1959 Movies

This film records the struggle for life within the Arctic Circle. It reveals flowers of startling beauty, whose entire life cycles last less than thir...

South African Film

The spring of 1919. Karikás Frigyes reorganises brigade 39 at the Tisza. His most devoted soldiers are Korbély János and his followers, who remain fai...

Both this film and The Passion and Resurrection introduce the new technique of painting directly on film—a technique that provides images of unique qu...

A semi-abstract animation film originally produced as a theatrical advertising film for release in India. It utilizes the textile designs of the Calic...

A working man finds a school book that belonged to him, which will make him remember his childhood. Short film registered entirely in Lugano neighborh...

A tribute to Stan Brakhage's pet dog Sirius, whose decompostion was recorded over 6 months after he had died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive i...

Menken's 16mm, stop-motion tribute to the art of Dwight Ripley was filmed in 1959 in his apartment at 416 East Fifty-eighth Street in New York. She us...

Appointed by the dictator Huerta, a local official tries to use his authority to pressure a young woman into marrying him. Meanwhile, counter-revoluti...

A young pilot and a librarian are silently in love with each other. But their love story is forestalled when the pilot's cousin convinces him that the...

Short experimental film.

A short film from Hans Jürgen Pohland.

From a central pivotal position, the camera eye (in this case, the hard and inflexible eye of Minerva) looks out upon twelve passing scenes. None of t...

A forest ranger witnesses a murder. He and his wife are captured by the killer and held captive in a remote cabin.

The evil witch turns the prince into a donkey.

A look into what it takes to replenish and 83,000 ton liner, the Queen Elizabeth, before her next voyage.

Dona Xepa is a vegetable stand owner. She dreams about the success of her scientist son. The film is based on the play by Pedro Bloch.