All Films

Afternoon of a Peacock

1966 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Short experimental film.

Scuba Duba Do

1966 • 7 min • United States of America

The cat's been assigned by brothers Fenimore and Latimore to clean the chimney. There, Sad finds a treasure map.

Report from Millbrook

1966 • 11 min • United States of America

Jonas Mekas documents Timothy Leary’s Millbrook estate in the wake of a police raid, juxtaposing serene images of the property with audio of officials justifying their actions. Blending diary footage with subversive reportage, the film exposes the gap between perception and authority, offering an oblique portrait of the counterculture and its suppression.

Interview with Yukio Mishima

1966 • 11 min • France

French journalist Jean-Claude Cordy interviews Japanese author Yukio Mishima in his house.

Manuela

1966 • 41 min • Cuba

A young girl joins the guerrilla

Pearls and Ducats

1966 • 24 min • Poland

A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be Czech to impress her.

Overflow

1966 • 10 min

Overflow is the conclusion of the beautiful cycle of work begun in The Devil is Dead. The microscopic intensity of the earlier films is replaced in Overflow by a telescopic overview of the earlier work.

The Lost Granddaughter

1966 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Sea of Youth

1966 • 56 min • Japan

Ogawa Shinsuke’s directorical debut traces the struggle of four students who lead the opposition against the Ministry of Education’s proposed revision to the university correspondence school systems in 1966.

Tails

1966 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Out and Out Rout

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner using a skateboard, a hunting falcon, two doves tied to his feet.

Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas

1966 • 4 min

Screen test for Andy Warhol, 1966

Waiting for Commercials

1966 • 7 min • United States of America

Waiting for Commercials is a hilarious compendium of Japanese TV commercials. "Beckett wrote 'Waiting for Godot' twenty years ago, but instead of Godot, TV commercial after TV commercial arrived". This early example of Paik's use of appropriated television imagery as pop cultural artifact was originally created for a performance piece of the same name, which featured Charlotte Moorman and her cello.

Markiza de Pompadour

1966 • 26 min • Poland

A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.

Us Down by the Riverside

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

USCO light, Beatles sound. A visionary realization of the USCO Riverside Museum installation exhibition in New York, the show which introduced the word 'Be-In' to the English language. Acid visuals accompanied by a muddy recording of The Beatles playing Tomorrow Never Knows.

The Game

1966 • 28 min • Canada

It’s the typical boy-meets-girl game, but played without rules and at a time when the boy must prove himself. Touching on the subject of teenage sexuality, the film shows that the game often starts with a challenge to the boy’s masculine ego from his peers.

The Legend of El Blanco

1966 • 49 min

An engaging story about a legendary horse that was believed to have magical powers to bring rain.

Solitudine

1966 • 11 min • Italy

Short film about a man walking through the city.

Five Minutes of Murder

1966 • 7 min • Hungary

1966 animation short by Hungarian director József Nepp. Awarded with the main prize in animation film category at the 1967 Oberhausen Film Festival.

P+A-I(k)

1966 • 10 min

1966, 16mm film on video, black-and-white and color; 10 minutes

Up, Down and Back

1966 • 8 min • United Kingdom

The introspective, existential Sixties distilled into just eight minutes; modish young men look brooding and beautiful as they inwardly reflect on their lives, and punt down an autumnal River Cam.

The Conqueror Of The Useless

1966 • 31 min • France

Biography of ski instructor, mountain guide, mountaineer and filmmaker-lecturer Lionel Terray. Film-portrait of an emblematic figure of French mountaineering in the 1950s and 1960s, reconstructing the life, the great races and the expeditions of the "conqueror" of the most difficult walls and summits of Europe, the Himalayas, the Andes and North America. Marcel Ichac produced in 1966, the day after the Gerbier accident, this illustrated tribute by bringing together personal archive documents, unpublished animated sequences or extracts from expedition images as well as comments taken from the autobiographical texts of Lionel Terray " The Conquerors of the Useless" and "Battle for Jannu". This film, presented at the Cannes Film Festival, has won numerous awards at specialized film festivals, including the Trente Festival and the Banff Festival.

Monster of Ceremonies

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody meets a crazy professor who makes monsters by shooting them with a machine ray. On the second shot, they return to normal.

Hall of Mirrors

1966 • 7 min • United States of America

This film is an outgrowth of one of Sonbert's film classes at NYU, in which he was given outtakes from a Hollywood film photographed by Hal Mohr to re-edit into a narrative sequence. Adding to this found footage, Sonbert filmed Warhol's superstars Rene Ricard and Gerard Malanga in more private and reflective moments. -- Jon Gartenberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1998.