All Films

In Search of God

1965 • 11 min • India

In this short, rather satirical film we meet various ill-assorted characters who are seeking their own individual ‘Gods’. The characters are a mad preacher, two drunkards, an old beggar, a little innocent boy and a withered demented woman. All of them are chasing a mirage of a supreme deity who will save them.

Jaak and the Robot

1965 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Estonian/Soviet animation short. Jaak makes a robot that can do all the homework. Eventually, Jaak becomes so lazy that he sends the robot to school instead of himself. Then the robot gets very angry and punishes Jaak.

Ai poeti non si spara

1965 • 60 min • Italy

A machine that creates poetry causes problems.

Screen Test #2

1965 • 4 min • United States of America

Warhol and scenarist Ronald Tavel offer a brutal vision of the Hollywood casting couch with this record of ingenue Mario Montez performing a humiliating auditions for a dictatorial, unseen director.

Mick and Arthur

1965 • 30 min • Switzerland

Two anarchic friends spend the summer driving in their Cadillac, fooling around, flirting and discussing philosophy with older generations.

Lurk

1965 • 38 min • United States of America

“Happy with his luscious daughter Aurora in a rustic setting, Professor Borealis has devised an improved brain and is ready to transplant it. The humor is tenderly black. Burckhardt's fusion of documentary-type photography with fairytale storyline is nearer Keystone than avant-garde with its visual honesty and particular virtuosity.” — Edwin Denby

The Flag

1965 • 7 min • Poland

A sly critique of the communist regime in Poland, one of the carefree participants disrupts a patriotic march by retrieving a collection of unnecessary "bourgeois" items from inside his head. It introduces the disunity in their ranks as everyone starts playing with objects brought by him.

Saint-Germain-des-Prés

1965 • 18 min • France

An American art student thinks she's found love with a handsome prince, but things are not what they appear to be.

The Overpass

1965 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

At request of the citizens of a new quarter a bridge for pedestrians has been built over the railway. However, the inhabitants are still crossing the railway as before.

The Tale of Custard the Dragon

1965 • 7 min • United States of America

Children role play Ogden Nash's poem about Custard the pet dragon, who shows that he is not always a coward.

The Black Star

1965 • 36 min • East Germany, Germany

A cinema-verité documentary of Ghana’s five years of independence under President Kwame Nkruma. Striking color images of Africans in modern-day jobs, such as airline pilot and construction worker, predominate, with little voice-over.

The Arrival

1965 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

"UIjez" shows the events in the then Kosovo, that is, the process of industrialization and modernization that symbolizes the arrival of excavators and other construction machinery.

Ella Fitzgerald Sings

1965 • 40 min

Presenting the world's greatest jazz singer, accompanied by The Johnnie Spence Orchestra and The Tommy Flanagan Trio.

Crow's Fete

1965 • 7 min

To help his good friend, Farmer Brown, Loopy attempts to get rid of a corny crow who keeps eating up corn from the farm.

Sears Catalogue 1-3

1965 • 1 min • United States of America

Each film frame is a different image from the Sears Roebuck mail order catalogue. The film places pictures of the objects sold by Sears to the consumer society side by side with pictures of female models

Women's Prison

1965 • 12 min • Iran

The film recounts the life of the prisoners and the problems their families encounter in their struggle to survive. Here again filmmaker Kamran Shirdel employs the cinema verité style. The interviews with the prisoners, social workers and teachers serve as commentaries for "constructed" documentary images.

Fantasy

1965 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Fantazija is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) experimental film.

A Month of Good Sun

1965 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About the reindeer herding collective farm in Kamchatka.

Jerovi

1965 • 16 min • United States of America

A key work of queer and Latino New York underground film, José Rodríguez-Soltero described Jerovi as his “sexual probe of the narcissus myth.” A boldly erotic, dreamlike portrait of Jeroví Sansón Carrasco, who also commissioned and financed the film, Jerovi offers a Narcissus for the 1960s period of sexual revolution, marking a significant shift from the introspective and psychoanalytic use of narcissism by previous queer experimental filmmakers.

Song 14

1965 • 3 min • United States of America

SONG 14: Molds, paints and crystals (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Not Only About Fashion

1965 • 17 min • Poland

The documentary opens with the return of Warsaw residents after the war – people walking in rags among the ruins. In time, life comes back to the city. “The 50s are a time of constant openings” – a tram line, an entertainment venue in the Polonia Hotel. The first fashion shows and hairdressing competitions are organised. News about fashion and trends from Western Europe reaches Warsaw.

Letter from Charleroi

1965 • 12 min • Greece

NYC Trade Union in 1965

1965 • 23 min

A documentary by David Hoffman shot in 1965 on handheld 16mm. It presents one tough union negotiator working for New York's public employee union - DC37, a part of the AFL--CIO.

Look at Life: Members Only

1965 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A look at the "private clubs" of London. From the famous political clubs of the 18th century to the gambling clubs and the bohemian night clubs of the West End.