All Films

Song 16

1966 • 7 min • United States of America

SONG 16: A flowering of sex as in the mind’s eye, a joy (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Earth

1966 • 8 min

As a peasant cultivates his land, he pulls technological progress from out of a molehill: railways, highways, mechanization... The fertile lands will be buried under the merciless pressure of technological progress until they become an urban jungle.

Alquézar, retablo de pasión

1966 • 13 min • Spain

In the foothills of the Pyrenees in the province of Huesca lies the medieval village of Alquézar. The film takes a journey through this religious site using images of the Colegiata de Santa María church, the paintings it houses and the capitals in its cloisters. It also draws on images of narrow and steep empty streets, the Semana Santa procession and sculptures of Christ on the cross.

Das Vöglein

1966 • 13 min • Germany

Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict.

Disappearing Music for Face

1966 • 11 min • United States of America

A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression.

Still Life

1966 • 2 min

"One continuous, intimate shot from within the commune…Being is seen as transitory; everything is in the infinite process of becoming." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Opus 74, Version 2

1966 • 2 min • Denmark, United States of America

Single frame exposures, color. Different image each frame, various items in the room, etc.

The Good Lady

1966 • 25 min • France

A kind old lady is not all that she seems to be, and gets more than she bargained for when she rents out a room to a handsome young student.

Jim Dine

1966 • 30 min • United States of America

Jim Dine at work and at home. Includes footage of Dine discussing his life, his artistic development, and what is called "ugly" in his work. Examines a number of Dine's works from different periods, including his tie paintings, tool paintings, palettes, collages, and "happenings," and considers Dine's concern with objects in his work.

Down Friday Street

1966 • 10 min • United States of America

Experimental documentary by Tobe Hooper and collaborators.

Ivan Ivanych Has Fallen Ill...

1966 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Museum

1966 • 19 min • Poland

This museum does not collect the achievements of mankind. On the contrary, we can find there the evidence of its fall. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and its exhibits.

Dream Boy

1966 • 14 min • United States of America

A play with the porn standard of a minimum of narrative in order to stage a series of ritualised stripteases.

Ding a Ding Day

1966 • 10 min • Australia

This assembly of home-movie footage, shot between 1961 and 1966, was made by artist and filmmaker Shead. Homegrown pop artist Martin Sharp and writer Richard Neville appear in a sequence covering the birth of Oz magazine. The film’s impressionistic fragments capture the mood of the youth counterculture in early 1960s Sydney.

The Snowman

1966 • 9 min • Czechoslovakia

A snowman comes to life in this charming and playful stop motion short. In danger of melting once spring rolls around, the snowman eventually departs for an icier climate, perhaps to return next winter.

The Sun and Richard Lippold

1966 • 28 min • United States of America

Documentary examining the work of sculptor Richard Lippold, particular his sculpture of the sun at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The 13th Ram

1966 • 6 min • Poland

One of the alleged ways to stay awake is by counting rams in your mind. During a sleepless night, the main character of the animation decides to test the effectiveness of monotonous counting on himself. Reaching the thirteenth ram, the perspective of the whole situation changes dramatically.

La otra soledad

1966 • 16 min • Spain

Monica, a teenager who is attracted to her sister's boyfriend, suffers from seeing the love they both have for each other, which causes her a deep emotional crisis…

Look at the Face

1966 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Short film in the Hermitage Museum looking at da Vinci's Madonna Litta.

Quilino

1966 • 16 min • Argentina

Gleyzer’s first color film was his final collaboration with his old classmate Jorge Prelorán, who preferred a less polemical approach to documenting poverty. QUILINO details the Cordoba villagers’ reliance on the railroad that brings them customers from the cities, and the looming likelihood that the route will be shut down.

Indiscreet Stairway

1966 • 60 min • United States of America

The talking staircase in a French apartment building reveals the intimate lives of five of the building's tenants: two bikini-clad young women go swimming together; a muscleman who is pretending to be a painter uses a nude model; Marcy, a 15-year-old, skips school to attend a party with the milkman; and a woman whose husband is out of town showers and applies skin lotion before going to bed.

America's Newest Sport

1966 • 11 min

America's Newest Sport is a short film made for Hobie. It was about his new skateboard and skateboard team. Hobie, as he always did, figured he could design something better. He came up with flexible trucks and clay wheels which sure beat the old steel ones. His skateboard "team" was a classic bunch of kids who performed state of the art maneuvers like riding a skateboard while covered by a trash can.

Lucía

1966 • 60 min • Argentina, United States of America

"Lucía" is an Argentine-American evangelist propaganda color film directed by Dick Ross that was filmed in 1963 but was never released commercially in Argentina. The film was processed in Hollywood and also filmed in an English-spoken version.

Kámen a život

1966 • 7 min • Czechoslovakia