All Films

A Window into the Soviet Union

1968 • 4 min • Soviet Union

An educational cartoon designed to introduce foreign audiences to the cultural, technical, and scientific achievements of the Soviet Union.

Jam Session

1968 • 60 min • Yugoslavia

TV special about jazz musicians doing a session.

The Last Strand

1968 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A short film about a young Soviet border guard's confrontation with a state border violator.

Соперники

1968 • 17 min

OffOn

1968 • 9 min

The human eye, the human form, the human face: these are the three central images of this avant-garde collage and kaleidoscope of shifting and fractured images, changing colors, and pulsing rhythms. Near the end, a tree appears briefly, and birds fly - first white, then red and blue. Celtic knots morph from one to another. The images become Rorschach tests although the mood, driven by the rapid changing images and the soundtrack, remains frantic.

Sorbet '3'

1968 • 4 min • Netherlands

A strangely-dressed man reaches for some sorbet and then eats it; A playful, expertly-edited excercise from Zwartjes.

Match Your Mood

1968 • 7 min

Westinghouse promotional film for a refrigerator line with decorative labels.

The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter

1968 • 9 min • United States of America

Two artists create grotesque characters; Two-dimensional drawings which somehow have a life of their own, that exist in the same space as real objects. The film seems to ask, "Isn't every filmmaking venture a series of repeated, once-negative images displayed alongside the real world?"

Morning

1968 • 5 min • United States of America

"A poetic visual rendition of morning, and an evocation of my awakening to working with some basic elements of filmmaking – film emulsion responsiveness to light, as well as an initial approach to the relationship between a frame and a shot. My first 16mm work. The beginning of a new day." –Ernie Gehr

Iruya

1968 • 19 min • Argentina

The feast of the Virgin of the Rosary in Iruya, in a remote village in the Zenta Mountain Range in the province of Salta, is one of the many festivals celebrated in the Northwest of Argentina, where the fusion of the ancestral cultures of the region is represented, along with elements of Hispanic influence, building a transcultural look as a strategy of resistance.

Concertissimo

1968 • 3 min • Hungary

A short film on how militarism takes over art.

K-9000: A Space Oddity

1968 • 10 min • United States of America

Short directed by Robert Mitchell and Robert Swarthe.

Eyetoon

1968 • 8 min • United States of America

"The sea, tranquil and violent, is the ultimate symbol for Jerry Abrams' EYETOON and the ultimate equivalent to making love -- his concern in this short and visually dazzling film. Abrams contrasts the rushing faces of New York and a highway juggernaut with the peaceful joining of bodies in a Gjon Mili-like stroboscopic sequence -- always with a burbling, flashing maelstrom of emotions underlying and double-exposing with the bodies. It is visually lovely, technically first-rate and impossible to ignore. The graphic sex is economically handled." -- John L. Wasserman, San Francisco Chronicle

De Oppresso Liber

1968 • 5 min • Germany

Activist short about the Vietnam war.

A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe

1968 • 8 min

A Rough Sketch features a linear view of our universe from the human scale to the sea of galaxies, then directly down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. With images, narration, and a dashboard, it gives a clue to the relative size of things and what it means to add another zero to any number. The 1977 film, Powers of Ten, was an expanded and updated version of this 1968 study film. Charles and Ray often gave projects long titles to indicate that they were still exploring their ideas—that the presentation was a model or a type of “sketch.”

Momentum

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

"Momentum is Belson's most serene and gentle film since Allures. This treatment of the sun as an almost dreamlike hallucinatory experience is both surprising and curiously realistic." -Gene Youngblood

Mad Mesh

1968 • 4 min

An experimental film by David E. Perry

Soul in a White Room

1968 • 3 min

Soul in a White Room was filmed by Simon Hartog around autumn 1968. Music on the soundtrack is Cousin Jane by the Troggs. The man is Omar Diop-Blondin, the woman I don't recall her name. Omar was a student active in 1968 diromg 'les evenement de Mai et de Juin' at the Faculte de Nanterre, Universite de Paris. Around this time, Godard was in London shooting Sympathy For The Devil / One Plus One with the Stones and Omar was here for that too, appearing with Frankie Y (Frankie Dymon) and the other black panthers in London.... Maybe Michael X too. After returning to Senegal, Omar was imprisoned and killed in custody in '71 or '72. I believe his fate is well known to the Senegalese people.

Sugar Daddies

1968 • 12 min • Austria

With his film, Sugar Daddies, Scheugl leaves the cinema and projects the film in a place similar to the location of the filming: the film material consists of drawings on the bathroom walls at the University of Vienna.

Nirona

1968 • 3 min • Sweden

1968 short film by Håkan Dahlström.

Billabong

1968 • 9 min

A wordless impressionistic 'documentary' about a boys' camp.

Black Five

1968 • 22 min • United Kingdom

Black Five is filmed around Carnforth station in Lancashire, a location which had been the setting for the archetypal railway romance, David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945) over 20 years earlier.

Goodbye to Glocamorra

1968 • 20 min • Ireland

"Goodbye to Glocamorra" (1968) is a documentary film originally made for broadcast on Irish television. It examines the forces of change in the late 1960's in Inwood, then one of the last Irish immigrant communities in New York City.

Waterfall

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

A film poem using found film and stock footage altered by printing, home development and solarization. It is a film using visual relationships to invoke a feeling of flow and movement. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with National Film Preservation Foundation in 2011.