All Films

Sally Sargent

1968 • 5 min • United States of America

Sally Sargent, the high school girl and secret agent, and Boris Bartok, the monster movie actor, are in danger of the revenge-seeking gangster, Rico Stark.

For Example Fritz Lang

1968 • 21 min • Germany

A interview with Fritz Lang where he talks about his career in Germany and troubles with the Nazis.

My Mountain: Song 27

1968 • 25 min • United States of America

Image-by-image study of the Arapaho summit, in all seasons for two years; the clouds and the climate that carve this place in the landscape (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Apropos of San Francisco

1968 • 5 min • United States of America

(After or for Jean Vigo). A study in visual rhythms and structure, using the same basic element repeated with variations.

Messages, Messages

1968 • 24 min • United States of America

A journey of the psyche into the world of the unconscious. Made when Wiese and Arnold were students at the San Francisco Art Institute, the surrealistic film is influenced by Dalí, Buñuel and the German expressionists. The film was premiered at the St. Regis Hotel in New York by Salvador Dalí and invited to Director's Fortnight at Cannes.

Thursday-bazaar of Minaab

1968 • 14 min • Iran

Short documentary about the Thursday-bazaar of Minaab, a small city in South of Iran

Scenario

1968 • 11 min

The scenario for what might have been quite a beautiful films is projected as a text. In between the blocks of text, two small girls romp, as if from another movie altogether. –D. H.

Rules for Holocausts

1968 • 5 min • Italy

Short movie by Gianfranco Baruchello.

Beautiful Noise

1968 • 1 min • United States of America

The first singing CGI character.

Nörgel & Söhne en gros und en detail, Teil 2

1968 • 9 min • East Germany

The Nörgel clan divides the labor and produce more hats than they need for themselves. As consequence, they look into an exchange of products at a market in Leipzig. However, Nörgel has to learn that animals might not be a good equivalent for a product trade, although they are needed by everyone. Part two of the animation trilogy Nörgel & Sons.

Pig Power (Newsreel #23)

1968 • 8 min • United States of America

As students take to the streets in New York and Berkeley, the state violence that follows illustrates Chicago Mayor Daley's thesis that the police are there "to preserve disorder".

For My Crushed Right Eye

1968 • 12 min • Japan

Two chaotic series of images, one for each eye. Hipster living, malformed fetuses, war, arts events and pop culture stands for the material.

The Ranger Of Brownstone

1968 • 40 min

Ranger J. Audobon Woodlore tries to run his national park with efficiency, but one of the bears, Humphrey, manages to continually sabotage operations, as seen in various cartoons taking place at the park.

La Belle cérébrale

1968 • 13 min • France

Videographic dream.

A Portrait of Jogen

1968 • 9 min • Japan

Jonouchi, who documented various artists’ performances and events, turned the camera onto himself cutting his hair. Using the experimental methods Jonouchi incorporated in his past works, he painted a private space and time by way of portrayal of his own body.

La Femme de 100 têtes

1968 • 21 min • France

Surrealist short film of images viewed to a surrealist poem by Max Ernst.

The Green Beret

1968 • 5 min • Germany

A film about the feeling of beeing under attack.

Two Virgins

1968 • 20 min

A video to accompany 19 minutes of music from John and Yoko's Two Virgins album. We see Lennon's and Ono's faces superimposed upon each other's, then John and Yoko touching each other, hugging, and kissing. They are clothed, unlike on the Two Virgins album cover.

Les enfants de Néant

1968 • 45 min • Canada, France

Morbihan is one of the poorest regions in Brittany. Joseph, a 33-year-old farmer, can no longer live off the land. He is hired at the fancy new plant that has just opened where he enters a world of rote work. Fortunately he can go home to his farm every evening, far from the large urban centers where workers must usually live.

En skola

1968 • 45 min

A film by Eric M. Nilsson.

Berkeley 12 to 1

1968 • 4 min

Berkeley 12 to 1 is a 1968 short film that was created to explore the world of protest and counterculture that was happening in Berkeley at the time.

Babbage’s Calculating Machine or Difference Engine

1968 • 4 min

A rare, live-action, and close-up study of the only existing Babbage Difference Engine, a machine designed in the first quarter of the 19th-Century by English inventor and mathematician, Charles Babbage. The engine, designed to calculate and print-out tables of numbers for use in navigation, insurance, and astronomy, is considered an important artifact in the history of computing. Babbage is considered to be the father of the modern computer, and the Difference Engine and Analytical Machine are forerunners of the computer. The music is ”Alamaine” and “The Scot’s March” performed by Carl Dolmetsch and the Dolmetsch Quartet.

Closed Mondays

1968 • 17 min

A beautiful film-portrait of a young girl/woman who bears a striking resemblance to Nico.

The Haight (Newsreel #21)

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

The San Francisco Haight community fights in the streets to defend their culture against brutal police oppression.