Cinematic Era: 1965 Vintage

Joy and Lisa model some lingerie.

About cartoonist Pál Pusztay's character Jucika.

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).

Produced by the staff of the Film and Television Institute of India under the supervision of Ritwik Ghatak, Nagarik Sanrakshan is a rare and historically significant instructional film made in 1965 in the Marathi language. It offers practical guidance on the correct and incorrect methods of individual protection during an air raid by enemy bombers—a subject of urgent national concern in the context of the geopolitical tensions of the mid-1960s.

A grotesque story about a lumberjack who makes a toothpick out of a giant tree.

Directed by Peter Emmanuel Goldman.

Valeria Anderson's fourth documentary is a dramaturgically and conceptually complete visual-musical work comparable with the best British industrial documentaries of that era. The strict frame sequence gives a figurative overview of the birth of reinforced concrete wall panel.

Mo Yinhua fell in love with Lu Tianhe, but Hua was forced to marry Sun Ruochong as his concubine, and was later slandered by Chong's wife Chen Shi for having an affair with He. After Hua gave birth to Shaozong, she was pushed down the cliff, but fortunately survived, and turned into a Sheqing ghost to take revenge. Many years later, He finally reunited with Hua, and Shi Zong shot Hua in order to capture the green ghost, thus exposing the past, and the truth came out.

16mm B/W Sound UCLA Student Film

Follows the treatment of Minamata disease patients

hong kong film

A film about the painter Martiros Saryan.

Barbara Rubin, posed against a white wall and brightly lit from the right, smokes, shifts position constantly, glances around, leans forward to put her cigarette out, and gazes off into space. Near the end of the film, she smiles broadly at people off-screen.

The doll builds a magnificent funfair from metal parts.

Animated short film exploring notions relating to artificial creativity. In 1965, a filmmaker decides to collaborate with an electronic computer. The machine leads the artist on a somewhat psychedelic geometric adventure.

Amir, Nader, and Mansour are trying to raise money to treat a girl who lost her family in an accident and is suffering from a mental disorder.

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Parody film of Batman & Robin. The superhero duo fight a villian named Mr. Fizz, whose plan to undermine the soda market threatens to destroy all of Gotham City.

Short Film by Michael Klier for a series of shorts for the German TV Station SFB.

Description in the form of a cinematographic essay of Coaraze, a small village in the Alpes-Maritimes. An impressionist film showing life and death.

A 8mm short film.

A documentary by Gianfranco Mingozzi.

A film record, suitable for schools, of the war years of 1939 to 1945, showing major developments from the rise of Nazism in Germany to the first atomic bomb at Hiroshima. It does not minimize the brutality of war, but shows how this "total war," unlike wars of the past that engaged only the men of the fighting front, involved in varying degree almost every individual of every nation.

One of the most powerful, thought-provoking collage films produced during the New American Cinema Movement. Almost schizophrenic in its kaleidoscopic barrage of images, this film dynamically conveys the bewilderment, frustration, annoyance, and anger of the modern generation in a stream-of-consciousness audio-visual onslaught of superimpositions. Produced by one of the leaders of the San Francisco New American Cinema Movement and a top producer of light shows.

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

Emotions is an episodic film compiled from the theatrical short films of four first-time directors. Directed by Kalevi Korte, Liukastelua tells the story of a young man who helps a woman who has slipped on the street. The accident marks the beginning of a romance. Confiteor, based on a screenplay by Jyrki Lappi-Seppälä and directed by Jaakko Talaskivi, is a story about the friendship between two men that ends with the death of one of them. Leena Salokangas' Toivo, rakkaus (Hope, Love) is the story of a young married woman's one-night stand with a stranger. The final episode is Kristiina, directed by Asko Tolonen. Kristiina Halkola, who plays the title character, suspects she is pregnant.

Documentary about bridges, with illustrations by Zuko Džumhur.

British documentary.

A short film featuring John Carradine.

A supervised test, illustrating the effects of alcohol on driving ability, is staged in a parking lot.

Calentoso, is a young boy that must transport mules across the mountains. He will be challenged to discover the deep secrets that the summit entails. This film is based on the legend of the ghost of the Ruiz Snow Mountain in the Region of Cumanday in Colombia.

Co-founder of Canyon Cinema and the San Francisco Cinematheque and one of the godparents of experimental film, Bruce Baillie (1931-2020) has forged a singular path in his visionary explorations of the world, his exquisite treatment of light and fragmented storytelling influencing successive generations of like-minded filmmakers. Shot on a cross-country journey during 1964 and 1965, is the Baillie film most in need of rediscovery. Joining the ranks of Bob Dylan, Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac in chronicling a tumultuous period in American history from the road, Baillie sets out "to show how in the conquest of our environment in the New World, Americans have isolated themselves from nature and from one another."

Collage animation by Sándor Reisenbüchler, with references to the director’s personal life.

A city awakens. There are sights and sounds we do not experience if we sleep late.

Hong Kong film

A fairy tale about how knowledge of physics and chemistry helps a boy to defeat a dragon in a fairy kingdom.

Documentary about the consequences of a fire in a town in Segovia, Turégano (Spain).

A nice guy who always finishes last discovers a potion that helps him turn the tables on the rude, stick it to the inconsiderate, and maybe overcome his own meekness.

In a military camp, captain Saravanan promises to his dying brother-in-arms to take care of his 6-year-old daughter Rani. Saravanan and Rani begin a big trip through the country, full of pitfalls.

Pinku from 1965.

Short fiction film starring Fiammetta, a fourteen-year-old girl. Raised in a splendid home in the Tuscan countryside, she ruminates on her memories, her frustrations and her desires. All the charm of the character lies in his innocent perversity. Absorbed by her daydreams, she lives in the universe where her father died and where her mother, still young and beautiful, attracts admirers. One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s included in the anthology film That Tender Age (La fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes). The three other sketches were directed by Michel Brault, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Jean Rouch.

The sights and sounds of the big game between Maribor and Olimpija. Stadium audience often reacts deliriously regardless of the player’s success on the field.

Semi-automatic assembly line production and testing of the Trabant 601 at VEB Sachsenring - Automobilwerke Zwickau.

A film between reality and fiction about a popular singer, played by Joël Denis, idol of that time. He is surrounded by a host of great actors and real and famous characters from the 60s.

"A tribute to overwhelming nature, this film is rich in both color and sound. A combination of original footage and images from children's books, text books, etc." –B. C.

Experimental 8mm film by Karpo Godina.

Enigmatic short film where a young woman comes to a house and gets to witness a party where names such as Marilyn Monroe, Spinoza and Jack the Ripper are called out among the guests.

Cultural alienation of Iranian youth.

"UIjez" shows the events in the then Kosovo, that is, the process of industrialization and modernization that symbolizes the arrival of excavators and other construction machinery.