All Films

Money

1968 • 45 min • United States of America

A silent screen-type comedy starring Edwin Denby as Hemlock Stinge, the unlovable billionaire.

O Ritmo na Vida

1968 • 11 min • Portugal

Dream of Water

1968 • 1 min • Sweden

A poetic study of thirst. Stylized images of flowing water and the face of a young woman flowing past as in a metaphysical dream. The magic and clarity of water makes it a classic topic in free film, used by many film-makers in different ways. Esselius again manages to imbue this theme with energy and vitality. (Filmform)

Death or Glory

1968 • 50 min

First transmitted in 1968, this documentary shows life in the British Army of the Rhine as seen through the eyes of one of its regiments, the 17th/21st Lancers, as they complete a tour of duty. It reveals how they manage their routine whilst guarding the Cold War East German front and how they try to live a normal life with their families in a foreign and sometimes alien environment.

Film No. 5

1968 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Avant-garde short by Ono.

Acceleration

1968 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

A film about the dominance of time and space over a human being. A poetic reflection on the transience of material life characterized by a Mediterranean ambience, contemplation, mosaic structure, and repetitive editing patterns.

Break the Power of the Manipulators

1968 • 48 min • Germany

Documentary by Helke Sander, in collaboration with Harun Farocki (among others), about the campaign of the West German New Left against the publishing house Springer, particularly its control and manipulation of the news.

Bear De Guerre

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

On a hunting vacation, Inspector Clouseau mistakenly keeps shooting a bad-tempered bear instead of the quail he's after which results in painful lessons learned by the Inspector.

Aretha Franklin: The Legendary Concertgebouw Concert Amsterdam 1968

1968 • 43 min • Netherlands

This concert shows very rare and unique footage of Aretha in a very productive and creative part of her career.

Civil Engineering

1968 • 12 min • Sweden

Old photographs and pictures with a dialogless soundtrack of a train ride.

Lieder machen Leute

1968 • 28 min • East Germany, Germany

Documentary short about the East German Oktoberklub.

Avec tambours et trompettes

1968 • 27 min • Canada

Chunya

1968 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A young piglet in trouble.

Esta Rua Tão Augusta

1968 • 11 min • Brazil

A short documentary that uses irony to approach the most fashionable São Paulo street in the 60s: the Rua Augusta (Augusta St.), with its classic personages and most frequented spots.

It All Depends On You

1968 • 20 min

Jack Klugman and the kid from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory give you the hard sell on dial-it-yourself long-distance from AT&T.

Green Love

1968 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

In some of Croatian villages, in the 1960s, there was still a custom of arranged marriages between children aged 12 to 15. This poignant but also witty film depicts the wedding of one of these unhappy couples.

Nastasiya and Fomka

1968 • 22 min • Soviet Union

Winter. Snow is sweeping, a blizzard howls. The wife of old Foma died. Fomka takes a coffin on a sleigh to a village graveyard along a deserted, dusty winter road, and he sees that Nastasiya is walking barefoot in the snow - alive, young, as on a photograph...

Forms and Designs

1968 • 11 min • India

A short film that sets up an opposition between functional forms of industrial age and decorative ones from Indian tradition.

Huey!

1968 • 31 min • United States of America

Documentary film produced by American Documentary Films and the Black Panther Party from 1968, honoring Huey P. Newton's struggle for African American civil rights, advocating for his release from jail and addressing issues of racism in American society. Features scenes from the funeral of Bobby Hutton and the Huey P. Newton Birthday Rally in the Oakland Auditorium on February 17th 1968, with speeches by: Bobby Seale (who explains the Black Panther Party's 10 Point Program in detail); Ron Dellums; James Foreman; Charles R. Garry; Eldridge Cleaver; Bob Avakian; H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael. Also includes views of police officers showing the weapons and armor they carry in patrol cars and of African Americans discussing racism in American society. This film was scripted and directed by Sally Pugh.

Un été américain

1968 • 55 min

This documentary portrays the solidarity of young Californian left-wing militants with the Black Panther cause. Footage of their militant activities, during discussions and protests in Oakland, where they were following the trial of Black Panther leader Huey Newton, throws light on the reasons for their active support for the Afro-American revolutionary movement known as the Black Panther Party. The young American film-maker who, as part of his film project about Californian hippies, conducts a series of interviews exemplifies the type of commitment they chose. The documentary also features clips from speeches given by Black Panther party militants, an interview with Black Panther Party information secretary Kathleen Cleaver, concerts and a Black Panther military parade.

Carnation

1968 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

This observational documentary about carnation pickers at one of Split plantations does not have a single line of dialoguel not a single commentary or any kind of intervention in life apart from exclusion of colour belonging to it after the first introductory close-ups of the flower itself.

Underground New York

1968 • 51 min • Germany

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the sixties revolution in art, music, poetry and film and interviews the main players in the “New American Cinema,” that was born on the streets of New York. Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval in all of the arts and growing political agitation against the Vietnam War, Bachman interviews the most prominent figures in “underground film,” including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, the Kuchar Brothers and Bruce Connor, and visits the most notorious location in the New York art world of the era - Andy Warhol’s Factory - to conduct an interview with the genius of Pop Art himself.

Hall

1968 • 10 min

Demystified reaction by the viewer to a demystified situation; a cut in space and an interruption of duration, through (obvious) jumpcut editing within a strictly defined space. Manipulation of response and awareness thereof: through repetition and duration of image. Film situation as structured, as recorrective mechanism.

A Sad Yet Funny Ballad

1968 • 13 min • Japan

A young man sets out to make a Super 8 film, but isn't sure what the film should be about.