All Films

No Game (Newsreel #2)

1968 • 17 min • United States of America

In October, 1967, 100,000 people marched on Washington to demand an end to the Vietnam War. Marvin Fishman and Masanori Oe with help from Jonathan Chernoble documented the event and later gave the film to the newly formed Newsreel. This film depicts the peaceful march that ended in the occupation of the Pentagon grounds. Cameras were there in the midst of the fixed bayonets and billy clubs as the military turned on the demonstrators in this historic mobilization.

One More Time

1968 • 8 min • France

A young woman decided to make a show of her death she is going to look at during the whole film. We will see the progressive and long descent of a murderous machine which may pierce her throat.

The Cow

1968 • 10 min

A beauty-filled look at cows on a peaceful day in the pasture. Natural sounds, without narration. A little girl lolls in the meadow, watching cows sniff the grass, jaws grinding, tails swishing. Colors and shapes of bodies, textures of noses and hides. A new-born calf, licked clean by its mother, tries to stand on collapsible legs and searches out its first meal. “The essence of cowness is fixed forever in the mind and heart of the viewer” (Los Angeles Times).

The Power of the Spirits

1968 • 19 min • Italy

Set in upper Irpinia, the documentary examines the practice of exorcism in what was the poorest region of Italy.

Here is the News

1968 • 26 min • United Kingdom

A day in the life of the Manchester Evening News.

Wir sind stärker geworden

1968 • 33 min • Germany

Documentary about student protests in Cologne.

Vis-à-vis

1968 • 10 min • Germany

A fixed shot showing six persons, looking into the camera inertly. Gradually tiny, minimal movements can be registered.

Color Test: The Red Flag

1968 • 12 min • Germany

Gerd Conradt films men carrying a red flag in a relay race through Berlin, to hoist it on the balcony of the current Mayor’s seat. A cinematic experiment based on Eadweard Muybridge, Andy Warhol and New American Cinema. A study in men, movements and a symbol. This is the 7th part of this series of film exercises. The other 6 parts were staged by Harun Farocki (Part 1), Carlos Bustamante (Part 2), Helke Sander (Part 3), Holger Meins (Part 4), Wolfgang Petersen (Part 5), Philip Werner Sauber (Part 6).

Aksak Kulan

1968 • 10 min • Soviet Union

This film is based on a Kazakh legend which tells about the story of dombra

Love Child

1968 • 24 min • United States of America

Young girl from the suburbs gets knocked up and ends up tripping out in an East Village drug den.

White

1968 • 2 min • Austria

In a blank film, holes were punched with a office hole-punch. During the projection, only the black scratches present in the material, which form over the course of time, can apparently be seen in the holes as well. (E.S.)

Descartes

1968 • 11 min

An early videotape by Joanne Kyger

Moomin and the Sea

1968 • 39 min • Sweden

At the far end of the gulf of Finland lay Tove Jansson's summer island of Klovharun. In this film we get to meet her on her island and hear her tell the background story of the world of Moomin, populated with Fillyjonks, Miffles, moomins and the ill-tempered Little My.

Sonata: Gray Picture/Woman's Picture/Blue Picture & White Frame

1968 • 5 min • Switzerland

"An attempt to make a portrait of my wife." (HHK)

Permutations

1968 • 8 min • United States of America

An experimental short film by John Whitney Sr. which combines animated shapes and colors; Computer graphics as dynamic, swirling art. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

Indian Youth: An Exploration

1968 • 20 min • India

A documentary on the life of the youth in post-Independence India.

Caleidoscope from Baja

1968 • 13 min

Locations of László Ranódy’s film Pacsirta (Skylark) appear in the experimental etude, in János Tóth’s extreme, distorted, wide-angle footage, image associations.

Menschen im Deutschland von 1932

1968 • 26 min • Germany

Short educational film about the society of the weimar republic.

Dan Potter

1968 • 39 min

Though not a portrait, it was inspired by the way Gregory J. Markopoulos’s portraits in Galaxie intermingle the identities of his figures with objects around them; less obvious influences are F.W. Murnau’s Tabu and the relationships between figures and backgrounds in the films of Howard Hawks.

Johnson & Co. and the Campaign Against Poverty

1968 • 18 min • Germany

Clearly influenced by Brecht and Jean-Marie Straub, criticizes the reduction of human relations to economic relations as well as the US imperialism in Vietnam.

The Man Who Could Fly

1968 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The kid by the name of Tomshik recently often dreamed that he could fly. And now his dream came true! The boy was delighted with his new abilities. But the scientific fraternity became interested in such a miracle, and it became very clear that he did not fly the way he should have. And though they did not know how to do it, they began to struggle to teach Tomshik. What will their morals and experiments lead to?

Christmas Tree

1968 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

Another of Hermína Týrlová's "wool fairy tales" tells about two children who decorated a Christmas tree.

Linearity

1968 • 13 min

A television piece for Harp and Live Electronics (1968) created as a part of the Rockefeller Foundation's inquiry into the artistic capacities of broadcast television, at NCET (National Center for Experiments in Television).

Sirene

1968 • 9 min • Belgium

Monsterlike cranes reign over an inhospitable harbour as prehistorical reptiles. The only human being they accept is a lonesome fisherman. He is to witness a strange encounter between a ship's mate and a mermaid. Imagination or reality?