Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

An educational film about the weather.

A wounded soldier limps through the forest, hovering on the brink of death. Among the trees, he catches sight of a woman—but she is in no hurry to help him.

A young man is sent to prison after falling in with a group of criminal friends. Upon his release, his family refuses to take him back, leaving him alone and homeless.

A group of people are searching for a man who unknowingly carries a treasure map in one of his pockets.

Iranian Film

Mohammad has come to Tehran from a small town in search of a well-paying job. There, he meets a young woman named Shirin. A wealthy and immoral man has set his sights on her. Realizing the situation, Mohammad follows Shirin and rescues her from danger on several occasions. After a series of events, the wealthy man's crimes are eventually exposed, and he is brought to justice.

An educational film, made up from stock footage from various Disney nature films, showing the family life and hunting habits of the cougar, and tells how it fits into the world family of cats.

In 1967, Francisco Sagasti, then a young industrial engineering student at Pennsylvania State University, designed and programmed—along with his colleague William Page—a computer program that generated choreographic sequences to be performed by a group of dancers on stage. The computer-generated dance was presented to the public on March 14, 1968, at the Playhouse Theatre of Pennsylvania State University.

A poetic narrative celebrating the beauty of Karachay-Cherkessia and the love its local inhabitants hold for their land. The film features students from Boarding School No. 1 in the city of Cherkessk.

Interview from the ambitious, uncompleted survey of British society in the 1960s, Now and Then. Broadcaster Bernard Braden asks aspiring politician Cuthbert Gardner, candidate in Merton local council elections, "Why Tory?".

A short portrait of an elderly married couple and their rural farmstead. The film begins with a narrative framework: a meeting of a group of men who, as we may assume, are scriptwriters talking about the shape of the following takes.

Made by Robert Nelson and William Allan in cooperation with KQED-TV San Francisco. Starring an ensemble cast that includes Bill Gourley, Bruce Nauman, Nelson, Allan, and a host of others. "War is Hell is such a delicate blending of cinematic cliches, extremely realistic views of war (the effects on the individuals), and vaudeville blackouts, that I still cannot understand how they have managed to make it work and work so well." (from a letter received by a TV station that showed War is Hell)

The spectacular theft of the Olympic flame at the Grenoble Winter Games in 1968 – attested by this documentation – was meant to draw the attention of the press to the 1st Hamburger Filmschau. A three-strong team drove spontaneously into the Alps, lit a cigarette from the Olympic flame, used the cigarette to light an oil lamp, and brought the flame to Hamburg, where it burnt in the foyer of the Kammerlichtspiele during the festival.

Essay on dualism in the snow.

Space / Film installation: At a distance of about 10 m two large screens are mounted, for synchronous Vis a Vis movies like Counterpart and Left / Right. The most beautiful moment of the two-screen cinema is when it is not in operation.

The first film the Simon Fraser Film Workshop did, shot on the streets of Vancouver in 1966, it was their first cross-pollination involving the theatre and film people.

A kinetic collage of superimpositions and single-frame imagery cut to music, turning stormy motion and light into a visual concerto.

Short documentary film by J. N. Pascal-Angot.

The landmark computer demonstration given by Douglas Engelbart, on December 9, 1968

In this work, the number of the frames appears every ten seconds (240 frames), serving to count the number of frames.

a short Halas & Batchelor animation about the adventures of Bolly and his friends on imaginary planets, featuring animation by Tony Guy, animation director on Watership Down

A portrait of Afro-Brazilian resistance traditions in Bahia and their confrontations with persecution and intolerance. The history of capoeira, which came from Angola, was persecuted and criminalized for decades, and later transformed into a national sport and spectacle. The maculelê, a warrior dance brought from Mozambique, accompanied by loud chanting. Finally, the candomblé terreiros - a mystical cry of rebellion.

hong kong film

A German Film Award silver medal winning short animation.

American Industrial Film giving a very high-level overview of our contemporary space-related knowledge, especially as it involved the Space Race.

Turin, Italy. In an apartment building, a child gets into trouble. Suspense ensues.

Noted lecturer, Eugene M. Wank, instructs us using a folding chair as a metaphor for life's choices. In this theatre event he shows the audience how to turn their chairs so that instead of facing front, facing the screen, they change to face each other across an aisle in which the innocent, funky ballet will be performed.

An attempt to see what might be made of a home movie.

After a long day in the pasture, Mother Donkey tells her little son the Christmas story before bedtime. When the little donkey falls asleep, he embarks on an adventurous journey in his dreams to the Holy Land, where he wants to find the Christ Child. Along the way, he encounters some resistance, but also kindness and helpfulness. Finally, the little donkey finds the stable in Jerusalem where Mary and Joseph have taken refuge. "How the Little Donkey Searched for the Christ Child" is an enchanting Christmas fairy tale by the Augsburger Puppenkiste and is one of the classics of the puppet theater, founded in 1948, which staged fairy tale performances and children's productions as well as serious plays.

Memories of a long-ago summer, London 1968; morning tea and departures.

Documentary about the struggle of the Pathet Lao (or Neo Lao Hak Xat, the Patriotic Front) against the USA during the years 1966-1968. Includes footage of the Laos countryside showing the daily lives of civilians, including farming and education. Also features footage of the caves in which civilians lived and worked, with areas for printing books, sewing, and preparing medicines for an underground hospital. Footage of soldiers of the Patriotic Front using anti-aircraft guns to fire at US planes, and debris from crashed plane.

After an accident in the mountains, a climber is forced to descend alone. This film captures the experience of an epic solo descent.

It starts with Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman: "And all the night the madman, poor, Where'er he might direct his steps, Aft him the Bronze Horseman, for sure, Keeps on the heavy-treading race." These lines affect the story where the man is haunting by the statues in comedic way.

A film on The Dharma

Craftsman Nathalie Krebs's work with Saxbo stoneware glazes is one of the most significant efforts in modern Danish handicrafts. The film was recorded in the last months before the workshop in Herlev closed permanently in the spring of 1968 and gives a description of what the stoneware demands from the craftsman. Nathalie Krebs (1895-1978) was a chemical engineer and creator of as many stoneware glazes as the entire Chinese Sung period. Palads cinema's prequel to "Det var en lørdag aften" (1968)

Docuemantary about a small town preparing for a bicycle race.

A realisation of the Hindu God.

Short documentary written, directed and edited by Aleksandar Ilić.

This short documentary focuses on the Cree community of Trout Lake, Alberta and the traditional practices maintained there, including moose hunting, hide tanning, and tipi construction.

The impact the monochromatic barriers of the usual organic derivatives of carbon amalgamated unnaturally and seriously artificial of Sunset Pink (as indeed in the '50s garments, glasses, cars, linen curtains, carpets, railway, carriages) etc. We stick our dehydrated phalanges in self-inflicted punishments and perplexingly experience ambiguous (and sensorially pleasant) symptoms of inherited light. The image dissociated from the disease in which we do not believe because we do not know how to believe suggests to us: it is the time for non-critical-non-scientific pre-analysis of neo-profanes emasculated by their own hand, equipped with additional corneas. They are reflected in us: a muffled upheaval-frozen to go beyond the instinctual vomiting barrier.

Made in 1968, in which Ferrero revealed himself to be a great comedian. In Spettacolo, he dies hilariously on the stage, behind a half-naked young woman armed with a small silver phallus, and the almost fixed space of the 'spectacle' is revealed with an Eisensteinian clarity.

Director: Prabhakar Manajirao Nayak; Writer: Jaywant Walavalkar; Producer: V.L. Tanpure, Gulabrao Salunkhe

Orphaned at the age of 8, abused by her maternal uncle's wife, Bharti is nevertheless told that her astrological chart foretells that she is very fortunate.

Mangalsutra is a 1968 Marathi drama film starring Bhavna, Ashok Tate, Gajanan Lodge, Dada Salve.Director: Ashok Tate

Directed by Datta Keshav. With Madhu Apte, Raja Gosavi, Bhalchandra Kulkarni, Majnalkar.

Directed by Dinkar D. Patil. With Ganpat Patil.

An intimate portrait of the South American poet Nicanor Parra, reading his poetry and talking with friends. Made during Parra's visit to the YMHA Poetry Center in New York. "... a series of punches to the solar plexus – physical, moral, audio and visual – of the audience." - The Sunday Magazine, Santiago, Chile.

As in his photographs, Winston Vargas films evocative portraits of people far from home, caught ‘between two islands’—the Dominican Republic and Manhattan. 16 mm.

"If THE DEVIL IS DEAD is a requiem for man becoming mutant[…] GORGEOUS is quite the opposite. It is a celebration of the freedoms from sexual and spiritual hang-ups that modern man is trying to win for himself--a flowing loose outgoing film which continually, as SKIN did (as most of Linder's films have done), relates men to nature... it's a work that seems buoyed on hope." - Richard Whitehall, L.A. Free Press, Dec. 26, 1969

Short film about traffic rules