All Films

The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

1969 • 29 min

Watch the Blackhorse squadron move their massive vehicles from the road into the trees. Part of "The Big Picture" series.

Diamantes

1969 • 22 min • Venezuela

Diamantes, short produced by the ULA, registered the birth of a new town: San Salvador de Paul, the arrival of new residents, farmers who ventured in search of riches, merchants, gamblers, prostitutes, all trying to snatch the momentary wealth of those who discovered the mineral, typical image of underdevelopment.

The Public As Exhibit

1969 • 4 min

Weibel stages a documentation of the public as an exhibit themselves.

Under The Juggernaut

1969 • 9 min • United States of America

The theme of the film is political assassination and it is presented with lightening-fast collage. The figures of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, John and Robert Kennedy, and Lee Harvey Oswald flash by at great speed with animated images overlaid on these flashing figures. The sound track is a hodgepodge of speech excerpts, news broadcasts, and jarringly discordant music. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Beyond Image

1969 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A psychedelic film showing swirls and bubbles of colours to the music of Soft Machine.

Shower Proof

1969 • 10 min

A man and woman's bathroom routines.

Various Incarnations of a Tibetan Seamstress

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

Originally, it was to be a serious look at Westerner's influenced by Eastern trends. As it developed, however it became much more humorous with characters in yoga positions with high heels and smoking cigarettes at the same time.

Eye Lands

1969 • 29 min

"A film produced in Regular 8mm around 1970. At the time this film was very much praised by Stan Brakhage who asked me for a print and urged me to never put a sound track with it." -MO

Eikon

1969 • 3 min • Australia

Timeless elements in a roll of film: stillness, movement, woman, girl, road, wind, sun, leaves. A triptych of a girl who reminds us of the face and figures in old icons.

His Name Is Błażej Rejdak

1969 • 16 min • Poland

The story of a farmer who's also a railway worker, and his family.

Orpheus Filmed on the Battlefield

1969 • 37 min • Spain

In December 1968 I participated in the film Orpheus Shot on the Battlefield, which originated as a collective work, a movie without an author, but which would ultimately be attributed to Antonio Maenza in the end even though he only played the role of the director in the film. The film, which was never provided a soundtrack, was screened on several occasions with a soundtrack performed live consisting of a text for three voices and a number of musical pieces, among which were the “descent into hell” from the opera L’Orfeo by Monteverdi in the version by Edward H. Tarr, released in 1968 by Erato, “New York 1963 – America 1968” from Every One of Us by Eric Burdon and the Animals; and “The Return of the Son of the Monster Magnet” from Freak Out by [Frank Zappa and] The Mothers of Invention. After the “state of emergency” in January 1969, an epilogue was shot but it was never developed.

Memorabilia

1969 • 4 min

16mm, color, 4 min. Dir. Donna Deitch.

Awakener

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

Transition from psychedelics to Meher Baba. Cinema as path to reality.

Aliena Kadabra

1969 • 5 min

Hallelujah

1969 • 46 min • Germany

Hallelujah is one of Kagel's major works, a surreal story about the mouth and it's many permutations. Hands, eyes, lips, tongues, etc are in quite a quandary without means of escape.

Guidebook to Bonn and Environs

1969 • 15 min • Germany

An account of the Nazi background of numerous West German government officials.

Gas Station

1969 • 34 min • United States of America

A Southern Californian gas station is observed over time from fixed and moving perspectives, exploring the distinction between the human experience of space and the ‘objective’ perspective of the camera.

Akbar in Cineland

1969 • 30 min

Ahmad Akbar is a cineast with big projects. He wants to launch a cinema place for Black filmmakers, somewhere in the desert, far from LA and Hollywood. Cineland. That's the name of the place, man. Cineland! Akbar makes the American Dream too - a Black version of the Amercian Dream. The White version was fragile. The Black version is desperate.

Mirror

1969 • 9 min • United States of America

Morris, in a winter landscape, holds a mirror to nature, and to the camera.

Dream Houses

1969 • 4 min

Dream Houses is a 8mm color stop-motion animation that reflects the artist's engagement with the idealism and hope that modernism brought for the Indian middle class and the poor in the Nehruvian sixties. It has also been used in Utopia, Malani's first multiple-screen installation, wherein this film is projected adjacent to the film Utopia, shot after the artist moved to a basic apartment building in a suburb of Bombay. This format allowed her to juxtapose the idealism of the sixties with the later dystopia of urbanism in the seventies.

Life/Death

1969 • 49 min • Germany

A photographic art-film consisting of 42 one by one C-prints edited together and projected over roughly 49 minutes.

Onanism

1969 • 4 min

The 16mm black and white films Onanism and Still Life were the artist's open revolt against the orthodoxy of the traditional mores that restricted female sexuality in 1960s India. In Onanism, Malani used a crane shot while filming a friend prone to hysteria, lying on the ground suffering a series of physical contortions.

America a.k.a. Amerika

1969 • 30 min

"The guerrilla newsreel America a.k.a. Amerika (30 min.) annotates the Eve of Destruction as anti-war teenagers and African American militants talk tough and battle the police, at times to a rock ‘n’ roll beat." - J. Hoberman, Wounded Galaxies: 1968 Festival & Symposium, Indiana University Cinema

Die Hexer von Veyangoda

1969 • 22 min • Switzerland