All Films

The Roman Springs on Mrs. Stone

1963 • 19 min • United States of America

A gay take-off on a certain Warner Bros. / Tennessee Williams movie.

Wisp

1963 • 8 min

"... boy-meets-girl here is just an excuse for a dazzling display of editing. The film is made up of shots each about hald a second long, and they make a real assault on the visual sense... a pattern of connections and associations, some of them symbolic, some of them emotional... It certainly has a richness of ideas... I trust your eyes are still in their sockets." –Colin Bennett, discussion the '63 Melbourne Film Festival.

Three Scottish Painters

1963 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A look at the work of the Scottish artists John Maxwell, Joan Eardley and Robin Philipson.

Nach einem Jahr - Beobachtungen in einer ersten Klasse

1963 • 14 min • East Germany, Germany

How the class community is formed. The children's environment and the experiences and discoveries that the school gives them. They are reflected in the lessons. At the end of the school year they receive their first report card and are "Young Pioneers".

Revolution

1963 • 9 min • Bolivia

Documentary that offers a great overview of the history of Bolivia, their misery, the popular indomitable spirit and repressions that occur without pause.

Nullarbor Hideout

1963 • 38 min • Australia

Bored during the summer holidays and escaping the heat, a group of kids (and their joey!) from Cook, on the Nullarbor Plain, discover a limestone cave with a huge underground lake. Meanwhile in town, a detective is called in from Port Augusta to investigate a stolen car and some sinister kangaroo shooters. When the kids discover their tucker and canoe have disappeared, they decide to do some investigating of their own. An Australian black and white short film written and directed by Tim Burstall (Alvin Purple).

Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm

1963 • 12 min • United States of America

Two city kids spend a summer on Uncle Jim's dairy farm. They tend to the animals, climb a rope, and learn all kinds of fun farm facts

Typhoid Sufferers

1963 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Woodcut-style animation accompanying Jure Kaštelan’s famous Yugoslav partisan poem, depicting hallucinations of sick partisans marching through wastelands.

Jill and Freddy Dancing

1963 • 4 min

Against a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline, Judson Dance Theater company member Freddy Herko and author and cultural critic Jill Johnston dance together on Wynn Chamberlain’s rooftop.

There Was Once a Village

1963 • 13 min

A documentary film by Žika Ristić.

L'annonciation

1963 • 12 min • France

Study of the suffocating materialism of modern society as an expression of prima ry retreat to infantilism.

Der Wettlauf

1963 • 6 min • East Germany, Germany

The wire men Kurz (Short) and Lang (Long) want to race each other. They choose a tree on the horizon as their destination. While Kurz prepares for the race, Lang measures the course. Unnoticed, he draws a moat across the track. The start takes place. Initially, Kurz and Lang are tied, but Lang jumps over at the ditch and Kurz remains sadly on the sidelines. The beaming winner is Lang. Kurz calls on the unfair Lang to run a second race.

Adams Film

1963 • 11 min • United States of America

Adams Film is a visual collage combining live action footage with abstract images and textures drawn onto 16mm film stock. Footage of a casual Janiak family gathering is sandwiched between superimposed garden scenes and rebellious direct animation. The soundtrack consists of assorted tape loops.

Le coucou

1963 • 15 min • France

Voyage

1963 • 9 min

Sub-theme: recording, celebrating and mourning the final journey, the Odyssey toward freedom and death.

Three Hours on the Road

1963 • 26 min • Soviet Union

A toboggan train is coming to the village from the construction site of a drilling rig: a tractor pulling a carriage on a snowy track. It's blizzarding, fuel is running out, the train gets off track, and the construction manager is in a bad mood: his wife has recently died of a heart attack, leaving behind a teenage son who is here. But the worse the weather gets, the warmer the relationship between the people. And help comes.

Der Teufelstaler

1963 • 21 min • East Germany

Farmer Wurzel is unhappy because his work is not bringing him the prosperity he had hoped for. Nor can he expect his daughter to marry rich, unfortunately she loves the poor fishmonger Kaspar. In order to make a lot of money, the farmer would even get involved with the devil...

The Park

1963 • 25 min • Cuba

A documentary portrayal of life at Havana’s Central Park in the early 1960s. Occasional visitors, entertainers, passers-by, but most specially the elders who spend here a great part of their day, watching, remembering, musing...

Jealousy

1963 • 7 min • Bulgaria

A composer writes music at the piano. The notes come alive. One of them turns into a cowboy. He is courting a beautiful lady. As a result, the horns grow on the portrait of her husband. On the pentolinium sheet, the deceived spouse organizes the persecution. They pass through a forest of black signs. They descend into the abyss by the stairs from the "sharp" signs. In the final, a duel takes place. But the bullet does not hit the opponent, but the lady's heart…

Totem

1963 • 16 min • United States of America

A filmic interpretation of a modern dance ballet by Alvin Nikolais. Earth, fire, water and primordial mysteries in a cine-dance.

Dances at Aurukun

1963 • 30 min

This film is a record of traditional Aboriginal dancing at Aurukun Mission on Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland. Filmed in 1962 for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, it showcases and preserves Wik ritual dances and ceremonies at a time when customary Aboriginal life was changing and adapting to Western culture.

Spaghetti Trouble

1963 • 2 min

Spaghetti-house customers and lazy waiters, beware! A mountain of spaghetti may await you! Featuring the comical, fascinatingly simple drawings of Red Grooms, this quick film is sure to intrigue and entertain.

Anapoko

1963 • 7 min • Japan

After graduating from Tama University of Arts, Nakajima made this work with the intention of submitting to the Sogetsu Animation Festival. Without much funding to work with, Nakajima devised the technique “Kaki-mation,” a method of drawing directly on 35mm film. At this time, he frequented Studio Zero—the formative mainstream animation / cartoon production company of the period with members Shinichi Suzuki, Jiro Tsunoda, Fujiko Fujio, and others.

The Wahoo Bobcat

1963 • 60 min • United States of America

A bobcat returns to it's area of origin after a seven year absence. He is befriended by a elderly man who used to be the top bobcat hunter around. His new pal tries to protect him but a case of mistaken identity puts Wahoo's life in jeopardy.