All Films

Merdes

1963 • 4 min

The Unification of Italy

1963 • 13 min • United States of America

Traces the struggle to unify Italy from Napoleon's invasion in 1805 to the Plebiscite of Rome in 1870. Uses authentic costumes against historic locales.

Denis Deegan

1963 • 6 min

Two short portrait films of the actor and model Denis Deegan which – while they precede the Screen Tests – may well have served as studies for this larger project.

The Miracle of Reproduction

1963 • 15 min • United States of America

It discusses the miracle of reproduction in nature, emphasizing that all life begins from tiny eggs. It illustrates the reproductive processes of plants, fish, birds, and mammals, detailing how pollen fertilizes seeds in flowers, how fish use milt to fertilize eggs, and how birds and mammals have unique methods for reproduction. It explains human reproduction, including the menstrual cycle, fertilization, and the development of a fetus in the mother's womb. The narrative concludes by highlighting the significance of love and marriage in raising children, showcasing the continuity of life through reproduction.

Segregation Western Style

1963 • 30 min • United States of America

ssignment Four documentary film made by KRON-TV in 1963, narrated by Craig Jordan, which examines the issue of racial housing discrimination in Berkeley, in light of the defeat of an April 1963 fair housing ordinance. Includes interviews with: Robert D. Weinmanh (Executive Director of the Citizens League For Individual Freedom); Frank Quinn (Director of the Council For Civic Unity); Charles Wilson, an African American attorney who describes the difficulty he faced trying to purchase a house in Berkeley; Orville Luster (Executive Director of Youth For Service, shown walking around the streets of Bayview Hunters Point); James Stratton (Vice President of the San Francisco Board of Education) and Daniel Kline (VP of the San Francisco Real Estate Board).

Koba and Kalee

1963 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Tap dancing short with the fabulous dancing duo Koba and Kalee.

Frankenstein...[a not so gory version]

1963 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Horror short

The Yard

1963 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Short by Mihovil Pansini.

Toilet

1963 • 18 min • Yugoslavia

Short by Mihovil Pansini.

The Worms Are Having Fun

1963 • 4 min • Ireland

The Worms Are Having Fun depicts a flirtatious interaction between two men and a woman. A painter views her as his muse, while the other admires her from afar. As Kerrigan explains: ‘Two men are continually being haunted by one girl.’

Epitaph

1963 • 5 min • Ireland

Meticulously crafted, paper cut-outs of coffins, headstones, eyes, candles, crosses, and psychedelic backgrounds dance across the screen. Sensory functions are gradually removed – an ear is broken by a hammer, a mouth is locked in a cage, a nose is put in a coffin, hands are pricked by a thorn, a heart is trapped inside a coffin – in an exploration of afterlife.

Scottish Braille Press

1963 • 3 min

Short film following the processes of transcription and printing of a current book in braille by the Scottish Braille Press.

Plástika-Cromátika

1963 • 5 min • Spain

Short film by Spanish artist Luis Pellegero Bel

Peter and the Wonder Car

1963 • 5 min • Hungary

Professor Leo’s wonder car can travel along roads, across water, through the air, and when necessary can even climb a tree or stand its ground as a cable-car. However, when Peter takes this marvel for a spin in secret, he loses all control over the vehicle.

Reflex

1963 • 6 min

Dietrich Schubert's first published short film is a story of longing in front of an almighty industrial backdrop.

Reindeers, Dear Reindeers

1963 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

Yugoslavian experimental short film.

Sun in Your Head

1963 • 7 min • United States of America

"Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures of texts like: 'silence, genius at work' and 'ich liebe dich.' The end credit is 'Television décollage, Cologne, 1963."

Snowy Roads

1963 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Skiers from the sports school meet snooty amateurs.

Tonight Special: The Call of the Isles

1963 • 39 min

Tonight has chartered the St. Ebba, a nineteen-ton yacht, and sent Fyfe Robertson off to report from the beautiful, remote, and almost deserted islands beyond the West coast of Scotland. He voyages to Staffa, Islay, Barra, Eriskay, Vatersay.

The Story Of: A Rodeo Cowboy

1963 • 26 min

Documentary follows the life and travels of a group of professional rodeo cowboys.

Pintura 1962-63

1963 • 5 min

Poured paint mixes to create psychedelic imagery.

K3 - Clear Sky without Clouds

1963 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

An abstract film, with which Pansini attempted "Malevichean" reduction. It is a blank, an empty film reel with coloristic and toned global changes, nothing more.

Fazzoletti di terra

1963 • 13 min • Italy

A look into the harsh life of a hard-working couple of terrace farmers in the Valley of Brenta.

The Shareholder

1963 • 23 min • Soviet Union

An ideological satire starring a factory worker who starts out a believer and ends up a revolutionary.