Cinematic Era: 1967 Vintage

A blackmarketeer and his mistress try to swindle people at a hot-spring resort, but are thwarted by the local inhabitants.

Various hunting systems with huts (in this case, “capanno” is an artificial shelter, the simplest of which actually resemble a tent). Decoy birds and assistants. What are decoys used for? How are they selected and trained?

An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.

A girl pretends to be Mitra, the fiancée of Morteza Khan, the owner of a coffee shop. After some time of them socializing and wedding preparations being made, the real Mitra arrives in Tehran from Europe. The embarrassed girl leaves Morteza's house, but Morteza, who has fallen in love with her, follows her, finds her, and marries her.

Abstract portrait of a lighthouse and its lenses, set to Beethoven's Grand Fugue.

A nightmarish depiction of the confusion of a distinguished teacher who faces the lack of attention and obedience of the new generation of young rebels.

Explains the government to a cartoon caveman named Ugh.

Bruhn’s Swan Lake was a fascinating psychological drama that departed from traditional versions, which proved controversial and ground-breaking. He enhanced the role of Prince Siegfried, whom he occasionally performed, with more dancing and depth, saying he wished to tell the story of the Prince rather than the Swan Queen. He also changed the role of Von Rothbart, the evil sorcerer, to the Black Queen (initially played by Franca). His telling changed the story from a struggle between good and evil to focus on the Prince’s relationships with the women in his life – his mother, the Black Queen, the Swan Queen and the Black Swan – each representing a different form of control or influence. To emphasize the powerful emotion of the story, Bruhn reinstated the tragic ending, with the Prince driven to his death by the swans.

Animated adaptation of Rudolph Erich Raspe's stories about Baron Münchhausen's adventures in Russia.

The Algerian War is seen through the eyes of a group of Algerian freedom-fighters who have been captured and incarcerated in French-run military prisons both in France and Algeria. In addition to attempts at escape, this prison drama also includes propaganda and brainwashing attempts by the French and scenes of torture. In what is possibly the most horrible torture of all, the inmates are forced to listen to broadcast speeches by General Charles de Gaulle -- speeches which illustrate the changing relations between the French and the Algerians.

A day at the Beach, at the Sea, at the Sky and at the Sailboats.

“An internal probing of the violence and mystery of the American psyche seen through the eye of a black man and the Russian revolution.”– A.T.

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.

Gay life in 1960 Australia (or camp as it was then known) was underground but growing in confidence. The side and back bars that made up much of the discreet public gay scene at the time had been active since the early 20th century, along with a mix of beats, cafes, theatre foyers and more, but many wanted more. Interest in socialising away from the bars and outside of private homes lead to the development of new gay social groups in the early 1960s, in Sydney these included The Chameleons, The Pollynesians, The Karingals, The Tiffanys, and The Boomerangs.

An emerging solidarity community on strike: In 1965, Mexican farm workers stood up against the unregulated capitalism in the agricultural sector and the racism of the white land owners.

A stop-motion animation aimed at young people, discouraging vandalism on railway lines, by pointing out the dangers.

"Hamid" is kicked out of his mother's luxurious house.

Documentary on Bernd Köhlert, a West German mercenary whose death in the Congo caused a sensation

An examination of changing sexual attitudes in the United States, including comments on the personal and sociological significance of the changes of the time.

A heavy smoker finds different ways to smoke all the time: while sleeping, in the shower, while shaving. People around the protagonist smoke too. His wife is the only exception. She talks about his health, wallet, and smell.

From 1967 to 1969 Ugo Nespolo made three films about three artist friends: Mario Merz, Alighiero Boetti and Michelangelo Pistoletto. Neonmerzare, featuring Merz, was shot in the gallery of Gian Enzo Sperone in Turin, in 1968. With lyrical movements, the camera tracks a series of neon tubes, establishing an ideal dialogue between the traditions of the abstract cinema of light and colour, and experimental documentary filmmaking. The symphony of lights is accompanied by jazz improvisation by the saxophonist Carlo Actis Dato. —Tate Modern

Film portrait of Austrian intellectual, journalist and writer Otto Maria Carpeaux, who emigrated to Brazil to flee World Ward II, as his insights on the 1964 Brazilian dictatorship.

Fine Arts Education

Take flight with this short film about the sport of gliding, and enjoy a captivating journey into near space, where all the beauty of earth and heaven meet at the wide-winged engineless craft poised between them. Filmed over the mountains of the Laurentians and the Canadian Rockies, the film offers breathtaking views and whets the appetite for adventure.

The Gestapo is preparing for the liquidation of the Hungarian anti-Nazi resistance movement.

One of Merzak Allouache's graduation films.

Speaking as scenes from Anatahan are shown, for which he directed, photographed, wrote, and provided voiceover narration, film director Josef von Sternberg takes the viewer on a fantastic filmmaking journey in this presentation of Cinéastes de notre temps: Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another.

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

Independent animation by Hayashi Seiichi.

“In their starkly minimal film, The Awful Backlash, directors Robert Nelson and William Allan, focus solely on a pair of hands as they begin to unravel what appears to be a tangled fishing line. Any further evidence of the title’s confusing ‘awfulness’ – other than the literal disentanglement of the line remains, however, tentative, left as it were, literally, at a loose end. The viewer knows nothing of the incident that led to this backlash or entanglement; nor of the directors’ initial motive for the title indeed not of any other attempt at blending an additional storyline beyond what is seen. There is, perhaps, one link with a reverse reaction – a sense of gradual recovery taking place, as the thread unfolds from a position of multiplicity back to a singular line.” (Pamela Kember, Rethinking Refunctioning, ‘Awful Backlash’ catalogue, May 2000) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

Isaac Zepel Yeshurun's debut film is a local tribute to European cinematic modernism, especially to Michelangelo Antonioni and Alain Resnais. An oldecouple and a young couple meet at a party. That's all reality has to offer, and from here begins a winding cinematic web of stream of consciousness, transitions between times, reality and fantasy.

At her boss' command, a female yakuza must kidnap her old boyfriend. When the two ex-lovers are re-united, their romance is rekindled and they plot to kill the yakuza boss.

The first motion capture film.

The Fogo Island Improvement Committee discusses the building of a speaking platform for the anticipated visit of the Newfoundland premier.

Before a dynamic camera waitresses are rushing in all directions at the busy central Split train station, doing their daily work. The hectic atmosphere is amplified with cuts from face to face, movement to movement, transforming the film into a rhythmically programmed energetic trip.

A study of the people living and working in the Pittwater area 25 miles north of Sydney.

15 min., sound, 1967

The film 1933 made between 1967 and 1968 offers a street scene shot in New York City in the late 1960s from a loft window on the second floor.

"Daash Ahmad," a taxi driver, meets a young woman and soon falls in love with her. However, the girl's wealthy father stands in the way of their relationship...

A short documentary feature following young German troops in training,

The documentary, produced by the General Student Committee of Freie Universität Berlin, documents the brutal police crackdowns on anti-Shah demonstrators, preserves evidence, interviews eyewitnesses, and confronts thugs with film and photographic evidence. Thomas Giefer and Hans-Rüdiger Minow interpret the police assaults as “the first attempts to implement the state of emergency against an extra-parliamentary opposition seeking to prevent it.” The film aims to create a counter-public sphere and calls on viewers to stop the anti-democratic forces and resist.

Based on court records, this award-winning documentary feature film directed by Peter Pewas reconstructs a traffic accident in Essen in which three people were directly involved and in which twelve-year-old cyclist Dieter Pahl was killed.

Sinus Beta is almost a sort of teaching film about bodily behavior in different situations. The film also produces, through the heterogenic photographic materiality of the primary elements, a cross-section of the methods, used in capturing the body in a still photograph. (Mubi)

Cartoon short

Imagen de Caracas was an experimental film spectacle, directed by Jacobo Borges and Mario Robles in 1968 for the 400 anniversary of the foundation of Caracas. It needed more than 48768 meters of film and 5000 actors.

A short by Derek Vanlint.

Animated short film based on Ambrose Bierce's acerbic New Year's story.

The adventures of two conscripts on an aircraft carrier, including one of them having a rivalry with an officer over a woman.