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Esperance, a small town on the southern coast of Western Australia, is a community centre for wealthy pastoralists and graziers. A smaller number of First Nations people also live thereunder the control of the Western Australian Department of Native Welfare. The establishment of some First Nations farming businesses is an economic opportunity but also a challenge to the town’s culture.
Tells the story of women's struggle for emancipation. A woman who works on an equal footing with a man and, in addition, bears the burden of household chores, this woman, the film asserts, is today becoming an important force in the new African society.
Short documentary about the Cree community of Chipewyan Lake, Alberta, focusing on its trading post and efforts to continue traditional practices in the face of modernization.
a 33 minute special containing performances from a variety of French popstars, including France Gall
During a prolonged garbage collector's strike in New York City, a group of youths from the Lower East Side of Manhattan decide to use the situation to make a political statement. They collect garbage from the streets of their community and deposit piles of it on the grounds of Lincoln Center, "The Establishment's" cultural showcase.
The Mozart of cinema takes his final bow.
A boy talks to a man in a snowy cemetery before a mysterious woman leads the young man away and into bed.
Different porteño arquetypes and their views on sex.
This film, first titled La poubelle du labo (The Lab Trashcan), and after L'Enfer du cinéma (Cinema's Hell), has been projected for the very first time in September 1968 at the French Cinémathèque. It can be considered as the cinematographic equivalent of Tristan Tzara's method on how to make a dadaist poem by putting words in a bag, and it mostly rises from Isidore Isou's film enthusiasm. The film has been made in fact out of elements of film strips found in the trashcan of a film development laboratory, that have been subsequently taped together bit by bit following the exact order they were originally gathered.
Held in Kassel between June and October 1968, documenta 4—the last to be directed by Arnold Bode—was plagued by controversy and debate: artistic, political, generational, and aesthetic conflicts, as well as tensions between European and American art were some of the issues that affected this edition, echoing the social and political upheavals that were taking place elsewhere at the same time. The film reflects this effervescence, giving voice to the artists, curators, and audience, but also offers a unique approach to an exhibition in progress. We watch Sol LeWitt constructing Three-Part Variations; Joseph Beuys installing Raumplastik; Martial Raysse talking about the role of the artist; Harald Szeemann defending the concept of the museum; and Edward Kienholz explaining his work from inside his Roxys installation, among many others.
A young man takes the train to Oslo, He expects that his life will change completely and that he will be noticed.
In the province of Salerno in Campania, a village is attracting more and more pilgrims, sometimes several hundred a day. Arriving by bus, car and even on foot, they pray to Saint Antony to protect them from demons and disasters. They do this through the intermediary of a certain Giuseppina who embodies the dead soul of young Alberto, the grandson of the former seminarian who died accidentally some ten years earlier.
“Third Eye Butterfly” is a double 16mm projection piece in which the two screens – at times divided within into additional “mini-screens” causing textured kaleidoscopic effects – blur to create a third wider frame, encouraging the viewers to extend their vision beyond ordinary sight - Microscope Gallery
1969 short by Sture Dahlström.
Gharchi Rani is directed by Rajdutt, and stars Appa Sahib Jadhav, Sudhir Kumar and Sulochana Latkar.
In India, a typical Oriya family of Nadpur Village in Mayurbhanj District go about their lives at their different vocations. The film follows Ananda, a successful businessman in Nagpur. It looks at his life, his children and his beliefs over a very long life from prior to independence until 20 years after. The House That Ananda Built is a 1968 Indian short documentary film directed by Fali Bilimoria. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Mahmoud Rorast, who is a taxi driver, makes an agreement with Parvaneh to drive her to her office every day.
An absurdist comedy short directed and produced by Harrison Engle. Features one of the first film scores by Philip Glass.
Images of the Minas Gerais backlands (human types, geographical aspects, domestic chores) with texts by Guimarães Rosa, extracted from Grande Sertão: Veredas.
In 1963, Maurice Fleuret wrote of Thierry Vincens: “...Vincens' cinematographic projections are more than a sumptuous abstract cinema number, more than a visual illustration of an interior world whose music echoes to us, [...] a lyrical synthesis whose persuasive force is unique in the history of art nouveau. ” GIRAGLIA was produced in 1968, set to a composition by Pierre Henry.
Sequence of mostly still images documenting the student led revolt in Paris 1968, the official response, and aftermath.
In the farce, the producer has invited people to his place to plan a film celebrating the centenary of independence. They get drunk and come up with three possible films, which they also act in themselves. The topics chosen, in the spirit of Finnish nationalism, are the life of Colonel Sandels, moonshining, and the 1974 presidential election.
"Bunny & Claude" combines skiing, artistic choreographies and music.
The story, set at the end of the 19th century, revolves around the rivalry between two families of ancient peasant lineage, the Valladares and the evil Vilches who, out of greed and sentimental revenge, try to dispossess the true owners of their land. The Valladares defend theirs, ending the conflict with a melee between the two main rivals. There are duels, fires, chases, kidnappings, betrayals and deaths. There is also a romantic note, the costumbrista landscape, the laughable moment and the folk songs.
Party girl lights up dancehall and gets acquainted with several gentlemen.
A short documentary.
A look at the pastime of angling in Britain
Toys come to life on Christmas morning.
Color/Black and White UCLA Student, Film Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. An experimental short made up of fragments of petty violence and mundane activities between two men.
Experimental 8mm film
The exodus of Palestinian refugees in Jordan after the Six Day War and King Hussein's intervention at the United Nations assembly.
For this videotape, Nauman turned the camera sideways and positioned it so that his head is cropped from the frame and his body is presented from neck to ankles. As he stands in the corner, his back to the wall, he appears to be lying down; falling backwards into the corner and then pushing himself off the wall again, he appears to be trying to levitate himself... As he performs these actions, his hands slam into the wall to break his falls, and the sounds become an integral part of the activities filmed. -- EAI
Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.
Newsreel's short film shows two days of demonstrations in Berkeley over the issue of "the streets belong to the people" and the decision of the City Council to close off Telegraph Avenue for the 4th of July, 1968. This film features scenes of members of the Young Socialist Alliance, including Peter Camejo, demonstrating their support for the French student movement of May 1968.
A film about the development of Icelandic jewellery from the times of the settlers (9th century) until 1968, also featuring the working methods of some well-known Icelandic jewelers of the sixties.
As the title suggests, times they are a changin'. Some fine, free jazz with the girls letting loose.
A puppet story about a lighthouse keeper who saves a paper boat while a real ship is sinking nearby.
Found footage short film by Ron Finne.
The best surfers of the late 1960's, seek thrills both on and off the waves.
A beauty-filled look at cows on a peaceful day in the pasture. Natural sounds, without narration. A little girl lolls in the meadow, watching cows sniff the grass, jaws grinding, tails swishing. Colors and shapes of bodies, textures of noses and hides. A new-born calf, licked clean by its mother, tries to stand on collapsible legs and searches out its first meal. “The essence of cowness is fixed forever in the mind and heart of the viewer” (Los Angeles Times).
An adaptation of Elisabeth Von Armin's novel "Mr. Skeffington", shot for Grupo Bandeirantes' tele-theatre.
Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.
An animated Miss America. It strips away the false facade to show the real facade. You'll see faces cut in half, ocean liners, a car, mannequins and marbles, a cow, a guy in pajamas, loose eyes, and 24 frames a second. –J. D.
A satire with cinematical comedy. No other medium would permit this specific form. The comic potential of pithy scraps of dialogue between safari companions, of Tarzan's war-cries and love-stammerings was amplified by illustrating these sounds with pictures of a friendly German wood and homely elephants in a zoo. (Peter Steinhart)
The film seeks to question how a certain image is perceived. The point of departure is a photograph of a street in Palestine. Later the camera moves to show that the photo includes (in a rear mirror) the image of the photographer with a camera. Finally, the image is reversed as in a mirror. The film is constituted of four unedited rolls of 100-feet 16mm reels, one of which was previously exposed in an 8mm camera.
A psychedelic tour de force of animation and time drawing, involving the work of seven artists. A major portion of the drawing was done under the influence of LSD and a variety of other hallucinogens. The drawing is almost wholly non-representational. The sound score is a chaotic mind-bending flow which matches the character of the visuals. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2014.
In 1967, a few months after the famous exhibition Arte povera-Im Spazio at the gallery La Bertesca in Genoa (when the critic Germano Celant defined the first guidelines of arte povera), Alighiero Boetti, at the age of 27, had a solo show at the Turin-based gallery Christian Stein. The first part the film explores the works assembled with iron, wood and industrial materials (Eternit, camouflage fabric, enamel paint), then shifts to the reactions and relations with the works of the audience at the opening (the artists Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Ceroli and Giulio Paolini, and the dealer Gian Enzo Sperone are recognisable). The black and white images are accompanied by a saxophone improvisation by Carlo Actis Dato. —Tate Modern
From the Psychedelic Series: 1968-1972. Early work with the JK Optical Printer. Some of the earliest examples of optically manipulated hand painted film.
Old photographs and pictures with a dialogless soundtrack of a train ride.
A feature documentary about a young girl's descent into drugs. Shot in 1960s London, we see Caroline, a ravishing sixties naif, become a junkie, caught in the contemporary drug culture of the age.
This socially-driven film explores the impact of technological changes on the city of Saint-Jérôme, which faced a severe socio-economic crisis in the 1960s, mirroring issues in other Quebec cities. Citizens from all social classes come together in a monumental effort to address the crisis. The film serves as both a reflection of this situation and a catalyst for action, acting as a mediation tool between technology and those affected, and facilitating participation in the reorganization of society.