All Films

Bugler's Monologue

1965 • 22 min • Poland

A film grotesque whose protagonist is a poor clerk lost in the modern world. He buys a trumpet to express his personality via music.

Rose Color Dance

1965 • 13 min • Japan

A document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in Hijikata's early period when he was emerging as the originator of Butoh. All of the male dancers are dressed up with evening suits and move gracefully, yet an intruder breaks up the whole scene abruptly. The film is worth seeing, even if just to see a memorable gay duet of Hijikata and Ohno. Overexposed, washed out images are sandwiched among normal ones.

Two

1965 • 12 min • India

This short film shows an encounter, through a series of games, between a street child from the shantytowns and a child of a rich family, stationed at his window. The film has no dialogue and the action moves through the attempts at one-upmanship evident in their successive display of their toys. Their rivalry (a kite shot down by a toy rifle, for example) concludes with the opposition between the world of noise (the toys inside the house) and that of music (the street child's flute). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.

Migrations

1965 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Film about post-WW2 migrations within Yugoslavia. For the next few decades after the war, many Yugoslavs moved into homes formerly owned by Germans.

Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown

1965 • 25 min • United Kingdom

On the planet Kembel, Space Security Service agent Marc Cory is investigating a recent sighting of a Dalek spaceship. His suspicion that the creatures may have established a base proves well-founded. He learns of a plot by the Daleks to invade and destroy the Solar System.

The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle

1965 • 7 min • United States of America

A promotional short for The Cincinnati Kid (1965) showcasing the card handling skills of magician and one-time gambler Jay Ose who was hired as technical adviser to instruct the actors on the techniques used by professional poker players.

Fugue on the Black Keys

1965 • 34 min • Czechoslovakia

Fati Farari, a black man from Africa, is completing his studies in classical piano at the Music Academy of Prague. It's the day before his first solo concert, where he is going to play Bach. While he strolls around the city he is thinking, not so much about the concert as about himself, both as a lonely foreigner and as a human being in cosmos. Here and there he encounters some racist comments, but mostly he just feels the weight of social exclusion because of his otherness, especially when it comes to women. On the morning of the day for his concert the embassy informs him that his whole family has perished. He feels totally broken, although he thinks that everyone holds some pain inside. His piano teacher, a professor at the Academy, looks him up, and tells him that he heard what has happened. The professor advises him to communicate his feelings that evening by using his Bach.

The Creative Person: The Folksinger

1965 • 30 min

Three of the top folksinger-composers - Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Buffy Sainte-Marie - are featured here. These are the new "city" folksingers whose songs are strictly topical, commenting on the political and social issues of the day. Pete Seeger, an earlier singer in a similar tradition, talks about what the younger singer-composers are attempting to do and about their forerunners, such as Woody Guthrie and Aunt Molly Jackson.

The Incredible World of James Bond

1965 • 51 min • United States of America

This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965). Narrated by Alexander Scourby, the 48 minute documentary aired as a one hour special. It included footage of the filming at Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire and of the fight aboard the Disco Volante at Pinewood Studios; media coverage of Martine Beswick, Luciana Paluzzi and Claudine Auger; and archive footage of Ian Fleming at 'Goldeneye', Jamaica.

Nude a Go-Go

1965 • 9 min

Sexo-A-Go-Go Short.

Two in Love

1965 • 37 min • Soviet Union

Sergei, an aspiring musician, accidentally meets a deaf-mute girl, Natasha, and falls in love with her. He has to change a lot to prepare himself for a new relationship with a different and very vulnerable person. Natasha is like an alien or an alieness with whom Sergei has to find a completely new language to speak. Natasha tries hard to understand his musical world. The problem is that Natasha lost her hearing during the war and associates sounds with fear and pain. Even a symphony concert is torture for her.

Ab urbe condita

1965 • 11 min • Poland

After the Second World War, a cemetery turns into a city. The camera flies over Warsaw to take a bird's-eye view of its mosaic beauty: the Old Town, Śródmieście, and modern blocks of flats. The soundtrack reflects the mood of the summer of 1965.

Bad Girls Do Cry

1965 • 59 min • United States of America

A naive young girl goes to a model agency, where she is molested, shot up with drugs and forced to become a prostitute.

Barbos Visiting Bobik

1965 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Barbos, a dog, lives in a leaky kennel, while Bobik, a pampered house pet, reluctantly carries out his grandfather's simple errands. One day, while Grandfather is away, Bobik invites Barbos to visit and begins to brag uncontrollably.

Button Happening

1965 • 1 min

Button Happening is Nam June Paik's earliest extant tape, and possibly his first tape ever. Recorded in 1965 on the day he acquired his first Sony Portapak camera, this previously unknown work has recently been rediscovered and restored. Recorded on computer tape, this technically fragile piece documents a single performance action — Paik buttoning and unbuttoning his jacket. A spirit of conceptual Fluxus humor underlies this seminal recording.

Peyote Queen

1965 • 9 min • United States of America

Peyote Queen opens with black-and-white perforations that pulsate to the beat of drumming and escalate to light-bathed split screens and kaleidoscopic effects. Switching to lively organ accompaniment, the film pours out a stream of simple scratchings that rollick across the screen. Fish, breasts, flowers, boats, water, lips, hearts, stars—the hieroglyphs explode with color and celebrate the female creative force. The surge slows with the return of ritual drumming, this time with chanting, and a self-reflective coda. -- National Film Preservation Foundation

Easter Island

1965 • 54 min • Chile

Poetic look at the history and mysteries of Easter Island, through its landscapes, its mythical sculptures, as well as its parties, ceremonies, with abundant songs and dances, which become the true guides of the documentary. Also noteworthy is the annexation of the island to Chile, thanks to Policarpo Toro, captain of the Chilean Navy.

Do You Hear Me?

1965 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

A meditative essay.

Soy de aqui

1965 • 15 min • Argentina

A short filmed mostly in Sarandi'. Central to the film is the August 11, 1963 fire at the power plant in Dock Sud and the killing of a firefighter en route to the fire by a military unit, in the context of the conflict between the military factions of the Azules and the Colorados.

Screen Test [st4]: Paul America

1965 • 4 min

Paul America (whose real name was Paul Johnson) chews gum, gazes around, smiles at people off-screen, and treats the camera to a series of slyly amused, seductive glances.

A Boy Full of Future

1965 • 7 min • France

A graphic variation where a new-born baby devours its mother, then turns into a bloodthirsty monster. Some music touches him. He calms down a bit, then returns to his destructive ways, before getting squashed.

Vatten, tro, champagne

1965 • 29 min • Sweden, France

Documentary about the thermal springs in Le Mont Dore, France and the people who believe in the healing power of the water.

A Pedra do Tesouro

1965 • 10 min • Brazil

Two adventurers try to remove a stone to find a great treasure.

Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick

1965 • 4 min • United States of America

Andy directs Edie for a screen test.