All Films

Square Inch Field

1968 • 12 min

A rapid fire montage, a dynamic juxtaposition of the world’s vital and destructive forces, the title originating from a Chinese text which refers to the Third Eye. Close up shots of the various faces open and close the film, the very last shot holding on the innocent face of a young child. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

Pistoletto & Sotheby's

1968 • 22 min • Italy

This film represents an encounter with several major icons of the history of western painting, "while attempting"–as the filmmaker says–"to always create a link between art and life, an impertinence with respect to those images that the production of works of documentation [books and magazines] brought to the attention of everyone for the first time." Reclaiming art history in a performative, playful way and evoking the tradition of tableau vivant, Pistoletto with his daughters Cristina and Maria Pioppi "act out" in a series of little scenes: Orpheus and Eurydice, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Raphael, Chaim Soutine, James Ensor, Edgar Degas, Vincent Van Gogh.

Jameh Mosque of Fahraj

1968 • 17 min • Iran

A short documentary about Iran’s oldest mosque, the Jameh Mosque of Fahraj.

Pesca Pisca

1968 • 3 min

A sensual film of continuous orgasm of pulsating color and image.

Duo

1968 • 26 min

From Mauricio Kagel, a short follow-up to his previous effort Solo.

Il campo

1968 • 12 min • Italy

A poor family struggles to create a small field to cultivate in the middle of a marsh, until nature takes its toll.

Reading Growth: Basic Skills

1968 • 14 min

Children learn the basics of reading.

Reflections

1968 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A surrealist etude that doesn’t have a clear narrative, and is courageous in its form, unusual in the context of Lithuanian cinema at the time.

Worth How Many Words

1968 • 9 min • United States of America

Promotional film on the use, application, and benefits of photography and film produced for the Eastman Kodak Company.

Movie Re-Invented - Hommage à Méliès (prochainement sur cet écran)

1968 • 7 min • France

Cheechako: Americans who moved to Alaska

1968 • 32 min

This film introduces the term Cheechako -- an Alaskan Indian word meaning newcomer. The film looks at what kind of living and working conditions newcomers could.

A Vampire's Nostalgia

1968 • 16 min • Yugoslavia

About a domestic traitor who helped the Italians kill his fellow Dalmatians.

Filmpiece For Sunshine

1968 • 24 min

FILMPIECE FOR SUNSHINE is about the isolation of the adolescent in an anti-life society, the pointlessness of his existence. He can't get sexual satisfaction, and he can't get any other kind either. He is always in prison and always will be. The woman he longs for is not just a woman of flesh but a higher spiritual freedom and beauty. He longs for beauty in an ugly world.

Cinegiornale libero di Roma n°01

1968 • 27 min

Composed of eight short films, this film is the first "action" of the Roman collective of Cinegiornali Liberi : a counter-information and cinema project "di tanti per tanti" promoted by Cesare Zavattini in 1968. Extract from Bulletin n ° 1 of Cinegiornali Liberi : "Proposals, protests, denunciations, interrogations, accusations, defenses, Vietnam, God, heart transplants, art, drugs, cowardice, classes, the moon, peace, peace war. Such may be the elements of the Cinegiornali Liberi . Cries or speeches? Messages of one, five, or ten minutes? In color or in black and white? [...] Well, you have to experience everything."

You Bet Your Life - A Matter of Survival

1968 • 26 min

A fantastic documentary about winter survival and camping, in the Canadian wilderness. Gets right to the heart of the matter, and doesn't waste time. Great for showing Scouts the basics!

Những Chiếc Áo Ấm

1968 • 10 min • Vietnam

Porcupine helps his friend Rabbit sew a shirt

Play

1968 • 12 min • Switzerland

As a word, play stands for playing, playful, giving full play to your imagination, play-acting style, play at passion, playground, manner of playing, playing for time, phase of play, playing a joke, play document, playing field, playroom, and everything that has to do with film, the film stock, with its color and black/white. Unexposed, overexposed and double-and multiple-exposed film, waste material and the creations of fancy.

Only The Brave Are Free

1968 • 43 min

This film focuses on the Spanish Civil War that occurred in the 1930s as a result of the attempted Communist takeover of the Republican government. It documents how a handful of infiltrators and agitators were able to capture the country while the majority was either fooled by slogans of promised reform or frightened by acts of terrorism into non-resistance. This documentary was produced by the Committee to Research the Spanish War Knoxville, Tennessee

Computing Calculator For Math And Science

1968 • 21 min

Hewlett-Packard computer model 9100 Computing Calculator. Physics class uses computing calculator and X-Y plotter in class. Early educational application of computers.

A Very Special Man

1968 • 17 min

A recruiting film for seamen suggesting they pursue a career in electronics.

The Urban Crisis and the New Militants: Module 4 - The People’s Right to Know: Police vs. Reporters

1968 • 15 min • United States of America

The People’s Right to Know: Police vs. Reporters interviews photojournalist Paul Sequeira on his experience covering the 1968 Convention and the police attempts to physically restrict reporters’ access.

Animals in Motion

1968 • 7 min

Between 1877 and 1885, an English photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, conducted detailed experiments analyzing human and animal motion using rapid photography. In 1968, John Straiton took the published works of Muybridge and created from them a fascinating and hilarious film. A tribute to the serious maker of the first nudie before the invention of movies.

Some Information

1968 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

A feminist film that deals with women's service jobs through an editing structure including the job of a telephone operator.

Tarzan’s Kampf mit dem Gorilla

1968 • 12 min • Germany

A satire with cinematical comedy. No other medium would permit this specific form. The comic potential of pithy scraps of dialogue between safari companions, of Tarzan's war-cries and love-stammerings was amplified by illustrating these sounds with pictures of a friendly German wood and homely elephants in a zoo. (Peter Steinhart)