All Films

Ice Bank in Summer

1968 • 19 min

Description of the daily lives of Eskimo hunter families spending the summer in Cape Hope, Eastern Greenland.

Django und die Tradition - Politisches Protokoll der DK

1968 • 24 min • Germany

In late 1968, the last SDS delegates' conference was held in Hanover. It had already been postponed by the Berlin Action Council in Frankfurt in September after the famous tomato throwing by the women. Now attempts are made once again to develop common criteria for the supra-regional context of the SDS, for an SDS whose organizational structures have been overturned by the revolt itself. Factions emerge, the Frankfurt Women's Council distributes its leaflet "Free the socialist eminences from their bourgeois tails", the wave of lawsuits looms. Joscha Schmierer as Django criticizes the student "shitty milieu that is out to satisfy immediate needs. Christian Semler calls for a strong central office. "Of course, I don't have a central office in mind, like the German Communist Party had a central office before '33". After all, the anti-authoritarians in the North region are attacking.

Balmain

1968 • 26 min • Australia

An enquiry, at once lyrical and tragic, into the reality of (the inner Sydney suburb of) Balmain in 1969 - an historical, beautiful and ideally located residential suburb threatened with partial extinction by lack of government planning and foresight, and by indifferent to residents' interests. Peter King, 'The Australian'

Katused ja korstnad

1968 • 26 min • Soviet Union

A dance film-fantasy, a tour of old and new Tallinn from its own unique angle - from the rooftops. First colour film of Eesti Telefilm.

Report

1968 • 10 min • Denmark

An experimental film based on the young painter Søren Hansen's expressive graphic plates, which appear in the film's close-ups as a rugged, divided and hostile world in itself. (DFI)

The Trout Lake Cree

1968 • 34 min • Canada

This short documentary focuses on the Cree community of Trout Lake, Alberta and the traditional practices maintained there, including moose hunting, hide tanning, and tipi construction.

Affability

1968 • 13 min • Soviet Union

This Place – Chipewyan Lake

1968 • 29 min • Canada

Short documentary about the Cree community of Chipewyan Lake, Alberta, focusing on its trading post and efforts to continue traditional practices in the face of modernization.

Life of Leech

1968 • 11 min

A monograph about a leech, a member of the ringworm family. The film shows their living conditions, structure, reproduction, and presents some of the 300 known varieties with particular emphasis on the medicinal leech, due to its practical application in medicine.

Violin Film #1 (Playing The Violin As Fast As I Can)

1968 • 10 min

Violin Film #1 (Playing the Violin as Fast as I Can), is one of several 1967-68 films featuring Nauman's violin-playing, in which the production of sound is subjected to procedural strategies that problematize its status as music and performance.

The wedding day

1968 • 12 min • Mexico

Filmed in San Bernardino Chalchihuapan, municipality of Ocoyucan, Puebla (Nahua community). The documentary records the religious ceremony, celebrations, and rituals of a young couple's wedding, in the traditional framework of their indigenous culture.

Video Luminar

1968 • 6 min

A demonstration and explanation of Kraynik's Video Luminar. (Screened as part of MEDIA AVANT-GARDES: GYÖRGY KEPES AND CAVS/MIT, Anthology Film Archives, Oct 2024)

The Capture of Haji Pir Pass

1968 • 11 min • India

The valor of our jawans in capturing the Haji Pir Pass is depicted in this short film. Glimpses of living conditions of the liberated people of the area are also flashed in this film.

There is a Statue

1968 • 4 min • Soviet Union

It starts with Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman: "And all the night the madman, poor, Where'er he might direct his steps, Aft him the Bronze Horseman, for sure, Keeps on the heavy-treading race." These lines affect the story where the man is haunting by the statues in comedic way.

Sky-High Chimgan

1968 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A tourist trip of students to Chimgan, Tashkent with a Snowman.

Because of and So

1968 • 1 min

Because of and So are the first short films by the artist: silent black and white 2x8mm films. They were created based on her interest in film and at the same time her study of psychology and pedagogy.

La Paz

1968 • 5 min • Argentina

Political short film made by Grupo Cine Liberación.

The Quest of the One Best Way: The Original Films of Frank B. Gilbreth

1968 • 25 min

Originally silent films from the 1920s, footage taken by Frank Gilbreth, particularly those used in his Motion Studies and Fatigue Studies research.

Hook Down, Wheels Down

1968 • 57 min • United States of America

This fine documentary was produced by the Department of the Navy to celebrate the first 50 years of carrier based aviation, with an emphasis on World War 2 operations. The Navy Archives were opened to provide footage ranging from precarious landings on the old Langley, to the Battle of the Coral Sea, to CVEs facing the Japanese at Leyte Gulf, Midway and much more.

Promotion

1968 • 6 min • Czechoslovakia

A bird unlike any other in its flock is given the task to direct traffic

Ezra Pound: Canto I

1968 • 9 min

Breaking a vow of silence, Ezra Pound reads his Canto I of 1917 to friends at lunch during the Spoleto Festival in 1967. The small group, sitting happily around their table is a gathering that sets the scene for a rare and intimate reading.

Duma

1968 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Short experimental 8mm film. Short experimental 8mm film. A melancholic paraphrase of the poem of the same name by Oton Župančič.

Film

1968 • 9 min

In this work, the number of the frames appears every ten seconds (240 frames), serving to count the number of frames.

Bahia Camará

1968 • 16 min • Brazil

A portrait of Afro-Brazilian resistance traditions in Bahia and their confrontations with persecution and intolerance. The history of capoeira, which came from Angola, was persecuted and criminalized for decades, and later transformed into a national sport and spectacle. The maculelê, a warrior dance brought from Mozambique, accompanied by loud chanting. Finally, the candomblé terreiros - a mystical cry of rebellion.