All Films

Wave, Coral and Rock

1962 • 40 min • Iran

A documentary about the oil pipe installation in Khark, Iran in 1962.

No-brain and Unhappiness

1962 • 21 min • China

No-brain is a forgetful boy and Unhappiness is unhappy for everything. When others worry about their future, they really become grownups at once to make careers as they wish. But they make a series of troubles.

Süden im Schatten

1962 • 9 min • Germany

Documentary short by Franz-Josef Spieker.

Merce Cunningham

1962 • 27 min • France

The choreographer Merce Cunningham working with the musician John Cage and the painter Robert Rauschenberg.

The Rafts Sail On

1962 • 20 min • Poland

The movie depicts the story of a young Mazurian boy named Mietek, who crosses the line between childhood and adulthood . He stands in close contact with nature; he decoys birds and feeds them, he catches fish. But above all he is attracted to the work of the woodcutters. He watches them as they fell the trees and he helps them load the timber onto rafts that float down the river and through the sluice-gates. Finally, he joins the raftsmen and when he receives his first salary and gives a girl his first bashful look, the time has come for him to say goodbye to his childhood.

Plaza vieja

1962 • 5 min • Cuba

Marçano precisa-se

1962 • 6 min • Portugal

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

Cheer Up, Virginijus!

1962 • 21 min • Soviet Union

The film about the city of Naujoji Akmenė is regarded as one of the first Lithuanian attempts to liberate itself from the stereotypes of the Soviet documentary. Even though the remnants of the “Socialist prosperity” are clearly perceptible in the movie, the process of directing is obtaining more freedom: the voiceover is losing its canonization, and the power of the narrator is given to the main character, a small child Virginijus.

Weave Me a Rainbow

1962 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A look at the Scottish woollen industry.

Nauru

1962 • 20 min • Australia, Nauru

This film looks at Nauru in 1962 when it had the highest per-capita income in the world but when the depletion of the country's phosphate resources was already on the horizon meaning the only industry they had, and the only source of foreign investment, was coming to an end. Having become accustomed to the ways of the modern, industrialized world but with no way of supporting themselves how will the Nauruans maintain their lifestyle?

A.Aimo & Dallapé Orchestra

1962 • 15 min • Finland

The Finnish vocalist A. Aimo and Dallapé Orchestra perform in the TV-show "Suvisattumia".

The Lighting Rod

1962 • 5 min • Bulgaria

A lightning rod is guarding the house roof, but when the lightnings strike, it appears the rod if afraid of them.

Seeing Miami...

1962 • 31 min

A cinematic allegory of the modern U.S. at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Gilles Groulx’s masterfully poetic montage essay evokes Quebecers’ simultaneous aversion and attraction to the El Dorado that is Florida—both a giant nursing home and an ideal of progress, American style.

Sierra Leone Greets the Queen

1962 • 22 min

Watching Sierra Leone Greets the Queen gives one a flavour of the hectic nature of royal tours; in just one week (from the 25th November to the 1st December 1961) the Queen and Prince Philip covered an exhausting array of sights, zooming around the country to take in the capital city Freetown, Bo, the Guma Dam, digging for diamonds (Sierra Leone’s biggest export), Hangha and observing the iron ore works at Marampa. The visit was politically significant - Sierra Leona had become independent from Britain in April the same year. Colonialism’s influence is felt throughout the film, and not just in the place names (Victoria Park, Queen Elizabeth II Quay) - the ‘day in the life of a Bo schoolboy’ seems not radically different from the British equivalent, while the ‘children’s rally’ consists of boys dressed impractically in boaters and blazers, and girls marching in gymslips.

Le Christ dans la cité

1962 • 11 min • France, Spain

Processions during a holy week in Valladolid.

The Boy with Skates

1962 • 33 min • Soviet Union

A young boy helps war veteran who suddenly feels bad on the street to get into a hospital.

Condemned by Progress

1962 • 11 min • Brazil

The problematic of the railway lines of Rio de Janeiro with their lack of efficiency and waste of government budget are presented through examples and situations that happened in the early 1960's. The documentary also presents possibilities on how to solve such problems.

The Magician's Adventures

1962 • 47 min • China

A magician comes back to Shanghai to find his son separated twenty-five years ago.

Day After Day

1962 • 28 min

A film that looks at life in a small paper-mill town in Québec where most of the 6,500 inhabitants derive their livelihood from the one industry. Day after day, the same work, the same hours, the same machines, the same product, until the entire routine of living becomes but a reflection of the dominant routine of the mill.

Zagreb Parables

1962 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary.

Regardez moi cela suffit

1962 • 7 min • France

Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that’s all.

Vizcaya cuatro

1962 • 12 min

Vizcaya seen from four different points of view: the sea, the countryside, the industry and the landscape. Each of the aspects is treated plastic and dynamically in a different way: black and white, sepia, negative and color. Music also establishes four different modalities.

Along Newfoundland's Shores

1962 • 7 min • Canada

This short documentary includes three vignettes about life off the coast of Newfoundland. In Island of Birds, we visit Green Island, a sea bird sanctuary where puffins frolic. In Caplin Harvest, little silvery fish called caplin spawn by washing ashore along the waves, making an easy catch for fishermen. In Outports on the Move, off-shore houses are pried loose from their foundation and floated to the Newfoundland mainland, where schools, hospitals, stores and services are available to the community.

Volcans endormis

1962 • 19 min • France

Discovery of an unknown region, little known or unknown: the Auvergne, whose lunar landscapes make at first sight as strange as a distant planet. It is then the search for different landscape signs, natural signs, human signs or the same unusual signs, which allow us to know in depth the country we discover, and thus to better love and understand it. Castles having passed through the centuries with more or less happiness, Romanesque art, frescoes, churches, thermal baths from which mysterious patients arise, figures petrified under the moon, and Vichy, the most exotic of the cities, constitute some-one of the stages of this journey where the strange is born from the simple vision of beings and things.