fifty years after he was executed for treason, of the remains of Roger Casement being exhumed from a grave in Pentonville Prison and repatriated to Ireland with full military honours.

Screen Test [ST240]: Nico

1966 • 4 min • United States of America

The camera zooms in repeatedly on Nico’s features, concentrating on her mouth and eyes.

Lugdunum

1966 • 7 min • France

A report celebrating Lyon, a young and vibrant city that has managed to preserve the vestiges of its ancient past.

Santa's Christmas Circus

1966 • 60 min • United States of America

TV's Whizzo the Clown entertains a group of kids by hosting a pretend circus show, and takes them out on a trip to see Santa Claus at the North Pole.

Old Antelope Lake

1966 • 11 min • United States of America

A Navajo short film which documents a boy drawing and using water from Old Antelope Lake.

Tung

1966 • 5 min • United States of America

One of San Francisco Cinematheque co-founder Bruce Baillie's sensuous tone poems, TUNG is a portrait of a friend; sandy skin and flaxen hair in the early-morning light.

Song 17

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

SONGS 17 & 18: The movie house cathedral and a singular room (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Dance

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

"Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall."

Baggin' the Dragon

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Honey Halfwitch conjures a cauldron full of monsters while Cousin Maggie is away.