1968 on Screen
The year 1968 was a profoundly tumultuous one throughout the globe, with innumerable events transforming the world politically, socially, and culturally. The U.S. was roiled by the student occupation of Columbia University, the protests and police riot that upended the Democratic Convention in Chicago, 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.
In May we presented an extensive film series that shined a spotlight on 1968, and this summer and fall we will be showcasing further films relating to the period, beginning with special (Labor Day weekend) screenings of
Octavio Getino and
Fernando E. Solanas’s seminal work of radical activist cinema,
The Hour of the Furnaces. This documentary is an indictment of American imperialism in South America, divided into the segments, Neocolonialism, Act for liberation, and Violence and Liberation.
Co-presented by Anthology Film Archives and the Goethe-Institut New York
The Hour of the Furnaces/La Hora de Los Hornos
Argentina, 1968, 260 min
16mm. In Spanish with English subtitles
Directed by Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas
Print courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
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