All Films

Archeologia

1968 • 14 min • Poland

A documentary short showing archaeologists working.

Wind

1968 • 6 min

Cutting between snowy fields and a raw seashore, Jonas focuses on a group of performers moving through a stark, windswept landscape. The 16mm film — silent, black and white, jerky and sped-up — evokes early cinema, while its content locates it in the spare minimalism of the late 1960s.

Le Pouvoir dans la rue

1968 • 48 min • Switzerland

May 68 in Paris filmed by Alain Tanner, then director for Swiss Television. Images of Nanterre (92), the Sorbonne (Paris 5e), and the theater of the Odeon (Paris 6th), meetings, speeches and events, are accompanied by a commentary that recounts the events of the month of may.

Giraglia

1968 • 6 min • France

In 1963, Maurice Fleuret wrote of Thierry Vincens: “...Vincens' cinematographic projections are more than a sumptuous abstract cinema number, more than a visual illustration of an interior world whose music echoes to us, [...] a lyrical synthesis whose persuasive force is unique in the history of art nouveau. ” GIRAGLIA was produced in 1968, set to a composition by Pierre Henry.

Gold is Where You Find It

1968 • 27 min

A millionaire returns to Ireland and loses his gold nuggets before disappearing and sparking a gold rush.

The Islanders

1968 • 21 min • Australia

Above the tip of Cape York, beyond the northernmost point of the Australian continent, are the Torres Strait Islands. The economy here is based on home gardens and pearlshell fishing. The culture, with its basis in music, dancing and ceremony, provides a striking contrast to that of mainland Australia. This film, shot in the late 1960s, shows how strongly old traditions still affect Torres Strait Islander people, even though they also have most of the trappings of modern life.

Of Special Merit

1968 • 11 min • Germany

An attack on a piece of reactionary German legislation discriminating against young film directors. The film features a head-on, close-up shot of a penis ‘mouthing’ the parliamentary defense of the law by its author. A landmark in political pamphleteering, the film was selected for the 1968 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival by a committee of leading German critics and promptly banned by the city government, causing the withdrawal of almost all German directors from the festival and a national scandal. The title satirically refers to the official certificate of ‘Particularly Valuable’ given each year to the best film shorts by an Establishment selection.

Matalon Directs Bardot

1968 • 30 min

Television documentary from the UK Series "Faces of Paris"

90 Days a Year

1968 • 14 min • Poland

An agricultural produce facility and the difficulties faced by producers attempting to sell their stock there.

14, Bina Garden

1968 • 9 min • France

"In 1968, during a stay in London, I could finally achieved my first film: 14, BINA GARDEN. A camera wanders into the decor of a room ..."

Checkered dog

1968 • 8 min • Poland

The adventures of a plush dog that take place in a child's room.

Complement of Guilt

1968 • 8 min • Italy

Ex-

1968 • 4 min

A kinetic montage filled with the spirit of ’68 and references to American avant-garde film of the time.

The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth

1968 • 19 min • United States of America

Hand painting, dye treatments and direct collage edited into 'themes and variations' that tell 'a thousand and one' stories. - Stan Brakhage

A Monument

1968 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

A story about a man who appropriates other people's knowledge and achievements and erects a monument to himself in whose justification and necessity he believes.

Der einsame Wanderer

1968 • 30 min • Germany

Atmospheric short based on the aesthetics of Dreyer.

Kips the Operator in the Stone Kingdom

1968 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Kips finds himself in the Stone Kingdom, where he gets acquainted with the fabulous treasures of the Stone King and learns a lot of interesting things about the rocks.

200 Feet for March 31st

1968 • 17 min • Italy

Most of this silent film was shot in Rome within one day, March 31, 1968, and edited in the camera (a 100-feet double8 BW film roll). It is divided in six episodes following an ancient Indian text, Katha Upanishad, in which a youth, Nakiketa, converses with Death. Every section presents an event of that day and refers to a writer and a painter. The film captures some of the excitement of Spring 1968 in Europe and elsewhere.

The Cyclist

1968 • 5 min • Soviet Union

A cyclist goes for a ride racing all kinds of vehicles only to be passed by a centipede.

Water-Closet aka Waiting for a Defecation

1968 • 2 min • Italy

A young man reads Ginsberg in his briefs, and shows off his body.

Le Monde intérieur de Paul Delvaux

1968 • 50 min • Belgium

The approach of the paintings by Paul Delvaux is offered in the form of a discussion between the artist and a psychiatrist who asked about the content of his work. The document gives plenty of room for his paintings that illustrate the themes: the poetic climate, the loneliness of the characters, the naked woman, skeletons ...

Tucci-Ucci

1968 • 20 min

Experimental short by Ugo Nespolo.

Biostoria 2

1968 • 2 min

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

Autumn Nocturne

1968 • 24 min