Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

A documentary about the Khatyn massacre.

A black-and-white documentary film about the large housing estate "Lütten Klein" in the northwest of Rostock in June 1968. On the basis of the construction worker and shop steward Hans Schmidt, the efforts to fulfil the plan are clearly shown, even if the supplies and weather conditions are not optimal. The group meeting of the construction brigade shown here describes, among other things, the hardships and disappointments of some of the workers on the construction site. On the other hand, the construction management and shop steward Schmidt try to motivate the workers to achieve even higher performance by demanding competition and obligations.

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.

Performance based experimental film.

Members of a school expedition in Tunisia become accidentally involved in industrial espionage.

Videographic dream.

A static close-up of a clock. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

"Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of three historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work." -HF

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

"In my film I suggest that there is no greater mystery than that of the protagonists. War and Love are simply equated for what they are; the aftermath is inevitable, and a normal human condition, for which like the ancients one can only have pity and understanding. In this lies the mystery. All else is irrelevant. That there are other sub-currents of equal power in The Mysteries goes without saying; and, those who are capable of the numerous visual visitations and annunciations which the film offers them will realize what is the Ultimate Mystery of my work."

Tunisia's transition to independence, an epic era of social and political change, a new face of reality that brings confusion to the youth.

Animated stills of Maria Callas and overlaid with a soundtrack of her singing.

1968 Indian film starring Sriranjani, Krishna Ghattamaneni and Kanchana

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

"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

A short film by Kurt Kren.

Professor József Öveges was a famous Hungarian physicist and television personality, who starred in a very successful educational programme, teaching nature sciences for children in Hungarian Television in the 1960s. This movie contains his favorite experiments.

Ice team is fighting hard. We believe in the courage of the desperate guys. Real men play hockey. Coward does not play hockey.

Woody Woodpecker annoys a fisherman in this short.

Producer/director Gordon Eastman takes his two sons on a journey to the wilds of British Columbia fishing, hunting, canoeing down miles of wild water, living with Indians and trapping beaver.

Marcha de los Cañeros, by Marcos Banchero, made in 1968 as part of the Cinemateca del Tercer Mundo. During the second half of the 1960s, the Unión de Trabajadores Azucareros de Artigas (UTAA) carried out a series of marches from the north of the country to Montevideo, demanding better living conditions for its workers. These mobilizations took place in a context of economic crisis in the country and growing political and social conflict. Filmmakers Mario Handler, Alberto Miller and Marcos Banchero recorded some of these mobilizations at the time, contributing to the visibility of this sector of society, whose conditions of exploitation had been unknown to the capital's gaze until then.

The poet John Betjeman journeys from Marble Arch to Edgeware, reciting specially-written poems and pointing out areas of interest.

Lalith is a chief Clarke of a Government Department. He falls in love with Nilanthi, a newly recruited typist. But Nilanthi is attracted to another handsome young Clarke in the same department named Sagara. Lalith detests this. He starts to suspect each and every act of Sagara and Nilanthi. ‘Dahasak Sithivili’ is based on Lalith’s efforts to prevent himself from getting carried away by these endless suspicions.

East German documentary about the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

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.

Prakash, who can't depart his family values in the mean time he don't want to suppress his modern dreams with new thoughts. The conflict begins.

A parable of Charlie reaching the clowns with God's word

From an inverted position, high above the floor, the camera records Nauman’s trek back and forth and across the studio; his stamping creates a generative rhythm reminiscent of native drum beats or primitive dance rituals. However, Nauman is not participating in a social rite or communal ritual—he is completely individualized. Isolated in his studio, his actions have no apparent reason or cause beyond his aesthetic practice.

Fiction about a story by the Riojan poet Carlos Larrosa, based on a real event.

The action of the film unfolds in a farm in Australia . The strained relationship between the farm's residents, a woman and two men, is like a relentless drought that threatens to destroy the crops. And when trouble seems inevitable, nature pours heavy rain on the land and people

Alan Whicker examines the highly competitive world of horse racing, meeting jockeys and stable owners.

This is a musical retelling of the classic Clement Moore poem animated with soft sculpture animals.

A 1968 italian film by Paolo Brunatto.

Documentary on the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the UNAM.

The film Wanderkino für Ingenieurstudenten was part of the extra-parliamentary opposition's (APO) so-called 'technology campaign' aimed at politicizing the students at the technical universities and schools of engineering.

"Animated dots strobe around the alpha rhythm. This film has some hallucinatory and hypnotic effects, incliuding induced color in black and white sections. Its polyrhythmic structure makes it a good film for light-show situations- it "fits" with almost all kinds of sound. The audience effect is one of general euphoria although it could be unsafe for epileptics.

Based on the Jorge Luis Borges story of the same name, the film, by means of a whirlwind of elusive images, relates the story’s protagonist’s long journey in search of the secret City of the Immortals. Nightmarish animation sequences are interspersed with lush naturalistic photography.

Annabelle Lee was filmed starting in August 1968, concurrently with Diabolical Wedding, with technical and equipment support from Panamericana Televisión, which invested heavily in its attempt to promote its young stars, "Chacha" Hornazábal and Patricia Aspíllaga, who headed the cast of this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's poem. Panamericana Televisión lent its sets for interior shots, while exterior scenes were filmed at the Municipal Theater, the Entre Nous Society, Chancay Castle, and Quinta Heeren. The film's editing and laboratory processing were done in Mexico.

A young man and woman, deeply in love with each other, secretly marry without their parents' knowledge and have a child. The man travels abroad to continue his studies, while the woman becomes separated from their child through a series of unfortunate events. Their child is found and raised by a caretaker. After many years, the man returns from abroad. Unable to find his wife, he unknowingly adopts his own child. Eventually, he discovers the truth, reunites with his wife, and together they begin a new chapter in their lives.

A psychological drama about loneliness. The story takes place in a small seaside town, but it could have taken place anywhere else, where the customs of carnival festivities are cherished. Carnival is a time when people's wishes come true in a certain way and when everything is a bit surreal. An old sailor and his wife live out their last days alone. The world of unfulfilled wishes has become so close to them that it seems as if they have already experienced them all...

A spare mountain-climbing portrait that follows a solo ascent with meditative attention to breath, rock, and exposure.

The ancient seaport city, now the capital of Estonia. The second part of the fil m is concerned with the modern aspects of the city.

A short gangster film with Godard clichés, which are used as quotations.

Following the life of the eel and the business involved to satisfy their consumers.

With another Minnesotan campaigning for the office of Vice President, it is fascinating to look back at the issues VP candidate Hubert H. Humphrey was raising during the 1968 campaign. In newspapers at the time, the film was advertised as "The Mind Changer." It was telecast 300 times nationwide in the closing three weeks of the political race.

A short documentary about the conditions of the inhabitants of the Chiapas Highlands. Filmed during Holy Week in 1968, it depicts the religious activities of the holiday, recalling that 100 years earlier, on the same date, the Chamulas rose up against the Ladinos.

The camera is fixed. In front of the lens the man rhythmically shakes two lamps, at first angrily, to end motionless. A film about dissociation. Micro-emotional.

An experimental film based on the young painter Søren Hansen's expressive graphic plates, which appear in the film's close-ups as a rugged, divided and hostile world in itself. (DFI)

A day in the life of a family in a regimented society.

Short film directed by Ernst Reinboth

Cartoon fantasy about how a little man is taught by life about right and wrong ambitions. (DFI)

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.

The original idea was to completely command every movement of the artists and thus deprive them of their vitality. In this way I had the intention of cutting and choosing, shortening thus the times, the static image of a person who takes drugs and commits suicide. The film is based on its dramatic comedy, where the irony appears even more evident due to the environment of vice.

A 1968 film by Emanuele Centazzo.