Cinematic Era: 1966 Vintage

The main character is the director of a social enterprise who, before leaving for the airport, faces the fact that his son was beaten during a night out.

A stop-motion short film about a child learning to respect the collective.

A macabre film about the experiences of a client who is shaved by a hairdresser-psychopath.

A twelve-year-old choir boy is going through a crisis caused by problems in his parents' marriage.

A look at the ancient art of barrel-making, and all the different uses that they are put to.

The Berlin Wall has run through West Berlin’s Bernauer street since 1961. The bricked up facades on the other side of the street are in the East. A tenant who has lived here for 28 years talks about her daily impressions. The camera captures East German police and guard dogs on patrol and – on the West side – tourists gawking at the Wall.

Jazz and its milieu. Klaus Wildenhahn films the Jimmy Smith Trio in New York. With the addition of a white guitarist, Kenny Burrell, the band is in the studio recording the Rolling Stones current hit “Satisfaction”, as a tribute to the successful British Beat musicians, who were themselves inspired by blues and jazz.

Exploration of the Slimbridge Wild Fowl Trust in Gloucestershire, England, which boasts the largest collection of living wild fowl in the world.

“Aleph” is an artist’s meditation on life, death, mysticism, politics, and pop culture. In an eight-minute loop of film, Wallace Berman uses Hebrew letters to frame a hypnotic, rapid-fire montage that captures the go-go energy of the 1960s. Aleph includes stills of collages created using a Verifax machine, Eastman Kodak’s precursor to the photocopier. These collages depict a hand-held radio that seems to broadcast or receive popular and esoteric icons. Signs, symbols, and diverse mass-media images (e.g., Flash Gordon, John F. Kennedy, Mick Jagger) flow like a deck of tarot cards, infinitely shuffled in order that the viewer may construct his or her own set of personal interpretations. The transistor radio, the most ubiquitous portable form of mass communication in the 1960s, exemplifies the democratic potential of electronic culture and may serve as a metaphor for Jewish mysticism.

This animated short shows the development of boys up to and during puberty. It depicts the typical external changes that occur with the onset of sexual maturity, the structure and function of the sexual organs, sperm formation and pollination.

The structure of Jean Tinguely – filmed at the Jewish Museum show and intercut with machinary which is naively self-destructive. –R. L.

A short film by Nelly Kaplan on Victor Hugo's drawings.

1966 experimental short work by Robert Rauschenberg

Nico hires a babysitter drag queen (Mario Montez) to babysit her 3-year-old son Ari so Nico can go shopping.

Part of the Chinese Historical Ethnographic Film Series (1957-1966)

Another call during a night shift awakens the memories of Sergei Alekseevich, an ambulance doctor, about his first love for a front-line nurse.

The film tells the story of two friends living in the same neighborhood who struggle to become rich. Selim and Ali are friends. Ali wants to earn money and marry Lale, while Selim wants to escape from their neighborhood and poverty. Necdet, a mafia boss, once lived on Ümit Street, where Selim and Ali reside. Selim and Ali go to Necdet to ask for work. Necdet gives each of them a thousand lira and tells them to come back in five months with ten thousand lira. The two friends will get to know each other better during their individual struggles for survival.

Manfred Durniok (1934-2003), German film director and producer, shot his first short documentary films in the 1950s and 1960s. At the end of the 50s he got to know Oskar Sala (1910-2002) and took advantage of the composers electro-acoustic and musical skills in many of his subsequent black and white motion pictures. Thus, Durniok could concentrate on images and editing sequences of his movies without having to worry about live sound. The soundtrack subsequently created by Sala has always been a free, electronically-abstract composition with a strong rhythmic and tonal reference to sequence and image content.

Follows Donovan, the Scottish singer/songwriter; his lifestyle: his friends, his haunts and his music. Some 15 songs on a string.

A major member of the underworld is using the so-called "Death Avenue" to traffic hard drugs, as well as exploit young women. The police, who are aware of his activities and are monitoring him, have assigned one of their men to arrest him. The dismantling of his network and the end of the smugglers will be achieved with the effective assistance of the Coast Guard.

A hunter goes out to the forest, followed by his lady love. Things do not go well, as documented in song.

A documentary covering the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. It consists primarily of footage edited from the documentary TOKYO OLYMPIAD, directed by Kon Ichikawa.

Chilly Willy short. First appearance of Maxie the Polar Bear.

Polish TV movie.

Corsicans (purple) and Sicilians (red) lean over their relatives' coffins. Each family promises a vendetta against the other family. A whisper saying ‘Vendetta!’ can be heard.

A nudie cutie released by Something Weird Video.

Upon his return to France, sergeant Bakary claims the bride he had chosen. But she refuses this imposed marriage.

SONGS 19: Women dancing and a light (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Cowboy is a 1966 American short documentary film directed by Michael Ahnemann and produced by Ahnemann and Gary Schlosser. At a ranch in Tehachapi, California, a husband and father lives the life of a modern cowboy. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Adel works at a government institution. He suffers from an emotional shock after he learns that his girlfriend is a prostitute. Adel gets to know Nazik, the wife of the manager of the company, a woman who has trouble with her old husband. As they fall in love, he asks her to leave her husband.

Surreal film melding documentary footage of Chicago and its residents, featuring fast paced montage sequences set against a rollicking 1960s musical backdrop. The film aptly deconstructs the absurdities of contemporary American life, particularly the thick fog of patriotism engulfing the country at the time.

A play with the porn standard of a minimum of narrative in order to stage a series of ritualised stripteases.

Erkki leaves the army and sets out to find himself. In the countryside, he finds new love and the courage to stand up to his strict father.

An intermission begins during a circus performance. Life comes to a standstill, and a clown wanders through an emptied city, bringing its deserted streets back to life—until the next bell.

Explains that different kinds of soil are mixtures of sand, clay, and humus; tells how the weathering of rocks helps make soil; includes simple experiments to show the kind of soil in which different plants grow well.

Documentary about dam rupture.

Documentary about a daily routine of a rural Polish family.

The rise of National Socialism in Germany and Hitler’s anti-semitic policies and advocation of the superiority of the Aryan race resulted in several calls for a boycott of the games. Against this political backdrop, Jesse Owens’ haul of four gold medals is all the more significant. For a black athlete to demonstrate clearly his superior athleticism and so convincingly outperform his white counterparts was a massive slap in the face for Hitler and made a mockery of his racist theories during his Nazi showpiece games. Standing in the box at the Olympiastadion where Hitler sat to watch the games, Jesse Owens tells with pride that the flag of the US team was the only one not to be dipped as the athletes passed the Führer. (andberlin.com)

The sailor with the rose is now a tugboat engineer whose sole task is to tow the target during firing in the navy. The day of his departure from the Army is approaching, when he will say goodbye to the sea and the navy. In love with a young postwoman, after long wanderings, the sailor with a rose decides to become a postman in order to stay close to his beloved.

Life in the slums of Caracas: misery, violence, unemployment, strength, vitality.

Documentary made from the record of five manifestations of Uruguayan children's folklore: «El rango», «La rayuela», «Andelito de oro», «La farolera» and «San Severín del monte» / «Los oficios».

Kantha, a classical Khmer ballet dancer, is in love with Phalla, a young air force pilot, but is forced to marry a powerful general.

A "Cinéastes de notre temps" series episode dedicated to french filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, originally aired in two parts.

Edwin and Arthur resolve to thrash out their situation with Ella over dinner.

Close-up shots of a young white woman dramatically lit, holding hands to her head and yelling, looking fearful. Camera zooms in and out and moves around her. The remaining 2/3 of the film are shots of Robert Capa photos from WWII (including shot of pilot in plane painted with swastikas to indicate enemy planes he shot down), Spanish Civil War, and still frames from Alain Resnais' film, Last Year at Marienbad. Last shot is a sign: "Tradition of the New : Owens The End." Following a partnership with the Chicago Film Society to restore the 16mm films of SAIC alumnus Edward Owens, the Flaxman Library has recently finished new 16mm restorations of Owens' earlier 8mm work.

A sort of documentary that follows the advent of the LSD in New York and in the of the world.

A brief look at Amazonas, its population, their costumes, the rich nature and its importance to Brazil and the world.

South Keltma may seem an ordinary river from the first sight, but it's meaning is huge. Keltma connects the White Sea with the Caspian sea, north and south!

Documentary about HMS Eagle from 1966. This aircraft-carrier was sailing from Mombasa to Singapore under the command of Captain John Roxburgh. Join the crew through their trails and tribulations

New York gangsters head South in search of that magical Nashville sound. Unfortunately, they misunderstand the directions given to them by a friendly gas station attendant and wind up in Atlanta instead.

Travel documentary where the narrator describes each scene exactly as it is seen.