All Films

Huge Pupils

1968 • 50 min • United States of America

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he would come to call The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse.

Graphyty

1968 • 20 min • France

Work in progress, lengthened or shortened according to the irregular course of its development and its damage. Experimental film (erasures and drawings on blank or used film, various collages).

Song 26

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

SONG 26: a conversation piece–a viz-a-visual, inspired by the (e)motional properties of talk: drone, bird-like twitterings, statement terror, & bombast (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

The Revolution of Machines

1968 • 7 min • Egypt

The film was produced following the defeat of the Egyptian army in the 1967 war. It is seen by some critics to be the first Egyptian experimental documentary.

Time Out of Mind

1968 • 33 min • United Kingdom

Brazenly experimental, the film illuminates the debilitating effect of mental illness, imaginatively but discreetly conveying the message of its sponsor (Roche) while showing real insight and sensitivity towards its subjects. Its brutally graphic opening brings mental turmoil sharply into focus.

Oskee Wee Wee

1968 • 11 min • Canada

This documentary is a zany portrait of the Grey Cup fever that hits the city of Ottawa, Ontario, during Grey Cup week. The film is also about the football game, where the Hamilton Tiger Cats faced the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and it is about Ti-Cats fans and their famous "Oskee Wee Wee", the magical chant with which they exhort their team to victory.

Un dittico ed un intervento

1968 • 32 min

Experimental film in two parts, the first black and white, the second color.

The Gift

1968 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The film is addressed to children. It touches the theme of good and reciprocity between animals in the winter.

Bitter Grapes

1968 • 18 min • United States of America

Assisted by a nun, a man gorges on a large amount of food and then vomits it back.

Spaceways

1968 • 18 min

A music documentary made with Sun Ra.

Kitten

1968 • 1 min • Soviet Union

In 1968, Russian scientists made a mathematic model of a walking cat on a BESM-4 computer. It “rendered” the resulting animation to a printer and was then photographed by motion picture camera.

The Wind Is Driving Him Toward the Open Sea

1968 • 52 min • United States of America

A non-narrative patchwork of images, light, music, conversation, news headlines, the passing of generations, and, ultimately, a journey from New York City to Martha's Vineyard in an attempt to discover a man named Chandler Moore.

Actions in Nature

1968 • 5 min

Video documentation of Nicolás García Uriburu’s work for the 1968 Venice Biennale, where he dyed Venice’s Grand Canal using fluorescein, a harmless pigment which turns a bright green when synthesized by microorganisms in the water.

The Artist's Friend

1968 • 5 min

The filmmaker appears as an artist attempting to set up his easel, with frustrating results.

And I Make Short Films

1968 • 16 min • India

An impressionistic and dissonant portrayal of short film making by a short film maker. The views expressed in the film are sometimes bitter, often humorous, at times satirical, but seldom complimentary.

Black Gate Cologne (A Light Play)

1968 • 47 min • Germany

Often cited as the first television program made by artists, "Black Gate Cologne" is a live event involving films, light objects and the participation of the studio audience, comprised of footage from two consecutive 45-minute broadcasts with different audiences filmed at the WDR "Electronic Studio' in Cologne, Germany.

The Black Monk

1968 • 5 min • Switzerland

A hand-scratched, hand-painted film, mysteriously titled.

Loops

1968 • 6 min

High energy, 5-layer mix from film loops of animated shapes. Music is loop composition from a Buchla Box.

La Charnière

1968 • 13 min

On April 27, 1968, workers from the Rhodiaceta factory in Besançon gathered at the village hall of Palente-les-Orchamps to attend the screening of the film À bientôt j'espoir by Mario Marret and Chris Marker. This sound documentary reproduces the critical debate that followed. In June 1969, Pol Cèbe, the head of the Cultural Center of Palente-les-Orchamps, brought to this documentary a conclusion in the form of a report. Echoing an intense debate after the screening of À bientôt j'espoir, La Charnière by the Groupe Medvedkine captures those moments when workers expressed dissatisfaction with the way they were portrayed.

The Leap

1968 • 8 min • United States of America

The Leap is impressive for its mixture of pure video space with representational filmic space. Thus an ordinary man seems to interact physically with videographic apparitions, moving in and out of different time space realities, fluctuating between the physical and metaphysical with each stride of his leap toward freedom. —Gene Youngblood

Blind White Duration

1968 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Blind White Duration is a film concerned with constructing an experience from limited perceptions. The viewer is introduced to a limited range of images (a snowy day in Harrow, walking to the Metropolitan Line station) shown in brief fade-ins and outs or quick flashes. For most of the film, the screen remains white. This is a film about the light of the projector, the white screen and the white image which emerges out of it.

Zavoli incontra Basaglia: I giardini di Abele

1968 • 26 min • Italy

In 1968, journalist Sergio Zavoli interviews italian psychiatrist Sergio Basaglia and documents the changes he made in the Lunatic Asylum of Gorizia.

4472: Flying Scotsman

1968 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Follow the attempt made to drive the 'Flying Scotsman' from London's King's Cross to Edinburgh's Waverley station without stopping.

Play 2 & 3

1968 • 22 min • Switzerland

"This film shows my life with my family in the Triemli high-rise in Zurich." (HHK)