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SONGS 21 & 22: Two views of closed-eye vision (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

"Momentum is Belson's most serene and gentle film since Allures. This treatment of the sun as an almost dreamlike hallucinatory experience is both surprising and curiously realistic." -Gene Youngblood

The advertising team at Avon pulled together this ersatz part-travelogue to demonstrate where fragrance comes from and how fragrance makes all of our lives better. (Fandor)

It discusses the miracle of reproduction in nature, emphasizing that all life begins from tiny eggs. It illustrates the reproductive processes of plants, fish, birds, and mammals, detailing how pollen fertilizes seeds in flowers, how fish use milt to fertilize eggs, and how birds and mammals have unique methods for reproduction. It explains human reproduction, including the menstrual cycle, fertilization, and the development of a fetus in the mother's womb. The narrative concludes by highlighting the significance of love and marriage in raising children, showcasing the continuity of life through reproduction.

hong kong film

A sports documentary about association football that follows a week in the life of West Bromwich Albion football club.

Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A cinéma vérité portrait of a working-class African-American community in Venice, California.

Short by György Kepes.

As students take to the streets in New York and Berkeley, the state violence that follows illustrates Chicago Mayor Daley's thesis that the police are there "to preserve disorder".

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

A man goes to a "psychic adviser" with a problem--he's a "peeping Tom". He's also, as the adviser is slowly realizing, a psychotic serial killer who can't help bragging about the rapes and murders he's committed. The adviser tries to figure out a way to turn him over to the police without becoming his next victim.

The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.

Set in and around Darwin the film discloses the life of a full-blood Aborigine as depicted in Douglas Lockwood's book of the same name. Philip Roberts recalls his early years of tribal life and gradual acceptance by the white community. He receives medical training, and travels frequently to his own people making use of his knowledge.

A combination of the stories of "Cinderella" with "Jack and the Beanstalk," in which Sad Cat beats his two "dear, mean brothers" up the giant beanstalk. Sad Cat's two brothers poke fun at him for being so dumb. He goes into the business of selling magic beans.

Experimental film reflecting on the issue of world hunger, inspired by the animation techniques used in National Film Board of Canada documentaries. It was collectively created by Simón Banhos, Oscar Moreschi, Miguel Ángel Biasutto, and Walter Mignolo and produced with funds raised through the Cineclub Sombras, founded by the filmmakers in 1963. The short film won the Best Experimental Film Award at the first International Festival of Experimental and Documentary Film (FICED) organized by the Catholic University of Córdoba in August 1964, with the jury chaired by Canadian Norman McLaren.

This film attempts to awaken our social consciousness. It brings to light certain evils of our society and shows how the people must co-operate with the Government in its fight against corruption in the country.

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

Experimental film based on dance choreography.

A study of the generation gap, this program contains questions on the types of social change and societal restraints the participants would welcome or reject. In addition, participants were asked about their views of their parents' values as well as their own, and which political events had affected their life and values. Other questions covered abortion, sexual relations, civil disobedience, criticism of American society, drugs, career goals, the draft, and tactics to be used in social change.

Noren's first film is a Godard-inspired experimental narrative that was lost in a fire in 1970

Two young people destroy one another, yet no blood is shed. The actions are apparently simple, obvious, and effortless. There has been an avoidance of obvious or heavy symbolism.

A simple contemplation of the plum tree through a window. In rich black and white.

Made for the NSPCC by the noted film director John Krish, They Took Us To The Sea follows a group of children taken by Inspectors of the NSPCC on an outing from Birmingham to Weston-Super Mare.

This early travelogue film, made in a Kenyan train station, captures an impromptu musical performance. Some passengers eagerly join in while others sleep—blissfully unaware of the performance taking place around them.

Often cited as the “first fashion film,” Claxton used this is an experiment of women’s imaginative ways of creating self-image. In the sixties, while defining female sexuality through fashion and the world of power in art.

"Each film is composed of a single loop which undergoes multiple transformations. They can be shown independently or in any order."–MJ

In this feature documentary, American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky goes to war against the conditions that keep the poor in poverty. The film shows how he helped Black ghettos in the United States find an effective, non-violent method of fighting for their rights.

Andy Warhol’s two-reel portrait of the dancer once billed as “the most beautiful man in the world.” In 1965, Swan was eighty-two years old and still performing his aesthetic dance routines in weekly salons attended by the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Alexander Calder.

SONG 1: Portrait of a lady (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

This travelogue tells the story of Turkey from 200BC, including the attack by the Greeks, Romans, the origination of the first seven religions, the Crusades, the creation of the Turkish State and the modern tourist industry. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Produced by the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1964, It Started with Muybridge begins with a voiceover proclaiming the center’s mission: “research and development for tomorrow’s weapons”. The future’s bombs, this training film claims, will be detonated atop the shoulders of yesterday’s “photographer extraordinary”, Eadweard Muybridge.

"This unfinished civil rights-era film details how segregation affects the daily lives of African Americans, and includes portions of interviews with James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, and Ralph Metcalfe. Farmer, Wilkins, and Young were considered to be among the “Big Four” leaders in the U.S. civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King, Jr. The film also describes the strides and challenges faced by African Americans in the areas of voting, housing, and education. The film was written by Louis Lomax, produced by Willard Van Dyke, directed by Graeme Ferguson, and narrated by Charles Gordone" (US National Archives).

16mm Film by Al Wong.

Susan Bottomly/International Velvet's screen test is dark as her piercing eyes stare into the camera, as Warhol plays with the lighting and zoom features.

An unusual version of the classic children's tale. Litte Red Riding Hood was performed at the Labatt Marionette Theatre in London, Ontario. The adaptation was written by James Reaney, the puppets were created by Greg Curnoe and the performance was filmed by Jack Chambers. This film was unreleased.

Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between actor Jack Smith and director Ken Jacobs shortly after the shooting began. A title card explains that Smith 'would've starred as the Fairy Vampire.'

Defined as an ‘animated medley’ by its maker, the film is an animated photographic tribute to cinema through a gallery of stars from the silent era onward, alternating with more or less disorienting images of various origins. Through the widest range of techniques, recombined according to an associative logic that could evoke the cinema of the dada avant-garde, but also fashion magazines from the past, Amour du Cinéma is undoubtedly a singular film with pop overtones. —Tate Modern

This film captures a bit of their environment, which includes the Lower East Side, the Waldorf Astoria, the MacDougal Street scene, police harassment, show biz, humanity, their audiences and the film-maker.

Documentary short

Naturalness willfully corrupted by inevitable self-consciousness, unwittingly corrupted by unavoidable naturalness, a role played with incredible nuance and complexity by Maurine Connor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

First film made in Wolfgang Staudte's seminar at the DFFB. The film reflects Briel's own experience with bureaucracy — shot at his former workplace at Fehrbelliner Platz in West Berlin. The cast consisted entirely of non-professional actors. Director of photography: Gerry Schum (DFFB student). Assistant director on all his academy films: Norbert Maas, a theater student.

A promotional concert film for The Dave Clark Five

Comedic amateur film made by Central Cinema Photographers club member Fred Strauss depicting the chaotic production of a film of a woman on a beach. Strauss humorously acts out all of the roles except for "The Girl" (played by Mister E star Mary Ann Kuch).

transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

Whilst on a winter sports holiday in the Highlands, five children encounter an eccentric Professor, and find themselves involved in a web of industrial espionage.

1967 David E. Perry short

The swingest go-go show ever! Ever!!

A film by italian filmmaker Gianni Amico.

A shortened, sixty-minute version of Der Golem, re-edited for US release and featuring a score by Cordula Heth.

16mm B/W Sound UCLA Student Film

Chick Strand's first film, made while living in the Bay Area, features her young son Eric as a little boy traipsing through a mysterious landscape, perhaps pursued by the titular monsters. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation and Pacific Film Archive in 2009.

Dr. Frankenstein and his hunchbacked assistant create a well-endowed monster.

A popular and gifted teenager draws concern from his teacher when she discovers that he doesn't care about education, has no plans for the future, and methodically does the bare minimum to pass his classes.

A wealthy and snobbish woman's life undergoes changes when her daughter marries a commoner.

Originally shot in color, this politically-charged special was a collaboration between young artists angry at the system. Just days before airing, the Master tapes were 'accidentally' erased. It was taken to court and, after several years, the local TV station was found guilty of willfully destroying the tapes. Featuring inventive VFX and co-opting songs by the Doors, Dylan and the Steve Miller Band. "Seven young men, each of them involved in one of the arts [...] talk for the greater part of the film. They are involved in a discussion of mystical processes important to them" - Film-makers Co-Op

This film, shot by filmmakers from NASA, the U.S. Space Agency, chronicles the events leading up to human spaceflight. It shows the training of pilots, the technical description of inhabited capsule launches, and their guidance its from the ground and from inside the cabin itself. The strictly technical documentary shows the preparation of an actual launch to put a Mercury capsule into orbit. We meet Shepard and Glenn here, and of the latter we see the triple orbital flight with long sequences from inside the cabin studying the cosmonaut's reactions.

Terry is a brat who doesn't listen to his parents, so his mother calls in a child psychiatrist (Professor Schmaltz). The shrink tries to mentor the very rowdy, troublemaking young boy, but Terry gets the best of the professor.