All Films

Brakhage on Film

1965 • 21 min

Still photographer Arnold Gassan made this sensitive portrait of Stan Brakhage not long after the avant-garde icon completed his seminal DOG STAR MAN cycle. The film finds Brakhage mellowed but still busy in rural Colorado, working on films in an open family house. Brakhage holds forth on his particular conception of documentary, the ritualistic nature of Hollywood movies and the tyranny of Renaissance perspective. The film also shows the master at work, poring over images on a flatbed editor and taking to the woods to practice his camera movements. Devotees will be delighted at some of the details Gassan chose to preserve (including a camera tour of Brakhage’s bookshelf).

Governor

1965 • 25 min • Poland

Mad scientist Professor Frogg invites an unsuspecting friend into his futuristic mansion. He begins to tell him about plans to control Earth with the help of invaders from another planet.

LSD Wall

1965 • 7 min

An attempt to reproduce some visual hallucinations while on a trip (a number of years ago), done in the major portion with clay animation. On the average, it took one hour to shoot one-half second's viewing time. I felt that clay was the best medium to demonstrate what one might see under the drug experience. –J. H.

A Valentine For Marie

1965 • 4 min

Co-maker: Willard Maas. A Valentine card from Willard Maas to his wife, Marie Menken, utilizing both animation and live-action photography. A "catch me if you can" game between two real hearts. –J. H.

The Pursuit Of Profit

1965 • 23 min

Presents a survey of independent businesses to show how free enterprise operates and contributes to the strength and stability of the country.

The Worthless Smile

1965 • 6 min

In The Worthless Smile, Karlung constructs a complex world of ideas out of images of chiselled and painted foil, double-exposed sequences and montage of sounds and wise sayings. The film and sound poem The Worthless Smile traces roots to Oriental apocryphal teachings. Zen and Eastern meditation form the departure point of this philosophical quest for ‘the worthless smile’.

But Problems Arose

1965 • 16 min • Iran

Cultural alienation of Iranian youth.

Salt

1965 • 14 min

An impressionistic documentary, depicting moments moments from a work day at a salt mining site during 1960s Bulgaria. The final cut. aptly titled "Salt" of the film consists of two versions of itself. The first is the original cut of the documentary, as the author imagined it, known as "Salt I". The second half is a heavily edited version, produced in accordance to terms, put forward by the Socialist Cultural Commitee at the time, called "Salt II".

Kappa

1965 • 47 min

At Home with Colour

1965 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Short film demonstrating how different colour schemes can be devised for each room.

Food

1965 • 5 min • Canada

An animated film, without commentary, produced by a guest filmmaker from India, Gopal K. Gokhale, during a period of workstudy at the National Film Board. The film is intended to demonstrate to farm audiences in developing countries how improved farming practices and technology increase crop yield and income. Film without words.

Rainshower

1965 • 15 min • United States of America

A cine-poem. Presents the sights, sounds, beauty, and rhythm of rain as it comes to living things on a farm and to people in the city. Explains that rain is a source of the water which we use, and that it affects plants and other living things as well as people working in the community.

Shinshu no matsuri

1965 • 19 min

A film documenting the Matsuri and the life of the farmers in Nagano Prefecture. In the bosom of the mountain, people cultivate wasabi, rice, practice sericulture, forestry, mulberry picking. Some even cultivate barley in fields with a slope of 40 degrees. People have to live to the rythm of the seasons and to the pace of the water cycles. Whatever happens, their hearts are inextricably linked to the mountains.

Aleph

1965 • 11 min

A man's futile attempts to communicate with a woman in a mental institution.

Il lago (soggettivo-oggettivo)

1965 • 14 min

Having remained wrapped up in a dark basement for over forty years, Marinella Pirelli's 16mm film explorations of light and movement have only recently resurfaced. Active in the 1960s and 70s, and one of the few Italian woman artists working in experimental film, her works traverse numerous thematics connected to the body, the gaze and the relationship with the cinema apparatus/projection event.

Puzzle of Pain

1965 • 13 min • Canada

Documentary short, directed by Arthur Lipsett in 1965 for the National Film Board of Canada

1 x 1

1965 • 12 min • United States of America

"...has the quiet beauty of rain. It is the story of a young girl afraid to enter womanhood. Taking the phone off the hook, she attempts to sleep while her would-be lover tries to call. And in her fantasy, she sees herself escaping to the playground and embracing childhood anew...perhaps the most quietly satisfying gem that you will see in a long time...contrasts with the sexual vibrance of the tones' singing with the lonely quiet of the girl's flight with remarkable effectiveness."–Bruce Covert, McGill Daily Review [Overview Selection Courtesy of The Film-Makers' Cooperative]

Two Hours to Spare

1965 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A short film about the various evening classes that run within the Sincil Evening Institute. Includes a look at the classes for dressmaking woodwork painting and more.

New York

1965 • 18 min

Avant-garde city symphony montage of New York City with soundtrack: CONCERTO FOR PERCUSSION AND ORCHESTRA, by Bertold Hummel.

Wait for Me Behind Barbed Wire

1965 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Young "communards" are fighting off cunning seductresses at the beach.

Screen Test [ST188]: Vivian Kurz

1965 • 3 min

The second of multiple screen tests Kurz did at Warhol’s factory. She is photographed this time in a medium shot.

Look at Life: A Policeman's Lot

1965 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A look at a typical day in a policeman's life, which uncovers more than expected from the role.

Zweimal in Deutschland

1965 • 15 min • East Germany

In the spring of 1965, Polish citizen Sheybal visits the town of Genthin. He knows his way around the sugar factory. He had to work there as a prisoner of war during the Second World War. He suffered a life-threatening accident. Now he is looking for the people or their relatives who helped him.

Hey, Stop That

1965 • 4 min

An impressionistic slapstick satire on bomb shelters, military recruiting and gung-ho philosophy.