All Films

The Human Body: Sense Organs

1965 • 17 min • United States of America

Shows the complete process of sense perception, from physical or chemical stimulus, to its conversion into a nerve impulse, its transmission to the brain and its perception there.

Antarctic Biology

1965 • 21 min • United States of America

Explores the research work on Antarctic plant and animals life by biological scientists living in the Antarctic. Stresses the studies with seals and penguins.

Kariokinesis

1965 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

A 16mm experimental short. Hajdler dragged the East German color film stock ORWO directly in front of the projector lamp, occasionally pressing the film to the lamp and thus causing the film stock to burn gradually, producing spectacular color effects in the process.

Animals Are Different and Alike

1965 • 10 min • United States of America

Introduces a boy who visits a farm and begins to notice similarities and differences between animals. Shows that animals can be grouped according to categories such as insects or fish and as to whether or not they have backbones.

The “Azhu” Marriage System of the Naxi (Moso) from Yongning

1965 • 60 min

Part of the Chinese Historical Ethnographic Film Series (1957-1966)

In the canyons of the river Berezovaya

1965 • 5 min

Beautiful and poetic film directed by Mikhail Zaplatin about harsh and majestic nature of Ural. Whimsical hoary forest, fantastic peaks, coral cities, austere churning rivers...

A Friendly Grotesque. Physicists About Physicists

1965 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A humorous sketch from the life of scientists.

The Hoffnung Vacuum Cleaner

1965 • 7 min

A salesman sells a vacuum cleaner with perfect pitch.

Never Forget Class Bitterness, Forever Remember the Hatred in the Sea of Blood

1965 • 57 min

A documentary from Maoist china which aimed to demonstrate the suffering of the working people under the old society. It was based on an exhibition in Shandong province.

Hoffnung's Professor Yaya's Memoirs

1965 • 8 min

Professor Yaya takes you on a comical journey through the history of Opera music.

Black Vision

1965 • 3 min

"... is inspired by the only passage in Jean Paul Sartre's writings which has ever specifically concerned me – the passage from Nausea wherein the protagonist sits in a park and imagines his suicide." - S.B. Black Vision was made by Brakhage from the print he had struck of Sartre’s Nausea, re-editing it and embellishing it with ink and scratching. It is a silent 2.5 minute film and does not feature the voiceover included in Sartre's Nausea.

Castle of Terrors

1965 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Horror movie spoof.

Screen Test [ST345]: Virginia Tusi

1965 • 4 min

A young woman identified only as Virginia Tusi, is posed against a light plywood backdrop and wearing dangling, flower-shaped earrings. She looks back at the camera from beneath her long, shiny hair. She speaks to the camera, saying something that looks like ‘beautiful’.

A Hard Day's Knight

1965 • 6 min • Ireland

A supercilious chess-player becomes obsessed with his white pawn as he sees her getting closer to becoming a queen. In his efforts to catch her, he enters into the game himself, with disastrous results.

68 Wheels

1965 • 32 min

A 300-ton Schnaveer type trailer created through the development of heavy goods transport technology at Nippon Express. This work records the work of transporting a 280-ton ultra-heavy transformer for substations in its complete state.

Looking Over The Fence: Impressions of Scotland by Raduz Cincera & Jan Spata

1965 • 17 min • Czechoslovakia

A dryly humourous quasi-philosophical account of the nature and psyche of Scotland and its natives, from the perspective of two visiting Czechs.

In Area 6x6

1965 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About how, under the cover of night, a gang of pest insects attempted to infiltrate a cotton field.

Searchers for a Special City

1965 • 9 min

Director Delbert Mann and his production team are scouting locations in New York City for the filming of the movie Mister Buddwing (1966). They realize that on-location filming, with all its natural imperfections, will bring a sense of realism to the movie that cannot be recreated on studio back lots.

O rety!

1965 • 6 min • Poland

A Lidia Hornicka Animated Short Film

The Prayer

1965 • 11 min • Soviet Union

In 1920s' Kyrgyzstan, the lives of three people intertwine over the course of a fateful night.

Torso

1965 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

A super 8mm film by Vinko Rozman.

Where Is This Big Forest?

1965 • 13 min • Poland

We're treated to images of bisons. Bisons in the woods, bisons in the city. A school trip comes to visit the bisons. At first, the audio consists of a song (in Polish), then, there is some narration.

The Pottery Makers

1965 • 25 min • Argentina

Raymundo Gleyzer's documentary on o community of Pottery Makers in the west of Cordoba province in Argentina who create pieces to sell to the tourists.

The Crime of the Spinning Top

1965 • 18 min • Spain

A young boy plays with a top instead of doing his homework and daydreams about his brother and his brother's girlfriend.