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A short documenting Andy Warhol’s exhibition of silk-screened Elvis paintings at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. As Warhol spins around with his camera, multiple Elvises seem to march across the screen.

The magic island of Fogo, seen from the eyes of the kids and the reason why its inhabitants will never leave it.

“Films made by the five Brakhage children; Brakhage arranged them in this form but did not edit them.” –Robert Haller

An extravaganza with all stops out: captures the stylish flamboyancy of Mr. Busby Berkley's shimmering 1930's magic combined with the poltical bullyism of Major Daley's Chicago - 1968. 16mm. bulges at the scenes!

Nico, eating a banana, sits alongside French singer-songwriter Antoine. They are seated below a large peel-off ‘Banana’ poster of The Velvet Underground and Nico’s debut album

Andy Warhol film.

A new version of Nipp and Tuck (Del Ruth / Sennett, 1923)

Before this film no one else, including the French were ever permitted to film the Louvre. The priceless treasures and incomparable art can be shared through the eyes of award-winning filmmaker Lucy Jarvis. Set against the panoramic history of France, and hosted by Charles Boyer, The Louvre, regal palace and home to so many of the world's great gifts of art, becomes THE LOUVRE, a film acclaimed and winner of fourteen national and international awards, so rich in its story that even the Mona Lisa smiles.

"The guerrilla newsreel America a.k.a. Amerika (30 min.) annotates the Eve of Destruction as anti-war teenagers and African American militants talk tough and battle the police, at times to a rock ‘n’ roll beat." - J. Hoberman, Wounded Galaxies: 1968 Festival & Symposium, Indiana University Cinema

Portrait of the poet Mário Cesariny. The poet wanders around Lisbon and is confronted with a series of absurd events.

Celebrated jazz vocalist Anita O'Day, known for her inventive improvisational style and rhythmic instincts, puts on a swinging performance in this vintage 1963 concert filmed in Tokyo. Songs include "Boogie Blues," "Trav'lin' Light," "Honeysuckle Rose," "Avalon," "Bewitched," "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To," "Night and Day," "Let's Fall in Love," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Tea for Two" and more.

An examination of the "go-go" scene, including topless dancers and strippers, in Washington, DC, and Baltimore, Maryland.

Sha//ge, a very young woman about to have her first child, falls ill, probably with malaria. /Ti!kay, a relative and healer, enters a mild trance, without the stimulus of dancing, in an attempt to cure her. Sha//ge lives but the baby is stillborn.

An astonishingly beautiful and wistful 'lost' masterpiece.

"Starring Saul Levine, with some of his camerawork. First part: Birth from the water; Second: in the City with Janet, mostly in darkness; third: a bridge of scratches and flashing splices; ending with his dance on the beach, the world upside down, sunset and afterimage."–M.J.

The Little Ballet Troupe of Bombay performs a "puppet ballet" of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana.

COMPUTER ART SERIES is animated computer/graphic films. The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer graphics, and in some cases combine live action images and animation collage; all are geometric and fast moving and in color. There are eight films in the computer animated art series. As samples of the art of the future all the films explore variations of abstract geometric forms and words. In effect these works could be compared to the illuminated manuscripts of an earlier age. Now typography and design are created at speeds of 100,000 decisions per second, set in motion a step away from "mental movies." POEMFIELD No. 2 and 5 are all colorized by Brown and Olvey.

"Here is the print of the film that I built up during last spring and summer. You all and others may find it able to speak something to you." — A. M., from a letter to the Cooperative.

A children’s art project done at the Norton, Ohio Elementary Schools in 1962. Using scrap wood the 4th, 5th, and 6th graders plan and make wooden sculptures that have a primitive totem-like quality.

After a romantic love affair ends, the young man, broken-hearted, wanders the New York City streets and cafes, remembering the relationship when it was present in his life and feels the loneliness and torment of its ending.

Story, paper- mache characters, sets, animation, camera works, editing and sounds created by 12 children, ages 6-12, at the Yellow Ball Workshop. Red Grooms and Dominic Falcone were also involved with the production

A montage, using documentary material filmed during the war, shows the beginnings of an air attack and Londoners entering shelters. From the silent deserted streets, the film moves underground into the world of Henry Moore's shelter drawings. People sit along subway platforms, looking after their children, settling down for the night, sleeping in bunks and on the floor. Above ground London burns. Henry Moore used the eye of a sculptor in portraying the stolidity and enduring patience of a besieged people. This film brings together a unique series of drawings which are some of the most remarkable achievements of an artist during wartime. Eliminating all narration, it explores, on several metaphoric levels, the very nature of human consciousness and creativity.

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

This film is a record of traditional Aboriginal dancing at Aurukun Mission on Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland. Filmed in 1962 for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, it showcases and preserves Wik ritual dances and ceremonies at a time when customary Aboriginal life was changing and adapting to Western culture.

Short directed by Momar Thiam.

A group of boys playing near the seashore in Tokyo find a goat, kill it in a tug of war for ownership, bury it with ceremony, and, except for one boy, run off in heedless laughter ready for more games.

This UCLA student film captures a psychedelic, kaleidoscopic montage of students, beatniks and hippies on the sidewalk in front of Canter’s Deli on Fairfax Avenue. The happening is edited to music by The Kinks.

"When Ron Rice died, in Mexico, he left a dozen rolls of exposed film. This sample contains four rolls of beautiful color and black and white, shot in Mexico." – Jonas Mekas.

X-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking.

A deconstruction of Dog Star Man that takes the four rolls and shows them first combined, then each combination of three rolls, then each combination of two rolls, then each individual roll. The plot is of a man who goes up a mountain with a dog to chop down a tree but has some unspecified transcendental experience while he is there.

Little Walk (1964) is Michael Snow’s first gallery film installation. It arrives as a diplomatic envoy from New York’s art and film worlds of the sixties – an alternative cinema informed by Minimalism and Happenings, materializations of art as experience projected on Snow’s trademark Walking Woman. "Little Walk" is a dynamic, 12-min silent loop that embodies the experimental nature characterizing the artist's works during that decade. From 1961 to 1967, Snow centred his artistic endeavours across all mediums around the naturalistic outline of a youthful woman. Initially crafted from a cardboard cut-out, the walking woman's image evolved into both the instrument and focal point of Snow's creative expression. "Little Walk," was created for an exhibition curated by Jonas Mekas called "Expanded Cinema." Originally captured on 8mm film, the piece has since been transferred to DVD.

Short film by Allen Downs.

Although they start out fighting over a game of checkers, Paula and her brother Woody painstakingly reflect on what it means to be a good sport. Another entry in Coronet's Beginning Responsibility series.

Documentary follows the life and travels of a group of professional rodeo cowboys.

animals and their relationship to alcohol

A couple interact on a Thursday.

Bruce assumes a set of positions in relation to the wall and floor.

Electron–positron annihilation occurs when an electron (e−) and a positron (e+, the electron's antiparticle) collide. At low energies, the result of the collision is the annihilation of the electron and positron, and the creation of energetic photons: e− + e+ → γ + γ

This promotional short provides a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Mayerling (1968), filmed on location in Vienna, as well as the actual history that inspired the story.

A computer sculpture combining the "...random scattering of lines about specified, but never drawn, trend lines." A 24 second b&w 16mm loop after Richard Lippold's sculpture "Orpheus and Apollo" of 1962. Likely from part of a series on patterns.

Nath and Gautam plan a trip to Bombay with the sole intention to have fun.

Comic essay on the subject of women.

An abstract film using the director's own screenprints and collages from which they were derived.

Film starring Udaya Kumar and Rajkumar

SONG 8: Sea Creatures. The Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1963 to 1969.

Color/black-and-white UCLA Student Film preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Experimental dance film featuring an uncredited Asian male dancer utilizing high-key lighting, split screen, and makeup to highlight the dancer's movements.

At the time, I lived with my wife Ursula and our daughters Katy and Cynnie, together with many, too many cats. I loved my family but not the cats. But one of our cats would wag her tail endlessly as long as her neck was stroked and, with the right music on the film's soundtrack, she really looked like she was conducting the musicians. This idea became Catfilm for Ursula. The audience loved it, and I was awarded a carton of cat food for the film. —Standish Lawder

This is a musical retelling of the classic Clement Moore poem animated with soft sculpture animals.

Experimental film by John Cavanaugh.

Filmed in Nevada's barren Black Rock Desert in July 1969, "Hard Core" opens with an establishing shot of an expansive blue sky immediately evoking the American West, which sets the scene for De Maria's innovative and experimental film. The work intercuts two differing cinematic approaches: one that explores the observational potential of the medium through wide-angle, 360-degree shots that pan over the changing desert landscape, and the other that appropriates familiar visual tropes taken from the Hollywood Western movie genre—such as pistols, Levi's jeans, boot spurs, and leather chaps—and implements them in a performance. The soundtrack is an edited compilation of two of De Maria's "drum compositions," "Cricket Music" (1964) and "Ocean Music" (1968), which creates a sense of anticipation for the viewer. In the last minute of the film, a series of unexpected events unfolds in rapid succession, producing a dramatic climax.

An ultra-grim Highway Safety Films title, thanks to narration that’s even more dour than usual and a chilling musical score by Hungarian composer Zoltan Rozsnyai. This is not the TV series, "Emergency!" These are real people who are hurt. You not only get a glimpse of the gory results of accidents; you see emergency care before the paramedics came into vogue (1969). Miami rolled out the first paramedics that year while Los Angeles County (basis of "Emergency!), along with Portland, began providing street medicine.

The Pink Auto, screened using two projectors, is one of the very first examples of expanded cinema. Jeff Keen walks as a zombie and carry his dead bride through brown English fields.

An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

A record, of sorts, of the birth and death of Tinguely’s famous auto-destructive sculpture. Filmed on the spot at MoMA, this film also exploits a wide range of camera and editing techniques to give it a life of its own, independent of and parallel to the subject. — Anthology Film Archives

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A "non synch narrative poem" in which Ballard visualizes the life of a young woman, now in old age, left on a park bench with her memories.

A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.

The life of a Navajo silversmith. The silversmith carves a figurine, mines for ore and goes about his daily routine.

Psychedelic portrait of a night in the city.

Compilation of fragments filmed by Jerry Jofen in New York City circa 1961-62.

A morality film where Sherlock Holmes solves a case using Boolean logic.