All Films

Song 21

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

SONGS 21 & 22: Two views of closed-eye vision (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Nobody's Face

1966 • 19 min

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

Shout

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

Close-ups of two faces, shouting at each other.

A Navajo Weaver

1966 • 23 min

The filmmaker's mother, weaver Alta Kahn, weaves a rug. The film also shows how the weaver's job consists of of raising the sheep, shearing the wool, digging yucca roots for soap with which to wash the wool, carding and spinning, walking, digging and searching for roots with which to make dye, dying the wool, and putting the warp on the loom.

Super Up

1966 • 12 min

Kenji Kanesaka, one of the founding members of the “Film Independent” group and the Japan Filmmakers Co-op in Tokyo, was commissioned by Chicago producer Marv Gold to direct Super Up in 1965. The film is an exceptional and striking critique of structures of racial and class segregation, consumerism and lust, sexual energy and desire, and the domination of (and link between) advertising, consumption, sexuality, and the police.

And On the Sixth Day

1966 • 6 min

Three vignettes involving protagonists seen and unseen illustrate ethical questions of the period about abuse, abortion, and racism.

The Passenger

1966 • 28 min • Sweden

Travel documentary where the narrator describes each scene exactly as it is seen.

This Night

1966 • 8 min • Germany

The first R.W. Fassbinder film project. 8 mm color. Considered lost.

Reports

1966 • 9 min • Cuba

Using a questionnaire, the author interviews writers, artists, and prominent figures in Colombian culture. Through his interviews, Arango portrays these personalities, using suggestive questions and the unconscious revelation that comes with the improvised nature of the answers. Likewise, some figures, Nadaístas and other artists, present their life stories in the first person, discussing their art, life motivations, and cultural issues. Finally, two chronicles are presented: one addressed to a relative of Arango's in Chocó, and another in which the author reflects on Cartagena and its historic center based on a trip he made to the city in 1966.

Getting Angry

1966 • 10 min

Willie brings his toy space capsule to school, only to see it smashed to pieces on the playground due to his friends' carelessness. Willie gets angry.

Vietnam, Land of Fire

1966 • 15 min

Subversive film documenting the Vietnamese viewpoint of the Vietnam War.

Art Scene USA

1966 • 16 min

A look at painting, sculpture and the dance in the United States today, as represented by works of many of its best-known artists - Andrew Wyeth, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Ben Shahn, Jack Levine, Robert Indiana, Larry Poons, Alexander Calder, Marisol, Edward Keinholz, Larry Rivers, Claes Oldenburg, the Martha Graham Dancers, Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, the Alwin Nikolais Dance Company, the Once Group (a happening), etc.

Toros One

1966 • 11 min • Spain

At first sight, it a film about the bullfight. However, the standings about of a bull which accompany in soundtrack the public surrendering the arena already express a gap appropriate for a critical representation: the fate of this population is confidentially connected to that of the bull. Besides differently, the repeatedly returns of an old poster, probably republican, representing Hitler under the features of a matador in full action. This image transcends the documentary value of the film to raise it into a strongly symbolic dimension. In fact, we are after the death of Franco. Cyril Hurel

Dream

1966 • 4 min • Australia

A short animation of Charles Lloyd’s dry points. Sound composition by Arthur Cantrill.

Comédie

1966 • 20 min • France

An adaptation of the Beckett play

Freedom

1966 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

A 8mm experimental short made in Kino Klub Split.

María

1966 • 39 min • Colombia

Experimental film in which with black birds and peacocks, old postcards and dried flowers, toiletries and antiquarian pieces, the mannerist or theatrical touches of Creole romanticism are recreated and ironizes around the modesty of María and her vampiresque unfolding.

Fehlstart

1966 • 15 min • Germany

The Straw Millionaire

1966 • 16 min • Japan

Stop motion animation of an old Japanese fairy tale. A poor man trades a piece of straw for a more expensive item. In the course of his journey, he manages to finally exchange the last item for a villa.

The White Ship

1966 • 14 min

Sailing ships on an open sea make an attractive sight, all the more to be valued because of their rarity. This film shows one of the Portuguese schooners that fished the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. From the moment the townsfolk turn out for the blessing of the ship and crew, to the time when the ship turns homeward with the season's catch--leaving one crewman in a Newfoundland grave--this film holds the viewer's attention on an ancient calling that will soon disappear.

The Drop

1966 • 7 min • Romania

1966 Animation by Sabin Balasa

The City

1966 • 17 min

An experimental silent film made in the early 1960s providing an intimate look at the citizens of Chicago. The film combines tongue-in-cheek footage of street advertisements, movie theatres, and other signifiers of city life, with scenes depicting the daily goings on of Chicagoans. The City borrows from traditional documentary film aesthetics, yet the narrative is complicated towards the end by fictional flourishes in what can be best described as a post-modernist take on the stressors and violence inherent to city life. Major thoroughfares and landmarks are heavily featured, such as Maxwell Street and Lincoln Park.

Ein Haus am Meer

1966 • 9 min

A young girl hitches a ride in a car with a man. In front of and in an abandoned house, the man tries to approach the girl...

Verliebt in Stauden

1966 • 15 min • East Germany, Germany

Professor Dr. h.c. Karl Foerster - his cultivations and developments of wonderful perennials offer a wide range of possibilities for beautifying residential areas and gardens and creating space for recreation.