All Films

Olas y arenas

1968 • 8 min • Puerto Rico

Posthumous homage to Sylvia Rexach, considered one of the best composers of popular Spanish music. Her daughter, Sharon Reily Rexach, plays the musical composition "Olas y Arenas".

Forced to Disappear

1968 • 15 min • Italy

The film is the story of the crude destruction, meticulously done by the artist himself, of a frozen turkey produced in America. The meat is placed in a wooden box and buried in a grave in a field. Dedicated to the fundamental concepts of the ‘lay military priesthood’ (terminology typical of the generals): discipline, honour and other sacred duties, the film is part of a trilogy by Baruchello against the Vietnam War. —Tate Modern

A Pad of 100 Leaves

1968 • 24 min • Germany

A medium-length film by Vlado Kristl.

José Medina

1968 • 14 min • Brazil

A documentary short on the life and works on José Medina, one of early Brazilian cinema's most renowed pioneers.

Smash y Gong en Dom Gonzalo

1968 • 4 min • Spain

Super-8 shot by Gonzalo García-Pelayo with a series of concerts at the famous Dom Gonzalo nightclub, named after the “holy right to have fun” of Dómine Gonzalo de Berceo. The club will become a gathering place for the counterculture, but also for the ruling party to come, as marked by the presence of young Felipe González and Alfonso Guerra.

Die betrunkene Sonne

1968 • 13 min • East Germany

The sun is drunk! She has emptied every beer barrel! Instead of going down, she has forgotten about time and is messing up the whole city. Will they have to cancel the lantern festival for the kids? Little Max, Tüte, the director of the observatory and the head of the fire brigade all try to catch the sun so they can take her to bed. Hopefully they can save the party for the kids.

An Island for Miguel

1968 • 22 min • Cuba

In this film, Sara Gómez documents the everyday life of the Isla de Pinos, the discussions about the problems of construction, the school and the leisure activities of the youth in 1968 and contextualizes these images with Frantz Fanon's thoughts about the construction of a nation through decolonization.

Gewaltopia Trailer

1968 • 12 min • Japan

The title Gewaltopia Trailer has a dual meaning in the Japanese language; one meaning for the word yokoku (trailer) could mean a compilation of extracts to promote a film, but it can also mean a prediction, a prophecy for the future as a Gewaltopia. The film accumulates footage from his earlier films and arranges them in different contexts, a characteristic style of Jonouchi's who often re-edited his films for each screening and provided different soundtracks.

Oxed-man

1968 • 4 min • Japan

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

Touch Cinema

1968 • 1 min

Touch Cinema is a document of VALIE EXPORT's famous street performance, in which the public was invited to touch her inside a curtained box attached to the artist's upper torso. The work is a witty and confrontational comment on the objectification of women's bodies.

Amore - Aktion mit einem Masochisten

1968 • 8 min • Austria

Four men, one woman and a cat in a room. The men drink and discuss. Things get a bit violent. The masochist acts out his desires by himself. Random fuss and sex occurs. Suddenly the woman gets her baby to change diapers. Odd things around the child. The cat gets abused. This is Otto Muehl going Fassbinder.

Testament

1968 • 47 min • Austria

Out of a desire for adventure, a middle-class university student (Mike Sarn) joins a political revolution. Unexpectedly, the women are victorious; they dress in uniforms and proclaim a military dictatorship to be ruled by a senile puppet. All writers are persecuted and tortured. Of course, the public takes the side of the attractive meter maids. Retaliatory strikes are sometimes successful, but the country's top minds are gradually wiped out.

Daydream and Family

1968 • 48 min • Switzerland

The film Autoportrait is made up of four parts: Part 1: Search, Part 2: Work, Part 3: Daydream, Part 4: Family. Each of the parts can be shown as a self-contained film.

Steel Mushrooms

1968 • 7 min • Canada

A psychedelic hallmark of early Vancouver experimental cinema. The collage of shapes and textures shot in the back alleys of the downtown east side is set against the found footage of nuclear annihilation.

Ich

1968 • 45 min • Germany

Rainer von Hessen and Niki de Saint Phalle met after he saw a photo of HON, the 1966 installation for Moderna Museet Stockholm, in a German magazine. Their collaboration began when Saint Phalle first designed the costumes and sets to Aristhophanes’s LYSISTRATA, directed by Hessen (then known under the stage name Diez). Thereafter, Hessen co-authored and directed her play ICH, which was performed at the Staatstheater Kassel in 1968.

The Great Dr. Ambedkar

1968 • 18 min • India

The film recounts the key events of Dr. Ambedkar’s life and it also features live footage of his later years.

Look at Life: On the Meter

1968 • 8 min • United Kingdom

The work of Britain's traffic wardens, through the eyes of one of them. Apart of "Look at Life" documentary films of which over 500 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. The films always preceded the main feature film that was being shown in the cinema that week.

Opera Cordis

1968 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

A jealous man wants to uncover the secret of a woman’s playful heart. While the woman is sleeping, the man takes her heart out and opens it. In it he finds another man, and the rivals begin to fight for their place in her heart.

Break-up

1968 • 6 min • Denmark

The basis of the film is a series of original drawings with the joint title 'Upruption', drawn by Palle Nielsen from the autumn of 1965 to the beginning of 1966. There are people fleeing from a disaster which has already caught up with them, people thrown to the ground as if by a giant blow, crawling , cowering, always with their faces turned in terror to the sky, while entire cities crash around them. There is a mute, nameless horror around these faces that scream without sound. (DFI)

Shino and the Old Man

1968 • 38 min • Japan

Documentary on the potter Arakawa Toyozo

Astro Man

1968 • 1 min • United States of America

Earliest motion capture with full body.

Pink Pop

1968 • 1 min

Advertisement for Shiseido's 1968 'Pink Pop' lipstick shade

Daddy's Wife

1968 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The life of little Andryusha is changing: since his father has a new wife, he will have to get used to a new mother figure after losing his mother at an early age.

The Bill of Rights in Action: Freedom of Speech

1968 • 10 min

An overview of the First Amendment.