All Films

Portrait minute à Apollinaire

1968 • 3 min • France

Film by Françoise Janicot & Bernard Heidsieck.

Tardigrada

1968 • 11 min

Tardigrades—tiny creatures just one millimeter in size—exhibit extraordinary adaptability.

A Batalha dos Sete Anos

1968 • 18 min • Brazil

Investigation into the seven years that followed the closure of Companhia Vera Cruz, in 1955, which marked a period of crisis for national film production in Brazil.

Toltec sculpture

1968 • 11 min • Mexico

In the state of Hidalgo, northeast of Mexico City, lies the ancient Toltec city of Tula. Although it was systematically destroyed by its conquerors in 1665, some of its buildings still survive, such as the pyramid of Quetzalcoatl and the figures representing the Atlanteans, who were warriors of the most important military government in central Mexico. From these remains, we have learned about the construction processes that made its development possible despite being located in an arid territory.

Children of Gernika

1968 • 27 min • Spain, Venezuela

Since the 1940s, the Basque community in Venezuela maintained the Basque government in exile through its contributions and was very active in denouncing Franco's dictatorship, running countless propaganda campaigns. The PNV (Basque Nationalist Party), the main figure in this struggle, made this film — a testimony of the Basque resistance to Franco's regime.

Just Three Lessons

1968 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The film tells about a simple Soviet school and its problems.

Star Spangled Banner

1968 • 1 min

Sardonic riff on the US National Theme and the state of the nation.

Autumn and Cardboard

1968 • 12 min

"This film uses the 1966 California gubernatorial race between Republican Ronald Reagan and Democratic incumbent Pat Brown to show how, every two years, autumn is the season of campaigns and elections in the United States. The film highlights election rituals and focuses on the excitement, rhetoric, and rivalries of campaigns, and how political candidates and issues are presented to the American public. The film is narrated by Lee Marvin and features an appearance by actor Chuck Connors in support of Ronald Reagan" (US National Archives).

La Scala

1968 • 6 min

Outtakes from a lost film made by the director in 1968.

Food

1968 • 5 min • Finland

A crazy found-footage collage composed of monotonous, advertising, and playful shots is overlaid with hand-painted illustrations directly on the film emulsion. The outlines of objects peel away from their photographic record and jump into another film. The open refrigerator door spews out its contents until there is a syncopated pause, during which the calf of a leg trembles under the sensual vibration of the word FOOD. “Our food is radioactive. The fallout descends upon our cities and ourselves. It penetrates everywhere. The world takes on new colours, values are upset, and existence involves risk. Only dreams and expectations remain.” — Eino Ruutsalo

Rat Life and Diet in North America

1968 • 16 min • Canada

“This film is against the corporate military industrial structure of global village.”

Divertimento

1968 • 8 min

BP documentary film exploring the natural beauty of oil under the microscope, and through a variety of other techniques.

Hands Up Mr. Rasnichi

1968 • 5 min • Germany

A cautionary tale about the myriad shades and shapes of totalitarianism in an irreverent, surreal 1960s mix of styles featuring acerbic Austrian cabaret icon Helmut Qualtinger speaking in tongues. An exemplary, at the time widely lauded work of West German animation.

Karjalaisen kulttuurin säilyminen

1968 • 38 min • Finland

The preservation of the Karelian culture. About how the evacuated Finnish Karels have acclimatized themselves to the indigenous people and how the Karelian culture has been preserved during the ages of change. Reportage and interviews with ordinary people and experts made during the summer of 1968. Faces of the Finnish Karelian people. Images of faces that reproduce the culture and the history of the territory.

Up Against the Wall Miss America

1968 • 8 min

"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.

Odyssé 68

1968 • 6 min • Norway

A young man takes the train to Oslo, He expects that his life will change completely and that he will be noticed.

Girls of the Revolution

1968 • 32 min

An account of the situation of Algerian women in the 60s.

The Ghost of Wittgenstein

1968 • 8 min

"The Ghost of Wittgenstein", "I'd Rather be Half Right Than Vice President" alongside "Lost in Cudilhy" form that experimental trifecta of experimental or just plain mental art movies known as "The Charlotteruse with the Medal of the Wobbling Bubble in its Palm Trilogy". Restored in 2017 comprise an essential 16MM restoration project by producer / director Ira Schneider, who is the undisputed master of the experimental doc genre as well as being the unsung founder of video art. They are to be re-released at the Prada Fondazione in Milan and Paris Independent Film Festival 2017. Restoration producer is Claudine Biswas-MacKenzie MA.

Comunicato Speciale

1968 • 8 min

Experimental short by Renato Ferraro.

Riot-Control Weapons (Newsreel #9)

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

A visual presentation of some of the weapons that the police were using in uprisings around the country in the late 60s.

20/68: Schatzi

1968 • 3 min • Austria

In Schatzi Kurt Kren films a photo which shows an SS officer standing on a town square which is littered with dead bodies.

Wait

1968 • 7 min • United States of America

"Completed shortly after Morning, Wait is a vivid depiction of the cinematic process of recording images on film. From frame to frame……. this work offers a sense of film emulsion coming to life, and responding to the forces of light. In addition shifting camera positions, panning, tilting, using the zoom, framing and focusing are all part of the work. A sculpturing of a space from frame to frame on a surface where there is no space. The title, Wait .... is asking the viewer to forgo our conditioned focus on the photographic image as a representation of a life situation, and instead, focus on the visual kinetic here and now. Physical therapy for the eyes, and delight for the senses." – Ernie Gehr

Terror auch im Westen

1968 • 31 min • Germany

Giefer documents the International Vietnam Congress, which took place on February 17 and 18, 1968 in the Audimax of the Technical University of Berlin (TU). With his photographs of the counter-demonstration, which was organized on 21 February 1968 under the slogan "Berlin stands for freedom and peace" on John-F.-Kennedy-Platz in Berlin-Schöneberg, Giefer also shows the counter-movement.

Long Distance Runner

1968 • 13 min • Hungary

György Schirilla, known for his long-distance running and swimming across the icy Danube, ran to Moscow to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. A year later, a bistro was built in his honour in the small Hungarian village of Kenderes. Gyula Gazdag captured moments of his run to Kenderes and the opening ceremony. The film's original title comes from a "poem" delivered by the village council president, which included the line: "We can always count on your long run."