All Films

WJR: One of a Kind

1966 • 22 min

Story of radio station WJR, Detroit. Many shots with local radio personalities in studio and people listening to the radio at home, in the ballpark at work and outdoors.

The File

1966 • 7 min • Poland

A man in the library opens a catalog with the history of the 20th century. The figures from the catalog come to life and show the achievements of the age focusing on their disastrous effects.

Purple Prelude

1966 • 6 min • Australia

Tom Thumb

1966 • 2 min

An animated advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company. After being abandoned in the woods with no food, a group of children takes refuge in a nearby house. However, the hungry ogre that lives there is about to come home...

Process Red

1966 • 4 min • United States of America

An experimental short film by Hollis Frampton of contrasting colours.

Playing Adults

1966 • 13 min • Poland

Kindergarten children are very adept at imitating adults, picking up on their manner of behaving and speaking, their foibles and weaknesses. The film observes the family play, in which the adult world can be seen through a distorting mirror.

Artikel

1966 • 10 min • Germany

The Day of a Casual Dock Worker

1966 • 13 min • Germany

The film depicts the daily routine of a wage laborer looking for work every day, who is at the lowest social level of the worker hierarchy. The commentary partly takes up the language of the dock workers and blends wonderfully with the black and white photographs. The two together result in a precisely constructed reportage about work and leisure in the port environment and its social conditions. Three moving film sequences interrupt the photo sequence and thematize the photographic form.

Toehold on a Harbour

1966 • 10 min

An entertaining look at life in Wellington, New Zealand in the 1960s, giving a colourful impression of Wellington city: hills, winding streets, busy people and strong winds.

Give Your Eggs a Break

1966 • 9 min • United States of America

The film discusses the significance of eggs in American cuisine, highlighting their nutritional value and versatility. It showcases the production of eggs at a California egg ranch, emphasizing the importance of freshness and proper cooking techniques. The film features chefs demonstrating how to prepare various egg dishes, including omelets, scrambled eggs, fried eggs, poached eggs, and boiled eggs, while also providing tips on selecting and storing eggs. The humorous attempts of a novice cook, George, illustrate common mistakes and the learning process in egg preparation.

El Rastro

1966 • 13 min

In the sixties, just before starting his career as a feature film director and his parallel career of the Anticine, Javier Aguirre had a brief career as a documentary filmmaker, which served him to test and rehearse many procedures that he would put into practice in the avant-garde aspect of his work. The trail belongs to that period, a few years full of mystery, but whose works are emerging demonstrating the portentous gaze of Aguirre. The trace has hardly been seen in the last sixty years, and it is an opportunity to recover this vision between anthropology and the vanguard of one of the hallmarks of this city. The film has been restored by the ECAM Archive in collaboration with Filmoteca Española.

The Winning Strain

1966 • 20 min

A 1966 short documentary showing athletes in action at the 1966 National Amateur Athletic Union track carnival in New York. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

66

1966 • 5 min • United States of America

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

Potions and Notions

1966 • 8 min • United States of America

Honey is baking a cake for Fraidy Bat's birthday. Misunderstanding what he meant when he said "the main ingredient in cake is love", she adds love potion to the cake. Cousin Maggie takes a bite of the cake and precedes to fall in love with Stanley the Wizard, who just showed up at the door. Maggie begins chasing Stanley around the forest while Honey and Fraidy prepare an antidote (which turns out to be Honey's tears). Maggie is turned back to normal; unfortunately Stanley eats a slice of Honey's cake while hiding inside the house and the first person he sees is Cousin Maggie...

12/66: Cosinus Alpha

1966 • 10 min • Austria

Kren’s last film to include any direct reference to Otto Muehl is 12/66: Cosinus Alpha, a 10-minute film that completes a cycle of elaborate sensual montages and materials.

Song 20

1966 • 4 min • United States of America

SONGS 19 & 20: 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).

Vi prego di accettare questo semplice bouquet di parentesi appena sbocciate

1966 • 15 min • Italy

Part of Piero Bargellini's Lost Cinema

The Underground

1966 • 12 min • Norway

"The Underground" is a strong visual depiction of humans and the environment of Kolsåsbanen during an exciting time with political overtones.

Hej natur

1966 • 8 min • Sweden

Experimental depiction of nature.

Run, Appaloosa, Run!

1966 • 47 min • United States of America

In the Nez Perce nation, usually girls may not ride in a certain dangerous "suicide" cross-country and downhill horse race, but trick rider Mary and her exceptional horse Holly Smoke get the chief's permission to do so.

Nothing Is Something

1966 • 10 min

The title is a quotation from Duchamp. The film is about the colours and structures of soap bubbles, oil on water etc.

Heinrich der Verhinderte

1966 • 15 min • East Germany

Duke Heinrich von Libnitz wins a knightly drink competition in 1472. However, the last barrel he drinks costs him his entire estate. So he has to look for new property! Heinrich looks into the Kingdom of Poland, known for a beautiful princess and a huge wine cellar, and he decides to become the king of Poland. But his adventurous mission ends up on a dunghill instead of the throne.

The Mole and the Rocket

1966 • 9 min • Czechoslovakia

The mole's rocket had exploded in an island, then he got help to fix it successfully.

Fat Feet

1966 • 19 min • United States of America

"Fat Feet", eight months in production, is a pop-art view of life in the big city, complete with a fire-fighting episode and various street scenes. Three dimensional figures and real actors were shot by Grooms both on location and within sets.