All Films

L'abolition de l'art

1968 • 14 min • France

Made in 1968, this is the only film by the writer, artist, poet, art critic Alain Jouffroy. This film constitutes a full scale attack against cult of art and its specialization, but also against authority figures and nation.

Film Club

1968 • 26 min

The growing excitement of a group of Puerto Rican teenagers at a storefront film workshop (Young Filmmakers) on New York's Lower East Side, creating their own films and showing them in the streets to young people throughout New York City. The interesting relationship between these filmmakers, their supporting social service institutions and personnel and the television media; plus details of the production of the first Puerto Rican Western, The Revenge.

Insurrection

1968 • 10 min

A series of interviews with the leaders of the Paris riots of May and June, 1968.

Lady Soul: Aretha Franklin på Berns

1968 • 57 min • Sweden

A recording from Aretha Franklin's vist to Sweden in May 1968. The following songs are performed: "There's No Business Like Show Business", "Come Back To Me", "Satisfaction", "Don't Let Me Lose This Dream", "Soul Serenade", "Night Life", "Baby I Love You", "Groovin '" "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Come Back Baby", "Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)", "Baby, Baby, Baby "," I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) "," Chain of Fools "and" Respect ".

Wall-Floor Positions

1968 • 60 min

Bruce assumes a set of positions in relation to the wall and floor.

Anamnesi

1968 • 16 min • Italy

In the painter's studio, the young artist rethinks his role in society. A girl, initially rejected, will lead him to meet the world around him.

A Trip to the Moon

1968 • 32 min • United States of America

Originally shot in color, this politically-charged special was a collaboration between young artists angry at the system. Just days before airing, the Master tapes were 'accidentally' erased. It was taken to court and, after several years, the local TV station was found guilty of willfully destroying the tapes. Featuring inventive VFX and co-opting songs by the Doors, Dylan and the Steve Miller Band. "Seven young men, each of them involved in one of the arts [...] talk for the greater part of the film. They are involved in a discussion of mystical processes important to them" - Film-makers Co-Op

Psychedille

1968 • 4 min • Denmark

Psychedelic music film in shapes and colors. (DFI)

The Saints

1968 • 4 min

Musical cartoon fantasy of "When the Saints", sung and played by Matty Peters and Billy Moore. (DFI)

Red Ink Ghost Stories

1968 • 45 min • Japan

The vampire Yoshitsune appeared at Rashomon every night and drank the blood of women kidnapped by his servant, Musashibo Benkei. Then a mysterious woman appeared at Rashomon.

Hombres de Mal Tiempo

1968 • 32 min

A meditation on the representation of history. Five centenarian veterans of the Battle of Mal Tiempo, fought during Cuba's war for independence from Spain, are assembled to share their memories and instruct actors and technicians in recreating their experience on film.

Book of Saints of Eternal Rome

1968 • 16 min • Italy

A (temporary) leave of many friends who are my truest world, with the attempt of getting them together in an ideal summary conceived to support me during my being far away. –A. L.

San Sebastian 1746 in 1968

1968 • 10 min

A behind-the-scenes look at the filming of a few scenes from Guns for San Sebastian (1968) in a desert in northern Mexico.

Jeannette Rankin Brigade

1968 • 8 min • United States of America

In January 1968, 10,000 women led a peaceful, march on Washington in protest against the Vietnam War. This film documents the march and raises questions about the forms of protest engaged by women and the role of women in the anti-war. Jeannette Rankin Brigade was the fisrt Newsreel film proposed, shot and edited by women.

Color Us Black!

1968 • 60 min

A documentary that examines the 1968 student strike at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The film looks at how the school’s disciplining of 39 students led to students occupying the Administration Building in protest over four days.

The Searching Dauka

1968 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Story about a poor orphan Dauka.

The Urban Crisis and the New Militants: Module 5 - Police Power and Freedom of Assembly: The Gregory March

1968 • 8 min • United States of America

Police Power and Freedom of Assembly: The Gregory March, documents the protests on Thursday, August 29th at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Comedian/activist Dick Gregory is arrested as he attempts to lead a march to break the police cordon around the Chicago Loop. This film is incorporated into the Film Group’s feature “American Revolution II.”

Vibratore

1968 • 6 min

The camera focuses on the face of a model whose body is being rubbed by a vibrating tool shaped like a spider.

Razor Blades

1968 • 25 min • United States of America

In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli. In a careful juxtaposition and fusion of these elements on different parts of our being, usually occurring simultaneously, we feel at times hypnotised and re-educated by some potent and mysterious force.

Hommage to Nicanor Parra

1968 • 44 min

An intimate portrait of the South American poet Nicanor Parra, reading his poetry and talking with friends. Made during Parra's visit to the YMHA Poetry Center in New York. "... a series of punches to the solar plexus – physical, moral, audio and visual – of the audience." - The Sunday Magazine, Santiago, Chile.

Thirean Matins

1968 • 20 min

A poetic documentary about the island of Santorini.

18/68: Venecia kaputt

1968 • 1 min • Austria

A short film by Kurt Kren.

Hands Scraping

1968 • 4 min • United States of America

In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel filings strewn on the wooden floor with their bare hands, and carrying the gathered heap in their hands out of the picture.

The Seekers: 1968 BBC Farewell Spectacular

1968 • 47 min • United Kingdom

BBC farewell concert from The Seekers, in London, England, on July 7, 1968.