All Films

A New Coaler

1965 • 60 min • China

A Chinese opera about the experiences of a new worker selling coal.

Cambodia

1965 • 56 min • Cambodia

A documentary showcasing the nation of Cambodia.

El hombre de la víbora

1965 • 19 min • Argentina

A car salesman recounts his professional journey, from a clumsy beginning marked by invasive treatment and failed demonstrations to a successful fluency. This film Martínez Suárez made on commission for the Argentine automobile factory IKA.

Hale House

1965 • 11 min • United States of America

A documentary film about Hale House, a Chicago home where Swami Vivekananda lived while a speaker at the 1893 Parliament of Religions at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The film lingers on architectural details of the home while a soundtrack of Indian raga sitar music and Vedic chanting fills the air. The film was made by Larry for Swami Bhashyananda, the former head of the Vivekanandra Vedanta Society of Chicago.

Architecture USA

1965 • 12 min

An impression of modern American architecture with examples from all over the country. It starts with Philip Johnson's very original glass house in New Canaan, Connecticut, and then goes on to show numerous other buildings of various types, such as office blocks, musea, private residences, educational buildings, churches, etc. Works of many famous architects are included in this graceful film, amongst them Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe

Rudolph Valentino - Idol of the Jazz Age

1965 • 10 min • United States of America

A short look back on the legacy of Rudolph Valentino, produced by Castle Films for the home gauge market. Multiple versions of the short film exist- one with spoken narration and music, and one in silent form. Reportedly a big moneymaker for Castle-- and proof of Valentino's lasting appeal.

Red Scarf

1965 • 20 min • China

Paper-cut animated tale of Xiaohong, who ties a red scarf on the tree at the crossroads to indicate the direction when he was tracking the Kuomintang spy who had violated the mainland.

Us, Women

1965 • 17 min • Poland

The film talks about women's participation in World War II. Former female soldiers, nurses and liaison officers tell about their wartime fates. Today they are directors, secretaries, lecturers and saleswomen.

Sveaborg

1965 • 16 min

The film tells the story of the sea fortress Sveaborg.

Wings

1965 • 10 min • Poland

An animated parable directed by Leonard Pulchny was made in a combined technique. Pulchny uses collages, engravings, drawings and he contrasts green and red colour. The style and theme of the film refers to Jan Lenica’s "Maze". According to Erich Fromm’s "Escape from Freedom", the protagonist asks to cut off his wings because he notices the emotions he evokes in society. The film is a metaphor of the political situation in the Polish People’s Republic in 1960.

Utflykt Opus 2

1965 • 10 min • Sweden

In the prologue of Excursion:Opus 2, the camera sweeps over nearly unidentifiable details on a sleeping man’s body, mixed with discontinuous images of the morning routines of two people and their preparation for an excursion. Subtle sounds of wind blowing are combined with squalling, inarticulate sounds of birds and frogs. The couple cycle through a dense forest, climb amongst ferns, and kiss to a soundtrack of classical music (without being overtly obvious or romantic) layered with birdsong, which gradually distorts into more psychedelic and frightening noise. Close-ups of the romantic couple, camera shots that follow the cyclists’ rush through the woods, and the couple struggling through the dense and almost unreal vegetation of bush and tangled pine, are woven together in an intense montage of dream-like and unworldly atmosphere.

The Front Line

1965 • 16 min • United States of America

Training film for supermarket checkers. Sponsored by Reader's Digest and Super Market Institute.

Portrait

1965 • 30 min • China

A painter went to make a portrait of Zhang Baotian, a model worker. On the train, he met a big man. The painter praised Zhang Baotian in front of him, but the big man said that Zhang was nothing special. Later, I realized that the big man turned out to be Zhang Baotian, so he prepared to make a portrait of Zhang.

Red Light, Green Light: Meeting Strangers

1965 • 20 min

Ung

1965 • 28 min • Denmark

The third and final part of Carlsen's documentary trilogy explores what it means to be young or old.

Wipeout

1965 • 2 min • United States of America

A student film by Paul Golding, with help from George Lucas, set to a song by the Surfaris. Very similar to Lucas's own short Look at Life (1965).

El algarrobo, fruto de la tierra

1965 • 23 min • Argentina

A family from the town of Vichigasta collects the fruits of the carob tree.

Il teschio

1965 • 14 min • Italy

Ruhnu

1965 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A poetic mood film about the island of Ruhnu. The camera observes the daily life of the island with a slow calm.

Perceptual Learning

1965 • 12 min • Canada

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

Girl in a Cage

1965 • 10 min • United States of America

A fiery, lithe dancer is stripping in a cage on a jungle set, scored to intense crime jazz.

Where Others Fear to Swim

1965 • 10 min • Poland

Elementary school swimming lesson. Warm-up, jump into the water and underwater ballet. The camera embraces the whole group, but also closely follows the emotions on individual faces. The children experience the whole gamut of emotions: concentration, gathering courage, hesitation, resignation, embarrassment in front of the group, the joy of getting to the surface, the relief of reaching the shore. Finally, a sense of tameness and a desire to explore the underwater world. At the bottom, children's toys are waiting to be brought out: a spinner and a swan. The underwater shots are accompanied by an unearthly world of sound, created in the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio.

Boutique Films Ltd. Outtakes

1965 • 46 min

Outtakes from Earle Pilgrim's Boutique Films, Ltd stop motion production of "Peregrinations of a Hat," screened March 14, 1965 at Projection Film-Makers; and other experiments in filmmaking and cinema verite, including Marcia Marcus and others yet to be identified from Pilgrim's artistic circles in New York and Boston.

Three Unholy Virgins

1965 • 60 min • Puerto Rico, United States of America, Venezuela

Plot in unknown