All Films

Love Exists

1960 • 20 min • France

An essay film critiquing post-war France's urban developments- Pialat states that modernity and suburban convenience have limited Parisian freedom and widened class gaps.

Magritte or the Object Lesson

1960 • 14 min • Belgium

The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object, its image and its name: the evocation of mystery consists of images of familiar things gathered or transformed in such a way that they no longer conform to our ideas, whether naive or wise.

Dispossession

1960 • 12 min • Mexico

An experimental film in which time breaks again and again at the moment of death, where the seconds become whole lives condemned.

American Maker

1960 • 25 min • United States of America

Portrays all Americans as makers, with a rich tradition of pride in workmanship and satisfaction of needs.

Islands of the Sea

1960 • 28 min • United States of America

This short covers some of the wildlife (predominently birds) on four islands-the Galapagos, Guadelupe, Falklands and an island in the Midway chain. While touching very briefly on the turtles of Galapagos and a bit more in-depth on two varieties of iguana and a species of crab, the documentary focuses primarily on birds, including several species of penguin on at least two of the islands, cormorants, frigate birds and the albatross.

Marriage of Convenience

1960 • 58 min • United Kingdom

A young woman going to her wedding is waiting for her fiancée, a hood in custody, who is allowed by the police to go to his wedding.

Necessary Years of Learning

1960 • 25 min • East Germany, Germany

Böttcher made his graduation film about young people who had become delinquent in a youth work yard in Thuringia. Already here a striking feature of his later films becomes apparent: Jürgen Böttcher gives his protagonists a lot of space; he approaches them without prejudice, empathetically and carefully. In addition, his curiosity can be felt in the life situations and stories of his characters.

Re-enactment

1960 • 58 min • Romania

In 1959, in Romania, six former members of the nomenclature and the secret police organize a hold up of the National Bank. After their arrest, the state forces them to play themselves in a film which reconstitutes the crime and the investigation. At the end of their trial, filmed live, they are sentenced to death and executed. except the women, Monica Sevianu that due to the fact that she had 2 children she was punished to do hard work for life.

How Some Jellyfish Are Born

1960 • 14 min • France

At a marine biology station, a clump of algae reveals polyps, stomachs with limbs, limbs with buds, buds with poison cells. This animal reproduces by buds, which we watch close up in time-lapse images. In another kind of jellyfish, the buds grow inside then live outside for a few days until being on their own. Another produces eggs, sometimes self-fertilized. Some single eggs become buds with colonies. Another clump gathered at low tide consists of filaments of a colony - plumes with poison ends. In images taking 72 hours, we see filaments grow and produce a feeding organ from which a plume emerges. New jellyfish emerge from buds twice a day at set times to form a new colonies.

Smaragdin

1960 • 15 min

Smaragdin was selected at the Annecy Festival in 1960 and constitutes an astonishing contribution to the history of experimental animation cinema in Quebec and Canada. Carried by a text by Lucile Durand (Louky Bersianik), narrated by a young Marcel Sabourin, this totally independent film, based on mixed techniques including salt animation, was forgotten for sixty years.

Face to Face: Tony Hancock

1960 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Tony Hancock engages in self-reflection, looking back at his childhood, his need to work, his health issues, and whether he could ever truly be happy. The program is believed to have played a role in his eventual downfall by amplifying his proclivity for self-criticism. During the interview, John Freeman posed probing questions about Hancock's life and career. Despite his admiration for the interviewer, Hancock seemed uneasy but responded candidly. Known for his inherent self-critical nature, it is frequently posited that this interview intensified that trait, ultimately contributing to his subsequent challenges. According to Roger, Hancock's brother, "It was the most significant misstep he ever took. I believe it all stemmed from that moment. Self-analysis - that became his undoing.

This Is Alsace

1960 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Alsace-Lorraine is well known as a winegrowing region and the film takes an interesting look at the vineyards and at some of the less well-known but equally interesting sights in the locality.

Una historia negra

1960 • 8 min • Argentina

An animated short film about oil.

Rapids Ahead/Bear Country

1960 • 48 min • United States of America

The first half is a salute to John Wesley Powell, the first man to explore the Colorado River. Walt Disney presents a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Ten Who Dared on the same waters. Then the True-Life Adventure Featurette: Bear Country is shown.

The End of the Black Swamp

1960 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A modern fairy tale about how the draining of swamps forces forest evil spirits - Baba Yaga, Vodyany, Leshego - to retreat or "re-educate".

Amerindia

1960 • 47 min • Chile

Montage documentary, built on footage taken during an expedition with the participation of writer Enrique Zorrilla, photographer Roberto Montandón and Leopoldo Castedo. Synthesis of a journey of one hundred thousand kilometers between Mexico and Tierra del Fuego around the heritage of the native peoples of Latin America.

Lifetime of Comedy

1960 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Compilation of comedy sketches from the comedy kings Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye & Bing Crosby.

La Mélangite

1960 • 4 min • France

Unfinished film project from Agnès Varda (c. 1960)

The Big Bounce

1960 • 15 min • United States of America

The story of the Echo communications satellite program, developed by Bell Laboratories, that eventually resulted in telephone calls being able to be made through satellites.

Vanka

1960 • 31 min • Soviet Union

9-year-old boy complains about his hard life in a letter to his grandfather.

The Wall

1960 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Experimental short film from Yugoslavia with almost no plot. First half of the film displays a girl trapped behind some walls. She stumbles around trying to find a way out, and to see what's going on in the outer world. Her frustration grows as she cannot find a way out. Then she suddenly sees a man literally walking through a wall...

I Was a Teenage Magoo

1960 • 6 min • United States of America

Told in flashback, the plot has teenage (but still nearsighted) red-headed Magoo picks up his date "Melba" (a kangaroo) from her home (in a circus) and go on a picnic.

Ready, Woolen and Able

1960 • 6 min • United States of America

A hungry Ralph Wolf wants to swipe and eat some of the sheep in Sam Sheepdog's flock. Not only does Sam foil all of Ralph's schemes.

Diario

1960 • 13 min • Argentina

Life and use of a newspaper, from its preparation and distribution until it becomes a paper boat as a toy for a child. It won the silver bear in the Festival of Berlin.