All Films

The Big Catch

1968 • 55 min • United Kingdom

A story of youthful rivalry in a Highland fishing port.

One of the Missing

1968 • 26 min • United Kingdom

A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern cannon fire. His loaded gun is left pointing precariously at him and he is faced with imminent death.

The World of Piri Thomas

1968 • 60 min • United States of America

Piri Thomas, a painter, poet, author, ex-con, and ex-junkie, describes the life of a Puerto Rican in the Spanish Harlem ghetto in New York City.

1968

1968 • 22 min • Brazil

Unfinished documentary about the "March of the 100,000", driven by the student movement against brazilian dictatorship in 1968. Glauber directed with "Antonio das Mortes'" cinematographer, Affonso Beatto. A mysterious film.

Otello z M-2

1968 • 27 min • Poland

A man believes his wife is cheating on him.

Le Ball and Chain Gang

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

A bickering married couple continue their verbal sparring as they repeatedly repel Inspector Clouseau's attempts to enter their house to give them a ticket.

The King

1968 • 60 min

A woman relates her many experiences with lesbianism.

Awareness

1968 • 24 min

A film on The Dharma

RainForest

1968 • 27 min

Leacock and Pennebaker filmed choreographer Merce Cunningham’s dance “RainForest” as part of the 1968 Buffalo Arts Festival’s program “Whose Afraid of the Avant-Garde” presenting experimental art, music, dance, poetry and theater. The dance composition also featured music by David Tudor, costumes by Jasper Johns and sets by Andy Warhol.

Barbara Ward Will Never Die

1968 • 3 min • United States of America

Barbara Hammer (then married and known as Barbara Ward) stakes a claim to immortality.

See Ya Later Gladiator

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

A time machine sends Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales back to Rome in 65 A.D., where they are captured for lion fodder as entertainment for Emperor Nero...

Sightseeing

1968 • 10 min

A short pamphlet based on a text by Peter Weiss and on the contrapuntal use of the relation between image and sound. The commercial activities and fantasies linked to tourism in Sweden are contradicted by the geopolitics of capitalist imperialism, in particular with the war in Vietnam.

Cândido Portinari, um Pintor de Brodósqui

1968 • 11 min • Brazil

A brief tribute to Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari relating to his humble beginnings as a citizen born in the town of Brodósqui, located on the countryside of São Paulo. Some of his paintings and poems are presented along with some archive images.

Explorer

1968 • 7 min • India

An experimental film by Pramod Pati that presents to us a sensory collage of icons, symbols and the every-day. Exploring the mood and ambitions of youth at the time, the film eschews narrative and commentary to present the excitement and expectations of its participants.

Il pane dei pastori

1968 • 10 min • Italy

Filming took place in the fall of 1962 in various locations in Barbagia, Sardinia, but above all in Oliena, where the entire carasau bread processing cycle was filmed.

Beluga Days

1968 • 15 min • Canada

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named l'Île-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of saplings into off-shore mud. In the film, the islanders show that the old method still works, thanks to the trusting 'sea-pigs,' the same old tide, and a little magic.

Alcântara: Ghost Town

1968 • 10 min • Brazil

History and decadence of the city of Alcântara narrated through what remains of its buildings and ancient documents.

Film, Film, Film

1968 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The trials and tribulations of putting a feature film together.

Alexander The Great

1968 • 60 min • United States of America

An historical film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king that united all ancient Greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then-known world and created a Greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to India.

The Sixth Side of the Pentagon

1968 • 28 min • France

Chris Marker and François Reichenbach document the massive anti–Vietnam War protest held in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 1967, where more than 100,000 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial before marching on the Pentagon. Filmed amid the crowd, the short captures the tension, idealism, and growing radicalism of the American peace movement.

Talk of the Devil

1968 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Infelicitous Stephen Wallace falls in love with beautiful Wendy, who spurns his affections. He proceeds to make a pact with Satan to be able to marry the woman of his dreams, but he gets more than he bargained for.

An Ordinary Afternoon

1968 • 11 min

In a humble hotel room, a young railwayman is preparing for a meeting with a girl we never see because she never arrives.

One Pair Of Eyes - Who Are The Cockneys Now?

1968 • 42 min • United Kingdom

Georgia Brown revisits her childhood home in Whitechapel and notes the fading presence of the Jewish immigrant community. Brown discusses the area's increasingly diverse population and ponders the question, "Who are the cockneys now?"

A Última Ceia Segundo Ziraldo

1968 • 10 min • Brazil