Cinematic Era: 1966 Vintage

Short documentary about a house that will soon be demolished.

Attempting to resurrect two former high priests of the Brotherhood of the Wolf through Black Magic, a newcomer transforms a young artist into a werewolf. The ceremony goes wrong at the crucial moment and the newcomer is carried off to another dimension.

Stop motion animation of an old Japanese fairy tale. A poor man trades a piece of straw for a more expensive item. In the course of his journey, he manages to finally exchange the last item for a villa.

A 8mm experimental short made in Kino Klub Split.

This short fictional film is a zany spoof of TV content with plenty of violence borrowed from the very source it seeks to parody. Our protagonist is a housewife who has lost her family to the television set. Suddenly, her home is invaded and her life is taken over by characters that seem to spring from the V screen. Initially, she attempts to get the intruders out of her house. But eventually, she begins to see that perhaps a life on TV wouldn’t be so bad after all. Will her distracted husband even notice her departure?

Abstract experimental film.

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

Documentary about Greenland.

Emshwiller made this film on a Ford Foundation grant, and in his original proposal to the Ford Foundation, he outlined the film as "something that deals with subjective reality, the emotional sense of what one's perception of the total environment is -- sexual, physical, social, time, space, life, death."

Ekrem, a young man, has an accident in a village. Papatya and her father Ahmet, who pass by the scene of the accident, take the injured Ekrem to their home and try to heal him. Ekrem, who meets Papatya in this way, takes a liking to the young woman. Ekrem, who deceives Papatya with the promise of marriage, convinces the young woman to go to Istanbul.

It’s the typical boy-meets-girl game, but played without rules and at a time when the boy must prove himself. Touching on the subject of teenage sexuality, the film shows that the game often starts with a challenge to the boy’s masculine ego from his peers.

Although Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage never actually meet in this film (Cage's enigmatic questions about sound are intercut with some of Kirk's more ambitious experiments with it) these two very different musical iconoclasts share a similar vision of the boundless possibilities of music.

Koichi is a gigolo who is paid by a madame to seduce and have sex with various women while she and her clients secretly watch. He doesn't like what he's doing, but he needs the money to take care of his seriously ill mother. One day he's given the assignment to seduce a pretty waitress and they wind up falling in love. Koichi tells his madame that is going to quit, but she has other plans for him.

A wildlife documentary about marmot.

Rare but not extremely rare material: a speech without complacency, made of irony, but from which presumption is completely absent.

A short film about the famous mexican artist, whose work revolved mostly around depictions of the mexican society as skeletons.

Nudnik is strolling through town, getting caught in a mailbox and a garbage truck.

A film by Victor Grauer

Woody meets a crazy professor who makes monsters by shooting them with a machine ray. On the second shot, they return to normal.

On the shores of Lake Balaton, a group of people rush to their boats as a storm approaches, notice that a boat has capsized on the water and go to the rescue. They rescue a couple, and the young man who rescues them falls in love with the woman.

About the Lumière brothers

This short film by Frank Eidlitz shows a snippet of Australian artist Brett Whiteley at home with his wife Wendy and daughter Arkie. It was likely filmed in late 1966 or early 1967, before the Whiteleys moved to New York in late 1967. The film shows the artist and his family at home in the evening, reading the newspaper and watching television. Whiteley’s paintings line the walls of the living space, including ‘Fidgeting with Infinity’ (1966), a large triptych painting that dominates the space.

The story of two people who are enemies.

A suite of rarely seen, unreleased films by the poet, activist, and scholar Amiri Baraka.

A multi-media event with choreographed dance, mobile decor, variable lighting, multiple film projection, and live-electronic music activated by the dancers' movements.

Short film about a man walking through the city.

After his brother goes off to serve in the war young Phuoc feels he would also be better serving his country holding a gun, not a rake.

The public display of hanged partisans, the bloody revenge of German soldiers, the bodies of those who had been shot, the deported families: traumas that remain in the memories of survivors and relatives of victims.

In December 1965 there was a jazz convention in Sydney. This attempt to record the event has lain unseen ever since, but the passing of the decades reveals the significance of change.

Mexican feature film

A kinetic alchemy of light and the electronic works of Nicolas Schoffer, Julio Le Parc, USCO, and Nam June Paik. An exploration of the effect-versus-content thesis of Marshall McLuhan. "TURN TURN TURN, a film of the eye-shattering, flashing, rotating light sculptures programmed by USCO to [...] the popular song, a rich electronic fugue on the word NOW: Let's take the OW out of NOW; let's turn the NO out of NOW." – Film Quarterly, 1966.

Woody rescues his dog Duffy from a bully dogcatcher.

In Finland, the first radio broadcasting experiments began as early as 1917 at Tampereen teknillinen opisto (Tampere Technical Institute). Radio operations in Lahti began with the founding of Lahden radioyhdistys (Lahti Radio Association) in 1925, and the following year, Oy Suomen Yleisradio (Finnish Broadcasting Company) was born. The documentary, directed by Heimo Palander for Yleisradio, examines the history of radio broadcasting focusing on the Lahti region.

A maternity hospital catches fire, and a couple, Shahab and his wife, unable to identify their own baby, take home two baby boys.

Animated parable in which a man chases after an unreachable point.

A young couple in Munich, Tom and Sabine, play around all day. But the girl, a model, would rather travel the world. He, on the other hand, is the absolute gamer type.

Love-ful, Romance-ful ,Laugh-ful, Alive with Songs and Dances.

The film presenting the adult world from the perspective of children sharply contrasts the black-and-white world of parents founded on prohibitions with the sparklingly colourful world of imagination. Péter Szoboszlay’s first short is an adaptation of one of the early child monologue books by Éva Janikovszky.

Nervous poet wrestles with everyday utensils. His clumsy movements also cause trouble in bed.

Jonas Mekas documents Timothy Leary’s Millbrook estate in the wake of a police raid, juxtaposing serene images of the property with audio of officials justifying their actions. Blending diary footage with subversive reportage, the film exposes the gap between perception and authority, offering an oblique portrait of the counterculture and its suppression.

Set during the era of the British Raj, Sarhad (meaning 'The Border') is a 1966 Urdu-language period drama. Written by the realist screenwriter Zia Sarhadi and directed by Masood Parvez, featuring a lead cast of Ejaz Durrani, Saloni, Allauddin, and Talish.

Three novels about parenting: "The Snow Maiden", "Zoolog" and "Uncle Sasha". Based on the stories of Vera Chubakova, Mark Burnesov, Nikolai Samokhin.

Maurice Pialat films the Latin Quarter of Paris in the early 1960s.

A desert loner adopts an ocelot he finds in an old car, but later realizes that it must be set free. The ocelot finds a mate, and so does the loner, falling for a young nurse that moves to the area.

A video produced by the Israeli Film Service in cooperation with Israel Railways. “So much for rattling; from now on: one continuous welded rail!” Israel Railways changes the tracks and the ties along the Haifa-Tel Aviv route. This short film follows all of the project’s stages, from the production of the concrete railroad ties at the “Yuval Gad” factory in Ashkelon through the welding of the new rails to form one continuous rail.

The groundbreaking Australian documentary on lesbians, presented by Anne Deveson, first broadcast in February 1966. Amongst those interviewed are Dawn O'Donnell (off camera at the beginning of the documentary) and psychiatrist Dr Neil McConaghy (the Australian 'expert' in aversion therapy). Some women are interviewed in shadow or close-up to disguise their identity. Women speak about being discriminated when applying for jobs against because of their sexuality. Dr Neil McConarghy is interviewed about his shock therapy work to change sexual orientation. Surprisingly Dr McConarghy says that homosexuality might be of benefit to society as creative traits or traits of non-conformity might give society as a whole the ability to survive.

This film showcases an idealised version of life in the Victorian regional city of Geelong — complete with stable jobs, family homes, bustling shops, and thriving sporting and cultural life.