All Films

Receita Artesanal

1968 • 15 min

Cooking and Fishing in Espirito Santo

Berlin: The Swinging City

1968 • 5 min

Original promotional film produced by Columbia Pictures

Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square

1968 • 10 min

In this silent film, Nauman walks around the perimeter of a large square marked off with masking tape. He shifts his hips exaggeratedly as he places one foot in front of the other, moving carefully around the square.

Adolf Winkelmann, Kassel, 9.12.1967, 11.54h

1968 • 8 min • Germany

Adolf Winkelmann maneuvers through Kassel’s shopping district with a Bolex camera strapped to his body, filming himself and the attention he attracts.

Maskaradak

1968 • 27 min

Traditional dances in the basque region of Zuberoa

X-Bilder

1968 • 31 min • Switzerland

The only film that Kurt Kühn made (alongside a few commissioned works) has 44,701 images. 44,701 images run in front of the viewer according to an open structural principle and refer to the basis of every film: individual images that are combined into movements of all kinds. Time plays a major role in X-Bilder.

Red & Green

1968 • 15 min • Australia

“By this time we had a Filmmakers' Cinema here in Sydney. I made the film on the spur of the moment...to go over a band. Red and green leader was very cheap—you got it for a cent a foot or something. Scratching and 'injuring' the flat colour of the leader . . . I interspliced it with old 16mm footage, breaking up and creating tension between the shots...you know, a native in Papua New Guinea was shooting an arrow, and just as the arrow leaves, the film cuts back into red and green 'travelling' lines (the scratching on the leader). For quite some time this line is running, then the next minute it stops and you see the arrow actually hitting a target. So it gives the impression the arrow is travelling for a long time, on red leader toward the target. The film was shown with different bands, and each time the film looked different.” (Paul Winkler)

The Beginning of Life

1968 • 29 min • Sweden

Report on fetal development, from sperm to the newborn, based on Lennart Nilsson's photo suite.

A Place to Live

1968 • 29 min

A City of Chicago sponsored film commissioned by Lewis W. Hill for the Department of Urban Renewal. The film attempts to defend the city's redevelopment plan for residential and commercial urban renewal, and explains how relocation officers can assist those who have been recently displaced. As the narrator succinctly states, "we are tearing down what stands in the way of a better city. Some buildings must go simply because the occupy space needed for something else, but for the most part, it's the warn out areas of the city that are making way for the new." Recently displaced home owners are interviewed, expressing their distaste of the urban renewal process. The film explains how the city will help these displaced home owners, by use of a good relocation officer from the Department of Urban Renewal. (Chicago Film Archives)

De lo que no hay

1968 • 57 min • Argentina

A 1968 film that was never released, it is a reflection of the artistic avant-garde that characterized the Argentine scene at that time.

Ufo

1968 • 20 min • Italy

John et la pomme

1968 • 11 min • France

Firebird

1968 • 4 min • Switzerland

Yanomamo: A Multidisciplinary Study

1968 • 45 min

This film illustrates the field techniques used by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Michigan in collaboration with their Venezuelan colleagues. The film also includes a brief sketch of Yanomamo culture and society.

Freakquently

1968 • 8 min

I shot my first film on 16 millimeter inside the eight-foot mirrored cube “optical sculpture” I had built in 1966, and on exterior locations, as a blissful celebration of the visual tools and techniques I found at my disposal. Bruce Baillie’s Castro Street (1966) confirmed my intuition that making visually defined films was the direction I wanted to pursue.

Anton the Musician

1968 • 23 min • East Germany, Germany

Anton, a touring musician, arrives in a foreign country with his tuba. The people there enjoy the music and decide to build their own instruments. Soon there is music everywhere. The king also wants to play a huge instrument, but he has no talent and makes no progress. He gets angry and demands that all instruments be rounded up.

69 cents a pound

1968 • 12 min • United States of America

Developing a new friend sometimes comes with discovering surprises. In this film, I experience when a personality changes so quickly that it appears to be two personalities.

Boston Draft Resistance Group (Newsreel #7)

1968 • 17 min • United States of America

A profile of a grassroots anti-war group in Boston, this short film documents some of the tactics and activities used by draft resistance groups across the country during the Vietnam War. Using the law to keep young men out of the war, this group helped over 150 people each week escape service and educate themselves and their communities about alternatives to combat.

Quick Billy: Six Rolls; 14/41/43/46/47/52

1968 • 16 min

Six uncut camera rolls to be shown with QUICK BILLY. The ‘rolls’ took the form of a correspondence, or theater, between their author and Stan Brakhage, in the winter of 1968-69.

Naturale Artificiale (La Rosa)

1968 • 15 min

The film develops around a series of shots of Gino Marotta's sculptures at the Natural-Artificial exhibition at the Galleria dell'Ariete (Milan, 1968). The images are inserted in a tight montage that alternates natural visions with pure ghosts of shapes-light in motion. The rhythms are marked by the music of Cage. Shapes and colors outline volumes like liquid and bright substances, derived from the intense play of transparencies and overlaps. From a manuscript note preserved in the Marinella Pirelli Archive (Varese), the artist reports: Marotta's sculptures were the pretext I was looking for: they are in methacrylate perspex, transparent and polarizing, with those surfaces made of pure luminous variations: but they were precisely a pretext.

Suvel

1968 • 15 min • Soviet Union

The octet Laine and some gymnasts are on an outing to summery nature

Playing a Note on the Violin While I Walk Around in the Studio

1968 • 10 min • United States of America

In this film record of a studio activity, Nauman set himself the task of walking while playing "two notes [on a violin] very close together so that you could hear the beats in the harmonics." The camera is set centrally in the studio in a stationary position so that when he walks outside of the camera's view at times, only the sounds of the notes and footsteps are heard. Sound and image are out of sync, a situation noticeable only at the end of the film when the sound stops but Nauman continues to pace and play. [Overview Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix]

Meeting At The Exhibition

1968 • 20 min

Old man meets his brother separated from him during the Armenian Genocide, in a painting.

Esperienze in uno spazio non teatrale

1968 • 12 min

Performances by artists in 1968 Rome: Cesare Tacchi, Eliseo Mattiacci, Jannis Kounellis, Aldo Mondino and Nanni Cagnone redefine the boundaries of contemporary art by playing with heterogeneous materials, aluminum wheels, fish, kites, paper planes. The group from via Brunetti performs in piazza del Popolo, reviving the city traffic with by now bizarre means of transport, the velocipede and the tractor, on which, with an Indian scalp on his head, Gino De Dominicis whizzes by, immortalized by the camera before the cult of immortality delivered him to the logic of disappearance.