Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

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.

Highlights of the life of John Grierson, documentary film-maker

A distinctive animated short inspired by Irish folk tales, made with assistance from the BFI Production Board. Set “long ago when men lived in caves” this tells the tale of Ulick, a would-be king, banished from his realm for his violent and unholy deeds and forced to wander through Ireland and the furthest reaches of his own mind. Inspired by Irish folk tales, the story emerged from director and animator Gillian Lacey’s “train of thought” after reading Flann O’Brien’s "At Swim-Two Birds".

Riot control refers to the measures used by police, military, or other security forces to control, disperse, and arrest civilians who are involved in a riot, demonstration, or protest.

A visual representation of the Cartesian metaphor.

A 1968 film.

On December 15, 1968, The seasons change was screened in response to, What trees do they plant?, a City of Chicago film made to combat he image of police brutality during the August, 1968 Democratic Convention. Bill Jersey and a sizeable group of other activist filmmakers pooled their footage which had been shot at the convention. They called themselves Documentary Interlock.

Short study of a

Possible Possum and friends sit down to have hush puppies and have to save Macon Mouse from the Bobcat.

The portrait shows everyday life in the Portuguese fishing village of Sesimbra, south of Lisbon, at the time of Salazar's dictatorship in 1964. Mau's photos, e.g. fish spread out in geometric patterns, and Fichte's commentary support each other. But the word 'commentary' is misleading and does not adequately describe the poetic, reportage-like text.

A profile of a grassroots anti-war group in Boston, this short film documents some of the tactics and activities used by draft resistance groups across the country during the Vietnam War. Using the law to keep young men out of the war, this group helped over 150 people each week escape service and educate themselves and their communities about alternatives to combat.

As students take to the streets in New York and Berkeley, the state violence that follows illustrates Chicago Mayor Daley's thesis that the police are there "to preserve disorder".

Found footage short film by Ron Finne.

16mm Film by Al Wong.

A conversation with Poul Reumert recorded in the spring of 1968, Asta Nielsen is interviewed by actor Axel Strøbye in his home in Copenhagen . She tells him about her career as the first world star of the film up to the 1920s and about the time that followed, partly in the theater and partly in anonymous retreat in Denmark.

"The Ghost of Wittgenstein", "I'd Rather be Half Right Than Vice President" alongside "Lost in Cudilhy" form that experimental trifecta of experimental or just plain mental art movies known as "The Charlotteruse with the Medal of the Wobbling Bubble in its Palm Trilogy". Restored in 2017 comprise an essential 16MM restoration project by producer / director Ira Schneider, who is the undisputed master of the experimental doc genre as well as being the unsung founder of video art. They are to be re-released at the Prada Fondazione in Milan and Paris Independent Film Festival 2017. Restoration producer is Claudine Biswas-MacKenzie MA.

Three stories. The first one is called "Naughty". It tells about a little goat that ran away from his mother. He was very curious and interested in everything around, but when he realized that was lost, he began to worry much about it. In "Braggart" we will focus on the bird that loved to embellish reality. The history "Monster" is about a terrible creation, spewing flames and defeated by beautiful horses.

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

Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.

May 18th, 1968 The Jimi Hendrix Experience headlined the Miami Pop Festival with an absolutely amazing performance and now you can see some of the recently uncovered footage. The film of the live performance at Miami Pop scattered with still frames of the band performing throughout their career. Watch above and marvel at the effortless stage presence and energy exuded by Hendrix.

On Easter 1968 an assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke was carried out. Shortly afterwards street battles resulted throughout West Germany. Farocki's short film Drei Schüsse auf Rudi is presumably lost.

Similes of a slippery TV tube gesticulate break and supply – a long view of multiple images (Mr. Johnson's war, is it Howard Johnson's or President Johnson's war?) – a long curving view, breakfast with aspirin, good grief – or Goodbye. (SUPER-IMPOSITION is a videotape experiment with multiple images, made with film artist-in-residency at Colgate University.) Life and art ... interacting ... it is interesting to note that movies and psychoanalysis are approximately the same age ... there are now more TV sets in America than bathtubs. There are more radios in America than people. Although 75 percent of Japanese households have television sets, statistics show only 35 percent have running water and fewer than ten percent have flush sanitation. Some 40 percent of American children have one or more.

Reversal. Backwards in time. A Steak's life cycle, anti-clockwise. The film begins in Tony Morgan's bathroom, with the Beatles, continues with a de-fried steak, which buys some money, Bach's Goldberg Variations and the rebirth (resurrection) of a cow. The film was a consequence of a heated discussion with Daniel Spoerri about English aesthetic of cleanliness and the French aesthetic of shit.

A fixed camera turned on its side records Nauman repeating for nearly an hour a laborious sequence of body movements inspired by passages in works by Samuel Beckett that describe similarly repetitive and meaningless activities. Hands clasped behind his back, he kicks one leg up at a right angle to his body, pivots forty-five degrees, falls forward hard with a thumping noise, extends the rear leg again at a right angle behind, and begins the sequence again. As in many of his fixed-camera film and video works, parts of Nauman's body disappear from the frame as he moves close to the camera; occasionally, he walks off-screen completely while the sound of his footsteps continues on the sound tracks.

A documentation of Marcel Broodthaers's exhibition Le Corbeau et le Renard at the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp.

Tightly controlled phasing between a TV camera and its monitor.

Two regular police officers patrol Los Angeles.

A tale about a child-god based on Cuban folklore, spoken in lucumí dialect.

In Shadow (1968), Rikuro Miyai projects two films of his own shadow walking outdoors side-by-side—one positive, one negative—each a reflection of the other.

ARTFILM is condensed new art. Equal time of 1/12th of a second is given to art objects animated in living black and white. Patterns are created as shapes change into one another. The music has an effect on the images seen. It is fun to blink at. Aldo Ciccolini plays Erik Satie on the concert Grand. –J. D.

Short documentary by German filmmaker Werner Koenig.

A single protagonist in a small room performing enigmatic actions.

The primitive theater expressed through rites and myths as it has come down to us, as documentation of ancient civilizations.

The scenario for what might have been quite a beautiful films is projected as a text. In between the blocks of text, two small girls romp, as if from another movie altogether. –D. H.

The story of John G Stein & Co., MANUFACTURER of INDUSTRIAL REFRACTORIES.

Debut film by Heiny Srour, lost during the Lebanese civil war.

The only film that Kurt Kühn made (alongside a few commissioned works) has 44,701 images. 44,701 images run in front of the viewer according to an open structural principle and refer to the basis of every film: individual images that are combined into movements of all kinds. Time plays a major role in X-Bilder.

Two aspiring filmmakers walk through Hamburg with a camera operator and a sound operator. From the time they get out bed to their encounter with a production manager, they are harassed by an intermittent white dot.

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)

"My camera was silent, and so I started to compose wild sound collages for my films from my records with the help of tape, for example with my favorite Callas arias. I even got her to sing with herself that way. I also contrasted Schlager scraps of the Caterina Valente, whom I adore, and Christmas carols with the pictures. I cannot interpret what began then. I am an artist, I work intuitively." - Werner Schroeter

Trimmed photographs taken from different sources such as postcards, newspapers, police registries, and family photo albums, creating a vast art installation, merge Christian Boltanski's everyday life and lost memories.

On glimpses of Naples and surrounding areas a sonorous commentary of the autumn has now arrived. The Neapolitan song is greatly influenced by the seasons and nature.

Short film.

A recruiting film for seamen suggesting they pursue a career in electronics.

This film focuses on the Spanish Civil War that occurred in the 1930s as a result of the attempted Communist takeover of the Republican government. It documents how a handful of infiltrators and agitators were able to capture the country while the majority was either fooled by slogans of promised reform or frightened by acts of terrorism into non-resistance. This documentary was produced by the Committee to Research the Spanish War Knoxville, Tennessee

This film is arguably Nestler's angriest documentary. It is a bitter personal statement about life in the Ruhr region: the fight against fascism, the reality of communism and his own struggle for acceptance in his native Germany. It confronts viewers with a sequence of rigid images that are accompanied by seemingly frozen voices, giving evidence of one big frustration. Nestler makes no compromise. There is only room for wrath in this impressively filmed rebellion