1965

Yes, Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett also made a film once, archetypically titled Film. A man tries to escape the gaze of an all-seeing eye, inspired by Berkeley’s statement, “Esse est percipi”: to be is to be perceived. The disorienting camera work comes from Oscar winner Boris Kaufman, whose brothers Dziga Vertov and Mikhail Kaufman created the legendary self-reflective masterpiece Man With a Movie Camera (with the latter in the title role).

In 1965 filmt Johan van der Keuken zijn innemende buurmeisje Beppie terwijl ze door Amsterdam zwerft en op speelse wijze de wereld ontdekt. Met vriendinnen slentert ze door de stad en klopt te pas en te onpas bij buren aan.

One of the great masters of postwar Japanese cinema, rebellious filmmaker Nagasi Oshima was also one of his generation’s most politically engaged artists. Diary of Yunbogi is an ethereal montage of still images with dark, somber undertones based on photographs Oshima took during a study trip to South Korea in 1965.