All Films

The Ideas of Richard Neutra

1968 • 40 min • Germany

A 1968 Bavarian Radio documentary about Richard Neutra, his philosophy and his architecture.

Of Horses and Men

1968 • 10 min

Walt Disney released this film about the relationship between mankind and horses on 16mm in 1968 for educational purposes.

A Christmas Fantasy

1968 • 6 min • Poland

Toys come to life on Christmas morning.

A Stain on His Conscience

1968 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

Illustrations of human conscience in animated and real scenes.

Parisian Wall

1968 • 2 min

Skala film produced 1968.

Jan Garbarek Quartet - Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt

1968 • 11 min

Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt by Pharoah Sanders Molde Jazz Festival 1968

The Deer Family

1968 • 17 min

Educational film about deer, moose, antelope and caribou.

Tele-Mack

1968 • 25 min

In this film made for German television, Mack exposes his reflective sculptures and suit to sunlight in the Sahara, a north African desert. The film also shows the artist experimenting with different reflective and transparent materials, achieving various kaleidoscopic effects.

Metamorphosis

1968 • 3 min • Portugal

Three for the Road

1968 • 51 min • Soviet Union

About the fates of three Soviet people, different in age, profession, and character. 1 — Vladimir Nikolaevich Filimonov — an electrical installer at the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station; 2 — Vladimir Ivanovich Karpov — the foreman of the "Biysky" grain sovkhoz; 3 — Pyotr Kuzmich Anokhin — an academician, physiologist.

Our Wedding 12-68 / Marcia & Tom

1968 • 12 min

Silent home movie capturing the marriage of Tom Palazzolo and Marcia Daehn on December 22, 1968.

The Drop of Honey

1968 • 11 min • Soviet Union

A dispute over a drop of honey pits two villages against each other, and then causes a war between the countries.

Salt

1968 • 3 min

One of my filmic interests in Ethiopia was to see and film the salt trade between the Highlands and the Dallol Depression, a wondrous environment of unbearable heat and intense color. I managed a start only and these are the bits that emerged.

Christmas Steel

1968 • 39 min

"Our nativity scene will be among the blast furnaces this year": on 24 December 1968, Pope Paul VI visited Taranto, to spend Christmas Eve with the steelworkers, in a shed of the steelworks opened in 1961. For the first time, a pontiff celebrated Christmas Mass in a factory.

Creatures of Pain

1968 • 5 min

In 1967 I was hoping to make a film about sheepherders in Nigeria. Civil War intervened and I had to be content with a few days attending a ritual called “sharo” in a small village near Kano. It qualified as a true ‘ordeal’, a contest of endurance to pain.

Vision for a New World

1968 • 25 min

A young man named Phillip finds himself in a purgatory reality that's littered with clues of his past life. From the discovery of his own corpse to the mysterious connection with a woman scheduled for an abortion, Phillip slowly reveals this doomed fate by his own hands.

Mining Review 22nd Year No. 1

1968 • 3 min • United Kingdom

We're off! Olympic training on the streets of Mansfield as local boy John Whetton prepares for the 1968 Mexico City games.

The Abduction of the Sun and the Moon

1968 • 12 min • Hungary

The Sun and the Moon are stolen by a vicious creature.

Hailing of the Spring

1968 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

The film is about the Dervish ritual on the day of spring, March 22. Every year this Muslim sect performs this ritual in Prizren and according to their belief, the year begins with the arrival of spring and they have to tease the gods for spring to come.

Surface Tension

1968 • 10 min • United States of America

A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.

Listen, America!

1968 • 53 min • United States of America

Edouard de Laurot's freewheeling compilation of images and ideas from the late-60s counterculture.

N:o:t:h:i:n:g

1968 • 36 min • United States of America

“The screen, illuminated by Paul Sharits’ N:O:T:H:I:N:G, seems to assume a spherical shape, at times – due, I think, to a pearl-like quality of light his flash-frames create … a baroque pearl, one might say – wondrous! … One of the most beautiful films I’ve seen.” – Stan Brakhage

Hand Catching Lead

1968 • 3 min • United States of America

Echoing the vertical movement of the film through the projector, pieces of sheet lead fall into the image field. Serra’s hand opens and closes as it tries to catch them, and when it succeeds, immediately lets them go again.

El mundo de Fructuoso Gelabert

1968 • 19 min • Spain

Documentary by Juan Francisco de Lasa about a pioneer of Spanish cinema. Gelabert attended one of the first sessions of the Lumière's cinématographe in Barcelona. Briefly after, he built a contraption based on this invention. He produced his first picture, "Dorotea", in 1897. His film "Riña en un café" is considered the first Spanish film to feature a plot.