All Films

Red Stone Dancer

1968 • 6 min

"On several occasions we were impressed by the apparent vitality of some spools with arbitrary discards, compared to the laboriously assembled sequences of what is waste. Based on this idea, the cinema is a reel of clips from the Red Stone Dancer scene in Gaudier-Brezska's main film. It was done in an iconoclastic way very quickly, celebrating that we were abandoning the limitations of the documentary form. It was the first of many films in which we recycled previously filmed material and used it for new purposes."

Grazie mamma Kodak

1968 • 9 min • Italy

First film of Ugo Nespolo

Shadow

1968 • 12 min • Japan

In Shadow (1968), Rikuro Miyai projects two films of his own shadow walking outdoors side-by-side—one positive, one negative—each a reflection of the other.

Horizon

1968 • 5 min

Tightly controlled phasing between a TV camera and its monitor.

Children of the Sun

1968 • 55 min

Children of the Sun will stir memories of the happiest days in any surfers life... those uncomplicated hot sunny days... no crowds... never to be forgotten fun filled days. Filmed around the virgin coastline of New Zealand and the classic points of Northern Queensland Australia, this film is an amazing chronicle of a time now looked on as the golden years of surfing... the styles and beach scenes... the cars, people and fashions... surfing during the mid to late 60s... the New Era!

Exercise in Meditation

1968 • 9 min

A piece of reality, a roman square, observed in a way to achieve a more intense self-perception. –A. L.

Dispatches from the National Strike Council

1968 • 20 min • Mexico

Paul Leduc, Rafael Castanedo, Óscar Menéndez and other students filmed the CNH assemblies and took to the streets to record the rallies, demonstrations and confrontations that the various student groups held against the police and the army throughout 1968.

Métamorphoses

1968 • 2 min • Canada

Animated short film in which the hero, a mischievous little man born from cut-outs, lends himself to several metamorphoses that reflect the human and humorous side of a child in the face of life.

Abe Sada

1968 • 21 min • Japan

A 16mm film by Kiyoshi Awazu.

The Bottle

1968 • 2 min • Egypt

First film by Ihab Shaker, Egyptian pioneer of animation. A man attempts to open a bottle.

The Adventures of Chip and Dip

1968 • 20 min • United States of America

The history of the potato chip is told

Up Against the Wall, Ms. America (Newsreel #22)

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

"Here she comes…" At the 1968 Miss America pageant, demonstrators introduced a sheep as the appropriate winner. This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents. The film was widely screened by the second wave women's movement and is a vivid document of the movement's activists in action.

Tempo-Tempio-Ritratto

1968 • 3 min • Italy

Short study of a

Der Fischmarkt und die Fische

1968 • 9 min

The portrait shows everyday life in the Portuguese fishing village of Sesimbra, south of Lisbon, at the time of Salazar's dictatorship in 1964. Mau's photos, e.g. fish spread out in geometric patterns, and Fichte's commentary support each other. But the word 'commentary' is misleading and does not adequately describe the poetic, reportage-like text.

TV Set

1968 • 8 min • Poland

Addiction to television comes in terrible and ridiculous forms. The creativity of the viewers is limitless, just like the creativity of creators of animated films.

Civil Disturbances: Principles of Control

1968 • 13 min • United States of America

Riot control refers to the measures used by police, military, or other security forces to control, disperse, and arrest civilians who are involved in a riot, demonstration, or protest.

Salome's Children

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

Chicago (Newsreel #12)

1968 • 15 min • United States of America

As leaders of the Movement met in the relative calm of a Chicago suburb in March to plan the strategy for the summer, the empty streets of the city are waiting, and ominous. An inside look at some of the planning that led to the 1968 Convention challenge.

Automatic Free Form Film

1968 • 16 min

"I would like to say something else in relation to the Automatic Free Form Film movement. The camera was constantly moving. Movement was used to elucidate space. This is a concept that I have continued to develop and have worked on in other films. I have a great interest in what happens to the edges of the camera frame when it moves. Automatic Free Form Film was done by working with shapes and specifically with the shapes of light and with the specific shapes of objects. When the camera moves, it changes the whole perspective of what we see." -BG

The Sea Boy and the Mountain Boy

1968 • 18 min • Japan

Yamahiko, the younger brother, hunts in the mountains, and Umihiko, the older brother, fishes in the sea. One day, Yamahiko loses Umihiko's precious fish hook. Yamahiko goes to a country at the bottom of the sea and somehow finds the hook. But when he returns, he finds his village in ruins.

Mao-film

1968 • 23 min • Denmark

Brecht Dialog

1968 • 11 min

For the 70th anniversary of Bertolt Brecht’s birth, international Brecht experts, including directors Giorgio Strehler, Benno Besson and Juri Ljubimov, got together for a one-week Brecht Dialog at the Berliner Ensemble on Schiffbauerdamm. Participants discussed the contemporary role of Brecht, nationally and internationally; Brecht’s directorial methods; the collaboration between director and actor; and the theater ensemble’s role in society. Actress and Berliner Ensemble director Helene Weigel gave the final keynote, emphasizing the political role of theater. This short film features scenes from Brecht’s model staging of Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti, played by students at the Schauspielschule Berlin, from the Berliner Ensemble staging of Coriolanus; and from The Exception and the Rule, played by Berlin-based Arab lay actors under the direction of Syrian director Chérif Khaznadar.

The Incredible Machine

1968 • 15 min • United States of America

A film detailing advancements in computer/digital technology, featuring the 'Graphic 1' computer system at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Come and Get It

1968 • 4 min

A series of vignettes performed by young boys, imitating the eating habits of different people.