Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

Mrs. Mason is a housewife looking to earn a little extra money. She lands a job with a modeling agency which leads to her being blackmailed into prostituition by the corrupt boss.

Report from the 1968 International Rally of Poland.

Tells the story of Nenny's friendship with Mamat, a school bus driver. Mamat, who feels that Nenny resembles his son who was lost during the revolution, quickly becomes close to her. Nenny also defends Mamat when he gets into trouble and is about to be fired.

.... a part of a memory. –s. E.

Two young girls in New York City studying to be ballet dancers are chosen by a crazed sex fiend to be his next victims. He rapes one of them at gunpoint and then proceeds to stalk and terrorize both of them.

A cinematographic poem in the form of variations around the theme of Robinson, a utopian fable freely inspired by Daniel Defoe's novel, which speaks above all of solitude: the immense weakness of today's man in the face of loneliness is no longer that of the hero of the eighteenth century.

Carla is a different form of homage, in which Carla Aulaulu sings a song by Gitta Linds.

Five young Czechoslovak directors make a documentary about the events of '68, the brutal end of the "Prague Spring" when Soviet tanks arrived.

Composed of eight short films, this film is the first "action" of the Roman collective of Cinegiornali Liberi : a counter-information and cinema project "di tanti per tanti" promoted by Cesare Zavattini in 1968. Extract from Bulletin n ° 1 of Cinegiornali Liberi : "Proposals, protests, denunciations, interrogations, accusations, defenses, Vietnam, God, heart transplants, art, drugs, cowardice, classes, the moon, peace, peace war. Such may be the elements of the Cinegiornali Liberi . Cries or speeches? Messages of one, five, or ten minutes? In color or in black and white? [...] Well, you have to experience everything."

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

Short film.

Go Ride the Music was recorded in 1969 and focused on two of the Bay Area's biggest bands at the time, Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service. The seven Airplane clips were shot at Pacific High Recording in San Franciso and feature their new drummer, Joey Cowington. Quicksilver Messenger Service was one of the original psychedelic bands and one of the most popular bands in the San Francisco scene in the late-60s. Hosted by Ralph J. Gleason, West Pole is an essay on the San Francisco music scene, originally airing in 1969. Featuring rare performances from both national and local favorites, this program is an in-the-moment glimpse of the scene, with only the hope of the future as a guide. Artists featured in this program include The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Steve Miller Band, Ace of Cups, and Sons of Champlin.

Old man Danshii, a camel driver, will live in a family of four, and his daughter Dulamsuren will do the main work of this family. Dulamsuren, with the innocence of his youth, trusts Mendey to the doctor, and leaves him as a child, a principled, arrogant, selfish and jealous Mendey. At this time, a young intellectual from the city, Bathishigh, not only theoretically knows the methods of animal husbandry, but he does not know it in real life, and even more so, he does not know about camels.

Two men fighting over a suitcase to discover its content. At the end the smaller guy lets the bigger one have the suitcase. They are both surprised when they open it. Inside there are another two men with another suitcase and the whole story repeats.

The film is set in the historic Balat tavern of Istanbul.

transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

The documentary, which begins with a sentence by Primo Levi on the condition of internees, tells the Italian mental hospital situation during Franco Basaglia's first experiments. The initial images, shot in the Psychiatric Hospital of Gorizia, show a series of patients in the hospital garden. Dazed and apathetic patients (especially photos). A patient is blocked by two health workers in a straitjacket. A patient is resumed who constantly repeats the gesture of rubbing his hands. A roundup follows on nets, doors and bars that close the mental hospitals. In other effective images some workers break down the fences and the networks that delimit the hospital. Followed by interviews with nursing home staff and a nurse. Pictures of the sick flow as they walk, work and stop at the bar. The documentary ends with the shooting of some moments of a daily general assembly in an asylum.

Short documentary about the Thursday-bazaar of Minaab, a small city in South of Iran

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.

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.

A wealthy man marries a young woman named Shirin. Sohrab, who is in love with Shirin, abducts her and takes her to his own tribe, and assigns a young affluent man named Khosrow to bring his wife back to him.

After saving a girl from being raped, a man is targeted by her lesbian friend by way of a fight promoter who convinces him he could be a boxer — with disastrous results.

A study of design, and who designs are for, by following students at the Hornsey College of Art in Great Britain.

Impressions of backwardness in southern Italy. In particular, the film focuses on Calabria.

Ilir Luma, a martial arts master specialized in the Pelasgian art of "Mundije", escaped the communist regime, when he was only 14 years old. He'd witnessed the hanging of a poet in the city of Kukes, Albania. In Germany, at a Taekwondo school, he meets Ana, who became his student and his girlfriend. Ilir promised to be there for her, whenever she needs him. Thirty years later, Ana is kidnapped and sent to Mexico.

The former teacher films his students playing in the forest, holding bouquets of flowers, as if they were celebrating a spring rite, like a Greek temple frieze.

Hotel High Range is a 1968 Indian Malayalam film, directed and produced by P. Subramaniam. The film stars Sharada, Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair, Kallayam Krishnadas and Aranmula Ponnamma in lead roles.

Surf documentary

"Here she comes…" At the 1968 Miss America pageant, demonstrators introduced a sheep as the appropriate winner. This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents. The film was widely screened by the second wave women's movement and is a vivid document of the movement's activists in action.

Recorded during a visit to Angola's liberation movement, the MPLA's eastern front in 1968. The film opens with some Angolans performing a symbolic play about the war. In addition, the military and political training, the guerrillas' contact with the local population, political meetings, etc. are shown. The battle songs, which run throughout the film, are from authentic recordings with guerrilla soldiers.

In late 1968, the last SDS delegates' conference was held in Hanover. It had already been postponed by the Berlin Action Council in Frankfurt in September after the famous tomato throwing by the women. Now attempts are made once again to develop common criteria for the supra-regional context of the SDS, for an SDS whose organizational structures have been overturned by the revolt itself. Factions emerge, the Frankfurt Women's Council distributes its leaflet "Free the socialist eminences from their bourgeois tails", the wave of lawsuits looms. Joscha Schmierer as Django criticizes the student "shitty milieu that is out to satisfy immediate needs. Christian Semler calls for a strong central office. "Of course, I don't have a central office in mind, like the German Communist Party had a central office before '33". After all, the anti-authoritarians in the North region are attacking.

In a country town in Cuba, a family prepares to perform the baptism of a baby, and to celebrate the good news, they invite a whole series of family, friends and neighbors. But the celebration of this baptism will bring with it a whole string of entanglements and situations.

With rapid editing that alternates a wide range of sources through an extensive variety of shooting and editing techniques, A Corpo is a drift through the consumer imagery of the day, in which the body of the single individual corresponds to political struggle, militancy and anti-imperialist engagement against the war in Vietnam. —Tate Modern

Continuing the story of Helga, another dramatised documentary on sex education discussing such points as the mother-child relationship, abortion, contraception, the sex organs, coitus etc.

The Newsreel reports on student demonstrations in Belgrade and Ljubljana and on Tito’s response to the riots.

A hungry homeless man begs for money to a young woman in her family garden.

A radical film that is at once a scathing questioning of cinema, a fierce attack against ideological sclerosis, an obvious model of total science fiction.

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

The Wall is a film originally intended to be screened in the run-up to Belgium's national elections in the spring of 1968. In that year, the tensions between the Dutch- and French-speaking communities were marked by often violent demonstrations and the threat of splitting the country. The story plays with fact and fiction by interweaving found footage of news reports with staged scenes. The main character is the wall which, similar to the division of Berlin, is erected through the centre of Brussels. Although the film was made by the team that compiled cinema newsreels for the company Belgavox, the influence of Henri Storck—the pioneer of poetic realism in the Belgian documentary film—is omnipresent in the camerawork, framing and editing, as well as in the use of amateur actors and filming in the street.

'Coffea arábiga' was sponsored as a propaganda documentary to show how to sow coffee around Havana. In fact, Guillén Landrián made a film critical of Castro, exhibited but banned as soon as the coffee plan collapsed.

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

Report on the liberation struggle in Guinea Bissau / Cape Verde.

Impresario spurs Sad Cat on to victory against his siblings as a race-car driver.

The infinite span of a thought is transformed into spatial-temporal intersects -- to become and become and become and never more or less -- MAINSTREAM is a fresh dip into oblivion -- a confused taste of love -- an expanded glimpse into a micro-moment -- a sliver of mind's motion becoming.