All Films

Macrozoom

1968 • 3 min • Italy

Perforce

1968 • 15 min • Italy

An allegory on man's inhumanity. Pink dolls are sandwiched into bread rolls in a long sequence then stuffed in a sack and thrown in the sea by two children. A naked, drowned negro is washed ashore and discovered by a naked white child. The soundtrack is of Vietnamese children's songs.

I/68 Dinge

1968 • 8 min • Switzerland

Starting from indeterminate, large public spaces, the film focuses on the lines, corners, and openings of a barren apartment, eventually landing without lingering on used items, a cloth, crumpled paper. Many shaky doors swing shut, to be quickly replaced by others. Pressure and suction emerge spontaneously from the rooms in front of the observer's eyes. In the mundane: table legs, the dark tobacco end of a cigarette. The film brings life into being and ushers in light.

Disneyland

1968 • 8 min • United Kingdom

British travelogue showing all the attractions available at Disneyland in 1968

Artfilm

1968 • 5 min

ARTFILM is condensed new art. Equal time of 1/12th of a second is given to art objects animated in living black and white. Patterns are created as shapes change into one another. The music has an effect on the images seen. It is fun to blink at. Aldo Ciccolini plays Erik Satie on the concert Grand. –J. D.

Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

COMPUTER ART SERIES is animated computer/graphic films. The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer graphics, and in some cases combine live action images and animation collage; all are geometric and fast moving and in color. There are eight films in the computer animated art series. As samples of the art of the future all the films explore variations of abstract geometric forms and words. In effect these works could be compared to the illuminated manuscripts of an earlier age. Now typography and design are created at speeds of 100,000 decisions per second, set in motion a step away from "mental movies." POEMFIELD No. 2 and 5 are all colorized by Brown and Olvey.

Mince Meet

1968 • 5 min

An animated film of tiny images made of halftone and hard edges on rough and and smooth paper. They expand and compress, push each other, censor themselves, move, open, and leave an ominous feeling. Genuine home-made academy leader begins and ends this film. –J. D.

The Hunt

1968 • 11 min • Romania

A man followed by mistake by a mysterious gang revisits, while on the run, important moments and people from his life up to that moment.

Sardinia

1968 • 9 min • Italy

A work commissioned by the Ministry of Labour to which Mangini brings an eloquence that transcends any propaganda ambition. It is an accurate portrait of a vision about a land of new highways and factories built on the grounds of shepherds and farmers.

Extremity n°2

1968 • 20 min • Italy

Presented at the 2nd Randez Vous Des Cinemas d'art et Dessai at the Palazzo dei Congressi of the Republic of San Marino, the film shows "Filmic experiments-incandescence, filtering the sun-filming, through the window of a working projector, rotating geometric solids and reflecting colored rays".

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

1968 • 30 min

This is a film about the work of the young French Vorticist sculptor who died in World War I and his ties to London and to Jacob Epstein, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound. Much of the commentary comes from Gaudier's letters, his manifestos, and other writings by him. As with the Klippel films, the challenge was to bring the works in 3 dimensions to the film in 2 dimensions. If viewed in the context of a time when we were starting to specialize in art movies (we were trying to make a movie about the Vorticist movement), we noticed that we got bored with the documentary form, realizing that we didn't want to continue making movies this way. It was also around this time that we discovered the large amount of avant-garde cinema being made in America and Europe, at the 1967-68 edition of the Knokke Festival in Belgium, which confirmed our true interest.

Osaín

1968 • 11 min • Cuba

A tale about a child-god based on Cuban folklore, spoken in lucumí dialect.

Of Cats and Men

1968 • 12 min • United States of America

Traces the history of the cat—a god in Egyptian days, an evil spirit in the Dark Ages, and a pet today.

Peace Is

1968 • 11 min • United States of America

Capitalism and Christmas

Omochi

1968 • 5 min

The Nishimura family makes traditional rice cakes.

Paludes

1968 • 22 min • Japan

This allegorical depiction of escape from the stagnation of everyday life was produced with the help of fellow members of the Tokyo University of the Arts Experimental Filmmaking Club. It was shot on location in places frequented by students--university campuses, Ueno Park, Ginza, Hayama--and everyday life intermingles with the processes of filmmaking.

What Troubles the Troublemaker

1968 • 7 min

WHAT TROUBLES THE TROUBLEMAKER Filmstrip No 409 Popular Science Pub Co Audio Visual Division 45 fr color 35 mm An FOM release With Teaching guide 1 v Popular Science Pub Co Inc Audio Visual Div 2Sep68 A105495 Denoyer-Geppert Audio-Visual filmstrip, No. 66830

Le corbeau et le renard

1968 • 7 min • Belgium

A documentation of Marcel Broodthaers's exhibition Le Corbeau et le Renard at the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp.

Superimposition

1968 • 30 min

Similes of a slippery TV tube gesticulate break and supply – a long view of multiple images (Mr. Johnson's war, is it Howard Johnson's or President Johnson's war?) – a long curving view, breakfast with aspirin, good grief – or Goodbye. (SUPER-IMPOSITION is a videotape experiment with multiple images, made with film artist-in-residency at Colgate University.) Life and art ... interacting ... it is interesting to note that movies and psychoanalysis are approximately the same age ... there are now more TV sets in America than bathtubs. There are more radios in America than people. Although 75 percent of Japanese households have television sets, statistics show only 35 percent have running water and fewer than ten percent have flush sanitation. Some 40 percent of American children have one or more.

The N Most Beautiful Girls of Navona Square

1968 • 12 min

The faces of beauty are infinite, if you only want to look at them, and the ones of infancy are the most divine. –A. L.

Scopie

1968 • 15 min • France

As part of the "continuation" of the "cut" made by Sollers-Pollet's "Mediterranean", Scopie therefore stems from a materialist practice of cinema, made here and now (among others within the whole eclectic named "Collectif Jeune Cinéma") more necessary than ever. Disappointing any phantasmal projection, the screen-support of what is woven, but also exceeded by it, its positive trace is proposed as a place where the perpetual, regulated circulation, between sound and image, inexorably disappoints the constitution of a full meaning, in which the subject-spectator could be comforted. (CJC)

Mickey Mouse Happy Birthday Show

1968 • 30 min • United States of America

Special attraction featuring Mickey and his friends in a half-hour fest!

Carrousel

1968 • 8 min • Canada

A visual poem, vivid, lyrical, as intriguing in its colour fantasy as in the beauty of its images. This is an escape from a merry-go-round of painted horses suddenly turned to flesh and blood, making a wild plunge for freedom. But these are horses of extraordinary colour--lime, mauve, bronze and gold--as if caught in some mysterious kaleidoscope of the dawn. A triumph of technical virtuosity, these unusual effects were achieved in the printing process.

Welcome to Come

1968 • 3 min

Welcome to Come, which depicts a somewhat mysterious transformation of the image in the course of a single zoom, was my only film to achieve a small measure of "popularity," with a short write up in Variety and prints purchased by several film teachers who still show it today.