All Films

Idea assurda per un filmaker - Matilde

1969 • 3 min • Italy

Nebula II

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

Short experimental film by Robert Frerck.

Idea assurda per un filmaker - Luna

1969 • 10 min • Italy

Speed Queen

1969 • 10 min

A personal fantasy. Repeating and recurring images. Grain, hesitation, flash, black, and light rhythm rhythm. –J. D.

Refusila

1969 • 8 min

Refusila (1969) , produced by the Architecture students of the Grupo Experimental de Cine (GEC), offers a chronicle of the social outbreak of 68 through a male and a female voice that imitate the rhetoric and style of radio journalism. This story alternates with silent pauses in which the “ticking” of a clock dramatizes and reinforces the atmosphere of tension. As we get to the month of August, while we see images of student mobilizations, the voices in overthey announce by way of headlines: “250 thousand people fired Líber Arce. New incidents between students and police. Priests denounce the state of violence on the continent.

The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption

1969 • 7 min • Austria

The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introduction for the vaudeville number was an inflammatory impetus. Export provides precise instructions for the use of a wrapped box of chocolate-covered candy produced by the renowned Viennese company Hofbauer. However, she has not made an advertisement for them and their presentation, but instead, she extols the packqge and confection as a work of art. Severe degradation of the surviving tape further blurs our perceptions.

Desert in Sunlight

1969 • 8 min

Electronic music, with tribal rhythms, accompanies the images with overlapping colors. A finger engraves oil colors on a board, creating geometric grooves. Close-ups by the painter Sandro Uboldi, alternating with plays of light.

The Meaning of 1/24 Second

1969 • 11 min • South Korea

The Meaning of 1/24 Second is Korea's first experimental film and was filmed in 1969. This 16mm film in color and black and white is composed of hundreds of inconsistent scenes. Taking the basic structure of the film, which consists of 24 frames per second, The Meaning of 1/24 Second expresses the steep reality faced by modern man, and the sense of alienation that comes from uncontrollable speed. The video file that remained only in digital format since it went missing in 2001 was restored to 16mm film for screening for his retrospective exhibition , which has been held at Seoul Museum of Art, Republic of Korea in 2013, thus providing an opportunity to look back on its meaning.

The Measuring of Time

1969 • 5 min • Italy

In The measuring of Time the counting of grains and sand in the desert, as an instrument of measure, represented an infinite action beyond time.

Minus 1

1969 • 18 min

This videotape was originally made in the television studio in Rochester, NY on a 2-inch Quad broadcast tape in 1969 with a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts as part of a program series which was produced and aired by New York State Educational Television. I created a live event in the television studio using an urban classroom of children and my films and videos. The sound was the children’s spontaneous songs mixed with the repeated countdown of a rocket launching; the conversation between the astronauts and Mission Control and U.S. troops engaged in battle in the Vietnam War. This tape is shown as a non-scripted improvisation. The studio environment and the children were bombarded by media.

Fundeath

1969 • 4 min • Australia

A Super 8 animation made in Melbourne, Australia in 1969; Michael Lee's first film, featuring some popular songs of its time.

II/69 Kunsthalle

1969 • 6 min

A silent film portrait of Kunsthalle Basel, the foremost contemporary art institution in the artist's home town. Unlike "A Study of Relationships Between Inner and Outer Space" realized (also in 1969) by David Lamelas, which opens with a presentation of exhibition spaces, infrastructure and employees of Camden Arts Centre to then move into the city of London and its environs, Mutzenbecher's small odyssey remains contained in and limited to observation of the interiors of the Kunsthalle. The camera pans along the moulding profiles, captures corners of rooms and chevrons of parquet, looks up to skylights, passes through doors - in the complete absence of any exhibited artworks, the space is exposed to the point of exhaustion.

Be Careful Children the Ball Is Not Just Yours

1969 • 6 min

16mm Short Film by Amos Sefer.

Autumn: Frost Country

1969 • 9 min • United States of America

Scenes of autumn in New England in relation to the poetry of Robert Frost. The film features Frost's reading of his popular poetry.

Per una giornata di malumore nazionale

1969 • 24 min • Italy

In one of the three films Gianfranco Baruchello made in 1968 in response to the war in Vietnam, the artist carefully washes hundreds of coins in a bathtub, and then proceeds to cook and serve them at table.

An Old Time Country Christmas

1969 • 60 min

Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, The Wilburn Brothers, Loretta Lynn, Jim Ed Brown, Del Reeves and more gather for a holiday special from Nashville in 1969.

Armored Reconnaissance - Airborne Assault Vehicle M551

1969 • 21 min

This vintage U.S. Army instructional film, made for tank crews in training, demonstrates the proper procedures for identifying and engaging targets with the Sheridan M551 light battle tank.

Slow Motion

1969 • 18 min • United States of America

Made for Art by Telephone – an exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969. Morris simply dictated instructions for the making of the film. Despite this conceptual origin, it is also an essentially cinematic ‘performance’, exploiting slow motion, tight framing and an implicit analogy between the transparent glass door against which the figure pushes, and the screen or image surface. The repetitions and variations, the use of gesture, weight and force, give the performance a dance-like gravity.

Anno 2000 - Seconda Parte

1969 • 13 min • Italy

Brebbia’s film shot in his native town is a mix of footage from the historical core of Varese that has to give way shortly to new residential areas and building sites. The major focal points of the camera eye are young people huddled on the main square, Piazza del Podesta. Fleeting details of their facial expressions, held for an extra second before they vanish, focus on musings about lives of the locals in the year 2000.

The Late Show

1969 • 12 min • United Kingdom

An incision into the complacent, mass media world, The Late Show is a potent, provocative short film made up of only one long, carefully composed shot. And it does a lot with a little. Tracing the room of an African American man - a member of the Black Panthers - it sets up his world and contrasts it with the lifestyles promoted by late-night television, highlighting the structural violence, division and alienation.

The Whirlpool

1969 • 4 min

16mm short by Laura Grisi.

Laguna Brava

1969 • 17 min • Argentina

Horacio Quintana through his work he reveals a high interest in the cultural by rescuing traditions that are disappearing.

Romeo and Juliet

1969 • 10 min • Poland

In this story told by cutouts, the Capulet family feuds with the Montague family while their children Romeo and Juliet fall in love.

Aqua Rondo

1969 • 10 min • Canada

Synchronized swimming, one of the most graceful sports, is a natural for the colour screen. This film, using multi-image photography, shows some of Canada's best water ballet in team and solo free-style competition.