All Films

Screen Test [ST83]: Bob Dylan

1965 • 4 min

Bob Dylan's screen test for Andy Warhol, filmed January 23, 1965.

1, 2, 3, Rhapsody

1965 • 15 min • Netherlands

An iconoclastic first film from the headstrong teenagers of the 1,2,3 Group, who took turns to write, direct, and star in a series of irreverent skits.

Design for Today

1965 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A musical celebration of British innovations within a typical home. Part of BFI collection "Design for Today."

Beginning to End

1965 • 48 min

A recital of passages from the works of Samuel Beckett, performed by Jack MacGowran, as a raving old man.

Birds of a Feather

1965 • 6 min • United States of America

Mrs. Meany is a bird watcher. Of course, she stumbles across Woody. Woody teaches Mrs. Meany "everything you need to know about bird watching." She finds that a bird is hunting her. It's an eagle who wants her as a mate and who chases her endlessly.

The Mood Man

1965 • 22 min

An archival short of Britain's greatest bandleader, Joe Loss, and his orchestra, including hits such as "Old Ned", "No Regrets", "If I Had A Hammer", "Let There Be Drums", and "(I'm Saying) Farewell To The Dames".

Porträtt av Åsa

1965 • 30 min • Sweden

A train passes the village Stångby in the countryside. Three-year-old Åsa comes running naked along a street and into a modern villa, located close to the railway track. She has just started her life, and the whole world is there for her to discover. Everything is new, so she looks with curiosity and thoughtfulness also on ordinary things in her immediate surroundings. Mostly she moves around in the house, plays with her toys, dances, reprehends the cats, looks out through the windows. Now and then her circles widens, as when her father brings her to a farm nearby, or to his job. One day her parents take her with a ferry to Copenhagen, where they visit the Zoo. Åsa is fascinated by all the various animals. She makes comments on their features as well as on how they feel.

Más allá de las rejas

1965 • 15 min • Spain

Bernardo wants to see his son he's never met upon leaving prison, but the child's mother, Luisa, has remade her life in another town. Bernardo's former accomplice will try to convince him to share their hidden loot.

Diffraction Film

1965 • 10 min • United States of America

"This sensuous sea of color, motion, light that seems to surround us completely and we swim in it almost bodily and it is like going through the most fantastic dream." - Jonas Mekas

Of Feline Bondage

1965 • 6 min • United States of America

Tom chases Jerry around a pool hall. Jerry's fairy godmouse arrives, and Jerry tells the story; she gives him an invisibility potion. Jerry uses this to do some creative barbering on Tom, but when the potion wears off, Tom gets his revenge, and they both have a good laugh.

Jose Torres II

1965 • 58 min • Japan

This is the sequel to Jose Torres (1959), the portrayal of Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres, who won a silver medal in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. We follow Torres from his training in preparation to challenge world lightweight champion Willie Pastrano, to the match and Torres’ victory in 1965. The contrast between the nervous Torres before the match, filmed in painstaking detail, and the first round, filmed in one shot, is striking.

The Heat of a Thousand Suns

1965 • 25 min • France

A young man from the far future, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet he discovers a serene, tranquil culture and falls in love with a girl.

Les ludions

1965 • 22 min • Canada

How One Peasant Fed Two Generals

1965 • 22 min • Soviet Union

The screen version of the Saltykov-Shchedrin tale about how two complacent generals miraculously found themselves on an uninhabited island. How a peasant was courting the generals, feeding and dressing them, content himself with crumbs from their table. They only slightly thanked him, but in the end they gave him only glass of vodka and a penny of silver.

Buster Keaton Rides Again

1965 • 55 min • Canada

In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The Railrodder, a short subject that now enjoys a small cult following. Documenting this mobile production in fascinating and unexpected detail, Buster Keaton Rides Again offers a rare glimpse of the comedy legend’s temperament, philosophies, hobbies, marriage (his third), and the occasionally combative creative process behind the scenes. An intimate look at one of cinema’s most enduring legends.

Dali In New York

1965 • 57 min

Filmmaker Jack Bond and Salvador Dali got together at Christmas 1965 to make Dali in New York, a highly entertaining film. Dali devoted two weeks of his life to creating extraordinary scenes for the film, performing "manifestations" with a plaster cast. A thousand ants and one million dollars in cash. When he confronts the feminist writer, Jane Arden, sparks fly. "You are my Slave! I am not your slave. Everybody is my slave." Dali recalls his meeting with Freud, "The last human relationship ever" About his wife, 'But for Gala I would be lying in a gutter somewhere covered with lice" Jim Desmond's dazzling cinematography captures the great artist painting as Flamenco virtuoso Manitas de Plata performs. Dali in New York is a rare treat for anyone who loves film and the living theatre of Dali's surreal universe.

The Moon

1965 • 51 min • Soviet Union

Science fiction/documentary film about man's voyages to the moon.

Ciné bijou

1965 • 8 min

John and Ivy

1965 • 35 min

A stationary shot of John Palmer and Ivy Nicholson in this tiny apartment.

Eve and the Merman

1965 • 55 min • United States of America

A young schoolteacher and her two female friends rent a vacation house on an island. While exploring the island, the teacher runs into a handsome young man who tells her is actually a "merman" from the sea, and tries to convince her to go back to the sea with him.

Corruption of the Damned

1965 • 50 min • United States of America

Corruption of the Damned might seethe with violence and sex, the two most attractive things you can put on the screen, but beneath them a twisted outlook pervades.

Zip Zip Hooray!

1965 • 6 min • United States of America

Wile E. Coyote suspends his chase with the Road Runner to explain to two young boys watching him on TV why he wants to catch the speedy bird.

The Engagement Ring

1965 • 25 min • Puerto Rico

Pedro and Isabel disagree on the number of children they'll have when they get married. By contrasting the bustle of the city life with the more traditional agrarian life, the film provides an examination of several attitudes toward family planning.

The Parisian Tie

1965 • 56 min • Finland

Based on the short story of the same name by Mika Waltari. One afternoon, Valter, a middle-aged bank employee, runs into an old acquaintance at Espalla, and a long, boozy evening ensues. Relations with his wife are strained, and there is a young, charming secretary working at the bank. Valter feels a longing for the adventures of his youth.