All Films

On the Threshold

1965 • 23 min • Poland

Examines the hopes and aspirations of a group of 18-year-old girls following their graduation from a college in Warsaw.

Komposition i tre satser

1965 • 8 min • Sweden

A non-figurative color film.

The Eternal Battle

1965 • 9 min • Soviet Union

No matter where chief surgeon of the Leningrad Regional Hospital Viktor Sedletsky is, the dispatcher always has information on how to find him.

Facescapes

1965 • 10 min • United States of America

New Adventures of Kips the Operator

1965 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The Forest Sage shows Kips the operator what are the flowers and already ripened fruits of our best-known wild berries. The Forest Sage teaches to recognize berries and distinguish poisonous from edible ones. However, in the end, the berries go into a fierce argument among themselves, which of them is the tastiest.

The Joy of Light

1965 • 12 min • Hungary

Some fascinating paintings, photoes and animated pictures tell about the pleasure which a miner may feel when coming up to the light after the dangers in a mine.

The Little Quartet

1965 • 7 min • Poland

4 ornamental statues decide to have some fun after a hearing dull piano practice session.

The Mighty Mr. Titan

1965 • 3 min

An animated short introducing children to physical fitness.

Vélodrame

1965 • 11 min • France

L'incompiuta

1965 • 13 min • Italy

A very young Marco Melani is divided between reading cinema magazines and watching car racing on TV.

Stones

1965 • 30 min

Steine (Stones) is a documentary film on a sculptorsŽ symposium in St. Margarethen, Burgenland. Behind this short description of content lies one of the most intelligently filmed and concepted documentary films in the history of Austrian film. The date of the last showing of this film could not be reconstructed.

Abends, wenn der Mond scheint

1965 • 19 min • Germany

The grotesque portrayal of an attempt at communication, graphically and rigorously depicted: In the LCB's second production, Peter Rühmkorf and Helmut Herbst bitingly trace a relationship story that is already over before it has begun.

Desolate Presence

1965 • 15 min

A traveller arrives at a sprawling abandoned mansion and begins to feel an uncanny presence. This short film is based on the short story by Thomas Owen.

Elegy

1965 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

Being a cartoonist and caricaturist, Dragić applied for a competition organised by Zagreb Film and so his succesful career as an animator started. However, his films remained strongly connected with his comic strips both in terms of style and narrative, and some of these are actually the animated version of his comics. Elegy, Dragić's debut film, for example, is based on his comic called Nostalgia, as he explains in an interview with Bosnian-Swedish theorist and animator Midhat Ajanović in his book "Nedeljko Dragić: The Man and the Line" (2014). Elegy is about a prisoner longing for the flower that caught his eye through the bars of his cell. The animation is quite static, a quality coming from his background in comics.

Colorfilm

1965 • 9 min • United States of America

A joyous, chaotic and colorful romp through nature; A psychedelic dance troupe rehearses in a studio.

Summer Storm Passage

1965 • 18 min • United States of America

"This film, which dates from 1964, has always satisfied me. I believe the footage was completed before the assassination of Kennedy – an event that changed many things. I had made only silent films until I made THE ELMS, which followed upon this one. SSP is a film whose form I had in mind from the outset. It was to be a visual piece structured in a 'musical' manner. It would have three movements in differing visual 'tempi'. Rhythms, counterpoint, theme and variation, and so on were to be in mind as I filmed and edited. The thematic material would develop slowly, and there would be recapitulations and so on. The three sections are entitled 'Barn', 'Summer Storm', and 'Bird'. A sense of place, shelter, and fertility. A welcoming of the necessary summer storm of birthing. A child’s wonder and excitement at experiencing the vast unfolding world." –Abbott Meader

The Shunammite

1965 • 45 min • Mexico

Luisa returns to her village, where she cares for her uncle on his deathbed, who tells her the story of his life with a hidden purpose.

Rhinomorphose

1965 • 4 min

Starting from the photographic representation of a rhinoceros, Monique Lepeuve, by dissociating the elements of this enormous prehistoric carcass and by their stylized animation, offers at the same time an original, comical and sometimes grotesque bestiary, a universe of the bizarre related to mythology.

Sexy Shutterbabes

1965 • 9 min

A man is needing his photograph taken and there are three beautiful ladies there to do it.

Tonto-tour

1965 • 7 min • Spain

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.

Young Men On The Go

1965 • 29 min

A hip 1960s look at the Demolay organization for young men.

Carmen de Carabanchel

1965 • 16 min • Spain

Marionettes in Masks

1965 • 8 min • Japan

Screened at the 1st Sogetsu Animation Festival in 1965, the film was made in 35mm using the animation equipment owned by animator Yoji Kuri. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

Metamorphoses

1965 • 6 min • Hungary

Animated look at an ever-changing portrait of a man and a woman