Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

In this cinema-verite documentary, a teenage youth group called Thumbs Down decides "to bring Christ to their neighborhood" by holding an anti-war Mass at their conservative Chicago parish. Neither militants nor hippies, they simply believe that Christianity means social action and concern with issues. They present this belief to the community and the confrontation reveals the deepening crisis of communication between the young Christians and their parents, priest, and neighbors.

A simple village boy, a wrestler with extraordinary strength, catches the eye of a famous coach from Tehran who happens to be at a village festival where local wrestlers are competing. The coach invites the boy to the capital to take up wrestling professionally, and soon the talented wrestler becomes a celebrity and the darling of all Iran, which arouses the envy of his teammates. A chance encounter with the mother of his future opponent for the national championship title turns his whole life upside down. A separate storyline follows the love affair between Habib, the main character, and Sitar, the daughter of a local wealthy man.

Christina and her mother have as neighbors a man who dreams of singing and the son of a wealthy family, who is not interested in money but wants to become a painter. Both young men love Christina. She chooses the aspiring painter, against her mother's advice. The couple will have a child, but the man will end up working in construction when he discovers that he suffers from color blindness and therefore cannot paint. With the help of the second man, he reconciles with his father and mother and rebuilds his life from scratch.

A short film that sets up an opposition between functional forms of industrial age and decorative ones from Indian tradition.

Film record of the traditional and popular pilgrimage or journey of penance made by believers to the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, with a perspective of respect and an interest that goes beyond the sociological.

Visualizes the mood of Buddhism as the oneness of man and nature. Includes commentary by Alan Watts.

A feature length film from acclaimed dance choreographer Merce Cunningham.

The film was produced as part of the "Our Contemporaries" series.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli. In a careful juxtaposition and fusion of these elements on different parts of our being, usually occurring simultaneously, we feel at times hypnotised and re-educated by some potent and mysterious force.

After Kanchan receives a beating from Sang Nila, he declares to take some martial arts lessons from an expert. When Kanchan feels that he is proficient enough to defend himself, he sets out to save the villagers from Sang Nila's tyranny.

Argentinian television horror movie from 1968.

A young Munich woman becomes a prositute to survive and has a fling with another woman who works as an on-stage sex performer.

A seminarian hesitates between serving God in Africa or opting for worldly life.

Jerry and his cellmate escape from prison. While fleeing, they see Honey taking a dip in the stream. The men force her to take them to her home, where they terrorize her, her father, her virgin sister, and her adopted Japanese sister.

In anticipation of cold weather, two bear cubs go fishing, which may be the last before the winter. The kids are watching the crumbling leaves, birds flying away and drifting clouds. They begin to think about how one can catch a cloud. Now they do not realize what an unusual catch in the form of a crescent and stars is in store for them. Or maybe they will have enough bait even for the sun?

Reproductions, for instance, completed in relative speed after the lengthy process of making Rohfilm, explores the aesthetic and perceptual effects of the reproduction of just a single type of image: strips of black and white slide positives from the Heins' vacations in North Africa, Italy, and greece in the early 1960s. To make the film, the Heins cut these numerous small images into little strips which they manipulated by hand on a Movieola viewing machine. While one of them maneuvered the strips (inserted them into the machine and moved them in different directions), the other filmed the projected image as it appeared on the machine's small screen. They described the effect of this process as follows: "While filming the many different little strips (hundreds of them) a rhythm is gradually established: quick and slow changes, pauses, a stronger movement of the pieces and a slow insertion, their sudden appearance.

Experimental short about a male and a female figure.

Documentary portrait of a 13-year-old aspiring filmmaker.

Videographic dream.

Short film by Frans Zwartjes

The vagrant Fliederbusch and his wife Berta are imprisoned in a small town's courthouse. They attempt to escape and find themselves in the courtroom. Fiederbusch dons the official robes of an assessor, receives a report from Prince Adolar, who appears with a suburban woman, about a stolen piece of jewelry, and locks the nobleman up...

"KELEK belongs to the 'structural' or 'minimal' cinema movement in that its content is subordinated to the viewer's perception and has no intrinsic significance. Unlike most examples of this genre, though, KELEK is never boring and is brought to a new awareness of the process of perception. The five basic shots of the film have to be filled by the viewer's own consciousness and there is absolutely no opportunity given for any spurious identification." Werner Nekes

Short film shot in 16mm

The Pink Panther decides to construct and fly a kite

The film-play based on the play of the same name by V. Dykhochivny and M. Slobodsky ridicules formalism and bureaucracy.

Episode of Series “Earth science series”. Provides a series of investigations which will lead to an understanding of the behaviour of rock. Shows how a rapid rate of deformation in rock produces fracturing while a slow rate produces flow. Suitable for middle and upper secondary levels.

The kid by the name of Tomshik recently often dreamed that he could fly. And now his dream came true! The boy was delighted with his new abilities. But the scientific fraternity became interested in such a miracle, and it became very clear that he did not fly the way he should have. And though they did not know how to do it, they began to struggle to teach Tomshik. What will their morals and experiments lead to?

Short film by Robert Allen Schnitzer as a college student, exploring the workings of the unconscious mind, set against a commentary of the popular culture of late 1960s New York.

The feature film explains various film techniques such as time-lapse, double exposure, blue screen, and rear projection. Short sequences demonstrate their practical application, supplemented by behind-the-scenes insights. The technical setup, camera positions, and analog processes are explained in detail.

hong kong film

Subject made on 8 mm film in 1968

Images of the Church of the Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudí confronted with brief flashes of housing projects and industrial areas. The furious display of a effervescent imagination is opposed to a grey functionality.

Marked by a playful, irreverent sense of improvisation and experimentation, these experiments with image manipulation and synthesis form a link between Paik's performance and sculptural works of the 1950s and early 1960s and the celebrated video works and installations of his later years.

One of the highest achievements of the new wave of Kirghiz cinema, which emerged in the mid-1960s. This story of a boy building sandcastles on the shores of the Issyk-Kul Lake becomes a documentary parable on the tensions between an artist and society.

Sardonic riff on the US National Theme and the state of the nation.

WW2 newsreel documentary film

First transmitted in 1968, Black, Coloured and Asian South Africans are interviewed in this eye-opening documentary about their views on apartheid. Included with the many dissenting views on apartheid are opinions on why different racial groups should live separately. Film footage that often shows the shocking racial exploitation allowed by apartheid accompanies the interviews. This documentary shows a protest by Church leaders against the Group Areas Act and features an interview with Desmond Tutu.

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

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.”

Three children play games on a deserted beach.