Year 1968 - 245

Directed by Dinkar D. Patil. With Ganpat Patil.

The film is directed by Madhav Shinde.

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.

A suggestive Valentine's Day animation.

A naughty animation.

Short film about Volvox, a bubble algae

A young girl walks home at night, not expecting to see a pastry chef on her way.

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

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

Hans Scheugl’s hamburg special consists of a spool of thread that runs through the projector instead of a film. On the bright empty screen appears a vertical line that is moved to both sides by the projectionist.

Subject made on 8 mm film in 1968

Île de la Cité, spring 68. Between two demonstrations, a group of young people testify about police violence.

Description of a vacation day broken down into a grid of squares.

"I would like to say something else in relation to the Automatic Free Form Film movement. The camera was constantly moving. Movement was used to elucidate space. This is a concept that I have continued to develop and have worked on in other films. I have a great interest in what happens to the edges of the camera frame when it moves. Automatic Free Form Film was done by working with shapes and specifically with the shapes of light and with the specific shapes of objects. When the camera moves, it changes the whole perspective of what we see." -BG

Experimental camera-less film by Marco Parenti.

Film made of an outdoor performance of my 1967 piece,"3rd Book of Exercises." A pianist practices scales - an electronic musician practices with tape. The piece explores sounds of autos (the American sound) and 2 performances of Lord Buckley. Several of the faculty at Brandeis were very unhappy with the piece and asked Alvin Lucier to better monitor work coming from the electronic music studio. Then film was shot on 400 ft of B&W negative that had survived a fire and dousing with fire hoses. -R.L.

In northern Cameroon, Kodoko, a young Muktele woman, is expecting her second child. A rite of exorcism is about to be conducted so as to rid her body of Matsam, a deleterious spirit.

Paul Terry is featured as a shining example of how the Social Security system is working.

In Niger, the Hausa blacksmith Boube Mainassara, a descendant of the ancient masters of fire, continues to produce iron ore through traditional processes.