All Films

Look at Life: Report on a River

1963 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A look at the River Thames, its past and present, from source to the sea. An examination of what has been done and is being done to modernize port services and to keep traffic moving—from holiday pleasure seekers to bustling commerce.

The Critic

1963 • 4 min • United States of America

Mel Brooks is an old man watching abstract animations.

Gustavo

1963 • 1 min • Argentina

A little boy walks around the seaside town of Miramar in Argentina

Inesita

1963 • 11 min

The film made at New York University in 1962, " Flamenco: The Art of Inesita" was lost. Martin Scorsese was the cameraman and it was directed by Robert J. Siegel. Both students at the time were in film school. This silent clip is a work print and served to show movements in the dance used in the completed work. The soundtrack technology was obsolete, and could not be restored. No music was used.

The Sleeping Beauty

1963 • 5 min • United States of America

A comedic take on the Sleeping Beauty tale featuring KoKo the Clown.

Onomichi

1963 • 20 min • Japan

A non-narrative tribute to the seaside town of Onomichi, where Obayashi grew up and where most of these films were made.

Un día más

1963 • 35 min • Spain

A female teacher from Leon travels to Madrid to take an exam, the result of which will determine whether she returns to her ordinary life or takes up a new one.

Snow

1963 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from the cutting-room compresses British Rail's dedication to blizzard-battling into a thrilling eight-minute montage cut to music. Tough-as-boots workers struggling to keep the line clear are counterpointed with passengers' buffet-car comforts.

21-87

1963 • 10 min • Canada

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National Film Board (where he worked as an animator), combined with his own black and white 16mm footage shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, among other locations. A commentary on a machine-dominated society, it is often cited as an influence on George Lucas's Star Wars and his conceptualization of "The Force."

Closed Vagina

1963 • 56 min • Japan

Adachi's follow-up to Bowl using the figure of a woman suffering from an unusual sexual aliment has often been taken as a controversial allegory for the political stalemate of the Leftist student movement after their impressive wave of massive fiery protests failed to defeat the neo-imperialist Japan-US Security Treaty. The ritualistic solemnity of the charged sexual scenes contribute to the oneiric qualities of Closed Vagina which Adachi would later insist was an open work, not meant to deliver any kind of deliberate political message. - Harvard Film Archive

You

1963 • 11 min • Hungary

A playful portrait of a young woman who merrily roams the streets of Budapest. A New Wave love letter in motion.

What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

1963 • 10 min • United States of America

A writer named Algernon becomes obsessed with a picture of a boat on his wall, an fixation that soon consumes his thoughts and daily life. He tries to recover through therapy and marriage, but his compulsions return—drawing him deeper into the image until he vanishes within it.

Desade

1963 • 10 min • Japan

From the collector of Marquis de Sade in the early 1960s, still a 'dark age ' of erotic picture, even his novels were forbidden to publish in Tokyo, I burrowed the copies of the engraving taken from the 18th century edition of "The story of Juliette" and of "The story of Justine." and rearranged along a story made from of the pictures not from the novels. An exercise out of the curiosity. It was the same year I made Ai (Love) in 1962 which consists of mostly extreme close-ups of love making. I have kept DeSade for many years in my closet without looking at it myself and have forgotten about it. By a chance I re-found the film 50 years later that there is something worth to see. (T.I, 2012)

Tale About the Beetle

1963 • 8 min

1963 animated short by Hungarian director József Nepp

The War Game

1963 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Two boys quarrel over a toy pistol in an ever escalating game.

Railwaymen

1963 • 13 min • Czechoslovakia

A short documentary about the work of railwaymen and life on the railway.

Ferrum

1963 • 14 min • Sweden

Unconventional portrayal of mining in the Swedish Lapland ore fields, a powerful image and sound symphony that can be experienced both as a documentary and symbolic work.

School of Love

1963 • 4 min

Boxing match. Full stands. The fight is about to begin. The hall is filled with a bustling audience. We see fans: men, women and children. Everyone is craning their necks with interest to get a better view of the fight. Their faces show emotions of tension, joy, disappointment.

A Testimony About Her

1963 • 24 min • Sweden

"A testimony about her." Her being the actor and vocalist Monica Zetterlund. At 25 in the beginning of her career. Monica sings with a trio at a concert. Returns to her empty home in Stockholm. Relaxes in loneliness. Next morning. An interview with writer Vilgot Sjöman. Then off to recording at a studio with the Phillips Recording Orchestra, featuring Jan Johansson on piano. Later a concert at Nalen in Stockholm.

By the Sea

1963 • 10 min

"Muscle Beach is a fascinating location for people-watching in the L.A. area, and in 1963, the strangeness of its sights was much more pronounced than today. Pat O’Neill’s first film (made with Robert Abel) progresses from humorous, curious observation to energetic, graphical interaction with the sights and sounds of Santa Monica’s famed beach." —Mark Toscano. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Pat O'Neill in 2007.

Cornet at Night

1963 • 14 min • Canada

Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, this short film recalls rural life on the Prairies in the 1930s. In the film a farmer's young son, sent to town to hire a man for the harvest, readily accepts when an itinerant trumpet player, down on his luck, begs a chance. He is hardly the kind of man the boy's father had in mind, but that night his trumpet speaks from the shadows and everyone pauses to listen.

Blonde Cobra

1963 • 33 min • United States of America

A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the soundtrack speaks of his despair, makes impressionistic statements and little songs, quotes Greta Garbo and Maria Montez, tells the story of a lonely little boy and tells the story of a woman named Madame Nescience who dreams of herself as the Mother Superior of a convent of sexual perversion.

El diablo

1963 • 8 min • Argentina

Two friends find a mysterious black-cloaked figure on the beach

Story

1963 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

A couple meet and walk down the streets of Split all the way to the shore. This is the second film Zafranović ever made and the oldest preserved.