All Films

Thirteen to Centaurus

1965 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Interstellar travel at sub-light speeds: the enormous distances, isolation from human culture and the aching loneliness of space are enough to drive the strongest personality insane. Better to block all memories of human contact and to program the 12-strong crew to accept only the reality they can see and touch within their spacecraft. But a child born on "the Station" becomes insistent on learning the truth about 'Outside'.

Face 75

1965 • 37 min • Iran

A critical look at the westernization of the rural culture

Song 12

1965 • 3 min • United States of America

SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Three Films: Blue White/Blood's Tone/Vein

1965 • 8 min • United States of America

BLUE WHITE, "an intonation of child birth"; BLOOD'S TONE, "a golden nursing film"; VEIN, "a film of baby Buddha masturbation."

Alco-Beat

1965 • 12 min

A supervised test, illustrating the effects of alcohol on driving ability, is staged in a parking lot.

In the Leeward of Time

1965 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

A cinematic tribute to the tallest mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bjelašnica, and its inhabitants.

Eric and the Monsters

1965 • 6 min • United States of America

Chick Strand's first film, made while living in the Bay Area, features her young son Eric as a little boy traipsing through a mysterious landscape, perhaps pursued by the titular monsters. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation and Pacific Film Archive in 2009.

A Fall Trip Home

1965 • 11 min • United States of America

Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with dailies for two later works shot on precious Kodachrome stock.

From Three to Twelve

1965 • 30 min • Soviet Union

My Street

1965 • 9 min • Poland

A documentary about Twarda Street in Warsaw. People living there lead a modest life, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Residents of Twarda Street still rely on crafts, services and some trade. Observational shots and narration by young inhabitants of the street create the mood of the place.

Why Vietnam?

1965 • 32 min

Documentary created by the U.S. Department of Defense to sell the involvement and escalation of the Vietnam War to the American public.

La dormeuse

1965 • 15 min

The indiscreet and silent camera, suspended above the bed thanks to a mobile platform controlled by a winch, can then surprise the sleeper in her sleep and enter with her in the world of dreams.

Hypercube

1965 • 2 min • United States of America

Don Quichotte de Cervantes

1965 • 24 min • Canada, France

This TV program tries to show how the illustration from the 17th to 20th century of the famous novel written by Cervantès has in the same time improved and impoverished our knowledges of this novel. Improved, because the illustration help us to discover that the physical aspect of the caracters influences the comical features and the symbolism of this masterpiece. Impoverished, because it neglected, especially since the 19th century, the representation of the age and the context, thus favoring abusive adaptations and condensations.

Yellow Ball Cache

1965 • 16 min

A collection of short cut out animated films made by students ages 5-15 at the Yellow Ball Workshop, 1965. Instructor: Yvonne Anderson.

Catullus Silent

1965 • 25 min

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film centers around a big party for gay men, where some guys talk about finding someone, while others, already coupled, mingle until the party ends.

Magician

1965 • 11 min • Czechoslovakia

Animated story of a sad magician

Crazeé Camera

1965 • 9 min

A man gets a special camera that allows him to see models without their clothes on.

Hot Rocks

1965 • 10 min

Three women wake up in bed after a night of partying and one needs a little help.

Antithese

1965 • 19 min • Germany

Experimental electronic composition and film by Argentine-German composer Mauricio Kagel, Antithese is also a surreal innovative multimedia/interdisciplinary performance.

Anno 2000

1965 • 14 min • Italy

Bash and Grab

1965 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A short promotional film sponsored by Security Express.

Mastroianni. Un Casanova dei nostri tempi

1965 • 51 min • Italy

A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.

As Long as the Stratified Animal Lights Up

1965 • 25 min

Surrealist in inspiration, the film depicts vaguely dystopian creatures that at times evoke carnival figures, seen through the lens of a "small oval cache" (Lafleur) and whose bodies seem to float under the action of the camera. The soundtrack intertwines carefully recorded sound effects.