All Films

River Windows

1966 • 18 min

"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past. This is best realized in the halting transition from the journey through time back to the watery one that evoked." –Ken Kelman

Time

1966 • 30 min • Sweden

A concert at the Golden Circle with Don Cherry and his quintet was filmed and then processed to an art movie using various optical effects.

Almost a Tangent

1966 • 33 min • Italy

A day in the life of a young student, Paul, who commits suicide with his girl friend. We follow him in theschoolroom, where he fantasizes about space travel while the instructor goes over the dates of WW2 and his companions read "Playboy". He walks in a city covered with postcards for coming elections. Discusses life and death with a friend, Harald, meets a pretty acquaintance, Mara, with whom he makes love, and finally turns on the gas in his study.

Buenos días, Buenos Aires

1966 • 20 min • Argentina

Documentary that registers the awakening of the city and its daily early movement.

Outer and Inner Space

1966 • 33 min • United States of America

A 16mm Warhol film of Edie Sedgwick sitting in front of a television monitor on which is playing a prerecorded videotape of herself. On the videotape, Edie is positioned on the left side of the frame, facing right; she is talking to an unseen person off-screen to our right. In the film, the “real” or “live” Edie Sedgwick is seated on the right side of the film frame, with her video image behind her, and she is talking to an unseen person off-screen to our left. The effect of this setup is that it sometimes creates the rather strange illusion that we are watching Edie in conversation with her own video image.

I Would Like to Have a Shave

1966 • 17 min • Poland

A macabre film about the experiences of a client who is shaved by a hairdresser-psychopath.

Down These Mean Streets

1966 • 14 min

A student film by Willard Huyck

Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick & Kipp Stagg

1966 • 4 min • United States of America

Screen Test of Edie Sedgwick and Kipp Stagg (aka Bima Stagg).

16 Millimeter Earrings

1966 • 7 min

Not to be confused with Robert Withers's 1979 "16 Millimeter Earrings" which builds upon this work, Meredith Monk's 1966 "16 Millimeter Earrings" is a black and white film of a woman holding a magnifying glass to each eye and tearing apart several wigs.

Screen Test: Mary Woronov

1966 • 4 min

With light only shedding on half of her face, Mary Woronov remains calm and stern as she stares into the camera, until the very end, where she sheds a slight smile.

Stella

1966 • 14 min • Germany

When Peter proposes to his wife Ellen one evening that they have a three-way relationship with his girlfriend Stella and quotes from Goethe's tragedy "Stella" to back it up, she initially reproaches him for not wanting to compare himself to the great poet. But then she asks for Stella's telephone number.

Snutarna

1966 • 23 min • Sweden

A hot summer evening at a youth club in the city of Stockholm. 13 youngsters talk about their experiences of police violence and their views on the police.

Screen Test [ST13]: John Ashbery

1966 • 4 min

The American poet John Ashbery. Shot one day when he visited the Factory. His suspicious expression does relax somewhat in the course of the film; towards the end, he appears momentarily lost in his own thoughts.

Shooting Guns

1966 • 5 min • United States of America

Shot in 1960 on the set of Jonas Mekas' 'Guns of the Trees'. Dedicated to Ron Rice.

Love in a Cottage

1966 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Young pair which doesn’t want to study and prefers to be a burden to its parents.

Frescoes of Kuldīga

1966 • 50 min • Soviet Union

A Latvian poetic documentary about the town Kuldīga.

The Four Elements

1966 • 13 min

An educational film about power sources that’s rendered as a lyrical meditation on heat and vapor, The Four Elements is a poetic and avant-garde documentary Curtis Harrington made for the United States Information Agency.

Women's Quarter

1966 • 18 min • Iran

The film shows the life of prostitutes in Tehran's city brothels, an area known as Shahre Now. The film closely follows a number of women and communicates how the burden of social constraints led them to surrender in the face of their common fate. The film does explore the possibility of re-education and development for these women, but in no way does it paint over the hard and brutal reality. The film was produced on behalf of the Organization of Iranian Women and was immediately banned while shooting was still going on. After the revolution, a portion of the material was found, and Shirdel decided to finish the film using photos by the late Kaveh Golestan that were taken more than ten years after the film itself was shot.

The Quiet Racket

1966 • 8 min • Canada

This short film tells the amusing tale of a man who feels the common urge to escape the city's noise for the weekend. Made without words, but with a wide range of other sounds, this film tracks our hero to a perfect haven of pandemonium. The countryside, it turns out, is not as unspoiled and quiet as the poets proclaim.

29: Merci, Merci

1966 • 30 min

A rude and abrupt departure from Hindle's two early visual poems. Between those early works and MERCI, Hindle was sought to film the Winter Olympics, 150 short works for Westinghouse/CBS, and the South Sea voyages of Sterling Hayden's schooner, "Wanderer." The inability to get on with his own work produced MERCI. A poignant comment concerning the film artist's dilemma. Aftermaths of Western Civilization. Including never-seen-elsewhere Nazi footage inserts.

Trace No. 24

1966 • 1 min • United States of America

X-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking.

Walking Pupils

1966 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

Film follows pupils from a village in their long and arduous voyage to school.

The Psychedelics

1966 • 20 min

"...I was playing it at the Cinematheque, and it got a lot of word of mouth in town. Everybody liked it because we used this really neat trick to put these images on Pat Barrington’s body as she was doing a belly dance. It was just perfect, and it was an the height of the LSD period and all the hippies loved it." - Ed DePriest

Amphetamine

1966 • 10 min • United States of America

An ode to queer sex and drugs, boys shooting up and kissing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1998.