All Films

Marble Arch to Edgware

1968 • 27 min • United Kingdom

The poet John Betjeman journeys from Marble Arch to Edgeware, reciting specially-written poems and pointing out areas of interest.

My Neighborhood

1968 • 11 min

An expressionist documentary of the filmmaker's ex-neighborhood (Mayor Daley's neighborhood) where sirens may go off any moment.

Ayorou Singing Stones

1968 • 7 min

On the Niger River, the island of Ayorou is home to a “singing stone,” an imposing boulder rock covered with cupules. It is used as a percussion instrument by local musicians who have come in a canoe. After long rehearsals, the artists will play their compositions to their audience accompanied by a guitar.

Insects Through the Winter

1968 • 9 min • United States of America

This film delves into the life cycles of various insects, highlighting their survival and adaptive strategies through the seasons. It showcases insects like dragonflies and preying mantises in their summer activities of feeding and reproducing, and then shifts focus to their unique winter survival tactics. The film particularly emphasizes the praying mantis's method of laying eggs in a protective case to ensure species continuity. Other species' adaptations are explored, such as aphids laying eggs on tree bark and swallowtail caterpillars forming chrysalises. It also touches on different hibernation methods and the renewal of life cycles in spring, with a new generation of insects emerging to continue the cycle of life. The documentary underscores the diverse and fascinating ways insects adapt to their environments throughout the year.

March of the Sugar Cane Workers

1968 • 5 min

Marcha de los Cañeros, by Marcos Banchero, made in 1968 as part of the Cinemateca del Tercer Mundo. During the second half of the 1960s, the Unión de Trabajadores Azucareros de Artigas (UTAA) carried out a series of marches from the north of the country to Montevideo, demanding better living conditions for its workers. These mobilizations took place in a context of economic crisis in the country and growing political and social conflict. Filmmakers Mario Handler, Alberto Miller and Marcos Banchero recorded some of these mobilizations at the time, contributing to the visibility of this sector of society, whose conditions of exploitation had been unknown to the capital's gaze until then.

Our Wonderful Body: The Heart and Its Work

1968 • 10 min • United States of America

A young boy learns about his heart through the step-by-step construction of a simple circulatory system. He learns how his heart pumps, what blood and blood vessels do, how they do it, and some of the ways to help his heart stay healthy.

Mr. Computer Image

1968 • 1 min • United States of America

The first talking CGI character.

Pipeline Through the Fens

1968 • 25 min • United Kingdom

The construction of the hidden conduit for North Sea gas lurking under the picturesque Norfolk fenland.

Rauschenberg, fragments d'un portrait

1968 • 21 min

This film portrays Robert Rauschenberg, an artist mixing pop art and abstract expressionism, who tells his story in front of André Labarthe's camera.

Religion in Mexico: Chiapas

1968 • 20 min • Mexico

A short documentary about the conditions of the inhabitants of the Chiapas Highlands. Filmed during Holy Week in 1968, it depicts the religious activities of the holiday, recalling that 100 years earlier, on the same date, the Chamulas rose up against the Ladinos.

Lenusya

1968 • 30 min • Soviet Union

One-man show based on Anatoli Aleksin’s story “The Night Before the Wedding.”

Kay

1968 • 12 min • Ireland

Kay is a short documentary that explores the artistic approach and paintings of Kay Lavelle, a sixth-year pupil at Sion Hill, one of Ireland’s oldest all girls’ secondary schools in County Dublin. The film follows the student as she paints on Killiney strand with beachgoers and fishermen and at the school’s art studio.

Road Accident

1968 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Nathalie Krebs - Saxbo stoneware

1968 • 13 min

Craftsman Nathalie Krebs's work with Saxbo stoneware glazes is one of the most significant efforts in modern Danish handicrafts. The film was recorded in the last months before the workshop in Herlev closed permanently in the spring of 1968 and gives a description of what the stoneware demands from the craftsman. Nathalie Krebs (1895-1978) was a chemical engineer and creator of as many stoneware glazes as the entire Chinese Sung period. Palads cinema's prequel to "Det var en lørdag aften" (1968)

This is Oslo, too

1968 • 8 min • Norway

How would Oslo have looked like without any of its famous landmarks? Would it look like an overgrown village? We are joining a stroll in the East and West, in distinctive places tourist rarely see, like Vålerenga, Damstredet and Homannsbyen.

A New Love For Candy

1968 • 30 min • United States of America

The carnival midway, the lights, the laughter, the excitement of being children at the fair - and the terror of being lost. A story for children that builds to the joy of being found. This down-to-earth story of a lost child and her desperate parents is also a powerful story of God's way of salvation that will touch the hearts of children. Interwoven with the child's story is the tragic story of a near-broken home with another message for adults, making this a meaningful program for the entire family.

Nine O'Clock News

1968 • 2 min

Newscast on Lee Harvey Oswald as the assassin of Martin Luther King.

Uncle Kolya is Going Home

1968 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About the consequences of undisciplined behavior of pedestrians on the street.

Corrientes, capital of the Argentine carnival

1968 • 12 min • Argentina

Corrientes carnival, polyform joy in the subtropical night, the renewed rite is fulfilled once again. Cascades of lights, multicolored pyrotechnics, exalted rhythms, the old Momo extends its reign over the littoral city.

Vienna: The Years Remembered

1968 • 9 min

This promotional short provides a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Mayerling (1968), filmed on location in Vienna, as well as the actual history that inspired the story.

Beatričė

1968 • 15 min • Soviet Union

The entire life of singer Beatričė Grincevičiūtė is filled with music. The director sensitively and carefully creates a multifaceted portrait of the performer. In the film, she is both her own most demanding critic and a playful teacher to young children, who affectionately call her "Auntie Music." Surrounded not only by a group of friends, but also by admirers of her talent, she remains modest and simple, wanting as many people as possible to experience the beauty of music and her favorite songs. Only the subtle final shot reminds us that Beatričė experiences the world not with her eyes.

The Elements

1968 • 8 min

Earth, air, fire and water personified. Made at the San Francisco Art Institute by Michael Wiese and Steven Arnold, their first collaboration. “THE ELEMENTS depicts personifications of Earth, Air, Fire and Water, in metaphor. The bodies of each blending in movement.” –Lenny Lipton, BERKELEY BARB

Le Grand Détour

1968 • 47 min • Algeria

The young Amar, father of two children, lives on expedients and looks in vain for a job in Algiers. He decides to emigrate to France, and finds a job there, but quickly loses it after a roundup and custody for several days. Led by two shady Europeans he met in a café, he embarks with other unemployed people for well-paid work on the plantations of Madagascar. The boat that takes them finally docks in Algiers! This film had disappeared for almost fifty years. Ahmed Bedjaoui mourned it until the Berlin Cinematheque found the only copy of this work in its archives, restored it, subtitled it and screened it at the opening of its festival in 2015. The film was thrilled the large audience present, made up of professionals and knowledgeable film buffs. Due to the modesty of its self-produced means, but also by aesthetic choice, the film oscillates between neo-realist cinema and cinema vérité.

Soft Rain

1968 • 12 min

Three identical prints of a single 100 foot fixed-camera take are shown from beginning to end-roll light-flare, with a few feet of blackness preceding/bridging/following the rolls. …The loop repetition (the series hopefully will intrigue you to further run-throughs) automatically imparts a steadily growing rhythmic sense of the street-activities. Anticipation for familiar movement-complexes builds, and as all smaller complexities join up in our knowledge of the whole the purely accidental counter-passings of people and vehicles becomes satisfyingly cogent, seems rhythmically structured and of a piece. Becomes choreography.