All Films

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

1966 • 25 min • United States of America

Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.

And This Is Free

1965 • 50 min • United States of America

An intimate slice of life portrait capturing all the characters and flavor of Maxwell Street.

Turkey: The Bridge

1965 • 19 min

This travelogue tells the story of Turkey from 200BC, including the attack by the Greeks, Romans, the origination of the first seven religions, the Crusades, the creation of the Turkish State and the modern tourist industry. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Kaka-Yo

1965 • 28 min • Congo

Vibrant love story, which means "Just You" in Lingala, intersperses modern life, the youth of Brazzaville at the time, the European dances in vogue in the 1960s, and life initiation, the sorcery, spiritual power and ritual.

Film Montagen II

1965 • 8 min

Second in a 22 part series of montages by german artist Peter Roehr

Film Montagen III

1965 • 6 min

Third in a 22 part series of montages by german artist Peter Roehr

Follow That Skirt

1965 • 27 min • United States of America

In 1960s America, a man is compelled to stalk and kill beautiful women in various stages of undress. But his final victim may prove his undoing...

Big Job

1965 • 2 min

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Beat in Schwabing

1965 • 9 min • Germany

A short documentary directed by Karl Deschauer.

China Tea

1965 • 10 min

Shot with two 8mm cameras then projected side by side accompanied by an audio tape of "prepared piano".

Blackout

1965 • 9 min • United States of America

This film, like an action painting by Franz Kline, is a rising crescendo of abstract images. Rapid cuts of white forms on a black background supplemented by an equally abstract soundtrack give the impression of a bombardment in celestial space or on a battlefield where cannons fire on an unseen enemy in the night.

Nothing Happened This Morning

1965 • 21 min • United States of America

Nothing happens and everything happens-- in the simplest of experiences there is a complexity and a vitality unknown and unfelt until the moment when we begin to let its wonder filter into us and flow through our bodies, our minds and our souls. When that happens the ordinary world becomes extraordinary-- the magic of the universe is within each moment and act perceived in as many levels as we can contain. Nothing Happened This Morning attempts to capture this state of unconsciousness in the first twenty minutes of an ordinary--extraordinary morning.

Shanes

1965 • 47 min • Sweden

A four day car trip: a pop music group hits the road in winter from Stockholm to Kiruna, above the Arctic Circle. One of the first films in Sweden shot with the Éclair NPR, a light, silent camera allowing the recording of sync sound.

Action in Vietnam

1965 • 25 min

In making this film about the Vietnam War, the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit did not look for battles and heroes. This was to be the story of the young Australians who were carrying on the standards of service begun by their grandfathers during the First World War. The emphasis was on people, both Australian and Vietnamese. The intention was to show what war really feels like.

Images of Leonard Baskin

1965 • 28 min

A visit into the home and studio of the artist-poet Leonard Baskin, describing the life and mind of the man.

Noon

1965 • 16 min • Soviet Union

A poetic film about theatre being played to workers of a factory during their lunchbreak.

Skin

1965 • 12 min

"I think of SKIN as my first really lyrical film. It was a joy to make. I was fascinated by the pure, natural colors of flower..." - CL

A Boy of Mexico: Juan and His Donkey

1965 • 11 min • United States of America

A short film about a Mexican boy who travels by donkey.

Harry Bertoia's Sculpture

1965 • 23 min

Opening with the camera slowly moving over what appears to be the surface of the moon, it suddenly falls back to reveal instead the texture of a sculpture. The film is one of constant motion, resulting from the vertiginous movements of West's camera, or the movement built into the sculptures themselves. The music, played by Bertoia, utilizing various objects alternately hammering or caressing his sculptures, is reminiscent of the work of Xenakis.

In Tuxedo

1965 • 11 min • Sweden

In Söderquist's first film [I frack] In Tuxedo, playfulness and improvisation are combined with absurd humor. An artist steps into an empty studio and begins assembling objects into a tree-like sculpture. The sculpture is adorned with small white paper clouds, puppets and undefinable items; all the while, the studio fills up with new things: a suitcase, a mirror and formal attire. The artist, now wearing a top hat and tuxedo, paints the paper clouds and the wall in a frenzy of activity, ending with his sitting exhausted in a corner surrounded by the mess he has created. The growing chaos, the various layers of narrative and the music of the soundtrack, which was improvised and recorded live during a viewing of the final film cut, interact in counterpoint.

Erinnerung im Herzen

1965 • 8 min • East Germany, Germany

The short documentary shows a memorial event marking the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald and accompanies Robert Siewert, a former prisoner of the concentration camp, on a tour of the memorial site.

Casabindo

1965 • 13 min • Argentina

Étude 65

1965 • 5 min • France

Etude 65 is a study based on a precedent Kamler's short using the second part Continu-discontinu with a new music composed by the great Beatriz Ferreyra.

No Movie

1965 • 8 min

Greg Curnoe's "No Movie" (1965) was originally filmed in 16mm using a 1938 Cine Kodak Magazine Load Camera. It was his first movie. The original music soundtrack was recorded by members of the Nihilist Spasm Band, but this sound recording has since been lost.