1958 Movies

In his first cinematic work, the painter Franz Schömbs intersperses the ever-recurring process from the nightbreak to the dawn. A short film by Franz...

Varied colors and patterns created on an optical projector.

An exploration of the human body through non-traditional, abstract focusing techniques.

The film consists of documentary shots from the first of May in Vienna, especially from participants in the socialist Mayday parade traditionally stro...

"Imagery and dialogue stimulated by Finnegan's Wake. It is a satire with undertones of the cosmic spirit." - Sara Kathryn Arledge

It's Peter's birthday and Mum wakes him with cards and presents. After breakfast he goes off to school, with his toy locomotive, but fails to return a...

A companion piece to Wheeeels No. 1, exploring more of the highways and by-ways of “American on Wheels”- with the filmmaker's gentle surgery on the Am...

Portrait of a small town.

A celebration of transatlantic commercial jet travel: 6.5 hours from New York to London. Columbus took two months, Lindbergh took 33 hours, but by 195...

The same year that Bruce Conner completed his famed A Movie, Montañez Ortiz destroyed a 16mm print of a banal Western, Winchester '73, with a tomahawk...

Inspiration for Stan Brakhage's THE DEAD. Screened at 1958 Brussels Film Festival

1958, 3 min, b&w, sound, 35mm, Argentina

The story of the railroad in Illinois and the train's role in moving product out of the states to the rest of America.

Tells story of an adolescent who returns home late at night and neglects his school work. Pictures alternate methods of discipline being tried by his...

A crane and other magical creatures save a poor fisherman from a greedy miller. Based on Russian folk tales.

A stop-motion adaptation of Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic fairy tale.