All Films

Enantiomorphic Chambers

1965 • 23 min

n 1964 Robert Smithson made a sculpture called Enantiomorphic Chambers that cleverly exploited our two-eyed nature to haunting metaphysical ends. Stepping between the two chambers, the viewer sees his or her image cancelled out by precisely coordinated mirrors, accomplishing Smithson’s task of “eliminating the consciousness that regulates binary vision.” Curators Kevin Regan and Christopher Howard have teamed up to turn NURTUREart Gallery into an entantiomorphic chamber of their own devising, though with a rather different aesthetic than Smithson’s. Noticing a simple iconographic trend in which a number of contemporary practices make use of reflected images, Regan and Howard have turned this underrecognized phenomenon into a full-scale metaphysical research project, complete with its own blog to document ongoing discoveries.

Modern France: The Land and the People (Second Edition)

1965 • 12 min • United States of America

Portrays the growth of French industry and agriculture since World War II. Depicts farms of Normandy, fisheries of boulogne, steel mills of Nancy and the commerce and culture of Paris.

Councils

1965 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

The film compares scenes from the frescoes of Serbian medieval monasteries with scenes of church councils held in churches. Relying on his pictorial sensibility (he graduated in History of Art), using symbols, real landmarks, without a narrative flow but accompanied by sound and original music, Petrović's short film Sabori, which is also a documentary, becomes a timeless film.

Mother, Son, Grandson, Granddaughter

1965 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary.

Sweet Life

1965 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Satirical film about school and parenthood.

What About the Workers?

1965 • 35 min

A history of the British Trade Union Movement since 1880.

Pigalle

1965 • 7 min

Pialat roams Pigalle, a two-faced neighborhood frequented at night by cabaret patrons and during the day by local residents.

Modern Gallery

1965 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary.

Mining Review 18th Year No. 5

1965 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Michael Shelton and his gold medal in wheelchair snooker are rightly celebrated by the mining community of Newstead.

Les Champs-Élysées

1965 • 7 min

The life of the world's most famous avenue, day and night, as told by Maurice Pialat and Georges de Caunes.

Syrinx

1965 • 3 min • Canada

She was the nymph who found refuge in the river reeds when the goat-god Pan pursued her. Syrinx is the first film of Ryan Larkin, a young artist from Norman McLaren’s student group. To illustrate the ancient Greek legend of how Pan made his pipes, he employs various charcoal sketches. Accompanying music is Claude Debussy’s Syrinx for solo flute.

Quixote

1965 • 44 min • United States of America

Co-founder of Canyon Cinema and the San Francisco Cinematheque and one of the godparents of experimental film, Bruce Baillie (1931-2020) has forged a singular path in his visionary explorations of the world, his exquisite treatment of light and fragmented storytelling influencing successive generations of like-minded filmmakers. Shot on a cross-country journey during 1964 and 1965, is the Baillie film most in need of rediscovery. Joining the ranks of Bob Dylan, Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac in chronicling a tumultuous period in American history from the road, Baillie sets out "to show how in the conquest of our environment in the New World, Americans have isolated themselves from nature and from one another."

Whose Are the Cones in the Wood?

1965 • 11 min • Soviet Union

The tale about the wolf-proprietor and the inhibited animals without their own opinion.

Assault and Peppered

1965 • 6 min

Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales wage war on each other.

Song 10

1965 • 2 min • United States of America

SONG 10: Sitting around (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

The Old Man and the Land

1965 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Robertas Verba’s first documentary film, described by film critic Živile Pipinyte as “the ‘ice-breaker’ which broke through the ice of Soviet ideology to form the peculiar stylistics of Lithuanian documentary film.” The hero of this film is the bright Lithuanian villager Anupras, whose archaic worldview becomes a symbol of the ethno-cultural Lithuanian identity that was often opposed to the identity constructed by Soviet propaganda.

10b/65: Silver – Action Brus

1965 • 3 min • Austria

"Action" by Günter Brus. At first Kren did not want to show the film, because the image is underexposed. A copy of the negative material turned out to be better than the original material and so Kren did show the film. The film's title relates to Brus' use of silver paper for his action.

Wrist Trick

1965 • 1 min • United States of America

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

Exit

1965 • 4 min • Poland

A man tries to climb up the slopes of a waste dump. He struggles to climb a few meters, only to fall down a moment later. Once he seems to have found his escape route, a solid metal grating appears in front of him.

This Is Hormel

1965 • 30 min

Two boys on vacation take a tour of the Hormel meat packaging plant (produced by Hormel).

Unrolling Event

1965 • 1 min • United States of America

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

The Coronation

1965 • 20 min

Myers' CORONATION ranks with the two or three very best experimental films of 1965, according to George Manupelli

11/65: Helga Philipp Painting

1965 • 3 min • Austria

11/65 Bild Helga Philipp is an optical abstraction of an optical abstraction: Kren has simply intercut filmed movements and sections from an Op painting by Helga Philipp - the result is motion opticals.

Moment of Joy

1965 • 17 min • Czechoslovakia

A study of Czech mountain-climbers, taking place in Adrspach - Teplice Rocks and Prachov Rocks.