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4 girls in front of a camera trying to be as still as possible while shot in a single fram sequence. Alternating with the girls are black spaces and single frame shots of store mannequins, skeletons, dolls, etc. The sound track is applied with household bleach and a fine pen, rows of dots producing the actual sounds heard, a kind of rushing roaring, the way breathing sounds through a stethoscope. The sound is synchronized directly with any live shot, the black spaces being left silent, building to a kind of expectancy as shots continually shorten. –K. D.

Jane's malevolent pendulum clock mocks humanity's careless, accident-prone ways.

A Film of a Claes Oldenburg Happening, Ray Gun Theater, 1962.

Abstract exercise in pattern recognition.

A second Hershey Lou Reed screen test.

Whips was one of the films mentioned in a half page ad in the April 7, 1966 issue of the Village Voice, advertising The Exploding Plastic Inevitable show at the Dom.

Professor needs a brain to have his monster, Igor, alive. Wrong brain causes monster to kill the creator and then Inspector Klutz shoots the monster.

Created for the "Esso World Theater" series of films in 1964, it features excerpts from "Bugaku," "Gagaku," "Noh, " and "Kabuki" scenes performed by the well-known dancers, musicians and actors and actresses.

Psychiatrist Dr. Henri Legrand reviews the files of several sexually frustrated suburban housewives who are shown having sex with salesmen, bellboys and repairmen.

This film presents a series of flickering frames of primary colors to groaning tape manipulations. ‘Though I have worked extensively in various media, from music to poetry to film to performance to multimedia and installation art, there is a single thread that runs through most of my creative work: I am fascinated by the potential of light and sound to produce sheer magic.’ (V. Grauer)

A short sports documentary exploring a resort with many sports champions in attendance.

The phenomenon of male prostitution in Rome in the late 1960s.

Apocalypsis cum figuris by Jerzy Grotowski.

Combining colour, animation and sound to clarify principles of radio-wave transmission, this film illustrates how antennas propagate radio waves.

Farm fresh Ruth gets off the bus at Port Authority and marches wide-eyed straight into the clutches of the seedy Village. She answers an ad for "two groovy girls looking for a roommate - lots of fun" and makes herself right at home with Sylvia and Gigi. The Girls tell her all about their rough experiences with big city men. How Gigi got coerced into prostitution by her scheming, deadbeat boyfriend, who tells her that he needs money to pay off a bad investment (and then finds him two-timing her!) Sylvia was married to a kinky guy who enjoyed reading the Marquis de Sade and getting a good swiping across his back (which was all fine and good until he wanted to reciprocate the favor!) Ruth finds out that men are filthy pigs when she answers an ad for a modeling job. While she poses coyly for the camera, the lecherous photographer focuses on her crotch and makes the moves on her! In the end, the girls take matters into their own hands and deal with a filthy male!

While Cousin Maggie is away, Honey Halfwitch gets soaked in a potion that makes her grow to gargantuan proportions.

A cinéma vérité documentary observing the Fischer family of Aberdeen, South Dakota, following the 1963 birth of the first surviving American quintuplets. Filmed shortly after the event, the film contrasts civic promotion, media attention, and commercial interest with the private fatigue and quiet suffering of Mrs. Fischer, revealing the tensions between spectacle and family life.

Animation sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the problems posed by big government. Congressman Mark O'Gulliver finds himself stranded in Animalia, a remote island in the Pacific inhabited by talking, clothed rabbits, bears, lions, hippos, and other animals. The island government mirrors that of the United States, and O'Gulliver has issues finding his way home due to stuffy bureaucracy.

A segment of “Love at Twenty” is a story of an unwed mother who contrives to trap the father of her baby.

A man is supine on a mountain side. Images rush past of nature and a stained glass saint. An infant is born. We see a lactating nipple. Images include a mountain peak, farm buildings, a tree stump, a fire, a crawling baby, and the sun. The man falls and rolls. Then, later, he swings his ax.

Experimental short directed by Jeff Keen.

Avant-garde short by Lawrence Jordan.

An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar, in which Babette tells all, leaving no turgid stone unturned.

A romantic relationship develops between Mona the flight attendant, and Waheed, the playful young man who exploits her love and escapes. Several years later, they meet on a plane as he fails to justify himself. However, when he has an accident, She stands by him. Does a lover forget his beloved?

Short film featuring Takahiko and Akiko Iimura

A film by Frank Zappa made for the Dilexi Foundation on KQED

SONGS 19 & 20: Women dancing and a light (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Swifty is a salesman at a suit store where his job is on the line for being rude to the customers. He has one more chance to make things right. Shorty is looking for a new suit and attempts to get help from Swifty, but he gets the runaround.

Sponsored film made by Goldsholl Associates for Kimberley-Clark Coporation. Through animation and still photography, and live action, the film introduces viewers to the company's "TexoPrint" product - a versatile plastic printing paper.

A documentary filmed in the village of Hoi showing the rhythm of daily life, including farming, fishing, preparation of food and social relationships in the South Pacific islands of Tonga.

An enquiry, at once lyrical and tragic, into the reality of (the inner Sydney suburb of) Balmain in 1969 - an historical, beautiful and ideally located residential suburb threatened with partial extinction by lack of government planning and foresight, and by indifferent to residents' interests. Peter King, 'The Australian'

An upside-down close-up of the artist’s mouth, Nauman repeats the words “lip sync” as the audio track shifts in and out of sync with the video. The disjunction between what is seen and heard keeps the viewer on edge, struggling to attach the sound of the words with the off-kilter movements of Nauman’s mouth.

A short film about a Mexican boy who travels by donkey.

Film announcing the November 4, 1968 demonstration and urging demonstrators to be prepared to fight.

An experimental film by David E. Perry

Short film By Robert Fulton.

Nodding to the TV actress Mary Martin, who took part in a New York anti-litter campaign in 1961, Paul Morrissey imagines a pretty young litter-picker turned murderess who poisons bums with adulterated booze until an old bag lady throws her under a motorized street sweeper.

The entire process of puppy birth, photographed in detail is produced to introduce the concepts of human and animal reproduction to children.

“The Ghost of Wittgenstein”, “I’d Rather be Half Right Than Vice President” alongside “Lost in Cudilhy” form that experimental trifecta of experimental or just plain mental art movies known as “The Charlotteruse with the Medal of the Wobbling Bubble in its Palm Trilogy”. Restored in 2017 comprise an essential 16MM restoration project by producer / director Ira Schneider, who is the undisputed master of the experimental doc genre as well as being the unsung founder of video art. They are to be re-released at the Prada Fondazione in Milan and Paris Independent Film Festival 2017. Restoration producer is Claudine Biswas-MacKenzie MA.

First episode of the TV series Cenas da Vida de uma Actriz [scenes from the life of an actress], written by Costa Ferreira and with Eunice Muñoz.

A documentary by David Hoffman shot in 1965 on handheld 16mm. It presents one tough union negotiator working for New York's public employee union - DC37, a part of the AFL--CIO.

A film poem using found film and stock footage altered by printing, home development and solarization. It is a film using visual relationships to invoke a feeling of flow and movement. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with National Film Preservation Foundation in 2011.

Astronut was a kind, zany guy from outer space who always seemed to get into trouble. Oscar was his human friend.

A woman wakes up in the grips of a nightmare: a spirit has possessed her. To be cured, she has to go to a healer who practises exorcisms. With an ethnological slant, the film concentrates on the healing ceremony, the N'Doep.

On the one hand, a healthy child who has enough to eat. On the other hand, a poor, undernourished kid. On the one hand, a quarter of the blue planet's children. On the other hand, the remaining three quarters.

Two screenwriters write a sexy western while surrounded by naked, hot-to-trot girls on a secluded dude ranch. Typical softcore shenanigans.

This film follows a rural family to a county fair, showing scenes of horse races, concessions, corn judging contests and tractor demonstrations; Gerald "Red" Markham farm near town of Whitewater, near LaGrange, Walworth Co. Wisconsin.

Goodie the Gremlin is on trial for ruining the bad deeds of the other Gremlins. The Gremlin judge orders the nonconformist to sabotage a rocket flight to the moon. Goodie foils the plot and the rocket heads for the moon on schedule.

A young woman identified only as Virginia Tusi, is posed against a light plywood backdrop and wearing dangling, flower-shaped earrings. She looks back at the camera from beneath her long, shiny hair. She speaks to the camera, saying something that looks like ‘beautiful’.

Gloria has sex problems. She is a frigid virgin, but is also a "tease", who encourages sexual advances from men and then shuts them down when they respond. One night, after scornfully turning down a pass made by her boyfriend Paul, she is attacked and raped in her hallway. She finds that the attack sexually stimulates her and begs her attacker to stay with her, but the man--high on drugs--ignores her and leaves after the rape. The experience turns her from a notorious "tease" into a promiscuous nympho with a voracious sexual appetite--for both men and women. Complications ensue.

Having nothing to do with racial tensions, HOUSE OF THE WHITE PEOPLE is actually a chunk of film removed from a bigger chunk called UNSTRAP ME. It is a documentation of George Segal creating the basic elements for one of his statues preceded by rare glimpses into his own private museum. Donna Kerness serves as his live model. Walter Gutman sits on a chair and walks around a bit, being that he produced the film. Helen Segal, personifying the ageless saying, "behind every man there stands a woman," stands behind her man and also stands in front of him occasionally. The film is a unique invitation to view the hidden rituals of a famous artist and his infamous model, half naked, snowbound together on a lonely farm, with a silent wife and a notorious guest.

"Late one night in the Time/Life Building in 1969, the television speaks." - Wheeler Winston Dixon

Brazenly experimental, the film illuminates the debilitating effect of mental illness, imaginatively but discreetly conveying the message of its sponsor (Roche) while showing real insight and sensitivity towards its subjects. Its brutally graphic opening brings mental turmoil sharply into focus.

A man recites his past sexual encounters.

A trance film originally released in 1966 as THE STAR CURTAIN, about the settling and relaxation of the senses after a climax. "Sentences" of cosmic imagery were added in 1969 to form the vision glimpsed in the trance. Dialectic opposition of picture and sound. TANTRA played at the San Francisco Film Festival of 1970.

Dr. Wilmer continued his group therapy work in the late 1960's through the University of California at San Francisco, eventually establishing the Youth Drug Ward at the Langely Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. The Youth drug ward served young hippies from the Haight-Ashbury district who had experienced adverse affects from drug use. The therapy included "creativity seminars" which featured such artists as Joan Baez and Rod Steiger. Also during the 1960s, Wilmer worked extensively with inmates from the San Quentin prison and their families.

A selection of publicity clips mounted together in one film to show the techniques of NFB animators. As in Hors-d'oeuvre, these "quickie" films were produced originally for government agencies, to carry messages to the public.