All Films

Woody and the Beanstalk

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody Woodpecker inserted into the classic fairy tale.

Jonn

1966 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Three selfish fishermen are in danger because of their great envy. And although fate has mercy on them, the men do not learn from it, but everything repeats itself. Estonian/Soviet animation short from 1966.

The Big Bite

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody rescues his dog Duffy from a bully dogcatcher.

La Piccola Noia

1966 • 8 min

To music by John Coltrane, the film mixes quick shots of common objects or still lifes and the fragments of a filmed diary showing some friends on vacation in Torcello, in the Venetian lagoon, walking around reading the newspaper, chatting during lunch, cutting vegetables, playing chess. The shots, taken without a tripod, have a decidedly impressive visual intensity: backlit silhouettes, bright portraits, fruit and shells reminiscent of still lifes. In a convulsive and irrepressible way, with the flow of visual assonances, The little boredom intertwines the pictorial formalism of the compositions with the scenes of everyday life.

Turn Turn Turn

1966 • 9 min • United States of America

A kinetic alchemy of light and the electronic works of Nicolas Schoffer, Julio Le Parc, USCO, and Nam June Paik. An exploration of the effect-versus-content thesis of Marshall McLuhan. "TURN TURN TURN, a film of the eye-shattering, flashing, rotating light sculptures programmed by USCO to [...] the popular song, a rich electronic fugue on the word NOW: Let's take the OW out of NOW; let's turn the NO out of NOW." – Film Quarterly, 1966.

D.m.t.

1966 • 2 min

Credits: Slides by Jackie Cassen. Choreography by Mary McKay and danced by her. Sound: Bach, The Beatles, and the voice of Ralph Metzner reading a "Psychedelic Prayer" by Timothy Leary.

Roméos et Jupettes

1966 • 11 min • France

Three young women seek advice on how to navigate the pressures of dating, men, and socializing.

Electronic Moon No. 2

1966 • 5 min

Part of the "Video-Film Concert" collection released by EAI. From 1966 - 1972.

The Seventh Master of the House

1966 • 12 min • Norway

Not until four years after The Fox's Widow was the third fairytale movie, The Seventh Master of the House, released – Caprino's personal favourite. This is a wonderful fairytale and a sharp satire on everyday bureaucracy. Caprino knew all about that – in fact, you might say that the movie was an indirect stab at the bureaucrats who had considered all his funding applications.

Table-Tennis

1966 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Experimental short.

Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

1966 • 60 min • United States of America

A loose adaptation and parody of the Lewis Carroll tale by Hanna-Barbera Productions. A modern-day teenager doing a book report on Alice is accidentally sucked into her television set and ends up in a wacky version of Wonderland.

Strip

1966 • 26 min • United Kingdom

The work of strippers in the Phoenix Club of Old Compton Street, Soho. Includes interviews with the girls, the stage show and backstage scenes.

Carol and Company

1966 • 60 min

TV Special from the TV Show of the same name starring Carol Burnett

If I Had Four Dromedaries

1966 • 49 min • France, Germany

Composed entirely of still photographs taken by Chris Marker across 26 countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries presents a dialogue between three voices reflecting on the meaning of images and travel. Through this photo-essay form, Marker explores the relationship between still and moving images and the act of seeing itself.

Little Light

1966 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

A boy wanders the city alone on a hot summer's day. He tries to escape it, but ends up finding a new friend. The film turns into a literal flight of fantasy.

Marguerite Duras in the Lions' Den

1966 • 18 min • France

Duras, ever the challenging interviewer, forensically questions a Parisian zookeeper regarding the happiness of the animals in his charge. Intercut with her questions is stark black-and-white footage of the animals themselves behind bars, as they pace the length of their small concrete enclosures. Duras is very much on the side of the big cats. “Are you ever careless?” she asks the zookeeper. When he replies in the negative, Duras says smilingly: “In your position I’d be tempted to be careless”.

The Ranger's Guide to Nature

1966 • 47 min

Through animation, live-action and song, the Brownstone ranger, J. Audobon Woodlore, takes Donald Duck's three nephews on a tour of the wonders of the natural world.

Kyiv Frescoes

1966 • 14 min • Soviet Union

Parajanov's collage of all the footage that remained from his film "Kyiv Frescoes," which was halted by the authorities who demanded that all the negatives be destroyed.

Il canale

1966 • 11 min

A Modern Coed

1966 • 13 min • France

Eric Rohmer directs this short documentary that narrates the presence of women in French universities as of the time of its release -- 1966. During the film's short run, the narrator continues to point out that during the advent of World War II, only 21,000 women attended college and made only a 30 % of the student body, a number that by the 1964-1965 school year had passed the 120,000 mark. Instead of opting to live according to what was expected of them, now they were joining the work force, trading in aprons for lab jackets and becoming professionals even after getting married.

Tramway

1966 • 5 min • Poland

A boy leaves a party and gets on a passenger tram. Aboard, he shyly watches a girl, who soon falls asleep.

Jimmy Orpheus

1966 • 52 min • Germany

Jimmy Orpheus is about a young day labourer at the docks. After a crawl through the late-night bars in the St. Pauli red-light district, he meets a prostitute, for whom he risks life and limb while walking around night-time Hamburg … A love story that is as poetic as it is realistic, with Roland Klick trying out various extravagant editing and camera techniques, such as jump cuts and time-lapse shots, as well as his idea of action movies.

Prometheus

1966 • 10 min • Germany

Allegory of men's use of fire to kill, when it was given by Prometheus to help them.

Le Parc

1966 • 4 min

Abstract light poem tribute to Julio Le Parc, first winner at the 1966 Venice Biennial of a Painting Prize for Kinetic Art, filmed at the Howard Wise Gallery in New York. Premiered at the Gate Theater, New York.