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The title is a quotation from Duchamp. The film is about the colours and structures of soap bubbles, oil on water, etc.

The opening moments of "Psyche Out" introduce a young boy who craves the adventures achieved in the surf. The boy -- or at least his dreams -- seem like they could provide a recurring framing device for Walt Phillips' third film (following "Sunset Surf Craze" and "Surf Mania"), but that's the last we see of the boy or hear of ambitions. "Psyche Out" contains less poetic musing, travelogue, comic relief or similar stuff characteristic of surf films of the time, in favor of surf action at Malibu, Point Zero, Rincon and Steamer Lane. This is to the benefit of the film.

Italian documentary short film.

1966, 16mm film on video, black-and-white and color; 10 minutes

Animated short in which a teacher is transformed into a fish by a group of schoolgirls.

A young man is shunned by his friends after he starts an affair with a dancer.

Recurrent themes of violence, sex and TV commercials. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

Experimental film, Polke plays Polke, Christof Kohlhöfer is behind the camera. Together, the artists present abstruse scenarios and breathe a secret life into everyday things with anarchic humour and subversive magic.

Chambers in R-34 impressionistically documents the work of London, ON collage artist Greg Curnoe through rhythmic and softly focused close-ups. Curnoe’s art intertwines with Chambers’ daily routines: collapsing the art practice of Curnoe with the art of everyday life.

Electrification, and the raiIway men of Rugby adopt new methods and use new machines. In this film they tell in their own words of the great technological changes and the human problems of adapting which each has to face. As with seamen and farmers, railwaymen even today remain curiously close to nature; and gain flexibility of mind from the relationship.

Adventure serial about a school girl's search for lost jewels on a small Sicilian island.

1968 film from India

1969 Indian Malayalam film, starring Prem Nazir, Jayabharathi, Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair and Manavalan Joseph.

The Great Battle of the Volga, focuses on the bravery and suffering of the Russian soldiers as they endure the tremendous attack by the well-equipped German army.

The hills around the mining town of Rock City are infested with outlaws. Sheriff Preston, a gentleman sheriff, prefers to disarm the outlaws with cunning strategy instead of using his gun.

In 'Trapeze Pleeze', bizarrely, Heckle and Jeckle operate a marital bureau and work as matchmakers.

The colour of Scotland as seen through the eyes of Eddie McConnell. Abstract shapes in nature.

An experimental animated short film in which a piano plays a song and the keys, hammers, and various other parts of the piano are different colors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Documentary about Don Quijote's routes.

Cathy James (also known as Catherine James) is posed in front of a purple background. The lighting seems not quite as severe as in her two other Screen Tests (ST162 and ST163).

Screen test of Barbara Rose.

Henry Geldzahler, filmed ins oft focus against the sharply in-focus silver painted Factory wall, fills his time by placidly untying and removing his necktie, turning his collar up, retying his tie, and smoothing his collar down again.

Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was one of the foremost musicians of Hindustani music and was regarded as the best representative of the Patiala Gharana. Possessing an uncommonly rich and mellifluous voice, his forte was Khayals and Thumris. https://archive.org/details/dni.ncaa.SNA-9-VCD

JFK Speech regarding Space Race

A 10,000 mile grand tour beyond the Danube!

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

A County Cork butter-and-egg man trades in his soul for a shot at the bigtime.

In this film record of a studio activity, Nauman set himself the task of walking while playing "two notes [on a violin] very close together so that you could hear the beats in the harmonics." The camera is set centrally in the studio in a stationary position so that when he walks outside of the camera's view at times, only the sounds of the notes and footsteps are heard. Sound and image are out of sync, a situation noticeable only at the end of the film when the sound stops but Nauman continues to pace and play. [Overview Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix]

This vintage U.S. Army instructional film, made for tank crews in training, demonstrates the proper procedures for identifying and engaging targets with the Sheridan M551 light battle tank.

Pilař made the two surviving reels of animation experiments after his return from the 1963 Paris Biennale. The gestural brush painting over the surface of the originally black and white puppet film which he almost completely removed from the stock falls at the beginning of his programme works of expressive collage and assemblage. He returned to it repeatedly, as he did to the material he later reworked for Pink Floyd (ca. 1984) and Colours 1965 (ca. 1991).

In this short film from 1967, filmmaker Henry English attempts to place a context around saxophonist and composer Marion Brown’s flurries of notes and expression. Juxtaposed against performance footage and scenes from Brown’s environment are the musician’s spoken observations in which he, in a gentle Georgia accent, explains some of who he is and how his chosen form of expression (wild, free lines of spontaneous sound) may not be as alien as it must have seemed in 1967. (Austin Film Society)

An exploration of the relationship between man and the industrial surroundings of a fishing factory in rural Iceland.

A documentary about a high school dropout. Uses scenes and narrative from movies which he made to show how his attitude toward learning was changed from apathy to zeal by his movie-making experiences.

Material for this student's thesis film is taken from an experimental collection stories entitled "The Beat Generation and The Angry Young Men". It is a capsule resume of the forces that a young man feels are oppressing him.

Peter Foldès uses video effects to transpose in his own way three choreographies by Dora Feilane.

The multi-award winning animation film in which abstract and representational figures constantly metamorphose into each other, accompanied by electronically manipulated and electronic sounds. Two artists spent over a year of full time to execute the more than 6000 drawings used, many of which were created while under the influence of hallucinogens.

A film of a happening by Allan Kaprow.

Mexican feature film

Experimental short by Bruce Nauman.

Capri, the owner of a motel, arranges for husbands and wives to meet their lovers in privacy. When a woman fails to show up for a tryst, Capri herself substitutes for the woman. She joins in an orgy with two men and two women and watches a young couple make love for the first time.

A Face of War is a 1968 documentary about the Vietnam War, by Eugene S. Jones. The New York Times called it "one of the great Vietnam documentaries." Roger Ebert called it a "heart-wrenching masterpiece".

British animated feature film

The film explains the details of the research scheme instituted by the Government of India for the benefit of young talented scientists. Under the Scheme, Government encourages students with a scientific bent of mind by awarding scholarships from the B.Sc. to Ph.D. degrees.

15 min., sound, 1967

Ahmad Akbar is a cineast with big projects. He wants to launch a cinema place for Black filmmakers, somewhere in the desert, far from LA and Hollywood. Cineland. That's the name of the place, man. Cineland! Akbar makes the American Dream too - a Black version of the Amercian Dream. The White version was fragile. The Black version is desperate.

"Whereas SQUARE INCH FIELD was composed largely in the camera, Rimmer's next film, MIGRATION, made full use of rear-projection rephotography, stop-framing, and slow motion. The migration of the title is interpreted as the flight of a ghost bird through aeons of space/time, through the micro-macro universe, through a myriad of complex realities. A seagull is seen flying gracefully in slow motion against a grainy green sky; suddenly the frame stops, warps and burns, as though caught in the gate of the projector. Now begins an alternation of fast and slow sequences in which the bird flies through time-lapse clouds and fog and, in a stroboscopic crescendo, hurtles into the sun's corona. Successive movements of the film develop rhythmic, organic counterpoints in which cosmic transformations send jelly fish into the sky and ocean waves into the sun." - Gene Youngblood. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

A neo-realist drama set near the crumbling Arrow Theatre. Two street bodgies hang around near the station and try to terrorise an Italian girl. A boy tries to fight for her and is beaten up. The dry streets of Middle Park reflect the crabbed lives of the star-crossed lovers.

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.

A Modern Madcap animated short from Famous Studios.

On Love, Sex, Violence, War and Tchaikowsky. "The filmmaker uses the objects of painter Salcedo to poke gentle and savage fun at society and its follies... a continuous mad charade!" -- Tom Chomont. On Arocha: "I know of no films more uncompromising in grotesquerie of burlesque, in gigantism of overstatement, than the comedies of Arocha. His actors are possessed to frenzy with their roles, filled to bursting with their identities; they hypertrophy into fantastic growths, revealing comic flaws enormous, monstrous enough to swallow whole the old familiar characters of Samson, Traviata, and Dracula, and even to make the best of us laugh." -- Ken Kelman.

This short documentary describes a day in the life of a peasant family Lucania. The parents go to the fields and leave their 10 year old girl take care of numerous children.

A heartfelt story of personal and cultural discovery.

Animated interview of a freaky musician.

A princess and a boy, along with their two animal friends, outwit a wizard and return a ruby back to an idol in order to help a guard transformed into a monkey.

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.

Rod's curiosity about Gary's treck to the bushes turns into a modeling and wrestling session---ending on a warm note of 'togetherness'.

Robert Wynne-Simmons' most ambitious early film has surreal overtones of 1960s series such as "The Prisoner" and "The Avengers".

Catch A Tiger is an educational film that shows some of the spontaneous results in music, dance and art when the nursery school child's innate creative forces are permitted to find expression in a favorable environment. The audio records the children exploring the sounds of instruments, rhythmic language and song. Part one, was recorded and filmed at the Griffin Nursery School at Berkeley, CA, Elinor Griffin Teacher-Director Part two filmed at the South Mountain Cooperative Nursery School at Millburn, New Jersey, Blanche Dorsky Teacher-Director From Nathaniel Dorsky: Catch A Tiger, which showed the activity in two nursery schools that experimented with allowing four year olds to improvise in music and visual constructions and assemblages. I was inspired to do this by my mother, Blanche Dorsky, whose nursery school was one of the two presented.

In this World War II documentary, we examine several of the controversial bombings of the war. Included is Allies bombing of the Benedictine Monastery on Monte Cassino.