All Films

Gunan-Bator

1965 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Gunan is a shepherd in love with the beautiful Oyuun, the daughter of the khan Iribsyn. When he is taking part in a competition for the hand of Oyun, he must defeat not only the rich princes, but also the three-headed monster Mongoose. Based on the Mongol folk tale of the same name.

Kyrie

1965 • 9 min • Sweden

Birgitta Trotzig's "A Landscape" depicted from the mythology of the sore human deaths from which the drug has been collected.

Andy Warhol

1965 • 18 min • United States of America

Andy Warhol is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker, painter, and actress Marie Menken. Using a hand-held camera, Menken captures Warhol and his assistants, including Gerard Malanga, as they work at the Factory. The result is an intimate portrait of the artist in the process of creating some of his most famous works, including the Brillo boxes, the Jackie series, and the Flowers silkscreens.

Mysterious Medicine

1965 • 15 min • Japan

Two unfettered robbers try to steal a new, mysterious medicine from a laboratory; they butt heads with a needy crow and the head professor's apprentice.

Women of the Resistance

1965 • 50 min • Italy

Documentary composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy in World War II.

O.k.

1965 • 32 min • East Germany

In a reception camp for ethnic Germans in Eisenach, the director gets to know the girl Doris S. who went to West Germany and came back. This film interview tells the story of her individual fate in a divided Germany.

The Storm

1965 • 27 min • Kuwait

The Kuwaiti short film العاصفة (The Storm) explores Kuwait's social and economic shifts before and after the discovery of oil. Through the perspectives of an older father and his modernized son, it delves into the challenges of tradition versus rapid modernization.

Lisa and Joey in Connecticut

1965 • 22 min • United States of America

Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

Fiammetta

1965 • 23 min

Short fiction film starring Fiammetta, a fourteen-year-old girl. Raised in a splendid home in the Tuscan countryside, she ruminates on her memories, her frustrations and her desires. All the charm of the character lies in his innocent perversity. Absorbed by her daydreams, she lives in the universe where her father died and where her mother, still young and beautiful, attracts admirers. One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s included in the anthology film That Tender Age (La fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes). The three other sketches were directed by Michel Brault, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Jean Rouch.

Solidaridad Cuba y Vietnam

1965 • 10 min • Cuba

Go Go Amigo

1965 • 6 min • United States of America

In Mexico, Daffy Duck is the owner of an electronics store where Speedy Gonzales and his friends are celebrating Speedy's birthday by playing music on Daffy's merchandise...

The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam

1965 • 56 min • Canada

A documentary on the war in South Vietnam shot entirely on location. There is no narration and no use of archive footage. The participants speak for themselves. The filmmakers spend time with units from many services: army, tanks, marines, ARVN, air cavalry. They accompany an air force napalm and strafing attack on a Viet Cong bunker complex. There are many scenes both of Saigon streets and of peasant village life. Soldiers speak of their experiences and their mission to fight Communism in Vietnam. One American informant says that the Vietnamese peasant is not interested in ideology, but in social justice, a piece of land, fair taxation, and to be left alone. Some interviews are used as voice-over. Participants, American and Vietnamese, are very natural, with little or no posturing for the camera. There are scenes of dead Viet Cong, and one showing a VC suspect being drowned to aid interrogation.

The Yellow Sequence

1965 • 15 min

A sort of addendum to Smith's second feature, NORMAL LOVE, but which stands on its own as an anarchic ode to (and explosion of) pop culture, featuring none other than Tiny Tim.

The Friend

1965 • 18 min • Poland

Engineer Ijon Tichy is called in to help with a malfunctioning electronic brain.

Perversion for Profit

1965 • 31 min • United States of America

Centered around a vehement diatribe against pornography delivered by news reporter George Putnam, the film attempts to link explicit portrayals of human sexuality to the subversion and decline of American civilization, and briefly draws a parallel between pornography and Communist infiltration. Perversion for Profit illustrates its claims with still images taken from various softcore pornography magazines of the period-- though, 'sensitive' parts of the human anatomy have been obscured by colored bars. The film is in the public domain, and has become a popular download from the Prelinger Archives.

Bad Day at Cat Rock

1965 • 6 min • United States of America

Tom and Jerry are on a building construction site. Things explode, Tom loses his fur for a while, Jerry hides in a glove, Tom falls from a great height, and Tom has great trouble with a rock-and-girder see-saw.

Mikela

1965 • 48 min • Soviet Union

Soviet Georgian film by Eldar Shengelaia. Based on short story by D. Kldiashvili

A Bear Cub on the Road

1965 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A bear cub on the road

A Notorious House

1965 • 44 min • Egypt

A story about the impact of social customs and traditions on the behavior of Egyptian society

The Presence

1965 • 8 min • Hungary

Two old men enter an abandoned synagogue, look at the decay around them, and pray.

Missing Close-ups

1965 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Jeff Keen thought that some of his previous films had been dominated by long-shots. In this film he grapples with the language of cinema, not as a means to inspire audience identification, but rather to make up for an imbalance.

Voyage North

1965 • 22 min

This film shows the duties of a young British sailor, Lieutenant Ellison, as his submarine H.M. Artemis sails the pack ice north of Iceland to gather data to complete a scientific survey for the Hydrographic Department.

Jonas in the Brig

1965 • 6 min • United States of America

A newsreel of Jonas Mekas shooting his filmed version of The Brig on the set of the Living Theatre production.

Ballade vom roten Mohn

1965 • 53 min • East Germany, Germany

Spain in the 1930s. The film tells of the fight of international troops against General Franco's army. It tells of the fate of three brigadists, the American Gary, the German Hans and the Englishman Joe, who are taken prisoner by Franco's army. Their attitude in this difficult situation is a living example of international solidarity and creates a memorial.