All Films

Something

1968 • 3 min

A pop-art video of The Beatles’ “Something” made especially for Spain’s TV shot Último Grito in 1968. Iván Zulueta’s first attempts to get his colourful ideas on film and a clear nod to what would become his first feature film, “Un, dos, tres… al escondite inglés.”

Home Movie : Marrakech

1968 • 17 min

The film begins with shots in Venice, passers-by seized from a hotel room, with Tina Aumont. It continues in Morocco during the filming of Bed of the Virgin, in a hotel room, people chat, play the guitar, smoke.

Unconditionally

1968 • 45 min

The 24-hour period of a girl moving through the news is the subject of the film. Heroine of a mannequin, who when the "flash" is extinguished, spends a lifetime empty, unconditionally surrendering to loneliness...

Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City

1968 • 24 min • Brazil

In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characterize so many metropolises. Unsurprisingly, Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, 1968) revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city. (Senses of Cinema)

Gorilla's Dance

1968 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

Musical cartoon satirising the relationship between Man and ape and suggests that man himself may have far to go before he is out of the trees.

The Heritage of Slavery - Of Black America

1968 • 54 min

News documentary from 1968 hosted by George Foster, exploring the legacy of oppression that remains over 100 years after the abolition of that peculiar institution. In Part 1, Foster visits Charleston, SC, and speaks with both descendants of slaves and slave owners. The cameras capture a sermon by Rev. Henry Butler of the Mother Emmanuel AME Church (where Denmark Vesey planned an unsuccessful slave revolt in 1822 and Dylan Roof would later kill 9 church members in 2015). In Part 2, the cameras go to Mississippi to speak with former sharecroppers and political activist FANNIE LOU HAMER. In the final segment, we travel to Chicago, where Prof. JAMES TURNER and activist CALVIN LOCKRIDGE educate young people about revolution. Ebony Magazine editor and historian LERONE BENNETT offers a poignant analogy to describe the times we are in today.

Dolly Story

1968 • 25 min

Swinging London - a phenomenon which emphasized the young, the new and the modern. Fashion, music, art, media, life style and attitude. An era of optimism, and hedonism. A cultural revolution.

Still Life

1968 • 12 min

An elderly woman is admitted to an asylum and all her possessions are removed by the council. The idea came from Peter Jewell, who was working as a social worker at the time, but is reminiscent of Bill's own family history.

Examination

1968 • 28 min • Poland

A student who missed his final exam because of illness arrives at his professor's house to beg to be allowed to take it.

Be Sure to Behave

1968 • 24 min • Czechoslovakia

A woman prisoner is harshly incarcerated and suddenly released.

The Bench

1968 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A few comical and tragic stories, seen and sketched by the Danish artist Herlouf Bidstroup, animated and transferred to the screen by the artists of the studio "Soyuzmultfilm". In emotionally bright, exciting and memorable screen sketches, for all its seeming fleetingness and sketchiness, the whole world is seen before us, seen by a thoughtful artist, a generalizing image of society with all its worries, deformities and sorrows.

Lotsa Luck

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody Woodpecker and his friend Sugarfoot the horse are having all kinks of bad luck until Woody finds a four leaf clover...

Retour d'Henri Langlois à Paris

1968 • 28 min • France

Wednesday July 31, 1968, almost six months after the start of the "Langlois affair" which saw the government attempt to oust the founder of the Cinémathèque française, triggering massive support from the biggest names in world cinema, Henri Langlois finally resumed possession of the hall of the Palais de Chaillot and celebrates his return with a tribute to Charlie Chaplin.

Their Newspapers

1968 • 18 min • Germany

Ihre Zeitungen is a political film rooted in the 1968 student campaign against the Springer press group, which controlled popular dailies such as the Berliner Zeitung and the Bild Zeitung. Claiming the latter were manipulating public opinion, the students laid siege to the publisher's offices. These events made a strong impression on the German collective conscience, and it's in this context that Farocki made this "agit-prop" film.

The News-Benders

1968 • 28 min

An idealistic young television producer is approached by the representative of a clandestine agency offering an unusual job: creating the news - before it happens. And a refusal, it seems, is not an option.

Big Game Fishing

1968 • 6 min

A Terrytoons cartoon of 1968 with Sad Cat

Der gestiefelte Kater

1968 • 26 min • East Germany, Germany

When the old miller dies, he leaves the mill to the eldest son, the donkey to the second eldest and a tomcat to the youngest. The tomcat wants to repay his master's friendship and help him. He has his boots made, gains access to the royal castle and catches the partridges the king wants. He impersonates the miller's boy Hans as "Count of the Mill", tricks him into wearing elegant clothes and brings him together with the king and the princess. He succeeds in overcoming the evil sorcerer and winning a magnificent castle for Hans. Hans finally becomes king and his cat first minister.

The Canterville Ghost

1968 • 27 min • Poland

An American businessman moves to Europe and lives in a castle, where the ghost of one of the previous owners haunts him.

Clay I Love You II

1968 • 5 min

1968/69, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 5:19 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

Eat Your Makeup

1968 • 41 min • United States of America

John Waters' first sixteen-millimetre film, about a deranged nanny who kidnaps young girls and forces them to 'model themselves to death' in front of her boyfriend and their crazed friends. It was never shown commercially.

Hocus Pocus Powwow

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

Merlin and Second Banana are thrown off a train. Merlin produces a feast from his hat; Lo, the Poor Indian sees this and covets the hat. He grabs it, but his attempts to use it backfire, and Merlin tricks him repeatedly during the ensuing chase. Lo finally gets the hat again; Merlin says he can have it, but first they need to smoke the peace pipe: a giant bomb. Merlin gets to his performance, and it turns out to be an audience full of Indians, who attack.

Chimp & Zee

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

A hunter goes into the jungle to capture a rare blue-tailed simian. That's when he sees Chimp, who happens to be the blue-tailed creature he's hunting for...

Himmel hoch

1968 • 10 min • Germany

A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.

Petula

1968 • 60 min • United States of America

In 1968 Harry Belafonte and Petula Clark sang together her song On the Path Of Glory for this special on NBC. Not such a remarkable event in itself, but Petula touched Harry's forearm during the duet and made TV history. It was the first time a white woman had touched a black man on US television. The sponsor insisted the touch be cut from the programme, the programme makers refused. In the decade’s “year of revolt”, Clark found herself at the centre of a media controversy involving race, censorship and endemic bigotry in a newly desegregated yet depressingly divided US.