All Films

Tracks on the Asphalt

1964 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Once the boy Vova went off to ride a bicycle and disappeared for the whole day. His puppy was waiting for his master at the door, but he did not come. An adult dog, Barbos, passed by, who decided to ask the puppy why he was so sad. Since there was still nothing to do, he decided to help his little friend to find the boy. Soon they came on his trail and, thanks to their scent, were able to recreate all the events that occurred this day.

Flavio

1964 • 12 min

Documentary about a boy living with his family in extreme poverty in Rio de Janeiro.

Snowbody Loves Me

1964 • 8 min • United States of America

Waif mouse Jerry, encrusted with snow, peers through a warmly lit window at Tom asleep by the fire in a room full of cheese.

Dumb Like a Fox

1964 • 7 min • United States of America

Woody and Fink Fox are teamed up as buddies roaming the Western Plains.

My Friend Ángel

1964 • 32 min • Honduras

An experimental and critical view on the decadence of Honduran society. It practically has no narrative structure, as it plays out as a day-in-the-life-of the eponymous Ángel, a kid who's a shoe-shiner.

The Cage

1964 • 11 min • Japan

Finished shooting in 1962, the movie’s cast was almost the same as its crew. With a bunch of experimental symbols such as skinny human body, clock and goat flow from one scene to another, the film explores the question of whether a man is a prisoner of time.

Uncle Stepa is a Policeman

1964 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Cartoon about Uncle Stepa-a policeman — a valiant, friendly and very high defender of law and order. The film adaptation of the poem of the same name by Sergei Mikhalkov.

Night Wandering

1964 • 13 min

Paradoxically described by Walter Sorell as "a tender lullaby of love" and by Richard Buckle as "cold and menacing, the courtship of the Macbeths," Night Wandering is a duet reminiscent of snowy landscapes. Cernovitch designed the original costumes: fur tunics that Cunningham wore over trousers, and Brown wore over tights. Continuing with the piece's Nordic theme, the music by Bo Nilsson was characterized by bursts of activity followed by moments of silence, evoking the feeling of traveling through the spacious, and seemingly endless Northern night.

Gustavus, Friend of Animals

1964 • 5 min • Hungary

A man playfully throws a stone to a stray dog in the park. From that moment on, he cannot get rid of the animal. This is the first episode of the popular series Gustavus.

Our National Anthem

1964 • 10 min • India

The film aims to help Indian children to learn the correct way to sing India's National Anthem.

What is the Theory of Relativity?

1964 • 20 min • Soviet Union

In a compartment of the Moscow-Novosibirsk train, a young physicist meets famous film actors. The conversation accidentally comes to Einstein, and the woman begins to explain to her fellow travelers what the theory of relativity is. The actors are incidentally on their way to the shooting of a film about physicists, but they do not understand the subject at all.

Goof on the Loose

1964 • 8 min • United States of America

A goofy guy and a drunkard wreak all kinds of loopy havoc in a small town.

The Pink Auto

1964 • 21 min • United Kingdom

The Pink Auto, screened using two projectors, is one of the very first examples of expanded cinema. Jeff Keen walks as a zombie and carry his dead bride through brown English fields.

Fantasmagorie

1964 • 42 min • France

In 1743, in the French countryside, a strange epidemic deserted the region. 200 years later, a young woman wakes curiously languid after a restless night. Her husband received a letter a few hours later asking him to go to a remote place for business, where he would have to spend the night. If he succeeds in reassuring his young wife, who has a presentiment of being separated for the first time from him, the first night spent in his host's house will topple everything.

Saddle-Sore Woody

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

Dirty McNasty wants Woody Woodpecker's horse and horsenaps it.

The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows

1964 • 25 min • France

One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s included in the anthology film That Tender Age (La fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes). The three other sketches were directed by Michel Brault, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Gian Vittorio Baldi.

Diary

1964 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

Compressing one idle day in the life of a young artist by rotating the camera through his room, a sort of a self-portrait of Lordan Zafranović resembles a one-shot film, its grainy photography and moody music suggesting a meditative atmosphere characteristic for Split authors of his generation.

Serpent’s Skin

1964 • 20 min • Iran

Based on D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and one of the pioneering films of the Iranian New Wave

The Pink Phink

1964 • 7 min • United States of America

A house painter can't understand why everything he paints blue turns pink.

Bear Hug

1964 • 6 min

Loopy helps a bear with his relationship with Emmy Lou who has a angry boyfriend named Braxton, who has a jealous streak.

Rooster and Paint

1964 • 15 min • Soviet Union

The painted rooster gets acquainted with the inhabitants of the barnyard and learns about the world.

May and May Not

1964 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York

1964 • 39 min

The American documentary makers - The Maysles Brothers, were given exclusive access to almost every minute of The Beatles first American visit. The first 3 days of film footage shot in New York was rushed over to Granada Television in London who quickly edited the footage for a TV special called "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York" which was broadcast on February 12, 1964 at 10:25pm. The majority of the footage in this UK special featured their arrival at JFK Airport; Arriving at their hotel room; Fans outside the Plaza Hotel; footage from inside their hotel room with Murray The K; Murray The K interviewing them on the phone from WINS radio station; Walking through Central Park for a photo session; Limo ride to CBC TV Studios; Ringo & Murray The K dancing at the Peppermint Lounge.

David and Hazel: A Story in Communication

1964 • 29 min • Canada

A married couple doesn't communicate.