All Films - Short Movie Database

Join Hands, Let Go!

1969 • 8 min

How many things can you do with YOUR hands?

Binary Bit Patterns

1969 • 3 min • United States of America

Kaleidescopic computer-made film by Michael Whitney. Optically printed from images generated on a digital computer, the film is a delightful burst of vibrant colour, movement and sound, exploring the graphic variations of simple patterns.

Perc! Pop! Sprinkle!

1969 • 11 min • United States of America

Uses common household appliances such as toasters, lawn sprinklers, and popcorn poppers to help visualize physical exercises.

Un Film Provocado Por

1969 • 26 min • France

A bed built by two lovers and then, sleep. Born thanks to Un chant d’amour, by Jean Genet, this short film is an (inspired) response to it.

Reading from Now On

1969 • 8 min

This short film encourages children to keep reading.

Rhodia 4/8

1969 • 4 min

A class struggle " Music Video ", in which Colette Magny sings a song in honor of the workers of the textile factory Rhodiacéta, whose six-week strike in 1967 caused a stir

Long Live the 1st Red and Proletarian May

1969 • 28 min • Italy

Milan, 1 May 1969. A propaganda film produced by the communist organization Servire il popolo.

Carolyn And Me: Part One

1969 • 35 min • United States of America

David and Carolyn Brooks with friends. At Martha's Vineyard, on NYC bus, shooting at the beach, etc. "Was going to tape Carolyn and my first conversation in about 5 months of no contact. Show true love (whatever that is). Couldn't do it. Chickened out. Didn't want to get something between us. (Carolyn, what's come between us?). Film sequence, love: single frame printing, break colors into basic three (in the order of red, green, blue) and A/B roll to create 'well-known symetry' and to lighten frame (AB brightens, bi-pack darkens) / Binarius is the devil / ah, love / one flesh / let no man put asunder." - David Brooks

Pipe Satire

1969 • 2 min • Belgium

Why Not Be Beautiful?

1969 • 20 min

1969 Educational short.

Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey

1969 • 28 min

A black-and-white travel journal, in which the themes of memories and their relationship to the past suddenly catch up and rush away from us. The film is based on a series of portraits of American artists, all of whom belong to a young and politicized generation, presented in static tableaus from their studios, films and home environments.

Walking Man

1969 • 15 min • Japan

A man, from the Zero Jegen group, walks through the streets of Nagoya.

Mouths and Masks

1969 • 5 min • United Kingdom

"In this experimental film from 1969 the seeds are seen of my exploration of the mouth motif, which reached its full expression in the ‘Opening’ exhibit of 1973. I blow on and kiss a mirror, I apply lipstick, I transform into a white statue and paint blood red lips… then I become a mask in a distorted mirror, a face with many lips…In the last sequence I circle my face with a light and transform into the mask." - Penny Slinger

Values: Telling The Truth

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

Rod, Julian, and John walk home from school together. When boys and stones get together, what's the target? By mistake, it is Mrs. Jensen's window.

The Strange But Unknown Star

1969 • 8 min • Netherlands

A ten-year-old girl dressed as a 1920s star gives a performance. She wears a rubber mask, sits in a large, red armchair, and reads magazines that revive actresses from the past. Annette Hanshaw sings in the background. Marlene Dietrich is bombarded with egg, chocolate powder, powdered sugar and currants.

People's Park (Newsreel #33)

1969 • 24 min • United States of America

In the late 1960s the University of California at Berkeley began buying up and destroying a nearby area populated by hippies, the poor, and other members of the "counter culture". In retaliation, the community laid claim to a barren block being used as a parking lot to create a People's Park. The National Guard was called in to occupy Berkeley and a young man was killed. This film documents the infamous struggle resulting in the destruction of the park.

La parole perdue

1969 • 7 min

The soundtrack brings together two voices, one male, one female. The woman seems to encourage the man to say something close to his heart but oppresses. The man seems aphasic, it will first only inarticulate sounds and sighs, then he manages to articulate words which all mean the rejection of war and its horrors. Band image has presented some drawings being traced (we guess, behind the translucent sheet of paper on which they appear, the shadow of the painter who traces, Mélik Ouzani): these drawings expressionist style evoke the sinister military glory, the massacres which are the reverse of the glory.