All Films

Screen Test [ST187]: Vivian Kurz

1965 • 3 min

The first of multiple screen tests Kurz did at Warhol’s factory. She is photographed in a wide shot, sprawled on the couch and playing with a box of matches.

The Scissors and a Boy

1965 • 7 min • Bulgaria

Scissors dances like a ballet dancer on sheets of paper. She carves the sun, the flower, the fish. The boy needs new toys. Scissors offers colored cubes and patterned balls. And then she cuts out the girl. A naughty boy wants all the toys for himself. The girl is offended and hides. The boy understands that being alone is boring. Then the scissors cut out many more boys and girls. The fun games begin.

Say Nothing

1965 • 30 min

The only film that remains from Noren's early period. "a thirty-minute, single-shot interrogation of an actress/character that hovers between documentary and fiction" - Scott MacDonald

George Washington's Greatest Victory

1965 • 17 min • United States of America

The film is a historical account of George Washington's journey from a young surveyor to a pivotal leader in the American Revolutionary War. It covers his early military career, the French and Indian War, and his leadership in the Revolutionary War, including battles like Trenton, Princeton, and Yorktown. The film highlights Washington's struggle against British rule, his challenges during the harsh winter at Valley Forge, and his pivotal role in preventing a mutiny among his officers towards the war's end. It emphasizes Washington's integrity and his commitment to the principles of democracy, culminating in the establishment of the United States and the upholding of civilian control over the military.

What Can You Do

1965 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

Short film about women who decided to do abortion due to being unable to provide for the children.

The Daisy

1965 • 5 min • Bulgaria

Neither scissors nor saw will help the gardener to get rid of a daisy that has had the audacity to grow in the wrong place, but she herself cannot resist the gaze of a little girl.

Screen Test [ST354]: Paul Wittenborn

1965 • 4 min

Screen test of Paul Wittenborn, by Andy Warhol.

Screen Test [ST55]: Alicia Purchon Clark

1965 • 4 min

Alicia Purchon Clark looks around in a brightly lit room.

Commanders

1965 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About the people working in the fur seal industry on the Commander Islands.

Dawn of Destruction

1965 • 17 min • Soviet Union

If people don't come to their senses, our Earth could perish in a nuclear catastrophe, just as one of the planets in the solar system once did.

Safeguarding Water Supplies

1965 • 1 min

Safeguarding Water Supplies

Test 0558

1965 • 5 min

Animated short film exploring notions relating to artificial creativity. In 1965, a filmmaker decides to collaborate with an electronic computer. The machine leads the artist on a somewhat psychedelic geometric adventure.

A Dam Rib Bed

1965 • 17 min • United States of America

"A two screen Dream/Film/Farce/Sity about sleeps-two-sides-the Dream-Beast, animated trick photography combined into a knifed dream with a sexual dream's edge. A movie mural, based on the gender question... In question or sexus plexus... Dayglow dream life..." - Stan VanDerBeek

The Magic Umbrella

1965 • 4 min • United States of America

A magic umbrella saves a girl from a mysterious attacker. Filmed in 1927, tinted and hand-colored in the early 60s.

Phenomena

1965 • 7 min • United States of America

Approach the work "...As though you were approaching earth as a god, from cosmic consciousness [...] You see the same things but with completely different meaning." -JB.

Balance

1965 • 13 min • Switzerland

A young man is balancing on a rope. A young woman with a pistol appers. In the middle of war noise, they won’t to bury him, when he suddenly awakes… A very early short from Murer and a key study for his later (and phantastic!!!) film “Pazifik – oder die Zufriedenen”. It’s a poetic aproach, which mixes up passion, love and fear of war.

Sun Strobes Light Shows Nitobe

1965 • 15 min

"There were also explorations of what Sam called 'Sun Strobes.' This is a process of directly looking at the sun with closed eyes and then spreading the fingers of both hands extended fully in front of the face and then moved up and down. This has a strobing effect for the sunlight landing on the eyelids and creates sets of interesting visual patterns for the closed eyes. With 16mm cameras, Sam and I went to the Nitobe Garden. It was late Spring or early Summer of 1965. Sam filmed me engaging plant forms like green leaves and holding them up to my eyes and observing the visible structures of the leaves." -Gary Lee-Nova

I Renounce The World

1965 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

A film about young girls from the villages that go to the monastery and break any connection with the outside world. The portrayal of a ritual in which girls turn from world to sanctuary, and become nuns.

Light

1965 • 12 min • India

Ramesh is a poorly paid employee in the city Power House. His only child has high temperature, but he mistakes it for common fever. At the Power House, employees including Ramesh demand a pay rise. When the management turns down this demand, they plot to turn off the main switch of the Power House for a few minutes in order to teach a lesson to authorities. Ramesh is entrusted with this job. In the meantime, the doctor takes the decision to immediately operate on Ramesh's child. Ramesh is not aware of this. In the Power House, Ramesh turns off the main switch. The lights go off in the operation theatre too...

Pipes and Porter

1965 • 20 min • Sweden

In 1965, Lennart Malmer travelled to Ireland in search of music. Throughout his trip, he filmed the people, places and events he encountered, culminating in a journey to Miltown Malbay in Clare. His documentary is a snapshot of the lives and music of the time, featuring uilleann piper Willie Clancy, sean-nós heavyweight Joe Heaney, and more.

Like Sleep

1965 • 12 min • United States of America

A young man and a young woman seated on a sofa use the traditional tools to inject drugs into their veins.

Violino

1965 • 11 min • Italy

Paixão

1965 • 10 min • Brazil

Parable about the 1964 military coup in Brazil, where three characters unite through the exercise of the word.

The Manas

1965 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Portrait of Saiakbai Karalaev, one of the last bards of the "manas," a Kyrgyz national epic.