All Films

Wolfgang Ramsbott's first film for the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB): "Technische Universität Berlin" is a kind of image film for the Technical University of Berlin, where Walter Höllerer, director of the LCB, taught as professor of literary studies. But the experimental filmmaker Ramsbotts was hardly interested in the institution itself: his camera rather feasted on the rattling, flashing and hissing machines. As head of the film department, Ramsbott realised mainly experimental documentaries on literary themes in the following years.

The life of newspapers begins with their release from the press and their arrival in the hands of buyers – readers, regular consumers of political, entertainment, and even sports columns. Pensioners read newspapers with their first morning coffee, people rushing to work read them on buses. Everyone reads their own newspaper, and some, sneaking in, someone else's. The newspaper is a constant companion at every moment, on vacation, in hairdressers, while babysitting and walking small children in the park...

ALEXANDER THE GRAPE, an unfinished cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson from 1965, relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions who learns that it is better to accept yourself than to try to be something you are not. The short was reconstructed from film and audio elements; images from Jim’s storyboard fill in missing segments of the animation.

Tour de France 1965 in colour

Sindiely tells the story of a greedy father wishing to marry his daughter to a successful fabric merchant, despite her love for another young man. The hostility of the family makes the father yield to his daughter’s wishes, allowing for the young couple to wed.

This essay-film is a historical crash-course which spans the millennia from the stone age to the conquest of space in the 1960s.

A story about a man in a caravan who checks the suitability and abundance of water wells. A suggestive, sometimes ironic, but always biased portrait of modern Robinson. The film shows the flip side of the modern myth of returning to the bosom of nature.

This short fiction is adapted from a collection of short stories by Canadian author Hugh Hood. A young father in Montreal buys a red kite for his daughter. This mildly impulsive act leads to encounters with strangers that cause him to entertain existential questions.

A look into the life of Brett, a boy born without arms due to thalidomide exposure.

Film 2 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program.

The sights and sounds of the big game between Maribor and Olimpija. Stadium audience often reacts deliriously regardless of the player’s success on the field.

SONG 9: Wedding source and substance (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

For the whole of his long life Emil Nolde, the leading German Expressionist, luxuriated in colour. Before the First World War in Berlin he made many paintings of the theater, music-hall and opera; he loved flowers and even coaxed a garden out of the salty soil of the Baltic coast, where he had built himself an isolated house. His parents were Frisian peasants and he loved the landscape of North Friesland: it was the theme of many of his pictures. But the Nazis disapproved of his work and finally forbade him to paint at all. Although Nolde was already in his seventies when this happened, no political regime could stifle his vision. At great danger to himself he continued to work, making watercolour sketches the size of postcards, which he called 'unpainted pictures,' meaning them to serve as sketches for the large oils he would paint when he was free. And he did outlive the Nazi regime, marrying a twenty-eight-year-old woman in 1948 and painting up until the year before he died.

A fantasy film about two men who become flowers.

In 1965, Woody Allen was in England filming "What's New, Pussycat?". He was invited by Granada Television in Manchester to film his stand-up act in front of a live audience. The resulting half-hour show is a rare visual record of Woody Allen's nightclub stand-up act.

A all-type-of-music show from YLE Finland.

Collage film juxtaposing footage of Nazi Germany and the occupation with contemporary Yugoslavia.

A series of Civil Defense spots explaining to American farmers what to do in the event of a Nuclear attack.

Viet Flakes was composed from an obsessive collection of Vietnam atrocity images, compiled over five years, from foreign magazines and newspapers. Schneemann uses the 8mm camera to “travel” within the photographs, producing a volatile animation.

This documentary is one of the earliest film enquiries on women's condition in Italy, seen in its different aspects: social, economic, psychological. Starting from an analysis of the feminine role models proposed by the cultural industry, the film finds its protagonists among all kinds of women.

Paul Morrissey lowers his brow and stares back at the camera with a stern and determined look. A bright light falls from the right; the left side of the frame is completely black. As the film progresses, he lowers his brow further; by the end of the roll his eyes have begun to tear up.

Summertime in Prerow at the Baltic Sea. A cheerful film with the spirit of the sixties.

An nobleman question an aged grave warden, whose sickness seems to be due to the ghosts who haunt his workplace.