All Films

Sidewalks

1966 • 7 min • United States of America

Photography: Willard Maas and John Hawkins. "Looking down instead of around, while walking, finding the magic patterns in the pavements of a city."--John Hawkins

Song 18

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

SONGS 17 & 18: The movie house cathedral and a singular room (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Pop Age

1966 • 40 min

Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press clippings, questions about the impact of fashion (long hair and accoutrements) and modernity, youth, change, freedom.

Nei sotterranei

1966 • 7 min

Short film by Franco Vaccari.

Dirty Girl

1966 • 19 min

Experimental photo film about the erotic fantasies of a neatly married woman who dreams of an existence in which she could have been a nude model, seductress, prostitute and ultimately the murderess of her silly husband.

Nightingale from the Village of Marshintsy

1966 • 12 min • Soviet Union

"The Nightingale from the Village of Marshyntsi was the second musical film on Ukrainian television to star Sofia Rotaru. Sophia Rotaru sang Ukrainian folk songs ("Cheremshyna") and Moldovan songs typical of this region of Ukraine. The film was shot in the Chernivtsi Philharmonic. The young singer appears in the film under the surname Rotar, a Ukrainianized version of the Moldovan surname Rotaru.

Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

1966 • 11 min

Schneemann's classic 1966 aerial "Kinetic Theatre" work was first staged at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, with eight performers moving to a score of randomized encounter on layers of rigged ropes and pulleys. One of two video documents of this early and influential performance, this version is enacted outdoors in trees and across the surface of a lake, in sequences directed by Schneemann.

De la mer jaillira la lumière

1966 • 7 min

In Brittany, facing the strongest tides in Europe, the world's first tidal power plant is being built. A documentary also known as The Rance Tidal Power Plant.

Excited Turkeys

1966 • 12 min

"A realism like that of GREED is lifted to a level where it becomes poetry. This is done by stylization and a few well-chosen details... a masterpiece." –Jonas Mekas, Village Voice "A black comedy which, in its cruel ending, has been compared to Harold Pinter. It is a hilarious satire on the traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Everything is there but the soup, but it's nuts for sure. This is Mass' first comedy, and those who know his early classic works are in for some surprises. Also Hawkins' imitations of sobs, snores, and gobbles are fabulous, especially the ghostly turkey at the end, shot in negative. A favorite on Mass' recent tours of Texas, the Midwest and the South." –The Gryphon Film Group

Vermelho, Amarelo e Verde

1966 • 9 min • Portugal

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

The Sun is Long

1966 • 6 min

A lone soldier comes across a fallen comrade. Hearing shots, he takes a position and takes aim, only to see the figure in front of him is not an enemy soldier, but something much vaguer in a robe.

The Magic Sun

1966 • 17 min • United States of America

Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a so-called negative post-process, while Niblock's camera focuses on microscopic details of hands, bodies and instruments. A brilliant tribute to the Sun King by another brilliant supra-planetary sovereign. (Eye of Sound)

Hachero nomás

1966 • 22 min • Argentina

The living and working conditions and the exploitation to which the "axemen" workers are subjected in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, in what was one of the most powerful companies of imperialism.

Entrance to Exit

1966 • 7 min • United States of America

Features entrance and exit door signs, fading through black and white.

Double Concerto

1966 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Documentary film about Vladimir Ashkenazy's and Daniel Barenboim's 1966 performance of Mozart's Concerto for 2 Pianos in E-flat major with the English Chamber Orchestra, featuring the full performance as well as biographical information and a look at the rehearsal process.

Steeltown

1966 • 56 min • Canada

A portrait of Hamilton, the Pittsburgh or Birmingham of Canada. This is a rich and colourful subject that encourages imaginative treatment on the screen. The heart of the city is the immense complex of furnaces and rolling mills, but nearby are the lake, the mountain, and the rich fruit farms. How the work of the steel mills touches the city and its surroundings is shown in many views during both day and night.

Steinzeitlegende

1966 • 11 min • East Germany, Germany

The invention of the chariot seems too daring for the Neanderthal experts. In collective consultation, they decide to reinvent the dugout canoe that has been known for ages. For this reason, the Neanderthals had to hump their way through life for quite a while.

The New Met: Countdown to Curtain

1966 • 53 min • United States of America

Backstage with Franco Zeffirelli and Rudolph Bing as multiple mechanical difficulties snag rehearsals. Marc Chagall stops by only to see that his giant murals were not hung the way he intended in the lobby. Leontyne Price is engaging as she prepares for her commanding starring role in Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra.”

John Cage

1966 • 56 min • Germany

Experimental composer John Cage tours Europe with The Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1966.

Dedication to a House

1966 • 5 min • Germany

Short documentary about a house that will soon be demolished.

A Further Glimpse of Joey

1966 • 28 min • Canada

Directed by Don Owen, this follow-up to Graham Parker’s 1964 film Joey revisits the life of the eponymous young boy, who at the age of seven had trouble finding adoptive parents, most of whom look for children who are still in their infant years. This film catches up with Joey after he has found a home, and reveals some of the problems he faces in adjusting to the routines of family life.

The Baymen

1966 • 27 min • Canada

Baymen, no matter where they go, remain above all else Newfoundlanders. They were born to the sea, to a place in the life of their cliffside village, but many of the younger generation are now looking to the city for their future. The film, produced in 1965, follows a bayman's family to St. John's, showing what such a change means to father, daughter and grandfather.

The Adventures of a Doll

1966 • 11 min • Germany

Short stop motion animation by Franz Winzentsen.

Le Quartier Latin

1966 • 7 min

Maurice Pialat films the Latin Quarter of Paris in the early 1960s.