All Films

Epilog/Siam

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

Two portraits paired, one warm, one cold.

A Computer Glossary

1968 • 8 min • United States of America

From hardware to software, the basics of then-current computing technology is explained.

Zoom - Dokumentation

1968 • 17 min

Ludwig Schönherr | Federal Republic of Germany | 1968 | 18 fps | 17'08" | silent

Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)

1968 • 14 min • United States of America

A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967. This film contains a prison interview with Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton as well as an interview with Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver, footage of the aftermath of the police assault against the Los Angeles Chapter headquarters, demonstrations to free Huey at Hutton Memorial Park and the Alameda County Court House and a recitation of the party's Ten-Point Platform by co-founder Bobby Seale. Newsreel's 19th, and one of their most widely distributed films, it was originally released as "Off the Pig," but has since seen release under the name Black Panther. This short film features drawings from activist artist Emory Douglas.

The Corpse Can't Play

1968 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Ronnie's party is going well, but his mother Alice is waiting for her husband Tom to return from the office to help supervise. The doorbell rings, but instead of Tom it's Simon Potter, a strange little boy who Ronnie dislikes, and who knows some unusual and horrifying variations of children's party games.

Transylvania Mania

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

In Transylvania, a vampire scientist and his oafish assistant want a brain to transplant into a robot, and when Inspector Clouseau arrives at their castle asking for directions, they decide to use his brain. Clouseau flees, and they chase him around the countryside.

The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant

1968 • 30 min • United States of America

After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city, where he is befriended by the kindly Old Lady. Later, with cousins Celeste and Arthur, he returns to the great forest to be crowned King of the Elephants.

Heat

1968 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The action of the film unfolds in a farm in Australia . The strained relationship between the farm's residents, a woman and two men, is like a relentless drought that threatens to destroy the crops. And when trouble seems inevitable, nature pours heavy rain on the land and people

13 Bern Museums

1968 • 13 min • Switzerland

24 frames per second make a film. 13 moving museums in 13 minutes result in a turbulent invitation to visit these 13 museums in Bern. (Swiss Film Center Catalogue 1972)

Good Night, Dear

1968 • 2 min • Denmark

Lars von Trier himself has one of the lead roles in this short film about a bank employee being subjected to a brutal robbery.

Jerusalem (al-Quds)

1968 • 17 min • Lebanon

A short film made by Vladimir Tamari following the first anniversary of the occupation of Arab Jerusalem by the Israeli army at the start of the Arab Israeli War on June 5, 1967. Using footage from UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) cinema archives where he worked as a technician, Tamari edited this film and organized its narration and addition of music by his friends, all volunteers and amateurs as he was, in order to express the feelings of the Palestinians at the loss of their capital city and center of their spiritual, commercial and intellectual life.

Joe and Petunia: Coastguard

1968 • 2 min • United Kingdom

The message of this coastguard film was to raise awareness that HM Coastguard had become a ‘999’ service enabling the public to raise the alarm as it does for other emergency services.

The Love Song of Barney Kempinski

1968 • 60 min • United States of America

On his wedding day, in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney Kempinski goes off to tour the city and sing his song to life, love and the city of New York.

Musical Pictures

1968 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Three stories. The first one is called "Naughty". It tells about a little goat that ran away from his mother. He was very curious and interested in everything around, but when he realized that was lost, he began to worry much about it. In "Braggart" we will focus on the bird that loved to embellish reality. The history "Monster" is about a terrible creation, spewing flames and defeated by beautiful horses.

The Second Largest Minority

1968 • 7 min • United States of America

Documentary short documents the “Reminder Day Picket” at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, on July 4, 1968.

Safety Film

1968 • 5 min • Austria

Scheugl elevates the trivial, the snapped up and coincidental to unmixed small films. In Safety Film he dismembers an epic Hollywood western by withdrawing the color, story rejection and lack of sound into some of its parts.

The Filmmaker Records a Portion of His Life in the Month of August

1968 • 15 min

THE FILMMAKER RECORDS A PORTION OF HIS LIFE IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST (1968), presents an intimate, autobiographical portrait of Malanga’s summer in 1968, capturing fleeting moments with Warhol and other New York artists.

Dialogue with Che

1968 • 53 min

In 1967, José Rodriguez Soltero made “Dialogue with Che” (1968), starring Venezuelan artist, actor, producer and dancer Rolando Peña as Che. Warhol superstar Taylor Mead is also featured, in the role of a CIA agent. “The film was partly underwritten by Andy Warhol, who gave a check to cover lab fees. "Dialogue..." was seldom shown in the States - it is entirely in Spanish - but had some life in the European screens. It had a modest run at the Cinémathèque Française, where it was championed by Marie Meerson and Henri Langlois, and played at the Berlin Film Festival in 1969. Historically, it has been shown with two prints projected side by side, the second screen starting with a 3-minute delay. --Film-Makers Coop

Mists of Time

1968 • 15 min • Ireland

Mists of Time is a poetic, visual portrait of the mythology surrounding Ireland’s megalithic tombs and standing stones. The monumental dolmen and passage graves of Ireland, once burial grounds from the Late Stone Age, are depicted alongside tales of the pagan Halloween festival, Samhain. Dramatic cinematography depicting sunsets and tombs at the Burren, Country Clare, and Newgrange, County Meath (Ireland’s best-known passage grave) is underscored by the music of Brian Boydell.

The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes

1968 • 17 min • Canada

A lesson in geography, which concludes that although the Great Lakes have had their ups and downs, nothing has been harder to take than what humans have done to them lately. In the film, a lone canoeist lives through the changes of geological history, through Ice Age and flood, only to find himself in the end trapped in a sea of scum.

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize

1968 • 30 min

A 1968 British musical short film (30 mins) starring Judy Huxtable and Anthony May. It was directed by Douglas Hickox. It tells the story of a young man (May) cycling around the Hampstead (NW3) area of London on a Raleigh RSW16. After crashing into a billboard he falls in love with a fashion model (Huxtable) depicted on it. Despite the title, the Belsize Park area does not actually feature. There is almost no spoken dialogue, and the soundtrack to the film is musical virtually throughout. The title song of the film has been a hit for Mireille Mathieu and Engelbert Humperdinck (a top ten hit in the UK and a top 40 hit in the USA) amongst others. The title is derivative of the French film, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg; apart from a musical theme there is no other obvious link.

The Committee

1968 • 58 min • United Kingdom

The Committee, starring Paul Jones of Manfred Mann fame, is a unique document of Britain in the 1960s. After a very successful run in London’s West End in 1968, viewings of this controversial movie have been few and far between. Stunning black and white camera work by Ian Wilson brings to life this “chilling fable” by Max Steuer, a lecturer (now Reader Emeritus) at the London School of Economics. Avoiding easy answers, The Committee uses a surreal murder to explore the tension and conflict between bureaucracy on one side, and individual freedom on the other. Many films, such as Total Recall, Fahrenheit 451 and Camus’ The Stranger, see the state as ignorant and repressive, and pass over the inevitable weaknesses lying deep in individuals. Drawing on the ideas of R.D. Laing, a psychologically hip state faces an all too human protagonist.

Count Vim's Last Exercise

1968 • 16 min • Australia

Penguins

1968 • 13 min • Soviet Union

It is a dramatic story which happened in Antarctic where the penguins come for summer to raise their baby birds.