Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

A girl falls in love with Abraham Lincoln.

ElectroRhythmes is a short videographic essay.

The Pink Panther decides to become a lumberjack, but has to deal with an overzealous lumberjack and a swarm of bees.

A sickly village girl wants to marry a house painter, who only prefers to fool around.

After marrying off one daughter, a widowed father struggles with loneliness and the changing lives of his children. While his younger daughter falls in love with a charming but controversial man, his older daughter remains emotionally tied to a former lover who has since married. As tensions over marriage, independence, and family expectations grow, the family is forced to confront the gap between traditional values and modern relationships in postwar Japan.

Report from the 1968 International Rally of Poland.

Designed to encourage international co-operation and understanding (sponsored by the Mobil oil company), this film is an allegory in mime, presenting the relations of 'Everyman' with his neighbours.

A documentary record of the 1968 ballet by Frederick Ashton, performed by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House.

Summer 1943. Tajikistan. The front line is very far away, but the war also affects here - trains of the evacuated and wounded arrive here, and trains of recruits go to the front. Home life is also difficult, the selfless work of women and children for the needs of the front, in need of everything, in basic things in a peaceful life, the scarcity and high cost of products in the markets

The third of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, including episodes 5 and 6.

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. "A neosurrealistic romp in the manner of the early Beatles films, in this instance starring the Nitty-Gritty Dirt Band doing their whimsical thing as they sing the title tune"--Creative Film Society 16 mm. film rental & sale catalogue, 1975.

A year after his death, a young artist returns to the world of the living.

The Market of the Unknowns is a burlesque and socially critical tale of a flea market in Oslo, which is organized for the benefit of slum dwellers in Lima. Based a on novel by Åge Rønning.

An animated girlie-whirlie of unknown proportions. Faces move through. A man walks out in the middle. The Chartbusters sing and play the sound. Fun with no apparent redeeming social value.

A stock car racer gets involved with gangsters trying to fix a race.

Dressed in military uniforms characters are engaged in the pursuit of a woman, during which they shamelessly expose their nudity.

Here is what happened in a Toronto classroom when teachers occupied the children's desks and children became the teachers. The film grew out of another, Mrs. Ryan's Drama Class, where young children found their way into creative drama. There is food for thought in this impromptu reversal of roles.

Early pink film distributed by Million Films.

The first short film shot by Schlingensief at the age of eight with some “friends of the basement” and featuring a drama divided into three acts. Recurring elements of his cinematography, such as narrative parody and cinema as a creative collective moment, already make their appearance in this very early piece.

A wife dissatisfied with her husband's vagrancy asks her father, who lives in Paraíba, for help. He then sends two henchmen to Rio to make his daughter a widow, but she reconciles with her husband and needs to prevent the tragedy. Based on the play by João Bethencourt.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

Origin and historical profile of present-day Vittorio Veneto (an Italian municipality in the province of Treviso, in the Veneto region), resulting from the merger of two different and rival municipalities: Ceneda and Serravalle.

A documentary on the events leading to the six day Arab-Israeli War of 1967, consisting of preexisting archival footage, incident re-creations, and interviews with military personnel.

Images of the training camps of Al-Assifa, the military wing of the Fatah movement in Jordan. The Israeli army organized raids against the city of As-Salt, located northwest of Amman, on August 4, 1968. Members of the Palestinian brigade, interviewed in English and German, talk about their guerrilla actions, which sometimes involved soldiers of the Jordanian army.

Jorge, a former marine who arrived from Angola, is employed as a butler in a house in S. Pedro do Estoril, where the brothers Teresa and Carlos live, who have many friends "ié-ié", among whom stands out Manela, for whom Jorge ends up falling in love... after all, Jorge is the real owner of the residence, and he decided to take a closer look at the lives of his cousins, who settled there, during his absence overseas.

An early videotape by Joanne Kyger

Created for a show at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York, later to become the American Craft Museum, and now the Museum of Arts and Design, CHEMICAL ARCHITECTURE documents the creation of an exhibit structure created by Yale architecture students for a show entitled “Plastic as Plastic” that surveyed furniture, industrial design, kitchenware, clothes, jewelry, and more.

“This film is against the corporate military industrial structure of global village.”

Color/Black and White UCLA Student, Film Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A humorous play on Hollywood romance conventions and the process of student film critique. Higgins introduces a meta soundtrack of voices critiquing the film overlaying on the footage, with a filmmaker responding to the questions. Bookending the film is the same footage of a couple running into each others' arms on the beach, contrasted with a story of a couple's attempts to get an abortion in the middle of the film. Directed by Colin Higgins, the writer of Harold and Maude, 9 to 5, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

This film, conceived for an "oral culture" shows cows on a pasture in Northern Germany in one single shot. With interruptions, the cows seem to attempt to concentrate on the camera... until at last two cars glide past in the background, the film's climax, gratefully received by an applauding audience... (Peter Steinhart)

Lesbian erotica ensues when Allison, a gorgeous woman disgruntled by her marriage, befriends a sexy suburban housewife named Janet, whose erotic stories ignite hidden passions. The two get it on and soon welcome the involvement of Winnie, a young guide with mature desires.

Homayoun Beyk's wife takes one of her twin children, Shabnam and Sholeh, away from her father in retaliation, and takes care of him herself. Shabnam grows up with her father and flame with her mother. As a young man, Shabnam was in charge of his father's finances, and once they went to Isfahan with Behrouz's lawyers, Shabnam was forced to return to Tehran for 24 hours due to his father's deteriorating condition, while he succeeded. Behrooz will not be notified. Here, Behrouz accidentally encounters the flame of Shabnam's twin sister, who is a singer, and thinks that he is Shabnam, unexpected events occur, and fate decides what happens to them ....

In a valley, two groups of little ants - the organized and efficient Red ones and the lazy and defenseless Yellow ones - go into a war.

An experimental student film centered around a young woman named Penelope. Or is Penelope dead?

Made for TV by Rohmer, in two parts.

Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois

A meditation on transience composed through juxtaposition of sun-bathed exteriors of Split and dark interiors, landscapes of the city and close-ups of human faces, movements and stillness, the material and the spiritual.

hong kong film

An aged widow from a village moves to Calcutta to stay with relatives, but faces only exploitation. She moves to a slum, and finds her "own people" in a group of educated, unemployed youth, who are caught up inexorably in the prevalent political violence.

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

Jean-Luc Godard visits NYU in order to discuss his latest feature "La chinoise" with graduate students on filmmaking and politics.

A television drama about a trial against a merchant who killed one of his employees.

Aslan Bey infiltrates the headquarters disguised as a Russian lieutenant.

Documentary film from the nationwide celebrations of the centenary of the foundation stone of the National Theater in Prague.

Originally the work was presented as a pre-ordered sequence of 35mm slides showing two unknown people walking around the wall of a sea-side swimming pool. Switching between positive and negative focus on the mystery of the hidden and unresolved narrative between the ‘lovers?’. On occasions, this work was shown in superimposition with sections of the film Talla. Two sound tapes were mixed in improvisation. A digital video version has been made using the original slide sequence and audio tapes.

Hermitage, defined by Bene as "a rehearsal for lenses", beyond any literal rendition - its narrative trace comes from one of his anti-novels, Credito Italiano V.E.R.D.I - displays his immediate attitude to thinking a cinematic language completely based on actor's movements and actions, and more specifically, on his presence and his schemes. Camouflaged or naked, still or moving, his body seems to play and be played at the same time, shifted by objective and subjective tensions, both metaphorically and visually speaking.