All Films

The Portrait

1966 • 10 min • Germany

From Mona Lisa to Brigitte Bardot, artistic representation and perception of women is often shaped by traditional role models. In tongue-in-cheek fashion, director May Spils unmasks these dyed-in-the-wool structures and plays a young woman who can only fail in her attempt to paint a self-portrait.

Malicious Egg Smasher

1966 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Chicken hatched from an egg. The kid was scared by a caustic growl reproaching the chicken that he broke the shell at birth. So maybe he is prepared for the future fate of the insidious and bad rooster? Time will tell, but now he has the most light-hearted and fun time - his childhood, when he can be not afraid to get into stupid situations.

From Sea To Shining Sea

1966 • 14 min

A visual montage accompanied by an audio recording of Cullum teaching a class of first grade students geography. Provides an example of Cullum's method for fostering student participation through creative activities.

Kips the Operator on a Desert Island

1966 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Kips and the Forest Sage's helicopter breaks down in a thunderstorm, but fortunately, the distressed fall to a desert island. Kips learns which forest gifts to use for survival – some are suitable for cooking, others become material for clothes and blankets. With the disease, medicinal herbs help. He makes friends with a water spider who shows him the underwater world. When thunder breaks out again, Kips and the Forest Sage help the ants in trouble, who will not forget this good deed.

Christmas Carole

1966 • 5 min • France

35mm test scenes from a 1966 Agnès Varda project. Distributors and producers were unimpressed. Three friends try to earn money decorating café windows for Christmas. A moral fable, loosely based on Dickens.

Sin tregua

1966 • 12 min • Argentina

A documentary short on the treatment of tuberculosis patients in Santa Fe, Argentina.

Outlaw Motorcycles

1966 • 35 min

In 1965 actor and hopeful first time director Titus Moede befriended ‘Preacher’ of the outlaw motorcycle club the Coffin Cheaters while looking for a project. He soon realized that this was exactly the subject he had been looking for.

Aquarius

1966 • 8 min

A psychedelic cartoon depicting under water, outer space and other planets.

The Cabin

1966 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

A study of activity surrounding a changing room by a place of swimming.

Life in Australia: Geraldton

1966 • 20 min • Australia

Made by the Department of Immigration to entice immigrants from Great Britain, this film shows an idyllic picture of life in the Western Australian regional town of Geraldton in the mid 1960s.

Open Score

1966 • 14 min

1966 experimental short work by Robert Rauschenberg

Song 22

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

SONGS 21 & 22: Two views of closed-eye vision (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

The Cowboys Are Black

1966 • 14 min

One taxi driver, the other mechanics or masons. They drive a moped as Johnny Halliday and wear pants Zazous. During the weekend, they play in a real western with guns purchased at the supermarket, loaded with blanks. They love violence, their favorite actors are Edward G. Robinson and Glenn Ford. The heroine is selling at the Galerie du Niger. When the Nigerian filmmaker Mustapha Alassane turned the return of an adventurer, the first African western, Serge-Henri Moati wanted to make a film about film. The cowboys are turning black traces and proves at the same time the reality and fiction, film and life, sometimes extremely close, especially when it comes to the Wild West ..

Two Paths

1966 • 3 min • Germany

This short piece for the television station Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) is highly relevant to Farocki's later work. Zwei Wege is a cheeky description of a picture; Farocki shows us an image, a religious allegory showing the 'right' and the 'wrong' path for a Christian. The one path leads to heaven, the other to hell. Farocki uses the camera in effect to dissect the picture; he shows close-ups of the paintings various motifs, which he underscores with rhymes. This method of breaking down an image with the camera reminds us of similar sequences in his essay films, namely Wie man sieht and Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges.

Halfway to the Moon

1966 • 39 min • Soviet Union

The driver of a remote timber enterprise, Kirpichenko, is flying from Khabarovsk to Moscow with a transit stop in the South. A chance encounter with a flight attendant on the plane determines his fate: to fly this route back and forth until the money runs out.

Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp

1966 • 4 min • United States of America

Marcel Duchamp alternates between scrutinizing the camera, and smiling and nodding in response to what seems to be a large crowd of off-screen admirers trying to get his attention. Occasionally he puts his fingers to his lips, indicating that he is not supposed to talk.

This Time Tomorrow

1966 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Documentary showing the 1966 Le Mans 24 hour endurance race.

Unsafe and Seine

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

The Inspector and Deux-Deux go on an undercover search for an agent across the world.

Anatomy of a First

1966 • 32 min • France

In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini attempted a difficult first ascent to one of the summits of Garet El Djenoun, in the Hoggar massif, a mountain range located west of the Sahara, in the south of Algeria. The mountain has been preserved intact since Roger Frison-Roche's expedition in 1935. The documentary, superbly filmed by René Vernadet, won the Grand Prix at the Trento Film Festival in 1966.

Arrival Day... Departure Day!

1966 • 57 min • Soviet Union

This simple and therefore especially touching story took place in one town, where four men arrived, each on his own business. They met by chance, but this did not stop them in two short days from taking part in the fate of each of them with good advice, and, more importantly, with a good deed...

Cock-A-Doodle Deux Deux

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Inspector Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux investigate the theft of French dowager Madame Pouletbon's diamond, the Plymouth Rock, and discover that the Madame's servants, all of them chickens, stole the jewel and hid it in a bundle of eggs, some of which contain moving images of can can girls.

The Devil's Toy

1966 • 15 min • Canada

This short 1966 documentary dedicated "to all victims of intolerance” depicts the dawn of skateboarding in Montreal. A new activity frowned upon by police and adults, skateboarding gave youngsters a thrilling sensation of speed and freedom. This film - the first Canadian documentary ever made about the sport - captures the exuberance of boys and girls having the time of their lives in free-wheeling downhill locomotion. Jutra's 1966 mockumentary film The Devil's Toy (Rouli-roulant), is a faux-anti-skateboarding propaganda film.

Snow Excuse

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Speedy Gonzales, living in the snowy mountains, is freezing and decides to steal firewood from Daffy Duck after he rejects him borowing some of his. Daffy does everything in his power to stop him.

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1966 • 15 min • Soviet Union