Cinematic Era: 1966 Vintage

"INVOCATION is Higgins' Satie movie... the purest attempt to clear art from any or all historical, esthetic, thematic, ornamental claptrap to regain the lost-eye consciousness." - Jonas Mekas

SONGS 19 & 20: 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).

This film shows how various events affected the engineer's thinking: the news of the war in Vietnam, an introduction to the concept of non-violence by Joan Baez, student demonstrations against military contractors and "peace games" of non-violent civil defense.

An honest account from kids who enjoy a local coffee house. Church groups, social organizations, and just average teens used the coffee house as a means to get kids off the streets and into a place of mutual ideals and moral ethics.

This educational film introduces the development of civilian nuclear power and its role in meeting the growing demand for electricity in the United States. Through explanations of reactor design, plant construction, and regulatory oversight, it presents atomic power as a modern energy source supported by extensive safety measures and engineering safeguards.

From a bird’s-eye view, the beauty of Minsk is revealed: a city of labor in motion, growing and blooming. The city is a living organism, with cars rushing through its streets like blood through veins, and hardworking people striving to build and beautify their beloved home. Life is bustling everywhere—young and old alike rejoice in peace after the long and painful years of war.

Short film starring the pop group Lee Kings.

"The first experimental films I saw were mostly trance films or reactions to trance films. [My] first films, like Anthony (1966), are rather like trance films; that’s part of the reason I didn’t think of them as my own." (Tom Chomont)

Nordic people living in Ibiza meet at a party organized by artist Nitta.

The Sofronis and Mimis, did not make it as pharmacy employees. So they destroyed the shop and were fired, went on holiday to Kavouronisi, guests at the home of Menelaus.

The age group in a group portrait of the fifth grade. They make suggestions for filming at school, in their free time and at home. Growing challenges through the lessons that bring knowledge and new questions and broaden their horizons.

The story follows Bonny Mahaththaya (Gamini Fonseka), a wealthy and hedonistic landowner who lives a life of wine and pleasure. His world is challenged by his unrequited love for Kamala (Punya Heendeniya), who instead loves a humble worker named Sirisena (Joe Abeywickrama).

A portrait of Hamilton, the Pittsburgh or Birmingham of Canada. This is a rich and colourful subject that encourages imaginative treatment on the screen. The heart of the city is the immense complex of furnaces and rolling mills, but nearby are the lake, the mountain, and the rich fruit farms. How the work of the steel mills touches the city and its surroundings is shown in many views during both day and night.

Chiang Ching won the Golden Horse for her performance.

A televised production of an outside broadcast of a National Youth Theatre stage production filmed at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry.

Toni is an elderly man who lives in a nursing home in Vittorio Veneto (Treviso). Every night he has a nightmare: crows attack him and peck at his face, leaving him frozen in terror. For him, the nursing home is a waiting room for death, but he still wants to live. Around him are other elderly people in bed and in the dining room.

A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.

An ironic film about the 1966 beauty competition to find Miss Germany.

Filmed in the Chilcotin by CBC Vancouver, this "Cariboo Country" special dealt with the trial of an Indigenous man for murder. Remade as Smith! starring Glenn Ford, and also novelized by Paul St Pierre.

A short film by Franz Winzentsen

A short collage film inspired by the lettristic movement, created in collaboration by experimental filmmaker Eino Ruutsalo and modernist poet Väinö Kirstinä.

This film follows a young man's adventures from his arrival in the big city, till he passes out in an apartment having been kidnapped and abandoned by 5 voluptuous hippie maidens.

The Rise and Fall of the Magazine "Der Sozialaristokrat".

It is the depths of winter and in the middle of a desolate landscape on a snowy slope stands a log cabin, inhabited by an old man. The man puts his last log into his stove and the warmth of the fire visibly delights him. He rocks his rocking chair energetically and sings merrily. The flames die away and the old man looks around for something to put on the fire. In the end he sacrifices the chair, but soon that too is burnt up. The man tears the remnants of posters from the walls, gathers various rags and throws everything into the stove. Then he takes an axe and gradually chops up the wooden walls of his house, although it is obvious that he cannot win this duel with cruel nature. The fire gradually eats up the planks and beams until the cabin entirely collapses. The man wants to get warm, and so runs around the dying flames. (https://www.filmovyprehled.cz/en/film/396670/the-log-cabin)

The first R.W. Fassbinder film project. 8 mm color. Considered lost.

1966 Animation by Sabin Balasa

Mahmut paints houses with two friends. He loves a girl named Mine but cannot tell her. One day while painting, Mahmut finds a wallet. He takes the wallet to its owner, factory owner Ahmet. However, at that moment, Ahmet suffers a heart attack and dies. According to Ahmet's will, whoever Ahmet dies with will inherit all his property. Therefore, Ahmet's inheritance goes to Mahmut. However, Ahmet's nephew, who wants to get his hands on Ahmet's property, will try to take the inheritance from Mahmut.

Pinku from 1966.

hong kong film

A Bengali-language film directed by Nazrul Islam, starring Nasima Khan, Azeem, and Inam Ahmed.

Saeed tells his cellmates in prison that he is accused of a murder that he saw everyone in a dream and nightmare: one morning he woke up and seeing signs, he doubted that his dream was real.

A short 6-minute essay-documentary by Maurice Pialat on the region in which much of the action of Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble unfolds.

Three young guys whose cabaret act has really taken off are facing two problems: first, there's an old, bankrupt businessman who's found out his daughter, studying in Europe, thinks he's still rich and is planning to come to Tehran with her fiancé. The old man is super upset about her finding out the truth. The second problem is a blind, lost girl they're trying to earn enough money to get treatment for.

Short film about traffic rules

An animated film that is critical of society. After being kissed by a "celestial" muse, an inventor succeeds in building a machine that will clothe the naked of the world. But after a "devilish" inspiration, the inventor expands heedlessly into new markets, leading to ever-increasing growth of the machine until it finally enslaves its inventor, who has become a war profiteer.

Four actors analyze the nature of theatre for an hour and then alternately insult the audience and praise its “performance.” TV recording of the premiere at the "Theater am Turm" in Frankfurt/Main.

This assembly of home-movie footage, shot between 1961 and 1966, was made by artist and filmmaker Shead. Homegrown pop artist Martin Sharp and writer Richard Neville appear in a sequence covering the birth of Oz magazine. The film’s impressionistic fragments capture the mood of the youth counterculture in early 1960s Sydney.

Slow death of Istrian towns, far from the sea and abandoned by its residents. The houses can't be sold even for peanuts.

The second part of the six-part series “Hey, Mister, Let’s Play”. The bears try go to the water, and the big bear is good and makes himself a car for the little bear.

Gloria Katz's "The Bride Stripped Bare" is a split screen faux-docu "happening" around a piece of performance art that confronts male attitudes toward women as sex objects.

This museum does not collect the achievements of mankind. On the contrary, we can find there the evidence of its fall. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and its exhibits.

A spy story on woman island.

An Anglo-French production, directed by Pierre Jallaud, and for Open University Productions. This is a background sketch on the about-to-be-unveiled supersonic airplane.

The theory and practice of this reform.

The story of a lodger's arrival and stay at an ominous bed and breakfast in Munich, where he falls victim to the landlady's micro-managing. A montage of film footage, photographs, drawings, graphics, street scenes and advertisements is accompanied by a literary text by Horst Bingel, sometimes read by the lead actor, satirist Hanns Dieter Hüsch.