Cinematic Era: 1966 Vintage

Impressions of a playground in Berlin. It is also the playing field of the elderly chess and card players - counterpoint to the argument of isolation and emptiness in old age.

An advertisement from 1966, as part of the It Happened in France: French animation from 1894 to 2018 program curated by the Ottawa International Animation Festival and the Embassy of France

This episode focuses on Frank O'Hara and Ed Sanders. Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Frank O'Hara belongs, with Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery, to the "New York Poets" group. His work is characterized by acid wit. Ed Sanders is publisher of an underground literary magazine, a pacifist and leader of a rock and roll group known as "The Fugs". Both poets challenge the prevailing prejudices of our society. For Ed Sanders this has already led to some legal difficulties.

An ex-GI returns home from overseas and tries to take up where he left off with his family and friends.

Edelstein plays down his actors' facial expressions and impetuous gestures, orchestrating every body motion into the rhythm of the film. Changes in his characters' positions directly express the progress of the plot and establish a system of relations between his characters which you see unfold before you eyes.

About an old lighthouse keeper, his son, and his attachment to his native land.

High-contrast, abstract black-and-white photographs by Renate von Mangoldt illustrate a three-part poem cycle by Walter Höllerer about hop gardens in winter. "White is the garden / empty the poles / cleared / the season / made visible / the skeleton / before the white / ceiling." The frames form a graphic pattern, "a curiosity of lines" and a "grey hatch work / over the snow".

Inclinations is the result of several years of collaboration between the artist couple Eva and Guido Haas. Scratched and printed directly onto black film, the film frames were synchronized frame by frame with Dave Brubeck's Take 5. The working print of the film featured the shortest possible cuts, only four to five frames long. Where necessary, three of the four frames were then painted over in black again in order to be able to assemble the frame precisely.

Material actions: Otto Muehl. Montage of left-over film material from film scraps, amateur films, film leaders, recordings of material happenings, etc. Edited according to an exact plan (60 blocks of 10 takes each), then largely drawn over. My most destructive film, the "model for a futuristic newsreel."

Electric locomotives in the West, steam locomotives in the East. This report from Bebra uses "observations at a German train station" to illustrate the division of Germany. This was the terminus of the "interzone trains" that carried East German pensioners to visit relatives in the West. While the widening gulf between family members is noticeable, the residents of Bebra have made their peace with the division, not least of all because some of them profit from it financially.

Unedited footage of Chicago holiday display windows shot by Metro Movie Club member Joe Domin. Possibly an outtake of the larger amateur work, SILVER BELLS.

A film based on play by Wilford Leach

About the construction of the subway station.

Willie brings his toy space capsule to school, only to see it smashed to pieces on the playground due to his friends' carelessness. Willie gets angry.

On a morning in 1966, as requested by the director, artist Shiy De-jinn ran around the Renai Road Roundabout, while an 8mm camera tagged along. The runner, wearing a striped outfit, keeps striding forward to some unknown finish line, his eyes looking around from time to time; suddenly, a crowd of motorcycles appears and engulfs him.

The terrifying tale of a fish with no air!

Using a questionnaire, the author interviews writers, artists, and prominent figures in Colombian culture. Through his interviews, Arango portrays these personalities, using suggestive questions and the unconscious revelation that comes with the improvised nature of the answers. Likewise, some figures, Nadaístas and other artists, present their life stories in the first person, discussing their art, life motivations, and cultural issues. Finally, two chronicles are presented: one addressed to a relative of Arango's in Chocó, and another in which the author reflects on Cartagena and its historic center based on a trip he made to the city in 1966.

Charles Dockum demonstrates his Mobilcolor Projector in a 1966 showing.

A camp for difficult teenagers: gangster songs, collectivism, belief in corrective work and high ideals. Theft and chasteness.

This film captures a bit of their environment, which includes the Lower East Side, the Waldorf Astoria, the MacDougal Street scene, police harassment, show biz, humanity, their audiences and the film-maker.

Close ups from cafés and beer gardens in the center of Stockholm to Robbo Brobergs songs.

The theme is apparently the birth and growth of civilization, its ultimate destruction and rebirth; however, MEET ME, JESUS is actually about loss: the loss of innocence, dignity and hope. The film's final irony is our usual compensation: "If these wings should fail me Lord, meet me with another pair." MEET ME, JESUS is a compilation film using found footage as well as original material and hand painting on film. —Canyon Cinema

Short animation featuring cut-out photographs of all kinds of shoes and feet dancing a tarantella.

The filmmaker's mother, weaver Alta Kahn, weaves a rug. The film also shows how the weaver's job consists of of raising the sheep, shearing the wool, digging yucca roots for soap with which to wash the wool, carding and spinning, walking, digging and searching for roots with which to make dye, dying the wool, and putting the warp on the loom.

British documentary.

British documentary.

British documentary.

SONGS 21 & 22: Two views of closed-eye vision (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

SONGS 21 & 22: Two views of closed-eye vision (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Footage of the U.S. Marine Corps in action, featuring recovery efforts and combat.

Neighbors would rather talk trash about each other rather than deal with the health hazards their yards have become. It's their children who do the "adult" thing and carry off the refuse that has become a breeding ground for vermin and bugs.

The Grand Wizard arrives to see Stanley the Sorcerer perform one successful spell. Honey and Fraidy Bat help him fool the Wizard.

Sarita is a princess with a rather outgoing and adventurous outlook. She does not like to be tied up with bodyguards, and servants, and wants to be free to do stuff on her own. So one day, she runs away from home. The palace is instructed to searh for her immediately. Sarita comes to the big city, and enters a beauty pageant, which she wins. There is also a parallel pageant for Mr. Handsome, for which the winner is Sanjay Malhotra. Both Sarita and Sanjay have now to represent India on a foreign tour. They come close, and fall in love. It is then that Sarita discovers to her horror, that Sanjay is not who he claims he is, but an imposter.

Film starring Udaya Kumar and Rajkumar

A woman prepares for a journey. Meanwhile her boyfriend, a film director, is searching for an actress.

In Paris in the spring of 1966, Ornette Coleman, controversial Free Jazz composer, wrote and recorded the soundtrack for a Living Theatre project, a film entitled Who's crazy? This documentary short is a record of the two days Ornette spent in the studio making music with collaborators, virtuoso bass player David Izenson (formerly of the NBC Symphony Orchestra) and drummer Charles Moffett. Ornette plays alto, violin, trumpet and piano and introduces his haunting ballad "Sadness." When not performing, the artists discuss the precariousness of the musical life, the price of artistic freedom and personal fulfillment, and in the cases of Ornette and Moffett, the pain of discrimination.

Directed by Dmitri Kesayants (Dmitri Keussaian).

Woody is reading the tale of Little Red Riding Hood... and soon finds himself living the fable when a sobbing Red confronts him, telling him how a mean wolf has been bullying her on her entire trip to Grandma's. Woody plans to get even with the fiendish (and totally stupid) wolf by swapping places with her and going to HIS Grandma's. The wolf stops Woody carrying an apple pie and demands, "Let me have it" (Needless to say, he gets it alright!).

1946. Western Ukraine in the flame of struggle of Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the occupying Soviet army. Brave rebels strike Soviets unexpectedly and get into the very nest of red officers.

A parent concerned about the violence and possible explosion of an atomic bomb on the city of Montevideo. The scene is a nightmare, but articulates closely with socio-political reality of the time.

Mies Bouwman talks to Wim Sonneveld on his farm in France, visits his lands with him, and does shopping in the village

Made just prior to the Apollo 4 launch, this historic NASA film gives a good overview of the challenges facing the engineering team and the accomplishments made through 1966. Hosted by none other than Wehrner Von Braun, the film gives some fascinating insights into the "new" Apollo program in the wake of the disastrous Apollo 1 fire.

Conjuring up demons in Birmingham.

A short film shot on Super 8 by Hiedy de Assis Corrêa, known as Hassis.

NASA documentary film showing what the people behind NASA’s biosatellite program (satellites built by General Electric) hope to learn about the effects of space flight on living organisms.

The film depicts scenes of everyday life in East Berlin and does not feature a narrator throughout its entire runtime. In a few instances, text panels appear to provide explanations of the images shown. The scenes are accompanied by interviews, speeches, and radio broadcasts, though these do not always correspond to the images on screen.

A cartoon based on a Lithuanian fairy tale, about a tailor who managed to outwit a wolf.

Amongst the stalls in Vittoria Square in Brescia, during the weekly market. People seen with irony and sarcasm.

A modernized depiction. In his last few hours alive, Socrates discusses life, death, and the soul.

A commissioned cruise ship film

A young doctor whose body cells have become colorless one day feels that he is invisible. He makes his loved ones aware of his situation, and at this point, a group tries to save the young doctor, and some try to obtain the formula for the cells to become colorless. In the meantime, incidents occur, and finally, the young doctor succeeds in regaining his normal state.

About the construction of the Kvadraturen district and life there in the 17th and 18th centuries. ***** 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.

A film shot in one eye, exploiting minimal differences in depth of field, and focusing on the pupil, the landscape reflected in it, and Luca filming. All this borders on landscapes shot at speed, or printed on rotating reels. Reflected hands pointing.