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1966 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The Mistral

1966 • 33 min • France

Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens follows the course of the famous wind as it originates in the Alps and finds its way to the Mediterranean Sea. Natural sounds and creative camera work provide a mood film showing the effect of the fury of the wind on the life of southern France.

The Idea Man

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

The Idea Man is a three minute short film by Jim Henson which was used for a live performance with Limbo on The Mike Douglas Show on July 20, 1966. The film has featured in various screenings of vintage Henson material without the Limbo performance superimposed over the images.

Guten Tag, Herr H.

1966 • 14 min • East Germany, Germany

What would happen if Hitler came back to West Germany after passing the statute of limitations for Nazi crimes on January 1, 1965? Based on West German laws, he would not only be able to reclaim his private property, but also a restitution. In addition, he could demand to get his power back and the reintegration of German areas into the Reich.

A City at Chandigarh

1966 • 50 min • Switzerland

Documentary on the construction of Chandigarh, the new capital of the Indian Punjab region, planned by Albert Mayer and Swiss architect Le Corbusier.

Where's the Bus?

1966 • 6 min

A young starlet is upset after being turned down for yet another audition. While waiting for a bus to arrive at a stop on Hollywood Boulevard, she is overcome by the urge to dance.

Volker Bradke

1966 • 16 min • Germany

As the only work in this medium by Richter, the film was created for the exhibition Volker Bradke that took place on 13th December 1966 at Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf. For the purpose of this exhibition, Gerhard Richter addressed the person Volker Bradke in different mediums. In addition to photographs, a banner and a large-scale painting Volker Bradke [CR: 133], the film had been screened. Richter transferred one of the stylistic features of his paintings of that time into film: the blurring.

Spielplatz

1966 • 13 min • East Germany, Germany

Impressions of a playground in Berlin. It is also the playing field of the elderly chess and card players - counterpoint to the argument of isolation and emptiness in old age.

Little Phuoc

1966 • 50 min

After his brother goes off to serve in the war young Phuoc feels he would also be better serving his country holding a gun, not a rake.

Match Girl

1966 • 26 min • United States of America

The Urban Crisis and the New Militants: Module 7 - Cicero March

1966 • 8 min • United States of America

For a generation of young activists, the reality of war, imperialism, racism and the growing fragility of democratic liberalism was too much to handle. Force became a means to wrestle with this tension. As the discourse of a “country torn” finds its way into mainstream political analyses (for many the deep divisions in this country are not a new political reality), we should reflect on the writings of political dissidents and radicals. We should recognize the diversity of political analysis that is very much alive. The histories of armed struggle, if taken seriously, provide us with a means to think more critically about the center, and complicate its claims of moral and political right.

Eyeblink

1966 • 1 min • United States of America

A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed camera at 2,000 frames per second, which is projected at normal speed, 24 frames per second, thus creating a slow-motion effect.

Pikk Street

1966 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Pikk Street is one of the most important thoroughfares of Tallinn’s Old Town. The picture playfully combines hidden camera footage with more observational images, employing shots from unusual angles; these are accompanied by specific sounds and interesting musical themes. The result is a true cinematic adventure.

Losing Just the Same

1966 • 58 min • United States of America

This documentary reflects on the lives and aspirations of an African American family - the Johns - who moved to West Oakland from Louisiana, focusing on Robert Lee Johns and his mother Agnes.

Passacaglia Dedicated to Royal Sigmond’s Chapel at the Wawel Castle

1966 • 18 min

A film impression showing the Royal Sigismond’s Chapel at the Wawel Castle as an interior with a unique and abundant collection of sculptures. It brings to light details of construction and presents them in close-ups which makes it possible to profoundly appreciate the richness of figures and ornamental sculptures in that exquisite monument of the Renaissance style in Poland.

Where Did Our Love Go

1966 • 15 min • United States of America

Warhol Factory days... serendipity visits, Janis and Castelli and Bellevue glances... Malanga at work ... glances at Le Mépris and North by Northwest... girl rock groups and a disco opening... a romp through the Modern. My second film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1998.

2001: A Space Odyssey - A Look Behind the Future

1966 • 23 min • United States of America

A short documentary about the making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and its impact on the '60s view of the future.

Trace No. 22

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

Begins with a picture of Marilyn Monroe, then shifts to a female body, shot from belly button down, which is wriggling under piles of cellophane.

Relativity

1966 • 38 min • United States of America

Emshwiller made this film on a Ford Foundation grant, and in his original proposal to the Ford Foundation, he outlined the film as "something that deals with subjective reality, the emotional sense of what one's perception of the total environment is -- sexual, physical, social, time, space, life, death."

The Evil Faerie

1966 • 1 min • United States of America

Following a series of title cards, a man in sunglasses briefly flutters his hands like fairy. Owen Land states that this film was not made by George Landow, and believes it should be credited to John Cavanaugh. "George Maciunas had a number of films which didn’t have titles on them. Then he put them together into his Fluxus reel and tried to remember who made them. It was an intentional Fluxus joke." (Owen Land, interview with Mark Webber, 2004)

Water Light/Water Needle (St. Mark's Church in the Bowery)

1966 • 4 min

Eight performers, suspended from ropes, move to a score of randomized encounter. Schneemann writes that this "kinetic theatre" work was "conceived as an aerial event with ropes rigged across the canal at San Marco... finally realized at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, then later rigged in a grove of trees. The illuminated aqueous planes of Venice motivated the performers on layers of ropes which enclosed and surrounded the audience seated below." One of two video documents of this early and influential performance, this version features original film footage by Elaine Summers.

Why Does the Rooster Have Short Pants

1966 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The rooster goes to the holiday fair. He decides to buy pants at the fox counter. However, their size does not suit him, they have to be shortened little by little.

Tarfaya (or The Walk Of A Poet)

1966 • 20 min • Morocco

A man from Tarfaya, penetrated by the magnificence of his country, the power of its beauty and the nomadic life of his ancestors goes in search of a great popular poet. He would be able to teach him wisdom, music, and the wonderful art of singing and poetry.

Marmot

1966 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

A wildlife documentary about marmot.