What was the title of Martin Scorsese's 1967 short film?

Martin Scorsese’s 1967 short film was titled The Big Shave.

The film is a six-minute experimental body-horror short written and directed by Scorsese while he was making films at New York University. Peter Bernuth stars as a man shaving in a bathroom, gradually turning an ordinary grooming ritual into graphic self-mutilation.

The short is also known by the alternate title Viet ’67. That title prompted critics to interpret the character’s escalating self-destruction as a metaphor for the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. The film’s striking contrast between a bright, clean bathroom and increasingly disturbing imagery helped establish Scorsese’s early interest in violence, guilt and psychological unease.

The Big Shave premiered at the Knokke-le-Zoute Film Festival in December 1967 and later screened at the New York Film Festival in October 1968. It is sometimes overlooked beside Scorsese’s feature films, but it remains one of the clearest windows into his student-film period.