Cinematic Era: 1967 Vintage

“The Ghost of Wittgenstein”, “I’d Rather be Half Right Than Vice President” alongside “Lost in Cudilhy” form that experimental trifecta of experimental or just plain mental art movies known as “The Charlotteruse with the Medal of the Wobbling Bubble in its Palm Trilogy”. Restored in 2017 comprise an essential 16MM restoration project by producer / director Ira Schneider, who is the undisputed master of the experimental doc genre as well as being the unsung founder of video art. They are to be re-released at the Prada Fondazione in Milan and Paris Independent Film Festival 2017. Restoration producer is Claudine Biswas-MacKenzie MA.

The school film of Fernando Matos Silva made in the London School of Film Technique. An adaptation of the homonimous tale of the writer Ray Bradbury.

Directed by Raja Bargir. With Barchibahaddar, Leela Gandhi, Jog, Jayamala Kale.

A cartoon film about a little boy who decides to see the world. He leaves home in search of the characters in his favourite books: the Lion, Phantomas, Tom Thumb and others. (DFI)

Three representatives of today's young generation: a young man who works at a motorcycle factory, a woman who works at a department store in Tokyo, and a young man. A work for overseas that depicts Japan in an era of steady economic development.

A barber goes for a walk on an average Sunday morning, and end up winning an other guy's wife on card.

A 14-year-old girl talks about the boredom of her middle-class environment and puts her father and mother on trial. A walk on the mountain with her dog is a pretext to see life through the eyes of this teenager who feels foreign to the world around her. The dreams of freedom of a young girl from a middle-class background. The first film of the filmmaker.

Rondo may be perceived as an improvised stylistic exercise set to music. It was made with a statically fixed camera. Bright colors run together on a rotating disc. New layers of colors emerge and disappear according to chance. Patterns are formed and are followed by new shapes to the sound of the music from the loudspeakers. (Filmform)

Individuals who have moved away from Fogo Island express their opinions on the life and problems of the Island.

Joe Kinsella talks about the problem of young people leaving Fogo Island after they finish their education.

By using film as a means of communication, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their daily concerns and thoughts about the future. Some of the problems discussed are the fishermen's unions, the fish plant, able-bodied men on welfare, the problems of education, and the issue of the consolidation of schools.

The words to the Paul McCartney-penned Beatles classic Penny Lane are vividly illustrated in this short montage film, released in the same year as the track, which juxtaposes characters inspired by the song with suburban street scenes and St. George's Square statuary.

Experimental short by Gianfranco Brebbia.

With no introduction, the audience find themselves in the middle of the film’s subject. Soviet ballet master Arkady Sakharov instructs the children’s and youth dance ensemble of the Radebeul district’s arts centre with an insistent voice. Belarussian, Ukrainian, Uzbek and Russian folk dances are rehearsed under his strict guidance and performed at the packed local arts centre.

The genre of film-cipher (invented by the documentary classic Chris Marker) is represented by Perm story with our working title "The Quest". The sequence of seemingly random episodes is gradually perceived as a sequence of signs encrypting the message: no kidding, in essence, it's a thriller which starts from peering into the cat's eyes. Then we meet a stern gentleman with a cigarette nodding to us; a daring kid cuts a piece of plywood on his dashing head; close-ups of unknown faces… All for good reason.

Between 1967 and 1969, Ken Brown shot Super 8mm films to project alongside live music at Boston’s premiere rock club The Boston Tea Party. The resulting films, now cobbled together into 3 themed segments, stand today as an amazing window on another time.

Italian film, theater and opera director Luchino Visconti is shown in rehearsal for a revival of Goethe's 1788 drama "Egmont," staged at Florence's Teatro Goldoni by the "Compagnia dei giovani." The documentary includes scenes of the company in rehearsal, and an interview with Visconti, as well as an analysis of some of the director's films.

Luna appears in one of Warhol’s famous screen tests. Contrary to Warhol’s preferred stasis, she acknowledges the camera with a series of smiles, winks, and suggestive facial expressions.

In 1967, Nabyendu Chatterjee made his first feature film in Hindi.

4 girls in front of a camera trying to be as still as possible while shot in a single fram sequence. Alternating with the girls are black spaces and single frame shots of store mannequins, skeletons, dolls, etc. The sound track is applied with household bleach and a fine pen, rows of dots producing the actual sounds heard, a kind of rushing roaring, the way breathing sounds through a stethoscope. The sound is synchronized directly with any live shot, the black spaces being left silent, building to a kind of expectancy as shots continually shorten. –K. D.

An astronaut hunts for the unusual creature, the space squid. Currently lost.

Directed by Peter Gidal (1967)

Single-handedly produced by Nakai, the film features images of the body, with themes of fetishism and reversion to the womb. In addition to using in-camera editing to achieve multiple exposures, he employed direct methods such as coloring and punching holes in the film.

Documentary about a mountain range and surrounding area.

Banned for 20 years during the communist regime in Romania, this short film depicts New York City through the eyes of a director and a writer.

“This modest little film completely turned me around. Up until that point I had been using the world to make a film, and what Jerome showed me was that the world itself, or life itself, could be the language of a film. That a film could be inside out, so to speak; that existence itself could become cinema” (Nathaniel Dorsky).

Short documentary by the basque filmmaker Chumy Chúmez (José María González Castrillo).

Borrowing the title from John Huston’s The Bible: in the Beginning (1966) (Tenchi Sozo in Japanese), Okabe aimed to paint the zeitgeist of the period by collecting and exposing the world around him and himself.

H. C. Artmann transforms himself into some of the characters he invented, who bring his texts to adventurous life.

The first documentary entirely devoted to the FLQ. This film focuses on the founders of the underground organization. It alternates between archive images retracing the actions of the first FLQ members, their arrest and trial, and a collective interview with four FLQ activists - François Gagnon, Jacques Giroux, Jean-Denis Lamoureux and Raymond Villeneuve - carried out after their release from prison.

Mexican feature film

Experiences in a Victorian church.

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic Jean Douchet, originally aired 19 June 1967.

An experimental, early form of "docufiction," 'Bruno' follows a young (and fictional) graduate of Philosophy who is confronted with his lack of concrete professional qualification during a job search, including several interviews with real job recruiters. Presented as part of the French news magazine program "Seize millions de jeunes."

In this film the goal of destroying film semantics has been consistently followed though. Part of the film is composed of a seemingly collision of picture and sound. Whilst filming, the colors called out in the sound were really filmed. Because of the "mistakes" made (unfocusing, copying process, color temperature) the colors in the final printing were wrong. The audience is then confronted with these discrepancies. (E.S.jr.)

A short film by HHK Schoenherr

“An extraordinary ebbing and flowing, dotting and pulsing ‘abstract’ field film. The filmmaker-painter Huot painted this film by spray painting a 12 minute length of clear film. When projected this single gesture contains a fascinating atomized space.”—Michael Snow

Short illustrating the parts of speech.

Love and adventure in the Marajó island.

A cinema verite account of the attempt to organize a black community in the Deep South in 1965 during the heyday of the Civil Rights Movement. A black leader has been car-bombed and a struggle ensues in the black community for control. A group of black men organize a chapter of the Deacons for Defense--a secret armed self-defense group. The community splits between more conservative and activist elements.

In Raiano, Italy, the feast of S. Venanzio is celebrated every year. Beside the official celebrations, the most secret and oldest ceremony is the "Cult of Stones": the devotees enter the caves where the saint used to live according to tradition, and rub their bodies on the stones to heal from evil.

Presentation of a commited State Party secretary at the Chemicals Combine in Buna. A former miner and small farmer rises to a leading political position.

Experimental 8mm film.

A look at the life of a woman in communist Poland whose day is divided between monotonous factory work, standing in queues for food, and taking care of her children.

A skiing comedy. Bon vivant Fred Iselin visits Sun Valley and the Rocky Mountain resorts, acting out his fantasies for anyone who will listen.

A hand-held camera zooms in and out as it films the objects in a room. The same sequence is presented twice. "In Room, [Gidal] makes deliberate use of the complete repetition of a whole film [...]. The camera's movement is slow and in close up on the objects it passes, causing the viewer to mentally search ahead of its motion, particulary in the repeat". Malcolm Le Grice, Abstract Film and Beyond, 1977

Short about the vietnam war.

Rocky, granite outcrops, a derelict quarry-worker and Dartmoor prison.