Cinematic Era: 1966 Vintage

Directed by Mike O’Connor and written by his brother, Joycean scholar Ulick O’Connor, this Irish documentary portrays the Dublin in which Joyce lived and worked before his departure for Europe in 1904.

Documentary about mountain wildlife.

A film impression showing the Royal Sigismond’s Chapel at the Wawel Castle as an interior with a unique and abundant collection of sculptures. It brings to light details of construction and presents them in close-ups which makes it possible to profoundly appreciate the richness of figures and ornamental sculptures in that exquisite monument of the Renaissance style in Poland.

This film shows draft card burning demonstrations that took place in New York City during the fall of 1965, relating these incidents to the protests against the draft system & the war in Vietnam.

All the goals from the 1966 World cup

The trusting birds Kohác fall into a trap set by a cunning cat. Will they manage to escape?

A BAFTA award nominated BBC feature following American evangelist Billy Graham on his Greater London crusade, centred on Earl's Court in June 1966

Resistere a Roma is a documentary short film by director Giuseppe Ferrara, produced by the Ferranti Group, focusing on the Roman resistance movement during the tragic German occupation of Rome. The documentary focuses its attention above all on the dynamics of the attack in via Rasella, to which the Germans reacted with the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine. It was presented in Venice during the 1966 Documentary Exhibition.

A young divorcée reconciles with her ex-husband and plans to get rid of her former lover.

The documentary moves around the amazing figure of Osiride Pevarello, a circus performer with a very long career in cinema, from Lattuada to Germi, from Ben-Hur to Fellini, up to Tinto Brass. In this exquisitely lively and unexpectedly dense short film, Osiride faces the world by showing off confident steps and assertive vocation, as if he had everything under control and it was not necessary to demand more. Until the beautiful ending, when the voices of the sleeping boys give shape to a desire: to have a home. Osiride, lying on the bed smoking his umpteenth cigarette, as always he cannot sleep before the return of his eighteen-year-old daughter, who works under mistress in a dartboard. We discover the melancholy of a man who would like to leave from there, to find four real walls for his family. The camera moves to let us glimpse the pope's image on the dresser; one should have faith in miracles

1966, 16mm film on video, black-and-white and color; 10 minutes

Lionel Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve countries to collect footage of war atrocities from their archives. He interspersed these harrowing images with scenes of a London cocktail party's mundane chatter. Good Times, Wonderful Times was released in 1964 at the height of the Vietnam War, and became one of the great anti-war films of the era.

A happening that lasted 12 hours in the Feltrinelli bookshop in Rome. The soundtrack (background weaning) was put together by the crowd, recomposing, without listening to them, pieces of magnetic film that had been distributed around. There are almost all the painters, directors and actors of the Roman avant-garde.

Early pink film.

An insightful look at the rise in paperback output during the 1960's and the old art of bookbinding.

The rich Petros and Eleni, who has a strict brother, have a relationship that is going through a difficult time due to their family environment and especially his mother. He goes to the army, his traces are lost, and she is thrown out by her own brother and finds herself on the street. A promoter (Vangelis Seilinos) exploits her and she becomes a stripper in a cabaret. After a while, he appears, the couple is back together, but she does not tell him what job she does. Until a friend tells the young man the truth and takes him to the cabaret...

Short film in 16mm colour, silent. A young lady arrives in Miramar and meets a man. They visit different places. It was financed by the Tourism Commision of General Alvarado. It was musicalized with fragments from the LP "Percusión de Locura". It is currently listed as not available or lost.

The socialist dream collapses.

Signatures are affixed during the transfer of sovereignty from the Netherlands to the Republic of Indonesia.

First transmitted in 1966, Man Alive speaks to couples who, for various reasons, have decided not to take the traditional route towards marriage. Some have been married before but are unable to obtain the divorces they need, while others just see marriage as an outdated concept. What are the effects of this on their children, and how does wider society view couples who are 'living in sin'?

A documentary film on traffic accidents and emergency responders in Japan amid increasing motorization.

Short by Robert Gardner

Abstract light poem tribute to Julio Le Parc, first winner at the 1966 Venice Biennial of a Painting Prize for Kinetic Art, filmed at the Howard Wise Gallery in New York. Premiered at the Gate Theater, New York.

Sanctus intercuts three Mexican rituals of parallel structure: the Catholic Mass, the bullfight, and the sacred hallucinogenic mushroom ceremony of the Mazatec people.

A look at piped music, with a focus on how it is produced and networked.

A spy film about two spies, one male and female (Pai Hung cross-dressed as male), cracking down the villainy gang The Devil Gang.

Information film about venereal disease.

Marian Marzyński goes behind the scenes with his camera, showing the making of television programs in the 1960s. He reveals production difficulties, mishaps, and complaints from dissatisfied viewers.

Berlin, May 1945. A frightened young German woman, Erika Binder, is called into the office of American Captain Jimmy Murphy and questioned about the whereabouts of her husband, Johann, a former SS officer who is classified as a war criminal. Johann, impoverished and unrepentant, manages to reach their home, but refuses to admit that Germany has capitulated. Erica hides him. One day, Johan catches her flirting with Murphy. He tries to leave, but fails and returns home, where he gets drunk and reminisces about the old glory days of the Third Reich. At a nightclub, Erica confides in Murphy that her husband is alive, and he attempts to capture him, but Johan kills him. He then descends into a state of complete despair and like a trapped animal fights against the Russian Captain Ivanov and his men, who have attacked the house to capture him and bring him to justice.

Giuseppe Verdi Pier Miranda Ferraro Tito Gobbi Laura Londi

Film fragment shot by Piero Bargellini to be featured in "Erinnerung An Die Zukunft".

A film by Piero Bargellini.

A documentary about the cycle of human life and the eternity of nature.

The positives and negatives of ball games in ankle-deep water.

Nauman shot two films in 1965, and despite their rudimentary execution they make a compelling diptych. Manipulating the T-Bar (1965) shows the artist delineating what would become his basic studio practice, arranging and rearranging a sculptural form within the constrained architectural parameters of the studio. Film of an actor pretending to be myself making a tape of the sound effects for the film “Manipulating the T-Bar,” on the other hand, introduces what would become Nauman’s consistent artistic persona: the absent presence.

A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be Czech to impress her.

Sponsored film produced by the Magazine Publishers Association expressing the many features of an American magazine.

A Super 8 home movie by Marco Melani.

Following the death of his wife, a father is trying to take care of his daughter, amidst a murder mystery which concerns both of them.

A film about Slovak icons painted in the period of the late 15th to the early 19th centuries, when original Byzantine icon was ending in Slovak folk art.

Tambellini here focuses on contemporary life in a black community. The extra, the “X” of Black Plus X, is a filmic device by which a black person is instantaneously turned white by the mere projection of the negative image. The time is summer, and the place is an oceanside amusement park where black children are playing in the surf and enjoying the rides, quite oblivious to Tambellini’s tongue-in-cheek “solution” to the race problem.

Mosaic, a testament to Chambers’ astute interest in surrealism and Soviet constructivism, features his family prominently and predicts Hart’s epic handling of the birth/maturation/death cycle.

Honey Halfwitch conjures a cauldron full of monsters while Cousin Maggie is away.

Twelve short scenes of the life of an elderly homeless person, Oskar Langenfeld, in Berlin.

Often called a “film poem” or a “film symphonie” Huszárik’s masterpiece consists of montages of horses from the dawn of time to the modern times from cave paintings to horse races.

From a festival of folk dances at the 1966 Canadian National Exhibition, an exciting selection of Canada's best amateur groups. The dances range from the seductive Hawaiian to the familiar Cossack.

Charles Lloyd is an Australian artist whom we met in Sydney. He began working with printmaking when he moved to London around 1960. The film showcases his drypoint etching technique, then moves on to printing with a multicolor plate. Lloyd discusses the endless possibilities of plate engraving and then shows how he develops a color philosophy for each plate during the grading and printing process. The film ends with an overview of his prints as he discusses the ideas behind his work, many of which come from the Australian landscape. The film takes us from these images to a final sequence of animated printed details interspersed with a composition of electronic, musical, and natural sounds. The film is essentially a documentary, but we felt the need to include a more experimental coda that would free us from the confines of documentary. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

An interesting look at model planes and how they are used for work as well as play.

1 of 2 screen tests of Dan Foster, by Andy Warhol

An evil scientist, Parta Beno, who has been found guilty of imprisoning and reducing in size inhabitants of various planets. As punishment he is exiled to a remote asteroid, with the only amenities being a crude laboratory. All the specimens that Parta Beno collected were sent back to their home worlds by the World Council, except those few that the Council had no knowledge of, let alone any idea about the planets from whence they came. The hand-picked crew of 'The Interpretaris' were given the mission of returning these aliens to their home planets.

Experimental short by Franco Brocani, Claudio Capotondi and Luca Maria Patella.

The introspective, existential Sixties distilled into just eight minutes; modish young men look brooding and beautiful as they inwardly reflect on their lives, and punt down an autumnal River Cam.