Cinematic Era: 1966 Vintage

Thai horror film.

This short film features Frank Eidlitz’s early experiments with light, colour and motion. Commissioned by the television network National Broadcasting Company (NBC) to reinterpret the station’s classic peacock logo, Eidlitz produced a series of film experiments with kaleidoscopic spinning lights. To create these visuals, Eidlitz covered a series of disks with pieces of reflective paper and fluorescent colours, which he then placed on an apparatus that spun the disks at a high speed. The motion could be varied and stopped at any time, allowing the artist to create varying designs and images. Opening with a close-up of a woman’s face covered in reflected lights, the majority of the film is comprised of flashing lights and spinning colours. The NBC peacock symbol appears intermittently throughout the film, at the forefront of the image.

Film made up of five short documentaries about the city of Buenos Aires made between 1958 and 1964: Good morning, Buenos Aires, The Anonymous, The First Foundation of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires in a T-shirt.

A sensitive and poetic record of a craft abducted by time and oblivion.

Nudnik wakes up in a dump yard, and tries to find a job painting the house of a pianist in an expensive neighborhood next to the dump yard.

A few "pop" and "death" symbols seen through the eyes of a young French schoolboy.

The poet Urban Gwerder and his artist friends used to produce multimedia shows called Poëtenz (Poetence). Soon, FMM’s portrait film Chicorée became the focus and principal activity of these soirées. This ironic, poetic picture of Gwerder’s family life in black-and-white, with colour sequences that conjure up the poet’s flights into a dream world, culminates in an outdoors action-writing sequence and a leap into the clouds. Gwerder dreams he is Salvador Dalì, Alfred Jarry, the Beatles and Frank Zappa. He makes fun of conventional forms of protest, and FMM faithfully catches every inspiration and crazy notion: a kitchen appliance becomes a larger-than-life monster, the head of the neighbour, a socialist bookseller, turns red – hand-coloured on the negative –, the family eats spaghetti and dreams of suckling pig; the young son looks for his fairy-tale parents in a labyrinth of mirrors… Chicorée is a silent film with live music played by Celly Pastorini as the film was projected.

The greatest array of gospel singing stars ever assembled!

A Canadian man works as a stagehand in Toronto and falls in love with a Chinese singer of the visiting Peking Opera.

Some of the problems facing Giuseppi are juxtaposed with his music, Satan's Dance. The pictures depict the opposite view which is fortuitously any sunny day in the park with his wife and son. The joy of the boy is the inspiration of the father. A straight-forward, simple documentary.

Story of an expedition planned by Mike and Mal Leyland. The Brothers' historic West-East crossing of Australia in 1966 - from Steep Point in WA to Cape Byron in NSW.

Color UCLA Student Film. Surrealist cinepoem overlaying images of oil extraction, sirens, and war veterans, communicating the bizarre violence of the 1960s. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Austrian Film Museum in 2009.

Three sheep dogs must drive and protect a flock of sheep on their own.

SONGS 17 & 18: The movie house cathedral and a singular room (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Experimental documentary on Pierre Molinier and his works.

Short film by Antoni Padrós

Rainer's first film, Hand Film, was shot by fellow dancer William Davis when Rainer was confined to a hospital bed, recovering from major surgery and unable to dance. The resulting five minutes of footage is a sustained close-up shot of Rainer's hand against a grey background as it stretches and contracts, bends and points, performing the kinds of everyday, quotidian movements that characterize her pioneering minimalist choreography.

Starts with a close-up of Sterling Morrison’s mouth, dragging heavily on a cigarette. When the camera zooms back we see Morrison in a pair of dark sunglasses. Made for projection behind the Velvet Underground in performance as part of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable multi-media presentation.

An astonishingly beautiful and wistful 'lost' masterpiece.

The story follows a young Kitten from the time it is small and innocent until it grows up and becomes strong enough to defeat the evil old Rat.

An conductor Jonas Alexa and the Lithuanian Philharmonic Orchestra rehearse Juzeliunas' symphony "The Human Lyre".

The art collector Timothy Baum, in the mod style of the mid-1960s with a high collar and long sideburns, seems unable to relax, repeatedly swallowing, taking deep breaths, and even speaking briefly to the camera.

A film that tackles the 1918-1920 tobacco agriculture decline in Puerto Rico

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.

A geographical stroll through the Tuileries Garden in Paris, in November. Time to dream of an island in the heart of the city, open to every horizon.

French horror short from 1966.

This documentary reflects on the lives and aspirations of an African American family - the Johns - who moved to West Oakland from Louisiana, focusing on Robert Lee Johns and his mother Agnes.

Short film starring the pop group Lee Kings.

Documentary about dam rupture.

After studying magic with a hermit, Preah Thinavong returns to his palace. On the way home, he transformed himself into a leper in order to incite the pity of Princess Neang Pov, the daughter of the king of Borey Champa. The princess pitied the leper so much that she gave him her scarf. Her older sisters assumed that she had a lover and convinced her father to dismiss her from the palace…

"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)

If you every needed to show somebody the effect Easyfever had on mid 1960’s Australia, then you would only need to show them their Australian “farewell” television special. Although completely mimed, the bands energy is absolutely electrifying as the storm through their set list in front of a studio audience of screaming teenagers complete with go-go dancers and pop idol Billy Thorpe to compère. Special guests of the program included Janice Slater performing her then current release ‘We’re Doin’ Fine’ with it’s flip side ‘If You Don’t Think’ and Tony Worsley with ‘Raining in My Heart’ and ‘Knocking On Wood’ (released that month on Sunshine).

Experimental film in which with black birds and peacocks, old postcards and dried flowers, toiletries and antiquarian pieces, the mannerist or theatrical touches of Creole romanticism are recreated and ironizes around the modesty of María and her vampiresque unfolding.

A day in the life of a young student, Paul, who commits suicide with his girl friend. We follow him in theschoolroom, where he fantasizes about space travel while the instructor goes over the dates of WW2 and his companions read "Playboy". He walks in a city covered with postcards for coming elections. Discusses life and death with a friend, Harald, meets a pretty acquaintance, Mara, with whom he makes love, and finally turns on the gas in his study.

Quacky Whack tries to get on Noah's Ark. Hilarity ensures.

Eighteenth century Indian miniatures enact a traditional wedding ceremony of a Hindu Prince and Princess. An exotic landscape of the mind; fable-fantasy of childhood-manhood.

It tells a story about Bosnian ex-fighter who lost his whole family in the WW2.

Documentary that registers the awakening of the city and its daily early movement.

A couple's discussion of philosophy leads to a misunderstanding.

The sordid life of the gigolo.

Word & number gag, no camera.

Obscure sex comedy

Short film.

About the development of a new oil field on the Mangyshlak peninsula.

A gambler is ruined by an evil man who lost his money by cheating at gambling.

A Finnish-produced film about Oslo that highlights the city’s best qualities. Summer is a wonderful time in the busy commercial and industrial city, and the film offers a glimpse into the hectic lives of residents and tourists from morning to evening on a beautiful summer day. ***** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.

Sanje is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) experimental film.

Short by Robert Gardner

More than 50,000 British soldiers, sailors and airmen police the rivers and jungles of Borneo.