11th Festival 1964

For the first time the festival was scheduled to end, instead of start, on the Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend; and for the first time the organisation established itself in a permanent office.

Twenty-three features were presented, including the opener, from Japan, Zenzo Matsuyama’s My Hobo. Several major works were premiered in Australia, including Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Yasujiro Ozu’s An Autumn Afternoon, Francesco Rosi’s Hands Over the City, Michelangelo Antonioni’s II Grido, Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel and Andrzej Wajda’s Siberian Lady Macbeth, made in Yugoslavia. There were also two by Andrzej Munk, Eroica and Passengers; and Kazimiersz Kutz’s The Silence (all from Poland). Vojtech Jasny’s That Cat and Zybenek Brynych’s Transport from Paradise (both Czechoslovakia), Kent Mackenzie’s The Exiles (USA), Glauber Rocha’s Barravento and Anselmo Duarte’s The Given Word (both Brazil), the Thorndikes’ The Russian Miracle (East Germany), Fan Lai’s The Mania Flower (China), Fans Rademakers’ The Spitting Image (Netherlands), Manuel Summers’ The Rose and the Gold (Spain), Gyorgy Revesz’ Land of Angels (Hungary), the four-part Living Heroes (USSR), James Ivory’s first film The Householder (India) and a retrospective screening of Von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives.

There was also a tribute to the late cameraman Damien Parer.

Short films included Roman Polanski’s Mammals, Chris Marker’s La jetée, Jan Lenica’s Labyrinth and Rhinoceros, Walerian Borowczyk’s The Concert of M and Mme Kabal, John Halas’ Automania 2000, George Dunning’s The Apple and The Flying Man, Gilles Carle’s Olympic Swimmers, Tom Cowan’s Dancing Class, Ken Russell’s Pop Goes the Easel, Dusan Vukotic’s The Game, Geoffrey Jones’ Snow, Jiri Brdecka’s Galina Vogelbirdae and Bretislav Pojar’s The Orator.