All Films

The Photograph

1968 • 32 min • Poland

After looking at a photograph from the end of World War II of two young boys holding guns, celebrating the liberation of Warsaw, a documentarian for Polish television tries to find the boys and discover how their lives have went.

Fips the Monkey

1968 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Estonian/Soviet animation short. Monkey boy Fips is trapped and brought to town. Among humans, Fips experiences both good and bad. But he never forgets his real home - the jungle - and one day he escapes back there.

México, México: Mexique en mouvement

1968 • 48 min • France, Mexico

"Mexico begins where the roads end ”. Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes tells us about the history of Mexico: its invasions, its revolutions, its sacred lands, its forgotten legends, its religious rituals and this frightening misery. François Reichenbach and his camera sink into the dust, on this sacred land, where "the land never ends."

Necklace of Melancholy

1968 • 23 min • Czechoslovakia

A musical portrait of the legendary Marta Kubišová, filmed just before the August 1968 invasion restricted her artistic activities.

What a Prank!

1968 • 27 min • Egypt

A guy wants to do nothing but hang out with girls, and that puts him in a lot of trouble.

Marguerite Duras and the '68ers

1968 • 10 min • France

Here Duras assumes a more distant role, less an interviewer than an invested documentarian. Her questions precede footage of her main subject, the sixteen-year-old Romain Goupil, recently excluded from the lycée, among his peers and fellow student revolutonaries. After we see them discuss the complexities of their position and deal with internal dissent, Duras asks Romain if he ever forgets how young he is. Romain replies with a grin: “Totally.”

Computers Serve

1968 • 14 min

The futuristic aesthetics of Computers Serve offers an illustrative account of the history of computers, their prospects and the risks within, as seen in 1968. The voice-over accentuates the highly topical promulgation set against the dangers of monotonous office work and computer totalitarianism.

Die Erben von Papas Kino

1968 • 27 min • Austria

Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema.

The Beatles Mod Odyssey

1968 • 7 min

Short documentary on the making of 'Yellow Submarine'

Last Summer Won't Happen

1968 • 60 min • United States of America

A critical yet sympathetic examination of the anti-war movement in New York City, shot in 1968, one year after the Summer of Love. The film traces the development group of activists on the Lower East Side. We see their growth from isolated, alienated individuals to a politically empowered community. Filmed between the protests at the Pentagon and the demonstrations at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, it includes portraits of Abbie Hoffman, editor Paul Krassner, folksinger Phil Ochs and anarchist Tom "Osha" Neumann.

Rhode Island Red

1968 • 10 min • United States of America

Ten minutes in an enormous chicken coop. Camerawork by Roy Levin.

Contribution to Light

1968 • 4 min

transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

White Cassandra

1968 • 4 min • United States of America

Transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 4:08 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

Apuntes sobre la tortura y otras formas de diálogo

1968 • 15 min • Spain

In a country subjected to a cruel dictatorship, a political activist is savagely tortured, unleashing the indignation of certain leftist intellectuals.

Diaghilev: The Years Abroad

1968 • 54 min

This is one of the Omnibus programmes about the Russian impresario Diaghilev. Presented by Peter Ustinov, this episode focuses on Diaghilev’s early life and the first seasons of his legendary ballet company Ballets Russes from 1909 until the outbreak of war in 1914. Friends and colleagues, including Cecil Beaton and prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina, reveal what Diaghilev meant to them and the impact he had on both ballet and the artists he commissioned.

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

1968 • 25 min • United States of America

Winnie the Pooh and his friends experience high winds, heavy rains, and a flood in Hundred Acre Wood.

Boomsville

1968 • 10 min • Canada

An amusing diagnosis of big-city growing pains, Boomsville is an ironic view of town planning, or rather, the lack of it, and what has happened to our cities as a result. Done in cartoon animation, the film traces the growth of the typical city, from a tiny settlement in the vast North American wilderness to the car-clogged metropolis that so many cities are today. Film without words.

In Memoriam László Mészáros

1968 • 13 min • Hungary

Hungarian documentary that commemorates the life and work of director and artist László Mészáros through archival footage and personal testimonies. A heartfelt portrait of a significant voice in Eastern European auteur cinema.

Saul Alinsky Went to War

1968 • 57 min

In this feature documentary, American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky goes to war against the conditions that keep the poor in poverty. The film shows how he helped Black ghettos in the United States find an effective, non-violent method of fighting for their rights.

Drums

1968 • 26 min • Egypt

An actor is late for his film shoot. Since he woke up oneiric visions have been plaguing his day. African drums set the rhythm to his frenzied race against the clock.

Camden, Texas

1968 • 22 min • United States of America

This student film takes a look at the small town of Camden during the 1960s. Much of the town is focused on the locomotive and logging industry created by the W. T. Carter and Brother Lumber Company in 1898. The film revolves around interviews with Camden residents. Former logging employees, a hotel owner, a family, and a pastor all briefly describe their lives and rolls in the old town. By the end of the film, the narrator recounts possible modernization and decreasing poverty in the future with the sale of W. T. Carter and Brother Lumber Company to the United States Plywood Corporation.

White Lite

1968 • 3 min • United Kingdom

White Lite is something of a mystical film, evoking the feeling of going 'through the looking glass' to another world, despite the fact it was largely shot in the flat of its director, Jeff Keen. The film greets us with the invitation "meet anti-matter and the bride of the monster", pointing to Keen's love of B-movies (and a reference to Ed Wood's The Bride of the Atom, aka The Bride of the Monster [1955] as it was later known).

Fine Feathers

1968 • 5 min • Canada

Two duelling birds get the urge to change their plumage. A blue jay wants to be decked out in the green of cedar, and a loon dons the burnished red of oak leaves, but neither bird foresees the consequences of vanity.

Graham Greene: The Hunted Man

1968 • 56 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about British author Graham Greene, first presented on the BBC-TV program Omnibus.