Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

An account of the situation of Algerian women in the 60s.

Porcupine helps his friend Rabbit sew a shirt

The film takes place in several locations bordered by the Pacific Ocean, especially the Asian portion like Australia, Papua New Guinea, Polynesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, China, etc. The production crosses the boundaries between documentary and fictional plans, showing different forms of love found in visited tribes and cities. Bringing to the audience a series of religious rituals and traditions of isolated people, however showing its contemporaneity through time. Like much of Sulistrowski movies, the sexual thematic is present, especially in sex and nudity scenes.

A series of interviews with the leaders of the Paris riots of May and June, 1968.

Gloria has sex problems. She is a frigid virgin, but is also a "tease", who encourages sexual advances from men and then shuts them down when they respond. One night, after scornfully turning down a pass made by her boyfriend Paul, she is attacked and raped in her hallway. She finds that the attack sexually stimulates her and begs her attacker to stay with her, but the man--high on drugs--ignores her and leaves after the rape. The experience turns her from a notorious "tease" into a promiscuous nympho with a voracious sexual appetite--for both men and women. Complications ensue.

"This short, silent film, a gallery of shots put together like a jazz improv, uses many devices to affect the image that comes from the camera. I play with superimpositions, with drawing and scratching on the film, and layering over the camera images with texture and color. The result is a rather rhythmic, physical, playful event intended simply to happen as you watch it. The actual imagery of objects in a museum gallery, seen frequently throughout, was footage shot in the Colby College Museum of art in the 1960s." —Abbott Meader

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.

Footage of an arm and a hand holding a block of lead

The film Autoportrait is made up of four parts: Part 1: Search, Part 2: Work, Part 3: Daydream, Part 4: Family. Each of the parts can be shown as a self-contained film.

Inspired by a Hollywood film starring Lana Turner, this Myanmar love story centers on a young doctor, Myo Khine, who's about to marry his girlfriend Tin Tin Maw. But Tin's mother objects the union when it is revealed Myo's mother is not from a decent background. Distraught, Tin runs away and marries Myo anyway. On the full moon day of Thadingyut, the couple visits Myo's stepfather to pay respect to him in the Buddhist tradition, and Myo's stepfather uses this occasion to teach the young couple a Buddhist lesson from a story called "Talking Heart". After hearing the story, Myo and Tin realize that what they did was wrong and seeks a way to make things right.

Produced by Leonard M. Henny in cooperation with the Black Panther Party and American Documentary Films. Camera by Steven Lighthill and Leonard Henny. Editing by Kees Hin. Speech by Stokely Carmichael. Dancing by Uzozi Aroho Dancers and Company, Birth of Soul Dancers. Portrait of the struggle for black liberation, the African heritage of American blacks, the need to form a Black United Front in order to survive the threats of white racism in America and in the world today. The speech by Stokely Carmichael was given at the occasion of the merger between the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, February 1968. The merger took place on the birthday of Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, who was jailed for allegedly having killed a policeman. The speech ends with the famous: "Huey Newton will be set free, or else ...."

An Angry Arts "protestfilm" with black and white visuals. –S. D. H.

Bruce Nauman - Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square (Square Dance) (1968), 16mm black-and-white film For this film, Bruce Nauman made a square of masking tape on the studio floor, with each side marked at its halfway point. To the sound of a metronome and beginning at one corner, he methodically moves around the perimeter of the square, sometimes facing into its interior, sometimes out.

A BBC film lead by John Betjeman. Also known as A Poet Goes North, Betjeman does what he did best, engages us with his passion and discernment. With his inimitable style, Leeds becomes the recipient of his observations on its architecture and built environment.

Mexican feature film

In a town on the Peruvian coast, Diego, Lupe's boyfriend and a bongo player, has a secret relationship with Marga, a singer and dancer. Suddenly, Carlos, Marga's former boyfriend, arrives to settle in the town. Now the manager of the El Velero cabaret, he doesn't approve of his beloved performing as a showgirl there. One day, he offends Marga and confronts Diego, who comes to her defense. Forgiven, Carlos reconciles with Marga.

In January 1968, 10,000 women led a peaceful, march on Washington in protest against the Vietnam War. This film documents the march and raises questions about the forms of protest engaged by women and the role of women in the anti-war. Jeannette Rankin Brigade was the fisrt Newsreel film proposed, shot and edited by women.

Experimental short by Bruce Nauman.

A couple interact on a Thursday.

"No English language issues here. The title refers to Siva/Shiva – god of the dance – who dances the world into both destruction and rebirth, and Charivari, pronounced 'Shivaree', a rude serenade to mock wedding couples -i.e. mocking the concept of passion in balance with serenity. The film’s dancing child is our daughter Jennifer, now a middle aged school teacher and a likely Bodhisattva. She dances to escape and dispel the fragmentary seductions of TV, with its chaos of sound and image. Moving toward a window and the light, she sees and ponders the wind in the trees, as the final notes of Bill Evans’ 'Peace Piece' linger and fade." –Abbott Meader

Creative portrait of the artist Bruce Nauman.

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

Filmed through a microscope.

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics André S. Labarthe and Jean-Louis Comolli, originally aired 11 November 1968.

Clothes come on and off in this 60s sex romp. A Juniper Production.

Rod, Julian, and John walk home from school together. When boys and stones get together, what's the target? By mistake, it is Mrs. Jensen's window.

1968/69, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 5:19 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

An examination of the police brutality during the May '68 demonstrations.

When a ruthless businessman tries to blackmail a rival industrialist over the seduction of his daughter, Karin, the rival fights back. To protect his reputation, he hires a rebellious gang of Provos to take scandalous photographs of Karin to destroy her innocent image. However, inner-gang betrayal and unexpected romance soon turn the blackmail scheme upside down.

Operation Bootstrap, a non-profit community-based organization, was founded in October 1965, just two months after the Watts rebellion, as a response to a neighborhood in distress. The 1968 documentary captures Bootstrap’s mission of economic development with scenes of women and men training for a range of employment opportunities including how to operate power sewing machines for work in the local garment factory, to the new technologies of the day, the IBM keypunch machines. Especially engaging are the scenes of “sensitivity sessions” hosted by the organization, where black and white Angelenos debate issues of race and racism in 1960s America. The film’s cinéma-vérité style allows for a certain closeness with its subject and allows for a precious time capsule glimpse into this vibrant and struggling community.

Short sci-fi where a man finds a robotic woman a.k.a. 'toygirl'.

Most of this silent film was shot in Rome within one day, March 31, 1968, and edited in the camera (a 100-feet double8 BW film roll). It is divided in six episodes following an ancient Indian text, Katha Upanishad, in which a youth, Nakiketa, converses with Death. Every section presents an event of that day and refers to a writer and a painter. The film captures some of the excitement of Spring 1968 in Europe and elsewhere.

The Leap is impressive for its mixture of pure video space with representational filmic space. Thus an ordinary man seems to interact physically with videographic apparitions, moving in and out of different time space realities, fluctuating between the physical and metaphysical with each stride of his leap toward freedom. —Gene Youngblood

A nouvelle vague-inspired film about young Danes, their struggles with love, and their philosophical discussions.

A documentary recording of student demonstrations and assemblies at the student campus in Ljubljana.

"I filmed my boyfriend at the time and tried to strip him, but in fact it's a film about ecology." -Soukaz Soukaz's first film, though lost for many years until it was finally recovered.

A hand-scratched, hand-painted film, mysteriously titled.

A poor family struggles to create a small field to cultivate in the middle of a marsh, until nature takes its toll.

A sensual film of continuous orgasm of pulsating color and image.

A promotional film for the Cambridge Animation Festival.

"While still a student at Yale University, Nick Doob made a series of short works that launched his career in film. One was Plastic Saints, in which Doob took black-and-white footage of a demonstration in Washington DC that he and four fellow students attended, and intercut it with color paint-on-film loops, all set to a recording of “When the Saints Go Marching In.”" - Moving Image Archiving News

In 1968, Russian scientists made a mathematic model of a walking cat on a BESM-4 computer. It “rendered” the resulting animation to a printer and was then photographed by motion picture camera.

”Assassination, falling down, animated drawings from the landscape of memory, mankind falling down, faces with faces, a haunting view of man drawn in brilliant animation graphics.” – S.V., Filmmaker’s Cooperative Catalogue № 7.

An agricultural produce facility and the difficulties faced by producers attempting to sell their stock there.

A film by Eric M. Nilsson.