Cinematic Era: 1964 Vintage

Directed by Geoffrey Jones.

"Bump City is a colour film about the symbolic destruction of Los Angeles. It was never a very finished film, but it was about signs and advertising, redundant communications and manufacturing, waste and monotony." —Pat O'Neill. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Pat O'Neill in 2007.

Maître Galip is the most poetic and powerful of Pialat's Turkish Chronicles, using the poems of Nazim Hikmet to accompany a series of evocative images of ordinary working class people in Istanbul. This was the film that Pialat himself claimed was the most complete realization of what he was aiming for with his Turkish documentaries. It's not difficult to see why this was his favorite: here he abandons the historical commentary and documentary observation of the other shorts in favor of an emotional emphasis on the lives of the poor and the unemployed.

Narrated by Boris Karloff, this Movietone short spoofs the dangers of teenage rebellion around the world.

Two friends attempt to robbery.

The origins of "cangaço", armed brigands in the Northeast between 1935 and 1939, interviews with some survivors of the fighting, police and outlaws movement. Interspersed with testimonials, authentic sequences of films made in 1936 by Benjamin Abraham, an Arab peddler who managed to film the famous band of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, the "Lampião".

A look at the wide range of jobs engineers undertake. This film celebrates their vital work, as more and more engineers are needed to keep pace with developing industry.

After graduating from the institute, Veronica worked for three years in a hospital in a remote virgin village. And then she decided to return to Kiev to continue her studies in residency and be closer to Vadim, whom she loves.

An experimental film dedicated to the Dakota Sioux, which follows the form of the Christian Mass. A series of images of contemporary America interwoven with the ritual spiriting away of a dead Indian.

Student film by Jack Graves, David Hanson, and Hal Barwood @ USC School of Cinema-Television.

Henry Geldzahler is a feature-length underground film directed by Andy Warhol, featuring art curator Henry Geldzahler smoking a cigar and becoming increasingly uncomfortable for 97 minutes. The film was shot silent and in black-and-white in the first week of July 1964, using unused film left from the filming of Empire.

Short musical film in which young Puerto Ricans of the Tuna of Comerío interpret melodies of the Christmas folklore of Puerto Rico.

A documentary produced by Histadrut about Kibbutz Tel Katzir. Although modest in size, Tel Katzir stands in the center of a border conflict between Israel and Syria. The kibbutz, located in the demilitarized zone between the countries, is a frequent target of Syrian attacks. Between one attack and the next, Tel Katzir members lead their work, family, and cultural life.

An excitable dog explores its surroundings.

Fuad, a successful merchant, lives a happy life with his wife until suspicion grows after a friend tries to seduce her. Consumed by doubt, he divorces her and moves to Basra, but his life unravels due to alcoholism and failure. He eventually leaves for India seeking a fresh start, while his ex-wife faces harsh struggles that drive her to attempt revenge against the man who ruined her life.

Against overwhelming odds, nine men fought like hell to uphold a glorious tradition of courage and heroism.

Editing and reworking of television, film, and photographic archive material relating to Paul VI's pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1964, carried out by Olmi when he was already planning to make E venne un uomo (And a Man Came), the film about Pope John XIII.

Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine.

Three poor men encounter a blind girl, and because the girl doesn't have any acquaintance they take her to their home and pretend that they are wealthy. The youngest man falls in love with the girl and it's also him who thinks of finding a cure for the girl and with the help of his two friends he is able to find treatment for her. In the day that is due for the girl to return from the hospital, they are worried that they might not get accepted because of their condition and status. But against their worries, the girl accepts them just as when she was blind.

Two teams, quite different by their techniques, meet in a hockey match.

After serving his military duty, Simo returns to his hometown. All day he rides his favourite horse Vihar and looks after the horses in the farm. Banov, the chairman of the cooperative farm, doesn't like Simo and wants to get rid of the horses, but Simo will not let this happen.

This is a short documentary about Marlik hills and the archaeology's explorations there. But also it is about life, art, and the hope for a better tomorrow.

Two dopes take five young, frequently nude women on a cruise to Paradise Island, where they run afoul of gangsters.

70 is definitely the new 20 in this heart-warming 1960s documentary portrait of the Darby and Joan Club for elderly Cockneys.

The work of Yugoslavian sculptress Vida Jocić in memory of the dead in Auschwitz where she spent part of her youth.

A BFI production from 1964, directed by David Gladwell, who is best known as an editor of films like Lindsay Anderson's If.... (1968) and O Lucky Man! (1973). This short was shot at 200 fps, depicting a series of pastoral scenes from a British farm, edited to produce a suggestion of violence in contrast to its visual beauty.

This film shows an aeroplane trip from Los Angeles to New York. Points out the excitement and the poignancy of partings and greetings and the unique visual experience of flying. It was on display at the New York World's Fair 1964-1965.

Suggested by Mama Watta, a legendary water goddess who seduces men into captivity, the film depicts the symbolic encounter of a man and a woman one night on the beach. The two share dreams on the sand but with daylight comes disorientation and death.

The bumbling duo of Swifty and Shorty- a fast-talking con man and his fat, gullible friend, much in the style of Abbott and Costello- have trouble setting the clock on top of the old Paramount building in New York.

A German professor un-nerves the residents when he claims to have been in a small Yorkshire moors inn sometime previously.

A film about Salvador Allende's 1964 presidential campaign.

Benjamin Britten, Nocturne for Tenor, Chamber Opera Orchestra

"My home movies which weigh 2 pounds so far began in Mexico City where I got bored and bought a 50-ft. Keystone at National Pawn Shop-I was immediately turned on-to the City, to Mexico-it really makes a difference-and in 16mm-but I wanted to shoot in color and it costs about 10 dollars/50 ft. in Mexico so I had to push single frame button much of the time-oh me, but its lovely anyway-I kept pushing once I crossed border into U.S. and N.Y. and Malibu" - T.M.

Roberto Faenza's Nouvelle Vague-inspired graduation film at CSC, shot in 1964 with a then-unknown Raffaella Carrà in the lead role.

The creation of a painting by Francis Savel (aka Dietrich de Velsa, director of Équation à un inconnu) in his studio in Montmartre: the white canvas, the tests in charcoal, the drawing, the arrival of color. Outside it is winter.

An Ant-loafer doesn’t work, he drink a lot with the Drone and with the Butterflies in the restaurant and he can’t pay for the meal. The Bug takes the company to the Spider and he instigates them to plunder the bee-have. As a result the robbers find themselves in jail.

A documentary about Josef Stalin.

This short documentary explores issues surrounding the integration of Canadian Indigenous people into social institutions such as the non-Indigenous school systems and workforce. Questions arise about the viability and desirability of integration, and old prejudices are revealed in interviews and commentary from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.

A short film looking at the production of small coins by the UK's Royal Mint.

Shankar (Kishore Kumar) is employed in army and is visiting his village on leave. He is informed that he has lost his wife and father in an accidental fire. His child, Ramu, is unable to talk. Shankar sets off to city to get Ramu treated. Instead, he ends up in Meena's (Supriya Choudhury) house after a quarrel with Thakur leaves him wounded on the road. Meena begins to have feelings toward Shankar and Ramu. Thakur, on the other hand, has plans to get Meera married to his son. The only roadblocks for him are now Shankar and his son Ramu.

Shot in slow motion, with tiny bits of stagy lighting that seem to crumble and flake like cookies, Billy Name gives one of his notorious haircuts--and Warhol turns it into a homoerotic performance, a dance of adoration and control, a triangle of looking and keeping-at-bay, that is a slightly dullish but finally essential contribution to Warhol's long project of bringing portraiture technologies to moviemaking.

An eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet, making fun of chauvinism and petty politicians.

When two brothers fall in love with the same girl, conflicts and problems arise between them as they vie for her love.

Told in the Maysles’ intimatible style, IBM: A SELF PORTRAIT captures the future corporate juggernaut at an early stage of their development. The emphasis here is on the human ingenuity behind the technology industry-- the colorful technicians and executives working together to create a future design for living.