All Films

Chewing Gum

1968 • 28 min • Mexico

Two little poor kids, who work selling chewing gum in the streets, must face the true nature of the horror surrounding them.

Revenge

1968 • 14 min • Czechoslovakia

Film based on the story by the French writer Gérard de Nerval. A terrifying story that takes us to Paris in the time of the Three Musketeers. The magician Conin enchants evil that afterwards destroys him and a shy love-lorn young man named Eustach.

Lbj

1968 • 18 min • Cuba

This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed by Lyndon Johnson as the dark figure who is plotting the anti-black rights movement.

Whistle and I'll Come to You

1968 • 42 min • United Kingdom

A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.

I Remember, I Remember

1968 • 53 min

Highlights of the life of John Grierson, documentary film-maker

Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One

1968 • 24 min • United States of America

A visualization of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child - a shattering of the "myths of childhood" through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental remembering of it ... a "tone poem" for the eye - very inspired by the music of Oliver Messiaen.

To Fetch a Bike

1968 • 17 min

Roy Andersson's short movies focus on working class and youth daily life, capturing and portraying a small slice of his characters' day.

Killing vs. Frankenstein

1968 • 47 min • Turkey

Masked criminal Killing battles the Frankenstein Monster.

Macabre!

1968 • 9 min • United Kingdom

An attractive woman drugs, kidnaps and tortures a man. The man manages to break free and attacks her.

Li-ittle!

1968 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A young girl lives with an elderly couple in a settlement in a distant Siberian village. They liked her. When she dies unexpectedly, they go many miles to holy places to pray for the salvation of her soul.

Wake at Generation

1968 • 52 min • United States of America

An unreleased concert film, shot at the Generation Club on 8th St. in NYC on April 7, 1968. Big Brother & The Holding Co. "Summertime" Joni Mitchell "Sisotowbell Lane" Buddy Guy "Stormy Monday" Jimi Hendrix with Hugh McCracken B.B. King with Paul Butterfield and Elvin Bishop Richie Havens "All Along The Watchtower/Sing This All Together"

When My Knife Strikes You

1968 • 18 min • Yugoslavia

Shot in various villages throughout Yugoslavia, this is a disturbing document of a time when people were stabbing each other with knives without any real reason. Murderers, people who witness these murders and the families of victims all talk about the senseless violence and the human condition.

La Feet's Defeat

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

The Surete Commissioner assigns Inspector Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux to the hazardous task of pursuing a criminal named Muddy La Feet, who leaves behind a trail of muddy footprints that lead Clouseau and Deux-Deux through a mine field and to a castle surrounded by an alligator-filled moat and sealed by an electrified door. NOTE: Sgt. Deux-Deux's last appearance, this time voiced by Don Messick.

Slow Down

1968 • 18 min • Israel

The essence of a quarrel and reconciliation between an elderly couple in Tel Aviv in 1967.

Seven Days to Remember

1968 • 53 min • United Kingdom

The Soviet advance met with fierce, idealistic resistance. We join the hundreds of students as they man barricades constructed from overturned lorries to try to halt the advance. Sparsely armed, they fight fiercely, driven by a belief in their new and better socialism. But the deadening, inevitable weight of Soviet might soon stamps its boot across this hopeful Czech vision. Over 100 people died in the reprisals which followed, and tens of thousands fled their homes for the West. This is the definitive story of the heady days before Soviet "normalisation" took hold. The film was assembled using footage smuggled out of Prague. What began as an account of the liberation of a people, became a documentary of oppression; as the tanks moved in, the cameras simply continued rolling.

The Unemployed

1968 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

SFRJ is officially a place where everyone have a job and a house. The story follows hard labored workers who can't find a job, who bathe in public bathrooms and sleep in homeless centers.

Horror Telephone

1968 • 25 min

One night, the phone rings at the home of the Takiguchi family. The daughter Reiko hands the receiver to her father, who then instantly goes up in flames and is burned to death! Subsequently, another incident of apparently spontaneous human combustion occurs right before Reiko’s eyes. Made for "Operation: Mystery".

The Beast from the Egg

1968 • 7 min

Early (very early) monster movie from the Chiodo Bros. Features stop-motion animation monster.

My Family Is a Menagerie

1968 • 49 min • United States of America

A young widow who has a way with animals moves to Northern California and is asked to care for the local strays. A wreck of a circus truck sets a menagerie of circus animals free, and she has to use all her wits to catch them. Only a leopard eludes her, and he is befriended by a local renegade dog. Eventually she is able to trap them and she trains them to be in her animal act.

All My Loving

1968 • 52 min

Originally a BBC documentary, this film by Tony Palmer about the 1960's music scene was later released as a standalone DVD by the BFI

Fat in the Saddle

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody takes a job as a Pony Express rider. It seems that no one can get the mail to go through.

Small World

1968 • 7 min

A rare “talkie” displaying Bill’s gift for dialogue, Small World is a comedy of manners about two married couples who meet by chance at an outdoor café and think they have met before.

The Power of Destiny

1968 • 8 min

An ironic anecdote about a fortune-teller perplexed by her customer who laughs at her reading of his palm. According to her, the man is to become a helpless servant. The surprise ending reveals the reason why the customer laughed.

Skindeep

1968 • 37 min • Australia

A mood piece involving two lesbian lovers and a disturbed young man contemplating suicide.