All Films

Early Color TV Manipulations

1968 • 5 min

Marked by a playful, irreverent sense of improvisation and experimentation, these experiments with image manipulation and synthesis form a link between Paik's performance and sculptural works of the 1950s and early 1960s and the celebrated video works and installations of his later years.

Zuckerkandl!

1968 • 15 min • United States of America

Animated cartoon, in which philosopher and scholar Alexander Zuckerkandl proposes the view that detached, uninvolved existence is the best.

3 Ring Wing-Ding

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

English Colonel Rimfire reads that a circus offers $1000 for a live tiger. Rimfire decides to deliver Cool Cat...

Diatoms

1968 • 17 min • France

The one-celled long and slender diatom, up close: discovered in 1703 with the invention of the microscope. We observe them magnified 10,000 times: water expelled through the skeleton, mucilage constantly emitted, allowing it to glide. Their energy comes from sunlight. They divide and disperse. The narrator, conversing with a young woman, says their remains cover one-third of the earth's surface. They have uses in petroleum, explosives, and polish. Some live in isolation, some in colonies, like elaborate fans. They can move in clusters. Many small animals eat them. We watch them slide on each other in long strings.

Home Movies: NYC to San Diego

1968 • 19 min

“The film flickers through a millennium of culture as it would appear to a tourist. It is an intense film, yet there is an incredible wealth of information surprisingly accessible. Aside from the exciting experience itself, the breakneck history lesson is a reminder that the mind can move in lightning steps: The plodding way information is typically presented is an insult to mental capability.” - Bartlett Naylor

Poczmistrz

1968 • 27 min • Poland

Post clerk's young daughter runs away from home with a tsarist officer.

Rockflow

1968 • 9 min

"Parts of this film were shot for a mixed media show at the 'Electric Circus' in New York, and were later expanded and re-edited into the present form. A semi-documentary that gradually expands to a pure sight and sound experience. Music by Chambers Brothers." –B. C.

Stéphane Mallarmé

1968 • 28 min • France

Stéphane Mallarmé is one of the many educational documentaries that Éric Rohmer did for the television during the 1960’s. At the beginning of the film, Rohmer states that he has placed in Mallarmé’s mouth words taken from an interview with the writer by Jules Heuret published in 1891.

Jazz Calendar

1968 • 36 min • United Kingdom

A documentary record of the 1968 ballet by Frederick Ashton, performed by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House.

Ida y vuelta

1968 • 42 min • Spain

Elena, a shy and unmarried girl, belonging to the upper middle class and somewhat marginalized from the general environment, embarks on a trip to the family farmhouse one morning, and when she returns to the city that same day, at night, she is forced to take a strange woman in her car.

Aggression

1968 • 22 min • Germany

Aggression, Schroeter’s first 16mm film, is the fictive portrait of a woman who is oppressed by her (unseen) boyfriend.

The Transformer

1968 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A promotional film for the Cambridge Animation Festival.

Schizy

1968 • 4 min

Barbara Hammer's first film.

Nature's Charter Tours

1968 • 47 min

Hosted by J. Audubon Woodlore, features clips from White Wilderness and Seal Island.

The Charlton Boys

1968 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Terrific portrait of Bobby and Jackie Charlton, pillars of football history, at the height of their playing careers.

Until the Thunder Breaks

1968 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Fedor Ivanovich purchased a Moskvich. Together with his wife, he was planning to go to a picturesque lake in the Moscow region. On the way, we picked up my mother-in-law in a new Moscow district and left the car at the entrance. Suddenly, shouts were heard from the street: “There’s an accident!” Fyodor Ivanovich, feeling cold, leaned out of the window and was stunned - his car was crushed by a dump truck...

Darling, Do You Love Me?

1968 • 3 min • United Kingdom

In a hugely entertaining parody of her media persona, a pre-'Female Eunuch' Germaine Greer stars as a terrifyingly amorous woman who alternately cajoles, pursues and assaults a mild little man with cries of "Darling, do you love me?" until he succumbs to her strangling hands.

The New Cinema

1968 • 26 min • United States of America

Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while the ailing American studio system groaned under its own weight and inertia. New Hollywood had arrived with Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, and already by 1968 it was changing how Hollywood thought and acted. The student film scene was getting ready to explode, and it knew it.

Jangleflex

1968 • 9 min

An abstract, rhythmically cut film with various images of women, some of whom are dancers. The sound track, which is semi-electronic, is composed and played by Cowan. –B. C.

Everybody's an Actor, Shakespeare Said

1968 • 30 min • United Kingdom

An east London youth drama group improvises scenes based upon their everyday life under the tutelage of Joan Littlewood.

Il bestiario

1968 • 23 min • Italy

Multiscreen 8mm avantgarde film.

Twiddle-Twaddle

1968 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

This film is based on the so-called comedy of the absurd. The unusual animalism of the figures and their distinctive animation and sound treatment promise that the film will be acceptable to children. Probably even adults will not be indifferent to this variety of fabrications.

The Immortal Story

1968 • 58 min • France

An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.

Carol Channing and 101 Men

1968 • 60 min • United States of America

Carol Channing hosts musical variety special with guests Walter Matthau, George Burns, U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Chorale, The Association, Eddy Arnold.