Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

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

An experimental, bizarre and a very different shooting of an association between the sexes.

A man has no clue he's married to a ghost. This is yet another spin on the famous Mae Nak ghost legend. Only a 24 minute silent excerpt of this film currently exists.

Student demonstrations in Strahov are shown in this illegally made film by a film professional with access to 35mm cameras and collaborating laboratories.

Capitalism and Christmas

An American abstract fantasy film directed by Frank Kuenstler.

Adolf Winkelmann films his future mother-in-law, who is requested to talk about him, the film-maker, who is standing opposite her with the camera. Frau Schmidt talks about her initial prejudices against the long-haired, bespectacled artist and about the way she overcame them as she got to know him. Adolf Winkelmann said of his film: ‘Depiction of constancy of opinion and change of opinion after confrontation with the object of the opinion.’

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.

hong kong film

Experimental short by Renato Ferraro.

In order to avenge his brother's death, Akbar goes to the desert in search of Morad and finds him...

The stationmaster

Documents a woman's actual pregnancy; the emotions, the affects on her husband and first-born child, the birth itself via Caesarean section, and her struggle to return to work and a social life, while still being a good mother.

About former famous athletes: Z. Mironova, a professor of surgery, N. Ozerov, a sports commentator, and G. Shatkov, a vice-rector of Leningrad University.

"Hijo Aajha Bholi" narrates the tale of events occurring yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Originally shot in color, this politically-charged special was a collaboration between young artists angry at the system. Just days before airing, the Master tapes were 'accidentally' erased. It was taken to court and, after several years, the local TV station was found guilty of willfully destroying the tapes. Featuring inventive VFX and co-opting songs by the Doors, Dylan and the Steve Miller Band. "Seven young men, each of them involved in one of the arts [...] talk for the greater part of the film. They are involved in a discussion of mystical processes important to them" - Film-makers Co-Op

Cinematic surveillance of people standing in line at Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square.

Observational documentary about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company rehearsing throughout the summer of 1967 in New York.

An actor and director screen a film and comment on it.

A look at some of the laws you never even thought existed and their pitfalls.

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

Three children play games on a deserted beach.

White Lite is something of a mystical film, evoking the feeling of going 'through the looking glass' to another world, despite the fact it was largely shot in the flat of its director, Jeff Keen. The film greets us with the invitation "meet anti-matter and the bride of the monster", pointing to Keen's love of B-movies (and a reference to Ed Wood's The Bride of the Atom, aka The Bride of the Monster [1955] as it was later known).

New Love is a non-linear film that consist in succession of sequences showing the world of young people of the late sixties.Deeply focused on the hippie culture in Chile.

Documentary on the Acadian identity, featuring the music of Edith Butler, filmed in Canada, France, and Louisiana. This film travels throughout the Acadian diaspora, bearing witness to various perspectives on the social, economic, cultural, religious, and political realities of the Acadian people.

“I usually avoid the term ‘film poem,’ because it was overused in the ‘40s and ‘50s. But somehow it fits Phases of The Moon; it is a film poem and nothing else. A small, miniature film poem, a jewel, if the word masterpiece is too stuffy.” (Jonas Mekas, 1973)

The People’s Right to Know: Police vs. Reporters interviews photojournalist Paul Sequeira on his experience covering the 1968 Convention and the police attempts to physically restrict reporters’ access.

An experimental film about a day at the barber shop.

A safety short which teaches children the proper way to call the police or fire department in a pre-911 world.

Truck driver Papa (Sebastian Papaiani) carrying food for a large construction site canteen, falls in love with two girls.

Adventure about industrial espionage.

A portrait of alienation is sketched out, focusing on a young art student who passively, but consciously, rejects responsibility for the political storms swirling about her. The epitome of bourgeois mentality, she insists she is, or at least will be, an artist. She says, all she is responsible for is “art”—though she admits she cannot tell you what it is. Beginning with TV images from Viet Nam being turned off, the film ends with the 13th fragment, TV images of Viet Nam being turned on again. We are bracketed by history, like it or not. (Jon Jost)

An animation with a philosophical undertone. The absurdity of human effort, whose final result does not match the actions taken.

1968 Indian film starring Sriranjani, Krishna Ghattamaneni and Kanchana

A slow zoom out and defocus of 'An enclosed and progressive disembowelment of durational progression.'

Two Native Americans; one is hunting, another fishing. Together, they shake a tree and a bounty of fruit falls. They gorge on the bounty, growing huge. They are tempted by a lovely woman; she drops the key to a door, which, when opened, reveals a live-action black-and-yellow montage of modern life (airplanes, traffic jams, etc.). A dispute between the two leads to another montage, this time scenes of war.

In this Florida lensed sexploitation oddity, a group of Vice cops trade stories of their sleazy, sex-filled busts.

Woody Woodpecker annoys a fisherman in this short.

The Staircase of Sex

"A personal melancholia concerning the death of my mother with my own personal memoir images of school, home, lost first love and fears of my own obliteration. Made on a grant from the Canada Council." –B. C.

Widowed yeoman Tuma and his household are on their way to help the town of Kourim, which is under attack by the papist troops. His son Ondra is secretly following his father. Miksík the castellan, who is responsible for Ondra, finds himself forced to set off after the boy. They are both captured by soldiers from Kutná Hora. Miksík sacrifices himself to give Ondra a chance to flee. On the way, Ondra runs into the orphan Sulík. The two boys become friends and begin to wander together.

An exposé of the sexual revolution.

A psychiatrist and his family travel to coastal Sittwe for a long-overdue break, but unexpected encounters and mistaken identities slowly unravel the calm of their vacation. A story of connection, trust, and quiet tensions beneath serene surroundings.

"NOTES is a series I started in 1968. NOTE TO ERIK was the second one completed but the footage goes back to 1966 when I saw the footage I loved it but didn't feel ready to deal with it. Seeing Sharon Moss again who had moved to NYC from Storrs, CT inspired me to return to this footage to make a note to a mutual friend ERIK KIVIAT. It took about 2 years for me to feel I could respond to the generosity of her performance and the images I had gathered and shaped in my camera. Sharon Moss and her cats play and dance naked in the snow." - Saul