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Steve and Kathy figure out how to break up.

Gay horror short double-billed with Frankenstein de Sade.

"Waves across the Pacific" is a documentary featuring Dr. Walter Munk and his colleagues at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. In 1963, Munk conducted an experiment tracing the course of waves and wave energy from their origins in Antarctica to the shores of Alaska. Oceanographers had speculated for some time that Antarctic storms generate enormous waves which can be detected half-way around the globe. The experiment included development of special instrumentation to detect waves and installation of recording stations along points in the Pacific (including use of the new Floating Instrument Platform, FLIP). The experiment collected some ten million data points on tape documenting waves from 12 major storms; with computer analysis of the data, the scientists succeeded in plotting the wave climate across the Pacific.

n 1964 Robert Smithson made a sculpture called Enantiomorphic Chambers that cleverly exploited our two-eyed nature to haunting metaphysical ends. Stepping between the two chambers, the viewer sees his or her image cancelled out by precisely coordinated mirrors, accomplishing Smithson’s task of “eliminating the consciousness that regulates binary vision.” Curators Kevin Regan and Christopher Howard have teamed up to turn NURTUREart Gallery into an entantiomorphic chamber of their own devising, though with a rather different aesthetic than Smithson’s. Noticing a simple iconographic trend in which a number of contemporary practices make use of reflected images, Regan and Howard have turned this underrecognized phenomenon into a full-scale metaphysical research project, complete with its own blog to document ongoing discoveries.

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. "A powerful New American Cinema drama in which the elements of sex (including inter-racial sex) and violence have been deliberately exploited to the nth degree in order to create, in effect, an anti-sex and violence film in terms of the emotional response of the audience"--Creative Film Society 16 mm. film rental & sale catalogue, 1975. "For me, The breadth of the bones is an attempt to give the audience experiences and feelings that are a part of themselves but which they choose to deny"--Alan Barker.

In this amateur domestic comedy by Chicago’s Metro Movie Club, housewives use 16mm film to outwit their horny husbands.

Animation Workshop Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A hand-drawn animation made during the start of the anti-Vietnam War and anti-Cold War movement in the United States.

An impressionistic sequence of experiences—a kind of Rorschach test—meant to evoke individual personal responses on various levels.

After a brief sequence of Nazi rallies (including shots from Triumph of the Will), German footage of the invasion of Poland, and Julien Bryan footage of the siege of Warsaw in September 1939, this film uses still photographs (some from Himmler's personal collection) and much of the 1942 German propaganda footage shot in the Warsaw Ghetto. It details the daily struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto, including scenes of poor sanitation, smuggling food from outside, beggars, Jewish Police and the ghetto prison, deportations, collaboration, and resistance. It uses film footage of flamethrowers and German artillery to represent the putting down of the Ghetto uprising under General Stroop.

Disney 8mm film.

This film is intended to explain to pregnant women whose babies are soon to be born what to expect from the labor and delivery experience. It addresses how to distinguish false labor from true labor, when to pack a bag for the hospital, what procedures will be carried out to prep the woman for delivery, the types of anesthetic a doctor might order, and techniques for minimizing discomfort. Changes in the cervix and uterus are illustrated with animation techniques, while the birth of the baby, including episiotomy and use of forceps, are shown in a real hospital room.

"Carousel is a colorful film that takes us on today's merry-go-round through an excellent editing job and the use of music. This 3 1/2 minute work of art is by Louis Grenier of Chicago" PSA Journal, Nov. 1969, 57.

Circa. mid to late 1960s. If one thing has to amp up their game, it has to be creative. It needs to think outside the box. Enter Siegbert Reinhard, a paper sculpture artist. The folks at Cascade Pictures, made all kinds of animation, 2D, stop-motion, and paper cut-outs.

"Three Film Poems (1964-65) and Pariah (1966) are highly personal film poems that use lush color cinematography to create a sense of loss and nostalgia; both films are compact and economically constructed, running 22 minutes and 29 minutes respectively." - Wheeler Winston Dixon

Nauman, his head cropped from the frame, is shown bouncing in the corner of his studio. Here, however, the images were recorded with a fixed camera that was inverted rather than turned on its side. -- EAI

The future is something that concerns everyone. What is in store for us? On the basis of prophecies that have come true, the credibility of the Bible is examined with regard to predictions that are yet to come.

"An extraordinary film, which powerfully evokes the feeling of the city, but more important, a film of fine graphic design." - Lenny Lipton

Formed on the Lower East Side of New York to side step high prices, poor quality, and weight cheating of local supermarkets.

Short film by G. Fioroni.

A family from the town of Vichigasta collects the fruits of the carob tree.

Based on the original engravings of Piero Fornasetti. An animated bit of whimsy triggered by the premise that IDEAS lead to IDEAS. In what has been described as 'film absurdity' Kosower manipulates a woman's face into the bizarre and the beautiful. Kosower taught animation and film graphics at USC, where two of his students were George Lucas and John Milius.

a Terrytoons Cartoon

A short, silent film depicting the beaches of Cannes, France; also the sight of the annual Cannes Film Festival. Focuses primarily on capturing families, couples, and other revelers swimming, sailing, etc. Festivaltown prominently features the sunny French Riviera, site of the annual Cannes Film Festival. Children and men and women of all ages go sailing, swimming, and take long walks on the boardwalk. Luxurious landmarks such as the InterContinental Carlton Cannes can be seen looming in the background throughout the film.

Arrival Supermarket Architecture is a silent structuralist film that explores the facades of various architectural landmarks juxtaposed against the purely capitalist edifices ensconced within supermarkets.

A revelation of the distant universe, accomplishing through film animation what even the most far-seeing telescope cannot do. The film explores the fourth state of matter, the plasma that fills the infinite void between stars and galaxies. Single atoms in space, or planets as large as the sun, are each seen to have their own magnetic fields, attracting to themselves streams of invisible particles just as iron filings are drawn to a magnet. This has the same awe-inspiring quality as the earlier Universe, with colour adding to its wonder and dimension.

The best surfers of the late 1960's, seek thrills both on and off the waves.

A cinematic journal exploring the relationship between musical and film structures.

This is fluxfilm No. 21 and without a title

During the winter of 1968–69, I saw that much of the footage I was shooting was filled with a tension reflecting my own anxieties. Rather than terminate my filmmaking, I chose to shoot a film about self-generating depression. Prison I is about the frustration and fear reaching out to others and risking the revelation of one’s self.

Mostly animated from 35mm slides, Skyjacker slips to a dream world of Ohio woods, British Columbia winter, and New York. A critical aspect to film work that interested me was the second phase effort found in the editing choices. While placing two still photographs next to each other creates a combined effect that neither image transmits alone, the editorial options in cinema are considerably more complicated.

In The measuring of Time the counting of grains and sand in the desert, as an instrument of measure, represented an infinite action beyond time.

An attempt to use Slavko Vorkapich's kinesthetic aesthetic theory of film. –B. H.

Capitalism and Christmas

Short snapshot of Halifax, Yorkshire.

A tale about a child-god based on Cuban folklore, spoken in lucumí dialect.

A study of light and real-time transmission.

Feature-length version of the Crimson Ghost serial (1946), in which the evil Crimson Ghost tries to make away with an atomic device capable of wreaking havoc throughout the world.

A unique silent film made in the mid-1970s providing an overview of the era’s pivotal social movements, from the fight for Civil Rights to the Anti-War movement. Through a series of quickly edited montage sequences, Confrontation offers prescient commentary regarding the country's stark racial divisions, governmental corruption under Nixon, and rampant consumerism, amongst other issues. Bailen combines footage of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and protests against the Vietnam War in Chicago, IL, juxtaposing them with newspaper headlines and still image photography from different magazines or advertisements that provide sardonic commentary on the issues explored throughout the film.

A short, comedic documentary showing the contrast between The Twist and other dances that came before it. Not to be confused with Allan David's 1962 short "Twist Craze," both of which are made from footage from the same production.

Social Confrontation: The Battle of Michigan Ave. shows the events of Wednesday, August 28 at the 1968 Democratic Convention including National Guardsmen detaining protesters, mass arrests near Grant Park, and Mayor Daley cursing at opponents from the convention floor.

This film focuses on the Spanish Civil War that occurred in the 1930s as a result of the attempted Communist takeover of the Republican government. It documents how a handful of infiltrators and agitators were able to capture the country while the majority was either fooled by slogans of promised reform or frightened by acts of terrorism into non-resistance. This documentary was produced by the Committee to Research the Spanish War Knoxville, Tennessee

Two bananas meet and fall in love.

In her earliest film, which has been newly transferred to video, Schneemann presents an abstracted portrait of the American composer Carl Ruggles, known for his irascible personality and finely-crafted atonal music. Ruggles is seen enjoying pie a la mode and ruminating on subjects ranging from Christmas to his incomplete opera The Sunken Bell. The hand-painted film stock heightens the impressionistic vitality of this snapshot of the 84-year-old composer, who is heard paraphrasing Freud: "Everything that you do is a matter of sex. That is the great passion of life."

Directed by Sérgio Sanz.

In-house documentary recording the construction of the then new BBC Television Centre.

Produced by Leonard M. Henny in cooperation with the Black Panther Party and American Documentary Films. Camera by Steven Lighthill and Leonard Henny. Editing by Kees Hin. Speech by Stokely Carmichael. Dancing by Uzozi Aroho Dancers and Company, Birth of Soul Dancers. Portrait of the struggle for black liberation, the African heritage of American blacks, the need to form a Black United Front in order to survive the threats of white racism in America and in the world today. The speech by Stokely Carmichael was given at the occasion of the merger between the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, February 1968. The merger took place on the birthday of Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, who was jailed for allegedly having killed a policeman. The speech ends with the famous: "Huey Newton will be set free, or else ...."

Based on the story The Idol of the Cyclades from the book End of the Game by Julio Cortazar.

FILMPIECE FOR SUNSHINE is about the isolation of the adolescent in an anti-life society, the pointlessness of his existence. He can't get sexual satisfaction, and he can't get any other kind either. He is always in prison and always will be. The woman he longs for is not just a woman of flesh but a higher spiritual freedom and beauty. He longs for beauty in an ugly world.

An account of the one of the pivotal conflicts of the First World War, using archive film and interviews with survivors to portray the reality of warfare. Originally shown as part of the landmark BBC series from 1964, The Great War.

A bullied high-school football player becomes a cannibal and eats his teammates after his jaw is broken by the team.

Hesper and Phosphor Part 2 features a variety of images superimposed on one another. Scenes that consistently appear throughout the film include: a woman in curlers, a man getting a haircut, a woman hand painting a small glass bottle, and a man carving a pumpkin.

Fotogrammar, like Inkaboos, was created during a period where Grush collected images and experimented with abstractions. By placing very small objects directly onto raw film stock (watch springs, metal shavings, etc.) and exposing the film to light, Grush created Fotogrammar. Sequences were hand-tinted with dyes and in some cases printed symmetrically. The film scenes vary from colorful lines to colorful mechanical pieces, and many shapes in between. Fotogrammar was shown at the 8th Ann Arbor film Festival in 1970. The music in this film is from the Grateful Dead song, “Viola Lee Blues”, and can also be heard in Phosphene.

A collection of short cut out animated films made by students ages 5-15 at the Yellow Ball Workshop, 1965. Instructor: Yvonne Anderson.

The Leap is impressive for its mixture of pure video space with representational filmic space. Thus an ordinary man seems to interact physically with videographic apparitions, moving in and out of different time space realities, fluctuating between the physical and metaphysical with each stride of his leap toward freedom. —Gene Youngblood

Short documentary about industry and landmarks in the Midlands.

Regarding this film and Cleansed: "These are two of the first films Hammer ever made and two of the last films she made while married to a man. Never before screened, they capture Hammer and her former husband interacting together but separately – walking in the woods, riding horses, taking showers. Throughout both of these pieces Hammer uses her own body to manipulate the way in which we see the images, deploying her hands as mattes and creating layers with the shadows of her body." - Leslie Lohman Museum

How many things can you do with YOUR hands?

Kaleidescopic computer-made film by Michael Whitney. Optically printed from images generated on a digital computer, the film is a delightful burst of vibrant colour, movement and sound, exploring the graphic variations of simple patterns.