All Films

Pbl #2

1968 • 1 min • United States of America

"A concise, one-minute cartoon history of the black American, commissioned by the Public Broadcast Laboratory and shown on NET network." - Canyon Cinema

Sweet Bitterness

1968 • 18 min • Brazil

The tragic story of a street seller of sweets.

Decrescendo

1968 • 1 min • Iran

A short, pixelated film by Nosrat Karimi that was made for a 1968 foreign film festival for 59 second films about the filmmakers' country and society. Decrescendo was not approved by the government of the time due to the character of the manager resemblance to Mohmmad Reza Shah.

On the Other Island

1968 • 41 min • Cuba

Loose collection of individual portraits of the inhabitants of the Isle of Pinos [now Isla de la Juventud], who tell their stories, share ideas and discuss topics such as racism and crime.

A Representative

1968 • 19 min • East Germany

A black-and-white documentary film about the large housing estate "Lütten Klein" in the northwest of Rostock in June 1968. On the basis of the construction worker and shop steward Hans Schmidt, the efforts to fulfil the plan are clearly shown, even if the supplies and weather conditions are not optimal. The group meeting of the construction brigade shown here describes, among other things, the hardships and disappointments of some of the workers on the construction site. On the other hand, the construction management and shop steward Schmidt try to motivate the workers to achieve even higher performance by demanding competition and obligations.

Estrada on the Screen

1968 • 56 min • Albania

A comedy from the stage troupe of Tiranë and Shkodër. A collection of sketches, songs and humorous numbers performed by well-known Albanian pop artists. With a combination of humor and satirical situations, the film aims to bring entertainment to the audience, reflecting diverse characters of everyday life and addressing social themes of the time.

One Step Away

1968 • 54 min • United States of America

Look at a crumbling hippie commune in California. In the words of Ed Pincus: "It was the Summer of Love, 1967. The Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco was to be the center of a vast cultural experiment. Ideologically it was an attempt at a post-industrial society, where people no longer needed to work and communities of choice allowed people to “do their own thing.” David Neuman and I set off to film what happened that summer. We decided to do what we thought would be a film about a rural commune, because that seemed to be the apotheosis of hippie ideals. What we found was a bizarre replication of bourgeois society—the sun rose on the nothing new. We decided to use an anecdotal editing style with an attempt to enforce a narrative line."

Castles in the Sand

1968 • 17 min • Soviet Union

One of the highest achievements of the new wave of Kirghiz cinema, which emerged in the mid-1960s. This story of a boy building sandcastles on the shores of the Issyk-Kul Lake becomes a documentary parable on the tensions between an artist and society.

Satisfaction

1968 • 18 min • Austria

An experimental, bizarre and a very different shooting of an association between the sexes.

Une voyelle B

1968 • 13 min • France

Shiva Ree

1968 • 8 min • United States of America

"No English language issues here. The title refers to Siva/Shiva – god of the dance – who dances the world into both destruction and rebirth, and Charivari, pronounced 'Shivaree', a rude serenade to mock wedding couples -i.e. mocking the concept of passion in balance with serenity. The film’s dancing child is our daughter Jennifer, now a middle aged school teacher and a likely Bodhisattva. She dances to escape and dispel the fragmentary seductions of TV, with its chaos of sound and image. Moving toward a window and the light, she sees and ponders the wind in the trees, as the final notes of Bill Evans’ 'Peace Piece' linger and fade." –Abbott Meader

E-30

1968 • 26 min • France

Meie Artur

1968 • 54 min • Soviet Union

A portrait of the singer Artur Rinne

The Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck Shotte

1968 • 36 min • Australia

Длинный день Кольки Павлюкова

1968 • 40 min • Soviet Union

Kolya Pavlyukov lives in a small village. He can never find a job to his liking. But here in the village, many years after the Great Patriotic War, a front-line friend of the deceased father Kolya arrives. Only one day goes by, one long day...

Phases of the Moon: The Parapsychology of Everyday Life

1968 • 5 min • United States of America

“I usually avoid the term ‘film poem,’ because it was overused in the ‘40s and ‘50s. But somehow it fits Phases of The Moon; it is a film poem and nothing else. A small, miniature film poem, a jewel, if the word masterpiece is too stuffy.” (Jonas Mekas, 1973)

Tatsumi Hijikata

1968 • 1 min • Japan

"A work documenting Ankoku Butoh dancer Tatsuji Hijikata’s Revolt of the Flesh (Nikutai no hanran). The work established the relation between Revolt of the Flesh with uprising through the unique methods of photography and editing that is found in Jonouchi’s Gewaltopia series (1968) which represented the student protest movement." - Collaborative Cataloging Japan

Black Is Black

1968 • 12 min

Ampaw's film explores the challenges of Black people in Germany’s housing sector, creatively documenting landlords’ responses to the question of whether they would rent to a Black tenant, which range from explicitly racist takes to well-meaning, problematic clichés.

Fiat 600

1968 • 1 min

Short by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.

6th Street Meat Club (Newsreel #11)

1968 • 10 min • United States of America

Formed on the Lower East Side of New York to side step high prices, poor quality, and weight cheating of local supermarkets.

Berkeley Rebellion (Newsreel #20)

1968 • 22 min • United States of America

Newsreel's short film shows two days of demonstrations in Berkeley over the issue of "the streets belong to the people" and the decision of the City Council to close off Telegraph Avenue for the 4th of July, 1968. This film features scenes of members of the Young Socialist Alliance, including Peter Camejo, demonstrating their support for the French student movement of May 1968.

Biostoria 1

1968 • 4 min

Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.

Negostina

1968 • 12 min • Romania

Beautiful Negostina sets the hearts of two young men on fire during World War II.

Was tun?

1968 • 37 min • Germany

The film consists of four parts: Part 1 shows the founding of a new working group of the "Critical University" at the FU Berlin. Participants are students, workers, pupils, assistants and a university lecturer. The working group is founded to study the problems of educational advertising. Part 2 shows the campaign "Expropriate Springer"; the university administration of the FU Berlin refuses the rooms. The Springer Hearing takes place after all. Part 3 describes the Vietnam Congress, shows Dutschke's speech and a first approach to a counter-demonstration against the students. Part 4 answers Wolfgang Lefevre's questions about the next goals of the SDS.