All Films

Revolution Underway

1968 • 36 min

This color propaganda film made National Education Program (NEP) as a warning to citizens of the USA about the subversive groups within the country looking to destroy the American system and its people. It dates to 1968, one of the most chaotic years in 20th Century American history.

Pantera Negra

1968 • 3 min • Brazil

A hand-painted musical film, it was the first experience with animation cinema by the artist and illustrator Jô Oliveira, at the time a member of the Fotograma group, an organization that brought together the work of several artists and promoted animation cinema in Brazil.

Film-Tract n° 1968

1968 • 3 min • France

In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, Le Rouge, in collaboration with French artist Gérard Fromanger. Starting with the shot identifying its title written in red paint on the Le Monde for 31 July 1968, the film shows the process of making Fromanger’s poster image, which is thick red paint flows over a tri-color French flag. —Hye Young Min

Lovemaking

1968 • 36 min • United States of America

A film about the naturalness of sexuality. Its four sequences feature heterosexual and homosexual lovemaking, dogs copulating, and naked childen at play.

Film Form No. 1

1968 • 6 min

A hypnotic dance film of colours, dancers, forms, music, all sweeping through the TV tube eye, mixed together into a flow of female bodies and colours, a brilliant study of colour printing from black ad white. Collaboration on the project by Brown/Olvey.

Serenade

1968 • 25 min • Soviet Union

Two men fight to win the heart of a charming girl. One is much stronger, but it seems that only physical strength means nothing.

Monk in Europe

1968 • 58 min

Part two of a two-part portrait of the great Jazz composer and pianist. On his European tour his quartet was joined by Ray Copeland, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, and Johnny Griffin. They traveled as part of George Wein’s Newport Jazz Festival road company to London, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Mainz, and Rotterdam.

The Ugly Duckling

1968 • 19 min • Japan

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's tale The Ugly Duckling.

De Da De Dum

1968 • 20 min • Australia

Artist/poet/novelist/singer Pip Proud was being feted in the media as an underground superstar at the time this experimental documentary was made. The film shows Pip’s reactions to automated, ritualised city life, using altered speed photography and, in some instances, incision and puncturing of the film stock.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Bob-a-Job

1968 • 14 min • United Kingdom

The gang help in the collections for a youth club, by doing odd jobs around the neighborhood and getting into trouble at the same time.

The Hole

1968 • 2 min • France

The outrageous and sometimes harrowing adventures of a non-being in search of his ego.

Snip, Snip

1968 • 2 min • Austria

This film has two parts. In the first part, the film material is on 8mm uncut film, so that in the 16mm projection a 4-fold film can be seen. In the second part of the film, the 16mm film is shown in full size, that means the picture is now enlarged four times its size. I drew over the film after the fact, and abstracted it in many different ways. (E.S.jr.)

The Lighthouse Keeper

1968 • 11 min • Czechoslovakia

A puppet story about a lighthouse keeper who saves a paper boat while a real ship is sinking nearby.

The Columbia Revolt (Newsreel #14)

1968 • 59 min • United States of America

In April 1968, black and white students rebelled against the university administration, occupying five buildings, including the president's office in one of the first campus revolts of the Civil Rights/Vietnam War era. The revolt began as a protest against university expansion into neighboring communities and its role as a slum lord. After five days of student control, the administrators and trustees ordered the police to clear the buildings. What resulted was an unprecedented display of brutality and repression. Narrated by one of the student rebels, the detailed eyewitness account of this event galvanized other campus revolts around the country.

LSD: Trip to Where?

1968 • 45 min • United States of America

Three sailors are talked into trying LSD and marijuana--which, this film implies, are basically the same thing--and the effects of the drugs endanger the lives of their fellow sailors aboard ship.

Meet the Mayor

1968 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A new piazza proposed for Leicester market is met by public opposition. This is a city described by one local historian as unromantic, so what do the developers expect?

Third Eye Butterfly

1968 • 10 min • United States of America

“Third Eye Butterfly” is a double 16mm projection piece in which the two screens – at times divided within into additional “mini-screens” causing textured kaleidoscopic effects – blur to create a third wider frame, encouraging the viewers to extend their vision beyond ordinary sight - Microscope Gallery

Threnody for the Death of a Horse

1968 • 7 min • Poland

A viewer sees how a picture of a horse appears on a white sheet of paper. The horse emerges from successive traces of a black felt-tip pen. The horse is shown in various positions and fragmentary close-ups. It also takes on a disturbing abstract shape of a transparent huddled creature. It looks dead with its lack of limbs, visible ribs and deep eye sockets. It evokes associations with horses who were victims of hostilities. Its contours are blurring. It falls apart. The animated film for adults directed by Jan Tkaczyk, the cinematographer of several dozen animated films. The director used drawings by Barbara Jonscher, a Polish painter and cartoonist, from the ‘Arsenal’ generation. The context of her works often refers to literary works. The series of horse drawings was inspired by Bertold Brecht's poems with anti-war meaning. Andrzej Kurylewicz is the author of jazz music in this film.

Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968

1968 • 58 min

A close-up of bass player and composer Charlie Mingus as he and his five-year-old daughter await eviction by the City of New York.

XFilm

1968 • 14 min

Tape composition by William Maraldo. XFILM is my very personal exploration of film as an abstract, kinetic medium. The film, after many months of experimentation with rhythm and form, finally collected and crystallized when I heard Bill Maraldo's unusual electronic tape piece. The opening of XFILM grew from my hearing of that piece, and I still believe that the first five minutes of this film are the most inspired filmmaking I have yet done.

Suave patria

1968 • 60 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Die perverse Herrin und ihre Opfer

1968 • 19 min • Germany

The two lesbian sisters once again feel the irrepressible desire to properly tie up and beat young girls. The victims must be young and have a tight plump chest. The two are by no means lacking in new ideas. This time they place an ad in a daily newspaper.

Military Music Orchestra

1968 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Tells about the everyday life of the military music orchestra. The most difficult thing is to play a parade concert or “defile”. A defile is when military musicians play a march in motion, without straying from a clear marching step, or from the rhythm, without violating the strict musical pattern. For a professional, this is not so difficult to do, but how did an orchestra from a generally ordinary military unit manage to do this?

The Bad and the Beautiful

1968 • 34 min • United States of America

One of the most profound themes coursing throughout Sonbert's work is that of love between couples in all its pitfalls and perfect moments. To express this theme between his protagonists onscreen as well as in the relationship between his ever-roving hand-held camera and the human subjects in his field of vision, Sonbert employed diverse cinematic strategies, including in-camera editing (in The Bad and the Beautiful), twin-screen effects (in Ted and Jessica), and montage of discrete shots filmed in distinct spaces (in Honor and Obey). -- Jon Gartenberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1998.