All Films

Hon

1966 • 8 min • Sweden

Filmic portrait of Niki de Saint Phalle's HON, a temporary indoor sculpture installation for the Moderna Museet of Stockholm.

Gracemary

1966 • 5 min

A young woman runs to catch the last post with her weekly pools coupon, whilst imagining a more glamorous life for herself.

Moe Gets Tied Up

1966 • 32 min • United States of America

Or "Moe in Bondage" - The "Moe" of the title is the Velvet Underground's drummer, Maureen Tucker, whose band-mates have tied her to a chair and are now hanging around nibbling on sandwiches and pieces of fruit.

Toulouse La Trick

1966 • 7 min • United States of America

The Inspector handcuffs Toulouse Le Moose and himself to prevent Toulouse from escaping, but it causes problems on the way to the station.

Carl Th. Dreyer

1966 • 29 min • Denmark

A documentary about the famous Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, made a few years before he died. In this film Dreyer tells about the style in his feature films and about the important things in film making: the script and the casting. He tells about his theories about setting and acting.

The Office

1966 • 6 min • Poland

The insane government bureaucracy at a state pension window.

Park

1966 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A newly established and impressively designed park turns out to be highly inconvenient and troublesome for people. However, it takes quite some time before the designers come to realize that the park is, first and foremost, meant for people and needs to be redesigned accordingly.

Negro + Cama con varios Moreira

1966 • 4 min

A short film by Iván Zulueta.

Napoleon Blown-Aparte

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

The Inspector ineffectually tries to protect the Commissioner from a mad bomber's revenge campaign.

Unos chicos, unas chicas

1966 • 13 min • Spain

A documentary about pop culture and youth in Madrid, 1966.

Music for Everybody

1966 • 46 min • United States of America

Ludwig Von Drake hosts this look at the importance of music in people's lives.

Rendez-vous avec Fantômas

1966 • 24 min • France

A portrait of feuilleton author, Marcel Allain, creator of one of Franju’s favourite heroes: Fantômas.

Troublemakers

1966 • 54 min • United States of America

Machover and Fruchter's intimate documentary follows the trials and tribulations of a group of Students for a Democratic Society militants in their attempt to politicize and organize the people of Newark, New Jersey. For Amos Vogel, Troublemakers was one of the best films of the New Left because it eschewed "both clichés and propaganda" in favor of "honesty" and "careful exploration." A must watch both for activists and political documentarians. (Doc Films)

Smile Pretty, Say Pink

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

At Pinkstone National Park, the Panther heckles a nature photographer (Big Nose Man) and ultimately gets what's coming to him.

Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Clouseau receives a tip that the elusive smuggler, Captain Clamity, who looks like a clam with eyes, arms, and legs, is laying anchor off the French coast. Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux make a number of unsuccessful attempts to board Clamity's ship, with Clouseau going down to the sea bottom every time

Salvador Dalí's Fantastic Dream

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Produced by 20th Century Fox, this Maysles Brothers short was intended to help promote the release of Disney's Fantastic Voyage (1966) for which Salvador Dali was artistic consultant. Shot in and around New York, the film features a cameo by a bikini clad Raquel Welch, star of Fantastic Voyage and Dali's muse for a series of portraits of Hollywood starlets.

Life in Australia: Wagga Wagga

1966 • 23 min • Australia

Made by the Department of Immigration to entice immigrants from Great Britain, this film shows an idyllic picture of life in the New South Wales regional town of Wagga Wagga in the mid 1960s.

There Lived Kozyavin

1966 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Kozyavin is ordered by his boss one day to find a man named Sidorov, and is pointed in a particular direction. The employee follows the indicated direction unswervingly to find him, encountering various obstacles along the way.

The Beatles: In Japan (6/30/1966)

1966 • 36 min

The first of two concerts, where the boys have black suits. 01. Beatles arrive in Tokyo, Japan Airport/ Hotel/ Press Conference Off to the concerts EVENING CONCERT JUNE 30, 1966: 02. Rock'n'Roll Music 03. She's A Woman 04. If I Needed Someone 05. Day Tripper 06. Baby's In Black 07. I Feel Fine 08. Yesterday 09. I Wanna Be Your Man 10. Nowhere Man 11. Paperback Writer 12. I'm Down

The Velvet Underground Rehearses

1966 • 6 min

A film of the Velvet Underground performing only discovered in recent years directed by Danny Williams shortly before his dissapearance.

Big Sur: The Ladies

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

Against the coastline of the Big Sur country the camera catches swiftly shifting fragments of the nude women at the baths, playing the guitar, cutting the hair, sleeping. The camera movement is used to slightly smear the images onto the film emulsion in a manner parallel with the use of broad different medium from music or painting.

The Beatles: In Japan (7/1/1966)

1966 • 46 min

The second of two concerts, where the boys have grey suits, was video taped by Nippon Television. The two shows were edited together and broadcast during The Beatles Recital, From Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, which was screened on NTV Channel 4 on 1 July from 9pm.

The War Game

1966 • 48 min • United Kingdom

A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." It debuted in theaters in 1966 and went on to great acclaim, but remained unseen on British television until 1985.

Victor Hugo : les Contemplations, livres V et VI

1966 • 20 min

“Rohmer traveled to the island of Jersey to find and film, alone and with a small Paillard 16mm camera, the places that had inspired some of his favorite poems…. […] Victor Hugo’s “Les Contemplations,” a work reread, walked, and filmed by Éric Rohmer, is in fact one of the filmmaker’s most poetic miniatures.” –Antoine de Baecque & Noël Herpe