Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

A brisk found-footage collage that splices old movie fragments and news photos into a sharp, satirical riff on appetite, spectacle, and media overload.

Phantom Black Festival was filmed by Naoya Kuroki, and written and produced by Tamio Suenaga (as KOKUIN). It is a record of happening art that took place over several days from October 13th to 20th, 1968, organized by KOKUIN, on the streets of Shinjuku and at the go-go club "Underground Pop". On the eve of International Anti-War Day, "anti-art" actions took to the streets early. This festival led to the Ikebukuro Black Festival, which was the starting point of the "Expo Destruction Alliance" caravan the following year in 1969. 10.21 1968 International Anti-War Day was also filmed by by Naoya Kuroki, and written and produced by Tamio Suenaga (as KOKUIN). It is a record of the New Left rallies held at Meiji Park in Tokyo and other locations on October 21, 1968, and the protests to block US military tanks at Shinjuku East Exit. Some of the protests were to block the transport of jet fuel used by the US military in the bombing of Vietnam.

On the occasion of the opening of Terminal North 1 (today's T1) of Ruzyně Airport in 1968, a promotional film was made with a typical period-style columnist touch. The voices of well-known actors humorously comment on the mundane situations in the airport hall, the outdated equipment of the old airport and the unprecedented technical innovations of the new one. The modern airport ensures the best possible care not only for passengers but also for the crew and the machines themselves, which is a prerequisite for safe flight. Finally, the film returns to the four-year construction of the terminal in 1964–1968 with several archive shots.

experimental film by artist Michio Fukuoka

In 1967 I was hoping to make a film about sheepherders in Nigeria. Civil War intervened and I had to be content with a few days attending a ritual called “sharo” in a small village near Kano. It qualified as a true ‘ordeal’, a contest of endurance to pain.

A look at the impact of road traffic on cities and their environments.

hong kong film

In front of a bank building and a one-way street sign, figures shot in single frames scurry back and forth. The action is interrupted increasingly rapidly by a succession of black and blank frames, until finally, in a flickering concentration, only an occasional single image can be recognized.

"Our nativity scene will be among the blast furnaces this year": on 24 December 1968, Pope Paul VI visited Taranto, to spend Christmas Eve with the steelworkers, in a shed of the steelworks opened in 1961. For the first time, a pontiff celebrated Christmas Mass in a factory.

Lost/ Missing Film

Silent home movie capturing the marriage of Tom Palazzolo and Marcia Daehn on December 22, 1968.

Educational film about deer, moose, antelope and caribou.

Skala film produced 1968.

Peter lives happily with his cat until one day a mouse appears. Peter tries to teach the animal how to catch mice. But it is playful and interested in everything but lessons.

A young boy, initially unable to swim and bullied by other boys at his school, eventually beats the egotistical and cheating school swimming captain at the 'Ten Pennies', winning the friendship and admiration of others in the process.

The sun is drunk! She has emptied every beer barrel! Instead of going down, she has forgotten about time and is messing up the whole city. Will they have to cancel the lantern festival for the kids? Little Max, Tüte, the director of the observatory and the head of the fire brigade all try to catch the sun so they can take her to bed. Hopefully they can save the party for the kids.

Breaking a vow of silence, Ezra Pound reads his Canto I of 1917 to friends at lunch during the Spoleto Festival in 1967. The small group, sitting happily around their table is a gathering that sets the scene for a rare and intimate reading.

Members of the Netherlands Dance Theatre perform the ballet ‘The Anatomy Lesson’, which was inspired by Rembrandt’s famous painting.

Walt Disney released this film about the relationship between mankind and horses on 16mm in 1968 for educational purposes.

Because of and So are the first short films by the artist: silent black and white 2x8mm films. They were created based on her interest in film and at the same time her study of psychology and pedagogy.

This documentary, featuring clips from a variety of Charlie Chan movies, served as an introduction to the showing of 21 films as a part of an exhibition of Charlie Chan films at the Museum of Modern art in New York City. This film exhibition, entitled "Charlie Chan at the Museum of Modern Art", ran from March 4–17, 1968.

The valor of our jawans in capturing the Haji Pir Pass is depicted in this short film. Glimpses of living conditions of the liberated people of the area are also flashed in this film.

After moving from rural Puerto Rico to a big city in America, Manuel struggles with making friends and adjusting to his new life

In the state of Hidalgo, northeast of Mexico City, lies the ancient Toltec city of Tula. Although it was systematically destroyed by its conquerors in 1665, some of its buildings still survive, such as the pyramid of Quetzalcoatl and the figures representing the Atlanteans, who were warriors of the most important military government in central Mexico. From these remains, we have learned about the construction processes that made its development possible despite being located in an arid territory.

Filmed in San Bernardino Chalchihuapan, municipality of Ocoyucan, Puebla (Nahua community). The documentary records the religious ceremony, celebrations, and rituals of a young couple's wedding, in the traditional framework of their indigenous culture.

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Made by a collective of student filmmakers and stitched together by Bill Kerby in an MFA Thesis film. Students capture a vision of the counterculture from the inside by filming the music and arts scenes, student protests to end U.S. military occupation in the Vietnam War, and the police repression of the late 1960s on handheld film cameras. Countering the dominant representations from news broadcasts, the students frankly capture the intensity of police repression during anti-war protests. The film appropriates footage of nuclear bomb testing, merged with the footage of rock Musicians Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane. This visual merging of film content, overlayed with the music and sounds of the late 1960s paint a pressing portrait of the times. "Dedicated to Ralph Williams and Bob Dylan: May The Best Man Win." Funded by the Louis B. Mayer Grant.

Violin Film #1 (Playing the Violin as Fast as I Can), is one of several 1967-68 films featuring Nauman's violin-playing, in which the production of sound is subjected to procedural strategies that problematize its status as music and performance.

Documentary looking at the provision of services for disabled people in Edinburgh, Scotland.

While a calm, controlled narrator reads a treatise on the proper use and care of paints and brushes, the correct way to clean old canvasses, and how to employ a variety of artistic techniques, a female model enters an all-white studio, removes her clothes, and allows her entire body to be painted by a male artist. When the job is done, the artist suddenly appears painted in the same manner as his model and the two climb into bed with sheets painted like the couple. Precise editing and cinematography sharpen a creative and delightful experience

After a nun moves to Rome, she is seduced by a mysterious young man with a seemingly dark past.

In May 1968, amateur and professional filmmakers made very short, silent, black-and-white activist films using still images and text. Produced by the SLON collective, these films were shot, edited and screened to activists in the course of a single day.

"Green Hell From The Void" is a 1968 television movie about a man who is transformed into a murderous alien reptilian creature.

A 10,000 mile grand tour beyond the Danube!

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.

The San Juan celebrations in Soria are an explosion of popular joy centered around bullfighting events. The film offers an anthropological portrait of the festival.

An experimental film by Gianfranco Brebbia

The first singing CGI character.

An experimental short that contemplates death and ephemerality.

Violent riots and strikes paralyse Paris and rest of France.

Short animation

The exodus of Palestinian refugees in Jordan after the Six Day War and King Hussein's intervention at the United Nations assembly.

Documentary about the Scottish National Institution for the War Blinded

A film on the work in the electric cable industries of Diogo d'Ávila in Alfragide.

Ek Mati Anek Nati is directed by Krishna Patil, and stars Chandrakant Gokhale, Chitaranjan Kolhatkar and Kuldeep Pawar.

Director. Raja Thakur · Writer. Ram Kelkar · Star. Kashinath Ghanekar.

The film is directed by Madhav Shinde.

Philippine action movie starring Robert Gonzalez

Description of the daily lives of Eskimo hunter families spending the summer in Cape Hope, Eastern Greenland.

The boys have gone for a lazy day of fishing. All is calm until they catch a bottle with what they think is a note. It turns out to be a pirate treasure map. In their excitement to find the treasure, they trespass on the old mill property and come up against an irate farmer...

Aspects of water management in the Netherlands.

A train comes through, and a hobo gets off... a mean hobo. He throws the boys out of their house, hangs up a welcome sign and takes over.

Painted on 35 mm film, this is my first film. (PB)

The noble family of the Poccis owns the Ammerland castle on Lake Starnberg. The current lord of the castle leads a secluded, small life as a farmer, Unimog driver, horse lover, drummer and soccer player.

Made in 1968, within the framework of the activities of the Cinemazero collective, Il balla balla could be regarded as Benvenuti’s own The Big Shave (1967, Martin Scorsese). Influenced by the manners of underground cinema, it provides a timeless indictment of the political and economical exploitation of youths.