All Films

Vaskata

1965 • 19 min • Bulgaria

On a bright day loudspeakers blare out choral songs which blend with the marches played by brass bands. A light plane scatters leaflets. Everybody stretch out their hands to catch the falling pieces of paper and look up smiling. Several leaflets fly by the wall, which has a memorial plague, fixed on it: "Vaskata, an antifascist resister, died here in 1942."

The Thief

1965 • 18 min • Greece

Short film about a pickpocket. A police officer catches a pickpocket after some illegal activity on a bus, but is willing to hear what led him to the crime.

Flora & Fauna

1965 • 6 min • Finland

Flora & Fauna embraces the dark charms of nature. Rich, colourful close-ups of flowers, leaves, ants, spiders, and inchworms blend into the silent mystique of water and woods.

Trabant 601

1965 • 13 min • East Germany

Semi-automatic assembly line production and testing of the Trabant 601 at VEB Sachsenring - Automobilwerke Zwickau.

Wols

1965 • 19 min • Japan

Wols is the pseudonym for a German artist active in the early 20th century, Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, and Jonouchi meticulously filmed nearly fifty of his paintings to construct this cine-collage. The result is reminiscent of Alain Resnais’ rendition of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, as both filmed interpretations refuse to provide the viewer with a full picture of the paintings, instead fragmenting and splintering the frame.

8mm Reels

1965 • 24 min

Directed by Peter Emmanuel Goldman.

A Modern Fable

1965 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

In the "Nature & Comp." reserve, animals live in perfect comfort, until their turn comes. A rich hunter buys a license to shoot a lion. Dignified and brave, the lion dies as befits him. A poor hunter buys a license for a rabbit. The rabbit escapes into the wild, but in freedom it experiences so many troubles that it returns again under the auspices of "Nature & Comp.".

George Dumpson's Place

1965 • 8 min • United States of America

Employing experimental techniques, Emshwiller magically moved through a collection of objects and artifacts in order to capture the spirit of George Dumpson and his backyard museum.

The Heights of Cumanday

1965 • 18 min • Colombia

Calentoso, is a young boy that must transport mules across the mountains. He will be challenged to discover the deep secrets that the summit entails. This film is based on the legend of the ghost of the Ruiz Snow Mountain in the Region of Cumanday in Colombia.

Heinrich, the Deer

1965 • 13 min • Germany

By ship and train Heinrich, the Deer gets to the local zoo where he's greeted bey a group of children. With the winter arriving and snow falling, Heinrich explores the surroundings - even outside his compound...

Apocalypse 1900

1965 • 23 min • Mexico

In Louis Hubert Farabeuf (1841-1910), a French surgeon that among other texts wrote the "Précis de manual opératoire". In this book Salvador Elizondo (1932-2006) imagines the understanding of death, of writing, of eroticism and beyond. Through Elizondo's associative photography the image of the tortured also becomes the presence of the spectators who watch their own death.

Toreadors from Vasiukivka

1965 • 30 min • Soviet Union

Wanting to become famous and “wipe the nose” of the “one-on-one” Salo, who became famous for breeding rabbits, two village boys, Yava Ren’ and Pavlusha Kryvorot’ko (in the novel Zavhorodniy), choose the career of bullfighters. However, on this path they are faced with difficult trials: the Ukrainian cattle are patient and good-natured, but have their own dignity.

Les angeS Dorment

1965 • 9 min

A UCLA student film. A series of vignettes set to varying scores are exemplified by highly refined and intuitive camerawork and editing. This influential film is intensely and quietly psychedelic, suggestive of acid experiences and a shifting sense of fragmented consciousness. [Source: Mark Toscano] Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Tom Doyle und Eva Hesse

1965 • 8 min • Germany

Rio Chiquito

1965 • 20 min

Documentary filmed in 1965 by two journalists in the remote town of Rio Chiquito, Colombia, a self-proclaimed communist "republic." The film shows the live of villagers and guerilleros before and after an attack by Colombian government forces.

In a Spacesuit Above the Planet

1965 • 15 min • Soviet Union

This Is an Egg

1965 • 14 min • Poland

Andrzej Brzozowski's documentary tells about ways of getting to know the world when you cannot see it. Little charges of the Center for Blind Children in Laski "watch" everything that surrounds them by means of touch, smell, taste and hearing

Agnès Varda tourne...

1965 • 7 min

In Noirmoutier, Agnès Varda shoots her eighth film, Les Créatures, starring Catherine Deneuve, under the watchful eye of Maurice Pialat.

Claude

1965 • 3 min

Animation Workshop Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A hand-drawn animation. Claude is a small and silent boy who carries around a box to which he keeps adding dials, antenna, etc. His parents are extremely rich, throughout the film Calude’s father keeps telling his son: “Claude, you’ll never amount to anything.” Mother several times exasperatedly asks him: “Can’t you do anything, Claude?”. Claude says nothing but, in the end, he has the last act: he twiddles the dials on his completed box and vaporizes both parents.

Summer Vacation

1965 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary.

See Saw Seams

1965 • 9 min • United States of America

An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

Ten Second Film

1965 • 1 min • United States of America

An advertisement for the New York Film Festival which the Festival rejected as being "too fast."

Steinberg

1965 • 14 min • United States of America

A long tracking shot through the works of the great Saul Steinberg. His world of signs is beautifully revealed: a world of subtlety and cleverness, bitter humour and soft cruelty.

Felicia

1965 • 12 min • United States of America

This 13-minute short subject, marketed as an educational film, records a slice of life in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles prior to the rebellions of 1965. Filmmakers Trevor Greenwood, Robert Dickson and Alan Gorg were UCLA film students when they crafted a documentary from the perspective of the unassuming-yet-articulate teenager Felicia Bragg, a high-school student of African-American and Hispanic descent. Felicia’s first-person narrative reflects her hopes and frustrations as she annotates footage of her family, school and neighborhood, creating a time capsule that’s both historically and culturally significant. Its provenance as an educational film continues today as university courses use "Felicia" to teach documentary filmmaking techniques and cite it as an example of how non-traditional sources, as well as mainstream television news, reflect and influence public opinion.