All Films - Short Movie Database

It Started With Muybridge

1964 • 12 min

Produced by the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1964, It Started with Muybridge begins with a voiceover proclaiming the center’s mission: “research and development for tomorrow’s weapons”. The future’s bombs, this training film claims, will be detonated atop the shoulders of yesterday’s “photographer extraordinary”, Eadweard Muybridge.

Mister Rossi on the Beach

1964 • 11 min • Italy

Mister Rossi goes to the seaside.

7/64: Leda and the Swan

1964 • 3 min • Austria

Based on a Muehl Happening. The almost convulsive use of juxtaposition reappears here, but the captured gesture assumes a more erotic sensitivity, though the "action" itself was primarily a gradual destruction of the erotic.

Song 6

1964 • 2 min • United States of America

SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

First Time Here

1964 • 22 min • United States of America

"In FIRST TIME HERE, I attempted to freely associate two or three dreams with the story of the four women who had an atomic bomb display at a carnival. I wanted the film to be a fantasy which represented various life cycles and, in a sense, to be a celebration of the absurd mess man has gotten himself into."

Fun Radio

1964 • 12 min

This 1963 kaleidoscope of our culture, both its energy and its tawdriness, rolls out in a never ending babble from radio station 3UZ, and in particular their top DJ at the time - Don Lunn.

Woof Woof

1964 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

An excitable dog explores its surroundings.

La Dame d'Elche

1964 • 13 min • France, Spain

Noi insistiamo! Suite per la libertà subito

1964 • 16 min

Short film about racism in the US.

Take This Hammer

1964 • 44 min • United States of America

Take This Hammer features KQED's mobile film unit following author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he's driven around San Francisco to meet with members of the local African American community.

Walking to School

1964 • 10 min • United States of America

A brother and sister take a long, loooong walk to school.

Nedfall

1964 • 11 min • Norway

Poetic short film set in Western Norway.

Phenomenon No. 1

1964 • 8 min • United States of America

Dream matrix, history written in lightning image, memory and the TV syntax, images flowing and fused together to other images and electronic tapestry of images half seen, sought for, seeking man's dreams, movies as dreams, history as media. "The artist will tell you it is as much a process he is interested in ... as a result. Art is a process – life is a process – are they the same process? So many of the artists became unhappy about this eternal, unyielding quality in their art, and they began to wish their work were more like shoes, more temporary, more human, more able to admit of the possibility of change. The fixed, finished work began to be supplemented by the idea of work as a process, constantly becoming something else, tentative, allowing more than one interpretation." – Dick Higgins

Schwarz-Weiß-Rot

1964 • 6 min • Germany

The film makes fun of the superficial changes in power in their birthplaces. Herbst's painting depicts a society of excited string toys who first march to the strains of the Kaiser's anthem, whose black, white and red flag dominates the swastika, before being incorporated into the colors of a conglomerate of right-wing newspapers. Black, white, red. Three times, the Germans march organized in columns and ranks: under the colors of the Kaiser, the Führer and Axel Springer.

Hygiene For Men

1964 • 16 min

Hygiene education short film from the 60s.

An Event

1964 • 3 min • Japan

Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.

The Mexican Footage

1964 • 12 min

"When Ron Rice died, in Mexico, he left a dozen rolls of exposed film. This sample contains four rolls of beautiful color and black and white, shot in Mexico." – Jonas Mekas.