All Films

Recess

1964 • 12 min • Sweden

Karin, a young girl, gets an hour free from school. She spends it across the street from the school, in the apartment of an older photographer.

Scatterbrain at the Circus

1964 • 9 min • Poland

A short animated Polish film.

The First Time

1964 • 10 min

A pretty young blonde shows up for an audition for a job as a model for a famous artist. She's surprised when he informs her that she will have to pose nude for him.

The Poon-Tang Trilogy

1964 • 8 min • United States of America

The Poon Tang Trilogy (1964, B/W, sound) is a brief film composed of three 3-minute segments: in the first tableau, footage of the Hindenburg disaster is projected on the nude body of a young woman; in the second section, Civil Rights protesters are dragged away into police vans to the accompaniment of the '50s r&b hit "I Just Love Your Sexy Ways"; in the final portion of the film, another young woman attempts to remove a floating black bar which seeks to obliterate from the spectator's gaze various portions of her anatomy.

Dawn of the Capricorn

1964 • 30 min • Iran

Dawn of the Capricorn, made by Ahmad Faroughi Kadjar (Qajar) in 1964, is a strange composition that looks at the stagnated situation of a country suspended between the old world and the modern era. Nevertheless, while its aim is clear, the message is vague and up to interpretation. Wherever it casts its eye, Faroughi’s camera tries to register this somehow cynical dichotomy. It begins in a theater house in the old city of Isfahan that has staged Shakespeare’s Othello. There is no attentive audience and the players are detached and exhausted. A young man from amongst the audience begins a long journey into the web of narrow alleys of Isfahan and ends up in the main mosque of the city where he meets a young girl. Despite the initial chaotic situations, from its halfway point, the film begins to render a silent observation of a night that will end at the break of dawn.

Auto Auto

1964 • 15 min • Germany

The whole world is just cars, cars, cars.

Magic Bell

1964 • 9 min • Poland

A magic flower with its cup shaped like a bell grows in a market square of the small town. A jealous villain steals the flower, but two fearless children and a cow, chase after him.

Weil ich kein Kind mehr bin

1964 • 22 min

Episodes from school, family and leisure time show how boys and girls build gender relationships, what influence school and home have on them, how their behavior changes and what conflicts can arise between parents and children. Second part of the "Relationships Between Boys And Girls" series.

One Mile Square

1964 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Showcasing a trip around London in 1964, including the London Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, and various markets, monuments, and features.

Radharc in Derry 1964

1964 • 35 min • Ireland

A film about Gerrymander and discrimination, including an interview with former leader of the Nationalist party in Northern Ireland – Eddie McAteer. This film was not shown at the time because Terence O’Neill and Sean Lemass met for the first time – and it was felt impolitic to show a programme that might have embarrassed the Northern premier.

2,880k=120”

1964 • 3 min • Japan

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

Newsreel of Dreams 1 & 2

1964 • 16 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

Bust Bag

1964 • 6 min

Exploration of breast hangups of the male ego using collage animation. –D. D.

Screen Test, Billy Linich

1964 • 4 min

One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Linich. Runs 4 minutes, 24 seconds in length.

The Rooster

1964 • 20 min • Egypt

A poor man strives to help his family.

A World's Fair Diary

1964 • 52 min

Edwin Newman guides viewers through a tour of the New York World's Fair.

A Skill for Molina

1964 • 16 min

Taking advantage of a new government education program, a farmworker trains for a better-paying job as a welder.

Elena

1964 • 30 min • Cuba

A romantic comedy set during the waning years of the Batista dictatorship. It tells the story of a young woman, Elena, and her attempts to meet with her revolutionary lover before his forced departure into exile.

The Delhi Way

1964 • 45 min • United States of America

A documentary of Delhi, it scans the city's historic past that includes successive Afghan, Moghul, and English invasions, while it reveals its variegated life of the present.

Vlněná pohádka

1964 • 9 min • Czechoslovakia

Along the Sepik

1964 • 28 min • Australia

Set on the Upper Sepik River in New Guinea, this film records the day-to-day experiences of Kiap (one-man representative of the Australian government in regional areas) Barry Downes as he patrols an area that in 1963 had only recently been brought under control from headhunters. As well as being a record of the role of the colonial administration, Along the Sepik offers insights into some tribal communities' cultures through depictions of their spirit houses and traditional 'sing sing' ceremonies. Downes investigates a murder, and the culprit is caught and tried by a magistrate in a jungle courthouse under the Australian flag, on the edge of the Sepik River. Australian patrol officers and their men operated under rugged conditions to bring western law and order to this remote area. The film also portrays some of the impact the colonial government had on regional, traditional communities.

Song 3

1964 • 3 min • United States of America

SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

23 Skidoo

1964 • 8 min • Canada

If you erase the people of downtown America, the effect is bizarre, not to say disturbing. That is what this film does. It shows the familiar urban scene without a soul in sight: streets empty, buildings empty, yet everywhere there is evidence of recent life and activity. At the end of the film we learn what has happened.

Voy-Age

1964 • 12 min

Experimental short about urban space and construction work.