All Films

The ABCs of Defensive Driving Tactics

1964 • 12 min • United States of America

This educational film from the 1960s demonstrates the basic rules of defensive driving including planning ahead in traffic situations and a willingness to give way to another driver.

Screen Test [ST90]: Kelly Edey

1964 • 5 min

Winthrop Kellogg ‘Kelly’ Edey, collector of antique clocks and watches, is shot from below, with Edey’s head tilted back and somewhat foreshortened. He makes subtle changes in his expression throughout the film.

L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique

1964 • 31 min • France

This documentary offers an overview of French scientific research in Africa French scientific research in Africa: hydrology, botany, biology oil palm and coconut cultivation, industrial sea fishing and and urban planning. Film montage taking stock of scientific research research in Africa, mainly in the fields of hydrology hydrology, botany, biology and agriculture. The film is a compilation of extracts from several short films made by Jean Rouch in Mali, Niger and Côte d'Ivoire between 1962 and 1963: Abidjan, port de pêche, Le Mil, Le Cocotier and Le Palmier à l'huile. l'huile.

La Fete Blanche

1964 • 14 min

Movie-installation by graphic-designer AQUIRAX UNO.

Kosice

1964 • 10 min

A voiceover reciting poetry about water is accompanied by images of the sea and then of artist working with acrylic sheets and tubes. He cuts them with a circular saw, bends them in an oven, removes a half-sphere from a mold and inspects its transparency. [Overview Courtesy of the MALBA]

Drink First, Fedya!

1964 • 17 min • Soviet Union

A parody of the American detective stories of the 1960s.

The Greedy Weasel

1964 • 3 min • Hungary

After a load of trouble, the weasel works out the way into the pantry where he stuffs himself with everything he finds there and finally his own greed is the cause of his downfall.

1 x 1 = 1

1964 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

Playful, stylized animated film with horse-like shapes combining and running around the screen.

Screen Test [ST100]: Bea Feitler

1964 • 4 min

Bea Filter looks on from one side of the frame, directed by Andy Warhol

Screen Test [ST156]: Peter Hujar

1964 • 4 min

Peter Hujar, shot in close-up, has his face lit from both sides, which creates the usual symmetrical pattern of shadows down the centre of his face.

Like a Ballad

1964 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

A story about a soldier and a girl who met and fell in love as bearers of Tito's baton.

Copenhagen

1964 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Travelogue showing the wonders of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Primitive Mysteries

1964 • 7 min

A dance film of Martha Graham's Primitive Mysteries.

Intergalactic Zoo

1964 • 4 min

Dedicated to the men, women and children of Mars, this fantastical animation uses the simplest of elements: solid backgrounds, block letters, and a length of metal chain. The creatures created are the kind of strange and other-worldly beings that thrive only in children’s dreams and play.

Theatre as a Weapon

1964 • 45 min • Netherlands

A portrait of Dutch playwright Herman Heijermans (1864-1924), released in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The documentary combines interviews, theatre excerpts, and archival footage.

Più

1964 • 10 min • Italy

Artist Video Collection

Fast Neutron Pulsed Reactor

1964 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The Pulsed Fast Reactor (PFR) is designed to study the interaction of neutrons with atomic nuclei. Using a neutron beam, one can investigate nuclear reactions, nuclear excitation, and structure, i.e., the properties of various substances, addressing not only purely scientific but also some applied tasks. The main advantage of this type of reactor is the ability to incorporate materials such as uranium-238 and thorium-232 into the fuel cycle. This significantly expands the fuel base of nuclear energy. Additionally, these reactors allow for the relatively safe disposal of the most active and long-lived isotopes in spent nuclear fuel, fundamentally reducing the period of its biological hazard.

Propane Bubble Chambers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

1964 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Bubble chambers are typically used to record interactions between high-energy particles and the nuclei of the chamber’s working fluid, or to observe particle decays. In the former case, the working fluid also serves as the detection medium. When an ionizing particle enters the chamber, its trajectory is marked by a trail of vapor bubbles, which can then be photographed. The ability to visually analyze these events made it possible to discover particles that could not be detected by any other means. Most notably, this includes the cascade decays of strange particles, whose decay products were either fully or partially captured in the chamber images.

Shower

1964 • 16 min

Shower is one of a group of five works Whitman made between 1963 and 1964 in which films were projected onto physical objects. It shows a film of a woman taking a shower, projected from the rear onto a curtain, behind which water cascades inside a metal shower stall. At one point, the water turns to colored paint, which pours over the woman and then washes off of her as it quickly reverts to water. This dramatic moment, intercut with close-up shots of the drain and shower head, evokes both the painterly happenings of the early 1960s and the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller movie Psycho (1960).

Kips the Operator in the Land of Mushrooms

1964 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Kips went to shoot a film in the land of mushrooms. He explores which mushrooms are edible and poisonous, as well as what is the fruit body and mycelium. The grandfather of Many Sciences tells us what mushrooms are called and what they look like.

The Rule of Rice

1964 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

A film about the formation of the Agricultural Cooperative "Mosha Pijade" from the village of Gorni Polog, which was supposed to work on the production, purchase and trade of rice, but which, due to poor management and bad investments, soon began to fall apart; it also talks about the problems the cooperative had with private rice producers. The entire film is presented in the form of a parody.

Go! Go! Go!

1964 • 12 min • United States of America

Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

Mirror Images

1964 • 7 min • Hungary

Kovásznai György’s fourth short animation follows a cat and dog who walk to a museum to look at paintings, about cats and dogs

Mass for the Dakota Sioux

1964 • 24 min • United States of America

An experimental film dedicated to the Dakota Sioux, which follows the form of the Christian Mass. A series of images of contemporary America interwoven with the ritual spiriting away of a dead Indian.