1960s - UPDATED: July 2022

62nd Birthday Footage (ca. 1962)

Kate Vogel

1962

Footage from the birthday of the wonderful Bet Van Beeran, who was an 'out' lesbian in Amsterdam from the 1920s onwards.

Alienation

Kang-Chien Chiu

1966

 Taiwan / 6 mins
This experimental short features a caterpillar crawling on a wall, a naked man seemingly masturbating, poetic captions and stills of crucifixion-like poses. Considered lost for 52 years, Alienation was found and restored in 2019. 

Epilogue / Siam

Tom Chomont

1968

USA / 6 mins
Filmmaker and curator Jim Hubbard states, “Chomont’s films offer a lyric depiction of the ordinary world.” Here, Chomont presents two portraits–one warm, and one cold.

Klitclique: In Pairs / KLITCLIQUE : Zu zweit 

Anna Spanlang

1968

Austria / 2 mins
From Laurel and Hardy, to Batman and Robin, Anna Spanlangs video clip uses imagery of famous pairs as the background for this obituary to the phallocracy and its male homosocial structure… “Women In” is an invitation to fight perceptions in the mainstream media and well as perceiving the art of two women as merely decorative accessories.

The Blue Rose

Chuck Renslow

1965

USA / 12 mins
This poetic film is an extension of Renslow's male physique photography of the period. By today's standards, this film is quite tame, however in 1965 films like this remained in a legal grey area, barely escaping obscenity laws. The film stars Steve Kotis as the Grecian shepherd lad, and Ralph Kleiner who is enchanted by the blue rose.