All Films

Travelling for a Living

1966 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Follows the life of Hull folk group The Watersons, which is made up of brothers and sisters Michael Waterson, Norma Waterson, Elaine Waterson (more commonly known as Lal Waterson), and their cousin John Harrison, as they spend a large amount of their time on the road in their van travelling between one folk club and the next.

Death in the Forenoon

1966 • 2 min • United States of America

Footage of a bullfight, shot by Hill in 1934, hand-painted by the artist three decades later.

The Green Planet

1966 • 9 min • France

An imaginary planet, an abstract universe in continual motion, where minute organisms. half flea half amoeba, the ‘actuphages', live and evolve peacefully.

Information

1966 • 4 min

Frampton on Information: "Hypothetical 'first film' for a synthetic tradition constructed from scratch on reasonable principles, given: 1) camera; 2) rawstock; 3) a single bare lightbulb. I admit to having made a number of splices."

Modern Poetry Exhibition/1966

1966 • 12 min • Taiwan

Artists contributing to the 1966 Modern Poetry Exhibition included HUANG Hua-cheng, LONG Sih-liang, HUANG Yong-song, and CHANG Chao-tang; each artist chose their favorite modern poems and transformed them into imagery. This film is a time capsule capturing some of the exhibits, as well as the young artists.

Graph

1966 • 3 min • Poland

Animated parable in which a man chases after an unreachable point.

Tulips

1966 • 3 min • Netherlands

The film shows, in an almost motionless camera setting, a frumpy 1960s interior. The viewer sees a dresser with a vase of tulips atop it. Swelling music accompanies the camera as it slowly zooms in on Holland’s national flower. In the carefully constructed staging, it is like a visual sledgehammer when a single petal suddenly comes loose and falls. Then the camera modestly pulls back.

Marins d'eau douce

1966 • 14 min • Belgium

A wordless travel on a barge from Clabecq to Ruisbroek. This is the Boris Lehman’s student movie done for the INSAS school.

Grænlandsflug

1966 • 15 min • Iceland

Documentary about Greenland.

Have a Coke

1966 • 17 min

"This film depicts, in a humorous vein, the impressions of three Ethiopian students upon entering a strange country, and the perplexing world of university life at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)" (US National Archives).

Black Video 2

1966 • 28 min • United States of America

A study of light and real-time transmission.

Animación dibujada

1966 • 1 min

"indian ink on 16mm film" -CC

José Guadalupe Posada

1966 • 9 min • Mexico

A short film about the famous mexican artist, whose work revolved mostly around depictions of the mexican society as skeletons.

John and Betty and the Magic Dog

1966 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A Road safety film on the perils of crossing the road if you don't have a magic dog.

The Kibbutz

1966 • 24 min

Presents an overview of some structures of kibbutz life. Describes one of the older kibbutzim in Israel, Kibbutz Ramat Yohanon, and tells briefly how it started, how it conducts itself, and how it teaches its children.

Familiar Spirits

1966 • 21 min • United Kingdom

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.

Born on the Seine

1966 • 56 min • Yugoslavia

TV special about French popular chanson and the river Seine.

Uma Alegria Selvagem

1966 • 14 min • Brazil

A reconstitution of the life and work of Alberto Santos Dumont, the father of aviation. The film makes use of rare recordings of his voice and quotes from his memoir.

Umbarumbamba

1966 • 15 min

A stylized account of an Icelandic country dance. The film features the Icelandic pop group Hljómar (Thor's Hammer).

Rio, Uma Visão do Futuro

1966 • 10 min • Brazil

The architect Sérgio Bernardes' vision of the future for Rio de Janeiro. Models and designs of airports, ports, and remodeled neighborhoods propose the creation of a vertical city for the urban problem and its transformation into an international center for commercial and

Screen Test [ST245]: Nico (Hershey)

1966 • 4 min

Nico, in a pseudo ‘commercial’, holds a large, partially unwrapped Hershey bar to her chin, with the labelling upside down; the camera remains stationary while she gazes morosely into the distance.

Second Weaver

1966 • 9 min

All My Life

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

The film is made up of one single take. The camera pans to the left, focusing on a dilapidated fence in a rural field, as Ella Fitzgerald's "All My Life" plays on the soundtrack. At the end of the 3 minute film, the camera tilts up to the blue sky just as the song ends.

The Universal Mind of Bill Evans

1966 • 45 min • United States of America

Jazz Pianist on the Creative Process & Self-Teaching. Here is the late, brilliantly original jazz pianist in intense conversation with his composer brother, Harry, on the nature of creativity in jazz. Occasionally, they stroll to the piano for a musical illustration (Evans play splendidly).