This extensive film series shines a spotlight on 1968 and the extraordinary political and social events that took place throughout the world in that most tumultuous year. Presented in concert with Metrograph, which will host screenings focusing on the May ’68 protests and their aftermath in France,
1968 On Screen focuses its attention on events elsewhere. In the US, a seemingly society-wide upheaval manifested in various flashpoints such as the student occupation of Columbia University in April, the draft-card-burning by the Catonsville Nine in May, the protests and police riot that upended the Democratic Convention in Chicago in late August, and the ongoing activities of the Black Panthers, the Young Lords, and so many other radical groups. In Germany the student movement, or 68er-Bewegung, took shape; in Czechoslovakia the short-lived Prague Spring was brutally crushed by the Soviet invasion in August; and of course in Vietnam, war grinded on in the waning months of Johnson’s administration. Even these dramatic events were only the tip of the iceberg, with unrest, political ferment, and convulsive social transformations taking place throughout the world.
Featuring a selection of films from or concerning the US, Germany, the former Czechoslovakia, and Mexico (with works from other parts of the globe to come on our next calendar), this series explores how filmmakers responded to or engaged with events as they unfolded, or reflected on them in retrospect. These films illustrate how intertwined the cinema was and continues to be with the epochal changes that transformed the entire world in and around 1968.
Co-presented by Anthology Film Archives and the Goethe-Institut New York
FILM PROGRAM
Jean-Gabriel Périot
A GERMAN YOUTH / Une Jeunesse Allemande
2015, digital, 93 min
May 24, 7:15pm
May 31, 8:45pm
June 3, 5:00pm
EARLY FILMS BY HARUN FAROCKI
THE CAMPAIGN VOLUNTEER / Der Wahlhelfer
1967, 16mm-to-digital, 14 min
THE WORDS OF THE CHAIRMAN / Die Worte des Vorsitzenden
1967, 16mm-to-digital, 3 min
THEIR NEWSPAPERS / Ihre Zeitungen
1968, 16mm-to-digital, 17 min
INEXTINGUISHABLE FIRE / Nicht löschbares Feuer
1969, 16mm-to-digital, 25 min
May 24, 9:15pm
May 31, 7:00pm
1968 ON SCREEN: SHORTS PROGRAM 1
Helke Sander
BREAK THE POWER OF THE MANIPULATORS / Brecht die Macht der Manipulateure
1967/68, 16mm, 43 min
Gerd Conradt
FARBTEST – DIE ROTE FAHNE
1968, 16mm-to-DCP, 12 min
Hartmut Bitomsky
JOHNSON & CO. AND THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST POVERTY / Johnson & Co. und der Feldzug gegen die Armut
1968, 16mm, 18 min
Cristina Perincioli
FOR WOMEN – CHAPTER 1 / Für Frauen – 1. Kapitel
1971, 16mm-to-digital, 28 min
May 25, 7:00pm
June 2, 4:30pm
Klaus Lemke
THE ARSONISTS / Brandstifter
1969, 35mm-to-digital, 65 min
May 25, 9:15pm
June 2, 7:00pm
LeRoi Jones
THE NEW-ARK
1968, 16mm-to-digital, 60 min
May 26, 4:15pm
David Loeb Weiss
NO VIETNAMESE EVER CALLED ME NIGGER
1968, 16mm, 68 min
May 26, 6:00pm
Haskell Wexler
MEDIUM COOL
1969, 35mm, 110 min
May 26, 8:45pm
June 1, 9:15pm
INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME + LAST SUMMER WON’T HAPPEN
May 27, 3:45pm
May 30, 9:00pm
Peter Whitehead
THE FALL
1969, 16mm-to-digital, 120 min
May 27, 6:15pm
1968 ON SCREEN: NEWSREEL, PROGRAM 1
May 27, 8:45pm
June 1, 6:45pm
1968 ON SCREEN: NEWSREEL, PROGRAM 2
May 28, 6:30pm
June 4, 8:45pm
1968 ON SCREEN: NEWSREEL, PROGRAM 3
May 28, 9:00pm
June 4, 7:00pm
Leslie Woodhead
INVASION
1980, 16mm, 130 min
May 29, 6:45pm
1968 ON SCREEN: SHORTS PROGRAM 2
May 29, 9:15pm
June 3, 7:15pm
Richard Dindo
NEITHER FORGET, NOR FORGIVE / Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón
2004, 35mm-to-digital, 85 min
May 30, 7:00pm
June 3, 9:00pm
Dziga Vertov Group
VLADIMIR ET ROSA + CONSPIRACY AND THE DYBBUK
June 2, 8:45pm
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