All Films

Song 7

1964 • 2 min • United States of America

SONG 7: San Francisco (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Song 4

1964 • 3 min • United States of America

SONG 4: Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

A Romantic Story

1964 • 6 min • Hungary

A man meets a girl, sitting on a bench in the park. He imagines ways that he can impress her. But will he make the good impression when he gets the chance?

9/64: O Christmas Tree

1964 • 3 min • Austria

In 9/64 O Christmas Tree Kren offers a more visually descriptive development of a Muehl "action". The images have been chosen to follow a more dramatic sequence, probably because the action itself contained a wide range of images and materials.

Rhythm

1964 • 9 min • Iran

In this stunningly composed short film, the movement of a train and its arrival at Tehran’s central station is imaginatively edited in sync with maestro percussionist Hossein Tehrani’s mesmerizing use of the zarb.

The Sacred Pit

1964 • 15 min

Directed by Hajir Dariush.

Marionetten

1964 • 11 min • Germany

A minor character from a collection of marionettes takes viewers through a small world theatre where they come across various types, including the seducer, the demagogue and the obedient masses. Ambitious puppet animation with a didactic and political purpose against propaganda methods.

Kingdom of the Saguenay

1964 • 9 min

A survey of an area of Canada from the city of Quebec.

Bump City

1964 • 4 min

"Bump City is a colour film about the symbolic destruction of Los Angeles. It was never a very finished film, but it was about signs and advertising, redundant communications and manufacturing, waste and monotony." —Pat O'Neill. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Pat O'Neill in 2007.

The Colony

1964 • 57 min • United Kingdom

A railwayman from St. Kitts, a bus conductor from Jamaica, a family of singers from Trinidad and a nurse from Barbados ... Philip Donnellan's Birmingham-based film gives a voice to West Indian immigrants who movingly describe their experiences of trying to integrate into a surprisingly unwelcoming ‘mother country’. Shot in 1964 the film provides an important snapshot of Britain in the early stages of momentous social change and first-generation Afro-Caribbean immigration.

Before the Leaves Fall...

1964 • 28 min • Poland

The first Polish documentary about the life of Romani people. The film crew accompanied a tabor of the small Roma community during their journey from place to place. Their customs, relationships and cultural elements were captured on film. The individual scenes are not overcolored or enriched with any kind of romanticism, which was often presented in Polish literature concerning this community.

Wrestling

1964 • 8 min • United States of America

A wrestling match shown on television, shot on film-- A tv 'concrete'.

Igézet

1964 • 21 min • Hungary

A poetic experiment (inspired by fine arts and music) to present the skills of metallurgy and metal casting.

Winter

1964 • 10 min • France

Impressions on the topic of plastics set to Vivaldi's Winter: blizzard, dancing moons, beats ice, sparkling silver crystals, petrified wood frozen.

Echo

1964 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

A 16mm amateur film.

Flow

1964 • 3 min • Japan

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

Lamb

1964 • 18 min • Senegal

The traditional struggle, known as Lamb in Wolof, which recalls the Greco-Roman struggle, is a popular national sport in Senegal. It has special rules and very strict. Every spectator can bet on his favorite wrestler in a festive atmosphere. The Dakar Arena serves as a showcase for the battles in the film.

Eggs To Market

1964 • 10 min

A documentary short about modern egg production in 1964 America. The camera follows eggs all the way from the chicken coop to the refrigerated case at your local supermarket.

Switzerland Ponders

1964 • 20 min • Switzerland

In 1964, Switzerland presented and looked at itself in a great national Exposition in Lausanne. One of the main attractions was this critical self-portrait in five short movements that deals as much with the nation’s beloved clichés as with its problems.

Screen Test [ST194]: Billy Linich

1964 • 5 min • United States of America

One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Linich. Runs 4 minutes, 30 seconds in length.

Vom lernenden Menschen

1964 • 12 min • East Germany, Germany

Poetic documentary short about people learning all over the world.

Katyusha

1964 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Southampton Docks

1964 • 24 min

Southampton's role as a major cargo centre, showing cargo operations at the deep water quays and in the modern transit sheds.

A Golden Prison: The Louvre

1964 • 56 min

Before this film no one else, including the French were ever permitted to film the Louvre. The priceless treasures and incomparable art can be shared through the eyes of award-winning filmmaker Lucy Jarvis. Set against the panoramic history of France, and hosted by Charles Boyer, The Louvre, regal palace and home to so many of the world's great gifts of art, becomes THE LOUVRE, a film acclaimed and winner of fourteen national and international awards, so rich in its story that even the Mona Lisa smiles.