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Stepping Stones - Abstract drama played out in light, color and sound - is made up entirely of original vintage light show projections, excerpts of which were featured in the 2005 Visual Music exhibition at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles

Begins with a picture of Marilyn Monroe, then shifts to a female body, shot from belly button down, which is wriggling under piles of cellophane.

A cautionary tale about the myriad shades and shapes of totalitarianism in an irreverent, surreal 1960s mix of styles featuring acerbic Austrian cabaret icon Helmut Qualtinger speaking in tongues. An exemplary, at the time widely lauded work of West German animation.

The narrator tells of the three sides of health represented by a triangle with the physical side at the bottom, the mental side on the left, and the social side-the subject of this film-on the right.

Sarita is a princess with a rather outgoing and adventurous outlook. She does not like to be tied up with bodyguards, and servants, and wants to be free to do stuff on her own. So one day, she runs away from home. The palace is instructed to searh for her immediately. Sarita comes to the big city, and enters a beauty pageant, which she wins. There is also a parallel pageant for Mr. Handsome, for which the winner is Sanjay Malhotra. Both Sarita and Sanjay have now to represent India on a foreign tour. They come close, and fall in love. It is then that Sarita discovers to her horror, that Sanjay is not who he claims he is, but an imposter.

Film starring Iftekhar, Amirbai Karnataki and Anoop Kumar

Susi and Rajan are classmates. They are also in love. Susi, who had dreamed of a prosperous married life after completing her education, had a lustful and heartless stepfather. With the help of Dalal Lazar, he decided to marry Susi to Chako Sar, an elderly widower and the father of two sons, Jomi and Jolly. Thus, all Susi's hopes were shattered. Rajan, who learned the news, left the country in despair.

SONG 13: A travel song of scenes and horizontals (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Hal looks sternly into the camera in a darkly lit room.

Uses the authentic setting of the state legislature to study how a bill becomes a state law. Includes how the bill is introduced, faces a committee hearing and is brought to the floor for the assembly to act on and goes to the Senate for final action.

Photographed around the time of statehood, depicts hunting and fishing in Alaska's beautiful scenic wilderness.

Promotional film for Bobcat skid-steer loaders, featuring a Bobcat operator and a North Dakota go-go dancer.

Originally, it was to be a serious look at Westerner's influenced by Eastern trends. As it developed, however it became much more humorous with characters in yoga positions with high heels and smoking cigarettes at the same time.

Hand painting, dye treatments and direct collage edited into 'themes and variations' that tell 'a thousand and one' stories. - Stan Brakhage

Walt Disney released this film about the relationship between mankind and horses on 16mm in 1968 for educational purposes.

A humorous look at the future of suburbia.

A color film showing the principal sources of air pollution in the United States and discussing the consequences.

About the development scheme for a residential area in the City. Barbican, which will be largely completed by 1973, will provide about 7,000 people with not only flats and houses but shops, schools and a wide range of cultural and other amenities.

7-inch reel, 1/2-inch videotape.

"NISSAN ARIANA WINDOW is 3/4's of our daughter's name. She was just kid when these pictures were taken. Some were taken before she was born: pregnant Flo together with pregnant cat China sunning themselves under the skylight. Andrew Noren likes the movie." - Ken Jacobs

Bollywood 1968

Scenes from the New Testament, re-enacted among the colors of New England autumn.

This is Rick Patton’s first film, made when he was a student at Antioch college. The stylistic premise was that the film would be a self-portrait, like a still photograph, that changed and grew through time. It is not a story, but it does revolve around a love affair gone wrong and a broken heart. Patton did not show this film for 40 years. He found it embarrassing. Now in his 60s, he is OK with it. All filmmakers have a first film.

About a tall, chain-smoking con man and a short, bulbous patsy of a man.

In order to buy rice cakes for New Year's, Grandpa went out in the snowy weather to sell the umbrellas. On his way home without selling any, he found a Jizo and covered him with a umbrella. That night, while Grandpa and Grandma were sleeping, they heard something singing.

Aspiring model Kathy can't seem to get a break. The tide finally turns in her favour after Kathy meets the devil, who gives her a pair of magical gold shoes that enable Kathy to achieve her goal of becoming a famous and successful model. However, said deal with the devil comes at a significant spiritual price.

After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid change in the images. Two figures emerge from this jungle of color: the first, a shirtless man, appears twice, coming into focus, then disappearing behind the bursts and patterns of color, then reappearing; the second figure appears later, in the right foreground. This figure suggests someone older, someone of substance. The myth? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Edie Sedgwick, in an extremely tight close-up of her face, takes a drag from her cigarette. After one minute, there is an in-camera edit to a medium close-up of her head. Later there is another in-camera edit to a medium shot reveals that she is seated in front of a coloured backdrop.

[…A] tribute to the Sun. It is a celebration of light and water shot in Ohio and while crossing the country to the Northwest during the spring and summer of 1969.

The aesthetic moves progressively from loose “underground” means using expressionistic camera movement, multiple exposures, droning sequences and shock cut towards a static, didactic form of “documentary” marked with long takes, minimal camera movement, a surface concentration on showing how things are. Being silent they operate on sheerly visual means. From the outset they grapple with socio-political issues with the stifling atmosphere of Catholic family life in Italy

A boy earns a wounded dog's loyalty after he nurses the animal back to health.

Structured in nine tableaux each a study of a simple action or situation involving a lone, naked figure, the blind Eros, searching for fulfilment, for self. The objects he touches - books, paintings - can be seen as icons of the creative spirit; there is also a motor cycle and film equipment. In succeeding scenes he appears to try on identities offered by institutional doctrines of religion and social traditions of (overt) masculinity. Much of the film was constructed in-camera with a small amount of editing afterwards. An innovation was the use of in-camera fade-outs as phrase markers, not as terminal points, within a single set-up or shot.

Film based on the ballet 'Coppelia.' This version is completely silent, not containing the songs/narration, or animation of the later reworking, Mysterious House of Dr. C.

Peter Jennings tells us about the hip new sport that all the ladies love - snowmobiling!

Close-up shots of a young white woman dramatically lit, holding hands to her head and yelling, looking fearful. Camera zooms in and out and moves around her. The remaining 2/3 of the film are shots of Robert Capa photos from WWII (including shot of pilot in plane painted with swastikas to indicate enemy planes he shot down), Spanish Civil War, and still frames from Alain Resnais' film, Last Year at Marienbad. Last shot is a sign: "Tradition of the New : Owens The End." Following a partnership with the Chicago Film Society to restore the 16mm films of SAIC alumnus Edward Owens, the Flaxman Library has recently finished new 16mm restorations of Owens' earlier 8mm work.

INDWELLING is a journey involved with the search from the everyday into the overday. It sings the song of pursuit, turmoil, encounter, balance, transcendence and structure. It wears the face of everyman-looking, finding, looking. The accumulations of existence. Composed as visual poetry.

A young woman runs to catch the last post with her weekly pools coupon, whilst imagining a more glamorous life for herself.

A documentary charting the building and opening of Stourbridge Ring Road in 1969.

An animated film using mixed techniques on the natural world and its metamorphoses, Primavera nascosta starts with a voyage in the tradition of abstract experimentalism, exploring sea creatures and then those of the air, only to digress towards heavenly space and astronauts, prior to the conclusion. —Tate Modern

Hashimoto is a Japanese house mouse. He teaches his son how to fish, not because they like fish, but because the cat does. If the cat isn't hungry, the mice can go free.

This work documents an action by Richard Long the creation of a transient line in nature made by repeatedly walking back and forth in a grassy field.

An overview of the First Amendment.

The rising moon is the main theme in this short movie of three people and an animal going about their nocturnal rituals. This movie is evidently part three of my trilogy that started with HOLD ME WHILE I'M NAKED and ECLIPSE OF THE SUN VIRGIN. It evidently is, since part three never really came out. This seems to look like it could be part three. — GK (anthologyfilmarchives.org)

SONG 4: Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Something of an aesthetic convergence between the diaristic autobiographies and quotidian images of Jonas Mekas (as illustrated in his Diaries, Notes and Sketches chronicles) and the hand crafted dissonance and material violence of Stan Brakhage, “Note to Pati” presents a seemingly typical winter scene – the day after a snow storm as a suburban neighborhood digs out from under the accumulation and children make the most of an unexpected day off from school by playing in their winter wonderland. Saul Levine’s images are diffused, faded, and ephemeral, made all the more dissociating by Levine’s disorienting rapid cut editing, restless and twitching camerawork, and destabilized, quick pan sequences – an evocation of a transitory and wide-eyed innocence.

The musician and filmmaker Gino Piserchio is lit from the right and filmed in very tight close-up, his face filling the frame. His hair is combed down over one eye; he blinks and squints against the light, closing his eyes briefly and smiling at his own discomfort.

A lower-caste devotee of Bhagwan Shri Krishan faces life-threatening challenges from upper-caste and wealthy people.

An unemployed black student borrows ten shillings from a friend, then lends the money to a musician he has just met.

A psychedelic tour de force of animation and time drawing, involving the work of seven artists. A major portion of the drawing was done under the influence of LSD and a variety of other hallucinogens. The drawing is almost wholly non-representational. The sound score is a chaotic mind-bending flow which matches the character of the visuals. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2014.

A palindrome created on film. Features interaction between a couple with the recurring line 'Madam I'm Adam'.

Steve tells a psychiatrist his life story of how he became a voyeur.

A documentary film about Hale House, a Chicago home where Swami Vivekananda lived while a speaker at the 1893 Parliament of Religions at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The film lingers on architectural details of the home while a soundtrack of Indian raga sitar music and Vedic chanting fills the air. The film was made by Larry for Swami Bhashyananda, the former head of the Vivekanandra Vedanta Society of Chicago.

This is one of several films and slide shows that feature Smith as a mock celebrity. It opens with the excerpt from No President originally called "Marsh Gas of Flatulandia" - several minutes of black and white footage of steam escaping from manholes segues to an interior scene of various creatures emerging from dry ice vapors - then shifts to show the filmmaker, clad in a leopard skin jump suit, attended by a nurse as he sits amidst the detritus of his duplex loft. A fan presents him with a black-and-white glamour shot to autograph as Ondine, dressed entirely in black leather, snaps his picture. Violence erupts as the nurse takes out a whip to discipline the star's fans. When a female creature pulls out the same dagger depicted in the glamour shot, Smith jumps up and shakes the weapon from her hand. The action is post-scripted with footage of a steam shovel patrolling the rubble where the Broadway Central Hotel once stood.

A look into a Kalmyk American community living in Freewood Acres, New Jersey.

Peter Hujar, shot in close-up, has his face lit from both sides, which creates the usual symmetrical pattern of shadows down the centre of his face.

Brooke Hayward is framed off-centre against a completely black background, with a single light source sharply angled onto her face from the right. She starts with a smile at someone off-screen, but then becomes more pensive, gazing down and furrowing her brows.

In 1968, Christo was invited to Australia by art patron John Kaldor to create the world's largest sculpture, Wrapped Coast. The ABC profiled the work's installation as it sparked debate, wonder, and general befuddlement.

An educational film, made up from stock footage from various Disney nature films, showing the family life and hunting habits of the cougar, and tells how it fits into the world family of cats.

"This film shows the agricultural revolution taking place in the villages of East Pakistan, with the help of American advisors (including Ben Ferguson) who assist the farmers to identify and solve their problems, both individually and with community effort. The film was presented by the Agency for International Development, produced by Amram Nowak, and directed by William Jersey" (US National Archives). The film was distributed by the US Information Agency.

David Secter short film.