All Films

Heroic Little Sisters of the Grassland

1965 • 40 min • China

This film was made by Shanghai Animation Film Studio and is based on contemporary events in February, 1964. It’s a retelling of how Mongolian sisters Long Mei and Yurong, ages 11 and 8 respectively, successfully walked nearly 70 kilometers after having been surprised by a blizzard while grazing their father’s sheep. Both girls survived with severe frostbite.

The Dermis Probe

1965 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A team of scientists debate the nature of an unknown material in this animated fable, inspired by a tale from Rumi's Masnavi.

A Great Day

1965 • 13 min • India

a light comedy about a slovenly young man warned in the nick of time of the imminent visit of his fiance and prospective father-in-law. In the process of tidying up his room, Ravi's frantic efforts to start from one side end up in disturbing the other. Now, Ravi is certain that he will never receive the old man's approval to marry his daughter. But being a dentist, the old man approves Ravi for his well-set teeth.

The Irishmen: An Impression of Exile

1965 • 48 min • United Kingdom

A bitter account of the marginal status of the community of male Irish migrants responsible for rebuilding much of Britain's post-war infrastructure. Made for TV but never broadcast, it instead enjoyed limited circulation on the non-theatrical circuit.

Always on Sunday

1965 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.

...Geist und ein wenig Glück

1965 • 31 min • Germany

Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television.

Waiting Waters

1965 • 14 min • Sweden

A monologue of a woman who tells about her life, mainly about the men she met, while walking.

Cinéastes de notre temps : Carl Th. Dreyer

1965 • 60 min • France

Let My People Go: The Story of Israel

1965 • 60 min • United States of America

Survey of Zionist history: Theodor Herzl's idea of creating a Jewish state; the return to Palestine; Allenby entering Jerusalem; Tel Aviv, 1933; the growth of Nazism in Europe and immigration to Mandatory Palestine; Arab riots in Mandatory Palestine; illegal immigration; Cyprus detention camps; Warsaw Ghetto; UNSCOP 1947; UN partition vote in 1947; the end of British mandate; Declaration and War of Independence 1948.

We Learn About The Telephone

1965 • 22 min • United States of America

Bill sketches an animated person, Mr. Man, who takes us back through history to explain how people developed a need to communicate, and shows us devices that helped to do so.

Breath

1965 • 4 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Breath governs life and is also the sign of changes in emotion.

Die gemordete Stadt

1965 • 41 min • Germany

Les Oiseaux sont des cons

1965 • 7 min • France

Where have I seen him?

1965 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Adventure of Mr. Promise - the one who promises and never does...

Ballade aux sources

1965 • 31 min • Mauritania

BALLADE AUX SOURCES, Med Hondo’s first film, is a documentary about the journey of an African emigrant through his native land shortly after the independence of North Africa. This film allows us to glimpse the themes that are dear to Med Hondo: pan-Africanism and pre-colonial African history. It is presented as “restoration in progress” without sound, introduced by Annabelle Aventurin (cine-archives).

Skyscraper

1965 • 3 min

An Adolfas Mekas directed short parodying Italian art films of the time. It was created for use in a scene of the Broadway musical, "Skyscraper," starring Julie Harris and Peter Marshall, with a book by Peter Stone, music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora

1965 • 14 min • France

A young woman lives sadly in a small garrison town with a soldier. Little by little, won over by boredom, sadness, total inaction, she develops a relationship with plants and starts talking to plants.

The Shooting of Dan McGrew

1965 • 6 min

An adaptation of Robert W. Service’s poem.

Algeria, Year Zero

1965 • 40 min • Algeria, France

Documentary on the beginnings of Algerian independence filmed during the summer of 1962 in Algiers. The film was banned in France and Algeria but won the Grand Prize at the Leipzig International Film Festival in 1965. Out of friendship, the production company Images de France sent an operator, Bruno Muel, who later declared: "For those who were called to Algeria (for me, 1956-58), participating in a film on independence was a victory over horror, lies and absurdity. It was also the beginning of my commitment to the cinema."

Ella Fitzgerald Swings

1965 • 44 min

Presenting the world's greatest jazz singer accompanied by The Tommy Flanagan Trio.

Patient 411: A Progress Report

1965 • 9 min • United States of America

A UCLA student film by Ronald Raley. Fellow UCLA student Jim Morrison (future member of The Doors) participated as the director of photography. A faux scientific film supposedly made by the "California Institute of Neuropsychiatry." An arrogant scientist, who also narrates the course of the "treatment," picks up a Hollywood street hustler and gets him to agree to a program of retraining. Using shock treatment, the patient is taught to loathe images of himself as a male escort and love the new personality created in the lab.

The Psychedelic Experience

1965 • 20 min

Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, with readings inspired by the Tibethan Book of the Dead.

Carta de Fader

1965 • 10 min • Argentina

Short film that reenacts a letter from artist Fernando Fader.

Count Nulin

1965 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A live reading of Alexander Pushkin's humorous poem for Leningrad Television.