Cinematic Era: 1966 Vintage

Giuseppe Verdi Pier Miranda Ferraro Tito Gobbi Laura Londi

Tesevs was ordered by the physicist and space researcher Hannes Alfvén, to be included in the multimedia production “Minos Palats” at the opening of the European Space Research Institute, Esro, in 1966.

16mm short by Marinella Pirelli.

The Liberian American Swedish Mining Company (LAMCO) was a mining company that mined iron-ore in northern Liberia at the Nimba massif. About 15,000 Swedes worked for Lamco and the project was cited as a successful example of international cooperation. But in this film the Swedish TV viewers were presented a very different picture. The film broke with the conventional African portrayal and the Swedes in Liberia were portrayed as colonial-era heirs. The film was supplemented with a debate.

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

A film by Piero Bargellini.

“A silent meditation on consciousness past death. It is a continuous flow of image uninterrupted by cutting, a tactile and erotic film in which a man knows the earth as lover through a newly-awakened touch, a new multilayered seeing. It is a mystical document of a peak experience in life, climaxing in ego-death.” –John Schofill

The communal rituals of most villages of the Eastern Niger Delta focus on two great classes of spirits - the heroes and the water people. The heroes once lived with the men, founded their institutions and brought them their characteristic means of gaining a livelihood. Today, as spirits, they continue to maintain the established institutions and the skills with which people wrest a living from their environment. The water people, by contrast, have never lived with men: they are the creators and owners of the rivers and creeks, controlling the state of the waters and the abundance of fish. The little village of Soku, hidden in the heart of the eastern Delta, has a group of heroes headed by Fenibaso, and its creeks and rivers are controlled by the water-spirit Duminea. This film shows some highlights of the annual ritual for Duminea. As in most Kalabari festivals, spirit possession features prominently in the proceedings.

The film depicts the daily routine of a wage laborer looking for work every day, who is at the lowest social level of the worker hierarchy. The commentary partly takes up the language of the dock workers and blends wonderfully with the black and white photographs. The two together result in a precisely constructed reportage about work and leisure in the port environment and its social conditions. Three moving film sequences interrupt the photo sequence and thematize the photographic form.

An experimental silent film made in the early 1960s providing an intimate look at the citizens of Chicago. The film combines tongue-in-cheek footage of street advertisements, movie theatres, and other signifiers of city life, with scenes depicting the daily goings on of Chicagoans. The City borrows from traditional documentary film aesthetics, yet the narrative is complicated towards the end by fictional flourishes in what can be best described as a post-modernist take on the stressors and violence inherent to city life. Major thoroughfares and landmarks are heavily featured, such as Maxwell Street and Lincoln Park.

Self defense for women. 'Scream scream scream'; break HIS ribs, scratch HIS eyes out, knee to the groin. Useful tips that still hold up.

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

1966 Otto Pienes studio celebration recorded by Lutz Mommartz with his N8 MOVIKON 16 Bsec in Düsseldorf/Germany on the Hüttenstrasse.

Joe Napoli poses for the viewer.

A psychedelic cartoon depicting under water, outer space and other planets.

An animated film drawn in india ink directly on 65 mm film. It was reduced optically to 35mm film with colour added. The story of the film concerns a rivalry between two simple stick figures characters for the championship in a unicycle race. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

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.

One of those great experimental films that work best with zero context.

Today the term Alyscamps is associated with a famous promenade, Lucien Clergue explains its origin.

"indian ink on 16mm film" -CC

Poetic documentary about this famous contemporary metal sculptor, showing him at work on one of the last pieces completed before his untimely death, some say from the three "D's," Drink, Drugs and Dissipation, but more accurately from the three "S's," Struggle, Starvation and Systemic disintegration. The viewer witnesses the step-by-step process of creation as the artist collects, cuts, shapes and welds cast-off materials into a sensitive human figure. The film concludes with a cine-poem in which Boise's works are elements in an overall abstract experience.

Story of radio station WJR, Detroit. Many shots with local radio personalities in studio and people listening to the radio at home, in the ballpark at work and outdoors.

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

It Happens Every Noon describes the national school lunch program, which is designed to provide from a third to one-half of the student's daily nutritional needs. Explains the importance of a well-balanced midday meal.

A short animation of Charles Lloyd’s dry points. Sound composition by Arthur Cantrill.

A new version of Nipp and Tuck (Del Ruth / Sennett, 1923)

A short animated movie

This documentary about the cod fishing industry was filmed on a fishing boat near the Arctic Circle.

Mexican feature film

Symbology of power of the expressions dominating the man of today. The technologic and scientific progress in an anti-human sense. Freedom humiliated and compromised.

A documentary abstraction recorded at night in Los Angeles backed by the music of Stockhausen. It is a preliminary effort to organise camera and audio images through a cybernetic editing model and a digital computer. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Nico, in a pseudo ‘commercial’, holds a large, partially unwrapped Hershey bar to her chin, with the labelling upside down; the camera remains stationary while she gazes morosely into the distance.

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 4 October 1966.

This UCLA student film captures a psychedelic, kaleidoscopic montage of students, beatniks and hippies on the sidewalk in front of Canter’s Deli on Fairfax Avenue. The happening is edited to music by The Kinks.

A German camera crew filmed this record of family life in Tokyo. The children go off to school and father works in the factory. It was the start of the industrial boom in the so-called Showa time. Labour was still cheap. TV sets were hand soldered. Many parts were still manufactured in small home industries. Finally the family gathers again in their tiny homes. Futons behind the wall doors. A time Japanese are still nostalgic about.

Richard Rheem screen test by Andy Warhol.

Ingrid Superstar screen test by Andy Warhol.

A science fiction short inspired by George Orwell's 1984.

Beneath the Skyline. See Edinburgh through the eyes of award winning visionary Mark Littlewood as his alluringly artistic shots and stirring classical soundtrack.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

Subversive film documenting the Vietnamese viewpoint of the Vietnam War.

A documentary about the making of the film "They're a Weird Mob", a movie about an Italian adjusting to life in Australia.

Documentary film by Strobel and Tichawsky.

Short stop motion animation by Franz Winzentsen.

A science class builds a model rocket somewhere in the middle of the desert to test out the ability to deliver a live test subject into space and return it safely back to Earth. The test subject in this case is a mouse who will ride in the rocket via its capsule. A young boy, who is the caretaker of the mouse, is afraid for the mouse's life.

Single mother sends her son to an orphanage because she feels she can't provide for him.

Documentary about the famous Albanian poet

Documentary about the Saltair resort near Salt Lake City, Utah, where the cult film "Carnival of Souls" was filmed in 1962.

The imaginary life cycle of a pair of scissors, from birth to reproduction.

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.

Morning begins with performers dressing and preparing for their day to the accompaniment of clashing male and female internal monologues, and subsequently depicts various characters going about their daily business while we listen in on their thoughts and anxieties.