All Films

Face Of An Addict

1968 • 26 min • Canada

This short film takes a look at addiction and whom it affects, specifically those in the medical profession. It was sponsored in the interest of the medical profession by Winthrop Laboratories Limited

Aglaë et Sidonie

1968 • 5 min • France

Aglaë the sow and Sidonie the goose are living in a farm. Their world is made of only 2 characters: Agénor the rooster and Croquetout the fox, always trying to make a good meal of them. Sidonie is naïve, always fooled by Croquetout costumes: cinema director, policeman, ... Happily enough, Aglaë or Agenor are there to rescue Sidonie.

The Bride of Frankenstein

1968 • 20 min • Spain

Bakedano's experimental approach to the bride of Frankenstein's story.

Ivasik-Telesik

1968 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About the boy Baba Yaga wanted to eat.

Black TV

1968 • 10 min • United States of America

Black TV is the title of Tambellini’s best-known videographic film, which is part of a large intermedia project about American television. Compiled from filmed television news programs and personal experimental videotapes, Black TV has been seen in many versions during the four-year period in which Tambellini constantly re-edited it (1964-68).

Bigfoot: America's Abominable Snowman

1968 • 49 min • United Kingdom, Germany

Bigfoot: America's Abominable Snowman focuses on the legend of Bigfoot/Sasquatch throughout North America. Dr. John Napier acts as host and analyst of the evidence presented in the documentary, including Roger Patterson's famous October 1967 film allegedly showing a Bigfoot in Northern California (Bluff Creek). Numerous eyewitness testimonies are given along with expert opinions on the subject matter.

Rohfilm

1968 • 20 min • Germany

One of the most important structural films of the period, Rohfilm demonstrates a radical anti-representational approach, destroying the figurative image and bringing attention back to the ‘raw’ photographic material, particularly its physical form. Resisting a stable reference point, the film is a multi-layered onslaught of blurred impressions, shifting surfaces and grating sounds that activates a form of sensuous viewing. In the making of the film, the Heins employed just about every technique of defamiliarization, including direct intervention on the surface of the film strip, rephotography, remediation, and different kinds of mechanical interruption and destruction. It is a striking example of a truly handmade approach. (Kim Knowles)

The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth

1968 • 2 min • Finland

An experimental film about a day at the barber shop.

Barekendan

1968 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on a fairy-tale by Hovhannes Tumanyan it tells a story of a man and wife who find themselves in comical situations because of their foolishness.

Mill-In (Newsreel #6)

1968 • 8 min • United States of America

In order to raise the consciousness of New Yorkers, anti-war demonstrators took to the streets on fashionable Fifth Avenue on Christmas eve. To the dismay of the shoppers, their action snarled traffic and stunted holiday consumption.

Cultural Nationalism

1968 • 11 min

A quiet scene in the snow, a black child in an anorak runs mumbling towards the camera. The pictures of Skip Norman's CULTURAL NATIONALISM (1968) are underpinned with a powerful monologue by the co-founder of the Black Panther Party Bobby Seale

Homero Presto

1968 • 9 min • France

Wharf

1968 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Originally the work was presented as a pre-ordered sequence of 35mm slides showing two unknown people walking around the wall of a sea-side swimming pool. Switching between positive and negative focus on the mystery of the hidden and unresolved narrative between the ‘lovers?’. On occasions, this work was shown in superimposition with sections of the film Talla. Two sound tapes were mixed in improvisation. A digital video version has been made using the original slide sequence and audio tapes.

The House That Ananda Built

1968 • 20 min • India

In India, a typical Oriya family of Nadpur Village in Mayurbhanj District go about their lives at their different vocations. The film follows Ananda, a successful businessman in Nagpur. It looks at his life, his children and his beliefs over a very long life from prior to independence until 20 years after. The House That Ananda Built is a 1968 Indian short documentary film directed by Fali Bilimoria. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Coral Fairytale

1968 • 10 min

A poetic and colorful tale at the bottom of the sea.

Saga

1968 • 9 min • France

"While film always seems to aim for humanism and anthropomorphism, I endeavoured in my film to represent only a language with three­ dimensional letters." Saga is an extension of the plurality of the means of experimentation used by Jean-François Bory to capture the dynamic inside the text, directly related to the spatialisation of letters theorised by Pierre Garnier. lts corresponding object­ book masterfully resumes the cinematographic dimension in the progression of the writing and uses a visual narration.

Yes/No

1968 • 3 min • Austria

Expanded cinema with a real and a projected curtain. (This film is part of the 20 Action and Destruction Films.)

Population Explosion

1968 • 14 min

A film in cut-out animation depicting the demographic problems of the world. It shows that in many countries freedom from the old scourges of famine and disease has in turn created the new problem of more mouths to feed. The film suggests that wealthier nations might increase all forms of aid to struggling nations to create a better world.

Strip Strip

1968 • 4 min • United States of America

Jerry Jones in “Strip Strip” directed by Pat Rocco. Jones strips off clothes while pantomiming walking down Sunset Boulevard. Overlaid with film elements of the Sunset Strip signs in Hollywood, California. Released in 1968 and played along with Rocco's short film "Autumn Nocturne."

Western for the SDS

1968 • 21 min • Germany

West­ern for the SDS por­trays the de­vel­op­ment of the left as a learn­ing pro­cess among wo­m­en who shar­p­en their aware­ness in the move­ment but cont­in­ue to have no say. The con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the film is shown in the DFFB week­ly news­reel Re­quiem for a Com­pany. The West­ern was con­fis­cat­ed by the ad­min­is­tra­tion, and eigh­teen stu­dents who sid­ed with Straschek were ex­pelled from the acade­my. The film was considered lost until its rediscovery in 2018.

El hombre como fin

1968 • 8 min • Venezuela

"Snapshot images projected fleetingly on an unstable and mobile surface, describe the urban chaos of the population of Caracas in the 60s. An emerging cosmopolitan city, subjected to the alienating imbalance of an environment convulsed by a complex political and social crisis. Withstanding flashes of neon, reflectors and dazzling directional lights, like a night mirror of the city. An elastic uterus shakes and contracts with interrupted spasms, trying to expel what moves and is submerged inside, deep within. Surprisingly and unexpectedly, this altered thing is released, and an anxious, throbbing and anguished humanoid being emerges hastily." Daniel Gonzalez.

Zoo Film

1968 • 19 min • East Germany, Germany

This black and white documentary film reports from the Berlin Zoo, located in the Friedrichsfelde district of the Lichtenberg district, was opened in 1955 and is the largest landscape animal garden in Europe with an area of 160 hectares. With shots worth seeing, you can experience the animals in their enclosures and spacious free running areas. The film gets along completely without commentary and directs the concentrated view to hippos, parrots, camels, red deer, bison, llamas, kangaroos, rhinoceroses; lynxes, birds, leopards, tigers, lions, polar bears and crocodiles.

Hobby

1968 • 7 min • Poland

A woman takes a break from her knitting to snare hapless winged men and deposit them in oversized birdcages.

In The Hour Of Fear...

1968 • 49 min • Czechoslovakia

The story of a man who, in a supposed struggle to save his own life and home, kills a helpless man. His victim is a Jewish doctor who is hidden by partisans in a secluded peasant home.