All Films

The Vampire

1968 • 27 min • Poland

Gothic story based on novella by Aleksey Tolstoy.

Хочу бодаться!

1968 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making

1968 • 40 min • United States of America

Jean-Luc Godard visits NYU in order to discuss his latest feature "La chinoise" with graduate students on filmmaking and politics.

Faithful Departed

1968 • 11 min • Ireland

This short documentary draws on the photographs of Robert French from the William Lawrence Collection held in the National Library. The photos illustrate the Dublin of 1904 which served as a backdrop to James Joyce’s Ulysses. The film traces Joyce’s childhood and adolescence, his meeting with Nora Barnacle on June 10th, 1904, and the highways and byways which Leopold Bloom wandered through on June 16th, 1904. The music in the film references some of Joyce’s favourite songs, many of which appear in Ulysses.

Letraset

1968 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A film from the Letraset company featuring beautiful and groovy creations made with their many design tools.

Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed

1968 • 51 min • United States of America

A documentary that reviews the numerous contributions of African-Americans to the development of the United States. From the perspective of the turbulent late 1960s, the fact that their positive roles had not generally been taught as part of American history, coupled with the pervasiveness of derogatory stereotypes, was evidence of how Black people had long been victims of negative attitudes and ignorance.

Il vaso etrusco

1968 • 23 min

Performance based experimental film.

God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance

1968 • 20 min • United States of America

Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.

Rowan & Martin at the Movies

1968 • 11 min • United States of America

This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV studio, ostensibly to host a show. It turns out that trumpet player Herb Alpert is the only other performer listed in the credits who is actually there in person. The others appear in clips, some from their own U.S. Savings Bonds spots, others from unidentified movie or TV appearances. Singer Barbara McNair is shown entertaining U.S. troops in Viet Nam, and the youth group The Young Americans also sings.

Lune

1968 • 23 min • Italy

Lune (Moons) is a fragment from Cronache del sentimento e del sogno (Chronicles of the Sentiment and the Dream) and consists of a series of images-in-images of faces and bodies. It is a study of the significance of the face, movement and the character of (photographic) light.

Home Movie: Tina Aumont

1968 • 9 min • France

A montage of found footage from movies in Italian along with shots of Tina Aumont and Frédéric Pardo in the Luxembourg Garden, and in a country cemetery. The film then shows scenes of a lunch in the garden of a country house, where we see Tina and Pardo's father.

What Are the Clouds?

1968 • 20 min • Italy

Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.

One Summer in Somerset

1968 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Hitch a ride with a glamorous blonde in a convertible sports car, and take a spin around the seaside town of Weston-Super-Mare and its surroundings.

Introduction to Fogo Island

1968 • 17 min • Canada

This film introduces the Fogo Island/Newfoundland Project series which is an experiment in how film can be a catalyst for social change by serving as a direct means of communication. It gives some basic facts about Fogo Island, Newfoundland, and explains why it was chosen for the film project.

The Ballad of Crowfoot

1968 • 10 min • Canada

Released in 1968 and often referred to as Canada’s first music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot was directed by Willie Dunn, a Mi’kmaq/Scottish folk singer and activist who was part of the historic Indian Film Crew, the first all-Indigenous production unit at the NFB. The film is a powerful look at colonial betrayals, told through a striking montage of archival images and a ballad composed by Dunn himself about the legendary 19th-century Siksika (Blackfoot) chief who negotiated Treaty 7 on behalf of the Blackfoot Confederacy. The IFC’s inaugural release, Crowfoot was the first Indigenous-directed film to be made at the NFB.

Maria Callas Porträt

1968 • 13 min • Germany

Animated stills of Maria Callas and overlaid with a soundtrack of her singing.

Who Is Sonny Rollins?

1968 • 28 min

Portrait of the jazz great during his self-enforced exile from his audience as protest against the war in Vietnam. Filmed playing with students in Harlem, in the countryside, and on the Williamsburg Bridge, Rollins' melodic sense throughout the film is as probing as soulful as ever.

The Conflict

1968 • 53 min • Kuwait

The events revolve around Atwa, who is mentally ill, and his miserly uncle refuses to help him and treat him, so Atwa's brother seeks to support him in his problem.

A Matter of Baobab

1968 • 3 min

International Cast of Actors: Jonas Mekas, from Lithuania, poet and film-maker; Louis Brigante, from Madagascar, poet and publisher; Storm De Hirsch, from Holland, poetess, seer and film-maker; Pola Chapelle, from Tierra del Fuego, singer and motel operator; Adolfas Mekas, from Lapland, basket weaver and film director; Contessa Angela Maria Andrecci di Castiglione, from Italy, opera singer.

The Other Side

1968 • 15 min • Israel

An experimental and absurd avant-garde film about a bunch of unrelated people, all standing on the side of the road waiting for the traffic light to change from red to green, but the traffic light won't change. More and more people gather on the sidewalk, and a kind of class society is formed there. The film was shot during one day in which Ephraim Kishon lent Uri Zohar the set of "Blaumilch Canal" at Herzliya Studios.

Inquiring Nuns

1968 • 60 min • United States of America

Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"

Dear Mr. Gable

1968 • 52 min

Burgess Meredith narrates this insightful MGM-produced documentary about the life and career of Hollywood legend Clark Gable, from his childhood in Ohio, to his star status in Hollywood, and to his romantic life off-screen, including his marriage to Carole Lombard. The film incorporates classic film footage of Gable with interviews of people from his past, including an old classmate from his school days, a former sweetheart, and his press agent. Another treat is the rare home movie footage of Gable and Lombard on a camping trip.

Paula – « Je reviens »

1968 • 31 min • Germany

One of Schroeter’s first experiments in choreography, as he stages actors in an empty room.

Feud with a Dude

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

Merlin the Magic Mouse and his sidekick Second Bananna stumble into the age-old feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys...