All Films

Storm Signal

1966 • 60 min

A documentary record of the day-to-day existence of a pair of young married heroin addicts. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Naked Fury!

1966 • 10 min

Beautiful twins wrestle in lingerie for a professional photographer.

The Goumbé of the Young Revelers

1966 • 27 min • France

The film shows the members of a voluntary association of young people from Upper Volta who work in Abidjan, Ivory Coast - first at their work, then at a reunion that ends on a dance floor in Treichville. The young people who come to work in Abidjan often form spontaneous associations for mutual help and entertainment, which are called "Goumbés" in Ivory Coast, after the name of a square drum that serves as the rhythmic base to their dance. During a general meeting, the secretary of the association reads the statutes, and it is these statutes that serve as both the backdrop and the commentary of the film.

An Early Clue to the New Direction

1966 • 28 min

Featuring Joy Bang, Prescott Townsend, Rene Ricard. Music by the Unidentified Flying Objects. "The grand prize ... went to Andrew Meyer's black-and-white AN EARLY CLUE TO THE NEW DIRECTION, whose virtues had nothing to do with technical polish. Mr. Meyer's film hung on dialogue, cast and plot (of a kind), clearly moving in a new direction. Its central virtue was nothing less than a superb performance by an old man, Prescott Townsend, playing a Boston rogue long past his time, who charms a young girl with his 'snowflake theory.'" – Douglas M. Davis, National Observer

Kinky

1966 • 3 min

This UCLA student film captures a psychedelic, kaleidoscopic montage of students, beatniks and hippies on the sidewalk in front of Canter’s Deli on Fairfax Avenue. The happening is edited to music by The Kinks.

Herning 1965

1966 • 10 min • Denmark

This film was shot at a factory. A factory making shirts in the town of Herning i Jutland, decorated by Paul Gadegaard. Formerly art was confined to churches and palaces. Today man is in focus - his working place. Paul Gadegaard has been able to accomplish this pioneer work thanks to art experiments carried on since the beginning of this century.

Mrs. Hạnh

1966 • 28 min • Vietnam

L'art pour l'art

1966 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Art for art's sake.

Luces para percusión

1966 • 4 min • Chile

Experimental film that establishes relationships of correspondence between light, abstract images and the rhythm of a percussion soundtrack. The result is a mysterious and hypnotizing work.

The Charm of the Wheels

1966 • 7 min • Poland

A swarm of locusts teases a herd of horses. A four-wheeled vehicle drives into the herd. It pulls behind its riders, the horses, and the insects. The gallop is more and more dynamic, gravediggers prepare coffins for crazy drivers.

Exile From Paradise

1966 • 11 min • Poland

A man is a guest of the EDEN Hotel. He can enjoy its luxuries with no limits, except for one room. The room becomes the most interesting place for the man. The animators illustrate the biblical story with a beautiful cutout and a philosophical commentary. The film was made in the cut-out technique. Its background is based on the style of old engravings and contemporary graphics.

Creation

1966 • 4 min

Chuqui-Cámac

1966 • 9 min • Chile

Institutional documentary about the exploitation of Chuquicamata mineral that, as is usual in Balmaceda's work, highlights the social role of this industry and the context - human and physical - in which it operates.

Nadja

1966 • 10 min

Brett Whiteley

1966 • 3 min • Australia

This short film by Frank Eidlitz shows a snippet of Australian artist Brett Whiteley at home with his wife Wendy and daughter Arkie. It was likely filmed in late 1966 or early 1967, before the Whiteleys moved to New York in late 1967. The film shows the artist and his family at home in the evening, reading the newspaper and watching television. Whiteley’s paintings line the walls of the living space, including ‘Fidgeting with Infinity’ (1966), a large triptych painting that dominates the space.

World of the Mountains

1966 • 16 min • Yugoslavia

Documentary about mountain wildlife.

Screen Test [ST58]: Roderick Clayton

1966 • 4 min

Roderick Clayton looks around in all directions, squints into the light, peers upward, and turns to show both profiles.

Tide

1966 • 6 min

In the late sixties I picked up my seldom used Arri 35mm camera and set off for the famous tidal flats of Nova Scotia. This fragment is of an elderly farmer who fished a weir using his horse and carriage to go out to it with the ebbing time and home with the incoming tide. I thought I saw a nice structure for a film that even included the element of chase, that old standby of film narrative. Would the carriage get home before being engulfed by the incoming tide, would the fog appear and obscure all points of reference?

Wolves of Darkness

1966 • 21 min

Attempting to resurrect two former high priests of the Brotherhood of the Wolf through Black Magic, a newcomer transforms a young artist into a werewolf. The ceremony goes wrong at the crucial moment and the newcomer is carried off to another dimension.

The Great Sail

1966 • 10 min

Alexander Calder's La Grande Voile was erected on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in 1966 with the artist directing the work. As the spectacular steel forms of this monumental stabile rise, it is filmed with time-lapse and verité photography. One can see that the structure owes its spare elegance to the precision of its design and construction. Calder remains absorbed in quiet concentration as skeptical students and bemused bystanders observe the somewhat peculiar event.

Restless Sunday

1966 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A young man rambles in rundown Leeds, brooding on the ennui of a 1960s Sunday, and on his disillusionment with religion.

Window

1966 • 18 min • Hungary

El horrible ser nunca visto

1966 • 13 min • Spain

A young woman who lives with her uncle begins to dream about a monster that lurks in the shadows of the night.

Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations

1966 • 4 min • United States of America

Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations is a portrait of Warhol's famous installation of floating silver helium-filled balloons at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1966. Willard Maas's lyrical "film poem" is the only visual document of this seminal exhibition.