Cinematic Era: 1967 Vintage

Short film By Robert Fulton.

A documentary about striptease and club life narrated by a female stripper.

Kidnapping drama, set in an isolated mountain district.

The young daughter of a wealthy manufacturer marries a poor young man, whose house stands in the way of her father's grandiose plans.

A group of smugglers, known as The Golden Gang, are led by a mysterious, murder-happy boss out of an underground lair located beneath the Hotel Mogambo.

The Homeland of Electricity, Larisa Shepitko's adaptation of an Andrei Platonov story, was one of three short films collected in an omnibus work (Beginning of an Unknown Era) commissioned to honor the 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution. Censors eventually shelved the film and it would not see the light of day until well after Shepitko's death, during Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika.

Memories is a one-minute film created by Jim Henson as a commercial for Bufferin in 1967.

Experimental film.

The first Iranian vampire film. A woman, abandoned by her lover, becomes a vampire and takes her revenge.

Married with a young daughter, a 30-year-old woman yearns to return to her working life as a translator, to the confusion and consternation of her husband, a prosperous engineer. A formally stringent adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.

A newly established communist authorities in Yugoslavia face the moral challenge of how to deal with warriors of defeated side and other enemies of the regime.

16mm black & white with ending in colour. A fantasy about the origin of colour in the world. It was filmed at the dunes of Miramar's vivarium. The actor in the film, José Luis Leduc was disappeared years later by Videla's dictatorship. As of today, the film is listed as not available or lost.

The Off-Handed Jape is an afternoon’s lark made by Nelson and his artist friend William Wiley. The two men perform whimsical actions and poses for the camera, then recontextualize this imagery by improvising their own commentary on the action at a later time. —Andy Ditzler. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.

A concise blast of feminist film making, Sander's first film is a tense yet playful four minute short that dissects a typical urban scene at a bus stop on a busy street in Berlin.

Three-episode sex farce.

The antics of two children who live in a ranch.

Shakespeare's Hamlet is rendered in exquisitely expressive pen drawings.

Five young men who have stowed away on an ocean liner are forced to work alongside the crew to cover the cost of their shipments. In order to visit European countries during their stay on the ship, they put on musical shows starring themselves.

A picture of politicians under pressure, shot during the 1966 elections in Britain. The camera goes to meetings up and down the land, with an eye on angry audience excitement. The result, dramatically and cogently edited, suggests the heat, rather than the light of a campaign. It is crammed with offbeat observation and fascinating sidelights on the techniques of leading politicians in combating commotion

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Avila in 1967, this short records his impressions of the city, inspired by Meher Baba’s teaching that it was one of Europe’s holy places. The footage was later incorporated into his 2003 compilation film Travel Songs (1967–1981).

hong kong film

'Lampung Karam' tells a story of a religious community living in Lampung (southern Sumatra, Indonesia) during the 1883 eruption of the Krakatau volcano.

Ekrem, a heart doctor, has a troubled marriage with his wife Jale. Their marriage, which was happy at first, gradually gives way to violent arguments. Ekrem's life takes a completely different turn when he sees Ayla, who comes to the hospital after an accident one day. Ekrem, who falls in love with Ayla and begins a relationship with her, starts to neglect both his work and his son Murat. The death of his patient, Mr. Ali, presents Ekrem with a great opportunity. By posing as the deceased man, who had no family, Ekrem plans to live the life he desires. However, things do not go as he had planned.

The film follows William, thirty-ish, out of work and looking for a new life after apparently having been thrown out of his previous one. He meets up with Noelle, who seems intrigued by his restlessness - until her economist boyfriend shows up. Yet plot details do little to convey the power of the film, which lay in its capturing the anarchic texture of William's life - a life whose lack of direction was read as a rebuke of the Swiss myth of orderliness and self-satisfaction. With his roots in documentary, Soutter excelled at creating a loose, vibrant cinema, full of quick zooms and dynamic hand-held shots, with dialogue that often alternated between outright quotations and stylized interviews.

BAFTA-nominated documentary about famine in the state of Bihar, India made for ITV.

Surveys ways in which Americans use water resources for recreational activities, including rafting, diving, surfing, sailing, and boating. Points out the need for water conservation.

When the forces of the German occupation undertake a series of serious defeats in the Resistance, suspicions arise of being a traitor among the fighters. A girl who works within the Resistance finds in horror that the traitor is none other than her father.

A hairdresser Gerda has an affair with Dr Nikodimov, a married man past his prime. Savarinova has had her hair done by Gerda in fashionable style. She is ill at ease at a family party. Her sister Mina has been the cause of her anxiety, because the young scientist Belokozhov prefers young and unaffected Mina. They go out to the park and have fun by themselves. Meanwhile, Nikodimov goes to see Gerda in her flat. She tells him what has been preying on her mind during their liaison. Nikodimov's wife comes there but he turns her away. He tells Gerda that he will move in with her for good. Heartbroken, the girl turns him away. Nikodimov goes to the hospital. In his office, he takes out an ampule of cyanide and drains it with a resolute gesture. Mina and Belokozhov discuss love in the park. It starts raining. Laughing, a boy and a girl walk towards the dawn.

James Hound is sent to a deserted island to break up a group of evil voodoo worshippers.

A film adaptation of the story of the same name by Aleksandr Serafimovich about the participation of young people in the revolution and civil war.

A 47-minute black-and-white film by Theo Gallehr and depicts Il Gruppo in various candid stages - in interviews, setting up, recording, working with eachother, and performing onstage. The players showcased here include Bertoncini, Branchi, Evangelisti, Heineman, Kayn, Morricone, Vandor and Frederic Rzewski. It's interesting to watch the composers interact and perform spontaneously as it is to see them preparing the piano by tying horsehair around the strings and rubbing the interior with empty plastic bottles and vaccuum cleaner attachments.

Samadhi is both mystical and mysterious, an incredible fusion of movement, sound and colour. Belson notes the influence of his study and practice of Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism on the creation of Samadhi. The film is inspired by the principles of yogic meditation: the movement of consciousness towards samadhi (union of subject and object), the fusion of atma (breath and mind), a state which reveals the divine force of kundalini, a bright white light we discover at the end of Samadhi. The Tibetan Book of The Dead is the inspiration behind Belson’s use of colour in Samadhi, corresponding to descriptions of the elements of Earth, Fire, Air and Water in the book. —Sophie Pinchetti, The Third Eye

An animated cartoon on smoking and health. The villain, Old Nick O'Teen, disguises himself as an 18-year-old motorcyclist, the better to lure children into the cigarette habit. Fourteen-year-old Sam falls into the trap, but after awesome visions of his future, expert advice from a doctor, and straight talk from a friendly lorry-driver renounces the habit.

Bollywood 1967

A woman volunteers to help the Revolutionaries' trucks hide from bombing raids in Truong Son forests.

The modest shop assistant in a grocery shop Nastya dreamed about happiness. She dreamed about miracle, which would have made her beautiful. She dreamed all day and all night. And one day the miracle happened ...

Vincenzo reads a Beat poem during the years of the cultural revolution.

Documentary presenting the different stages of General de Gaulle's trip to Quebec in 1967, accompanied by extracts from his speeches.

A visit to the "Indians of Canada" pavilion at Expo 67, Montréal. Inside there are Indigenous artifacts, but even more arresting are the printed placards that tell the story of the Indigenous peoples in North America, written without rancor but recalling what their contact with European settlers has cost in freedom of movement, in loss of land, and in loss of health of body and spirit.

Japanese youth Lin Xun-ming travels to Hong Kong in search of his lover, Li-hua. Due to his striking resemblance to the syndicate hitman "Lin Wen-ming," he is thrust into a web of mob hits and police suspicion immediately upon arrival. With the help of the mysterious "Brother Nine" and a local bar owner, Xun-ming pursues the truth amidst an exotic detective thriller. As the transaction day approaches and gunfire becomes imminent, Brother Nine’s hidden identity arrives to rewrite the fate of this dangerous mistaken identity and the shadows of a smuggling empire.

Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966.

A legendary Punjabi tale of Mirza, a fearless archer, and Sahiban, his beloved, whose bond is tested by family pressures, tradition, and the harsh realities of honour-bound society.

During his year in Mexico, Conner hosted psychedelic guru Timothy Leary, who he had met on an earlier visit to New York. Conner and Leary occupied themselves with mushroom hunts in the Mexican countryside. It’s not clear whether their hunts were successful. But Conner’s staccato home-movies of their walks – combined with movies of previous mushroom hunts in San Francisco – became his film Looking for Mushrooms. The film rushes through the rustic landscape of rural Mexico, flitting past houses and through a crumbling graveyard. Not to be confused with Conner's re-edited 1996 version of Looking for Mushroom.

James is a secret agent who is incredibly clumsy. Yet, no matter how many mistakes he makes in his efforts to capture the bad guy, he winds up bagging the criminal

Stompa takes on the Atlantic Ocean to surprise his origins in New York. He is mustering on a 20,000-tonne ship together with his friend Nøtterø who would like to sail the seven seas during the summer holidays.

Body Collage is a visceral "movement-event" from 1967, in which Schneemann paints her body with wallpaper paste and molasses, and then runs, leaps, falls into and rolls through shreds of white printer's paper, creating a physicalized corporal collage. "My intention was not simply to collage my body (as an object), but to enact movement so that the collage image would be active, found, not predetermined or posed," writes Schneemann.

Chilly stows away in a woodchopper's travel bag while the woodchopper is on his way to Smedley's Rest Home.

The feature length version of Bottoms by Yoko Ono