All Films

Mars

1968 • 49 min • Soviet Union

Like the previous film Luna produced by Klushantsev, the film Mars was created at the intersection of educational science films and science-fiction. It consists of seven pieces, which tell (based on scientific understanding of the 1960s) of the physical conditions on planet Mars, the possibility of life on Mars and what forms it might take, of Martian canals and "seas" of the Red Planet. In addition, the film includes the director's fantasy hypothetical forms of life on mars, and of the exploration and colonization of Mars in the near future.

Puss in Boots

1968 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A miller has three sons. When he dies, the eldest son inherits the mill, the middle one a donkey, and the youngest son gets only a cat. At first, the youngest son is very disappointed, but the cat turns out to be pretty resourceful.

Petter's and Lotta's Christmas

1968 • 52 min • Sweden

Petter and Lotta are excited to celebrate Christmas for the first time with a real Christmas tree and Christmas presents.

I Am Burning!

1968 • 27 min • Poland

Ja gorę! tells the story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settles in a ruined castle in Samsonów, determined to restore it, only to be haunted by the ghost of its former owner. A parody of gothic horror literature and cinema, the short is based on a tale by Henryk Rzewuski and was produced as part of the Polish television series Opowieści niezwykłe (1967–1968).

A Teacher of Singing

1968 • 3 min • Soviet Union

Hippo came to the teacher of singing, but all the efforts of the maestro do not help (neither hearing nor voice). It was necessary for the student to simply swallow the teacher, and he sang with a beautiful, alien voice.

How to Make a Dirty Movie

1968 • 60 min • United States of America

Blue Movie Madness is indeed a mad flick featuring lots of skin as a truly loverly blue-movie maiden shows a beginner the ropes. Everything here is geared toward laughs, but the essential purpose of skin flicks is never forgotten and the trade secrets exposed along the way are very revealing: "Don’t stab her in the eye with it!" yells the director, who can’t keep himself out of the action. Yes, "getting the part" takes on a new meaning in this one.

Petulia: The Uncommon Movie

1968 • 13 min • United States of America

A short featurette on the making of "Petulia"

The Pale Faced Girl

1968 • 27 min

Saturday night in Dublin, and to hell with Sunday morning. As the young bloods line up on the edge of the dance floor for the pulling ritual, Mick only has eyes for Cecilia

Mona Lisa

1968 • 32 min • Germany

"My camera was silent, and so I started to compose wild sound collages for my films from my records with the help of tape, for example with my favorite Callas arias. I even got her to sing with herself that way. I also contrasted Schlager scraps of the Caterina Valente, whom I adore, and Christmas carols with the pictures. I cannot interpret what began then. I am an artist, I work intuitively." - Werner Schroeter

The Cat Who Walked by Himself

1968 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The story about the wild creatures of the wild forest and one impudent Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

Associate Professor H.

1968 • 22 min • Poland

Professor H., obsessed with replacing humans through artificial beings, has created Traumer—an unsettlingly perfect assistant whose cold efficiency conceals an unnatural origin. Believing he has found the ideal subject for his next experiment, the professor plots to transplant Traumer’s brain with that of a distinguished scientist. But the plan unravels when Traumer proves far less obedient, and far more uncanny, than expected.

The Magic Pear Tree

1968 • 10 min • United States of America

The famous lover Jean Navarro arrives at the castle of a marquis. This is a vulgar bon vivant who has been married to the young Chantelle for a short time. At lunch the Marquis falls asleep and Chantelle goes into the garden with Jean, shows him the roses, the stables and the summer house and shortly afterwards confesses her love to him. Jean asks her to do three things as proof of her affection: the tail feathers of her husband's favorite bird, the marquis's whiskers and one of his teeth.

Diary of a Madman

1968 • 54 min • Soviet Union

In the main character's diary, he describes his life, his work, and the people around him. He goes on to write about his feelings for a woman, and soon after that he begins to show signs of insanity - he talks to her doggie Meji, he gets hold of letters that Meji wrote to another doggie. After a few days, he's already completely disconnected from reality...

The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp

1968 • 24 min • Germany

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub and photographed in a single take; the final sequence covers the marriage of James and Lilith, and Lilith’s subsequent execution of her pimp, played by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. "The film is a look entirely at Western decadence" - Jean-Marie Straub.

Lotus Wing

1968 • 17 min • United States of America

The world is recommitting sexual-political suicide by daily insertion of missile-cocks into self-orifices. Complete with ejaculatory delusions, military erections, and the animated virility of Krazy Kat. LOTUS WING spends USA over us all as our lives are spent wiping up the remains of our self-destruct. Probably my last film in this genre.

The Cabbage Butterfly

1968 • 27 min • Japan

Haneda employed various cinematic and scientific technic to explore the world of cabbage butterfly, and the result was a completely new type of educational film.

Big Game Haunt

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

Colonel Rimfire chases Cool Cat into a deserted house. Unfortunately, they are not alone. A ghost tries to befriend the two, but neither of them want to be friends with him because he is a spook.

A Classic, Two Home Matches, No Away Game

1968 • 29 min • Brazil

Love, sex and death get mixed in a love story between two desperate boys in a big city.

All On Her Own

1968 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Rosemary returns from a party to the empty Hampstead house where she has lived since the death of her husband. He died of an overdose of sleeping pills - was it accidental - she tries to find out.

Cherche Le Phantom

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

Inspector Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux are assigned by the Surete Commissioner to investigate reports of a phantom presence at the Paris Opera House and after a series of misadventures there, they learn that the mysterious "Phantom" is a playful ape who enjoys opera music.

Retorna, Vencedor

1968 • 11 min • Brazil

A young man returns to the country and find surprises,

M/S Finlandia

1968 • 17 min • Finland

Building and launching the cruise ship M/S Finlandia

Clarence

1968 • 10 min

A poetic montage of the 'sculpture garden house' of 67 year old hermit-builder Clarence Schmidt of Woodstock, New York, appraised as 'a really great work of folk art' by curators Lawrence Alloway and Henry Geldzahler. The film includes some of the only footage taken of Clarence living within the seven-story mountain interior of his creation, which was tragically gutted by fire in the winter of 1967-68. A homage to Clarence and his more than forty years of devotion to the transmutation of cast-off objects into an environment or beauty and love.

The Owl That Didn't Give a Hoot

1968 • 49 min • United States of America

A boy cares for an abandoned owl and prepares her for life in the wild.