All Films

Chukokkala

1969 • 28 min • Soviet Union

At his dacha in Peredelkino, children's author Korney Chukovsky showcases a handwritten album containing myriad autographs from famous and not-so-famous Soviet writers, artists, theater figures, and other celebrities.

The Mountain Song

1969 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Long, long ago, at the foot of the high mountains, lived a brother and sister. They lived in harmony, worked hard, but at the end of each day, they always found time to sing their favorite song. The sister especially loved to sing. All the local villagers loved the songs of this heroine — all except one cunning villain.

Oslofilm: Og avisen dør med døgnet

1969 • 11 min • Norway

Everyday, journalists have many tasks to do, from interview to the finished newspaper. The actualities live until the day is over, and the newspaper eventually ends up on the ground as yesterday's news.

The Cropped Devil

1969 • 27 min • Soviet Union

Returning home from school, a village boy saw a military man with a dog. The smart and handsome guard dog immediately attracted the boy. When it turned out that the border guard was taking this kind-hearted creature to a veterinary clinic to put it to sleep, the situation became really critical. The outraged child tried to take the shepherd dog for himself, but it was not at all easy to do so...

Ponytail

1969 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About the little boy Ponytail and his adventures. Based on a Kazakh folk tale.

Case Study: Barbiturates

1969 • 2 min • United States of America

A man talks about addiction to barbiturates.

Per aspera ad astra

1969 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

Short movie where a little old man trying to get up from the toilet. He gets a helping hand.

Once Upon a Sunday

1969 • 10 min • United Kingdom

The disappointment of youthful love, as the gritty realism of the early 1960s stands in stark contrast with the fantasies of the later 1960s.

Anamnesis

1969 • 16 min • Netherlands

Film in three parts. A man and a woman, Trix Zwartjes and Lodewijk de Boer (Zwartjes’s regular actors) circle around each other in a house and outside at the water side. They attract and reject each other.

Lydia

1969 • 41 min • Switzerland

He took up the camera as other people take the pencil and paper. In 1968 he presented his first film Lydia at the Solothurner Filmtage. His appearance as a Filmmaker was absolutely unexpected: the only lyric poet of the film, who succeeded virtually without effort in turning his inner life outwards, creating dreamlike images. With a juvenile absoluteness, innocently arrogant, the pale, gaunt man had put the following sentence in the festival paper: "Look, what kind of a film Reto Andrea Savoldelli has created for you with five thousand Swiss Francs." He pitched himself as "First exponent of the Swiss Immigrant's Cinema". (Martin Schaub)

The Shepherd

1969 • 9 min • United States of America

Oscar nominated short cartoon from 1969. A shepherd, who wants to be left alone to pursue his career, finally faces the reality that there are no jobs for shepherds. He sends his sheep to the country and takes a correspondence course to train for a new career.

23​/69: Underground Explosion

1969 • 5 min • Austria

A report about an Underground Festival on tour through Germany and Switzerland.

Reverberation

1969 • 23 min • United States of America

"Reverberation began as an attempt at a portrayal, a representing of a life situation by way of film, and turned in the making of it into a presentation of the physical movement of film itself, stranding the photo-memory of persons/objects/their relationships in a cinematic force-field wherein images are offered up and simultaneously swept away by conflicting energies. Sound as it comes from a speaker has its own quality. No matter how close it comes in reproducing sound of living beings or objects, this quality is always the sound of the projector, the wires, the tubes and the speakers. This is its actuality. And it can be heard and experienced as sound, a form of energy." -Ernie Gehr

Nelda

1969 • 4 min • Italy

A woman sits, smokes, and reads in various states of 16mm exposure.

One Flight Up

1969 • 5 min

ONE FLIGHT UP is both the name of this documentary portrait and the title of a piece by artist Alex Katz. The work-of-the-same-name figures prominently (or, more accurately, entirely) in the film-of-the-same-name.

Permian Strata

1969 • 4 min • United States of America

A film he made in 1969 that rarely gets discussed, and is only barely mentioned even in the monograph 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II. This excellent tome contains close analysis by Bruce Jenkins of film-school staples like A Movie and Looking For Mushrooms as well as of later works like Valse Triste and Take the 5:10 to Dreamland. The 1969 film is called Permian Strata, a title which works in conjunction with the images and the song that makes up the film's soundtrack to form a colossal pun. So often experimental film gets pigeonholed as overly serious, boring, stuffy, or requiring an expertise in filmmaking processes to fully appreciate.

Transparency

1969 • 11 min

"The footage for Transparency was recorded at variable camera speeds (from approx. 5 fps to around 40 fps). In this process, when later projected at a constant speed of 24 fps, the image on screen changes in time from a representation of cars passing in front of the camera to an image in flux and a collision of transparent colors and dynamic motion. One might also think of it as a rendering and transformation of one industrial phenomena (the automobile), by another industrial phenomena (the motion picture camera). What arises – as an experience – when 'visual phenomena' starts, thrives, and ends within the 4 borders of the rectangle and we do not project extensions to them? How startling when occasionally, and just for a moment, a bird enters the frame, and creates 'space' against a light blue 'sky'." – Ernie Gehr

Last Day of Angels Flight

1969 • 3 min • United States of America

A short film by Robert Kirste about the Angels Flight Railway in Bunker Hill.

Nissan Ariana Window

1969 • 14 min • United States of America

"NISSAN ARIANA WINDOW is 3/4's of our daughter's name. She was just kid when these pictures were taken. Some were taken before she was born: pregnant Flo together with pregnant cat China sunning themselves under the skylight. Andrew Noren likes the movie." - Ken Jacobs

Annie

1969 • 8 min • United States of America

Niblock's portrait of the dancer Ann Danoff set to the soundtrack of a concrète collage by Max Neuhaus.

Un film

1969 • 60 min • France

This autobiographical film portrays a regression to life in the womb and represents three psychic states.

Drought

1969 • 6 min • Poland

Tiny human figures building bridges using wooden logs - and then the whole operation is put into context.

Yesterday’s Stars

1969 • 8 min • France

A brief tribute to those that have haunted a moment of film history, stars of yesterday: Garbo, Del Rio, Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Lupe Velez, Sylvia Sydney, Louise Rainer, etc.

Zodiak

1969 • 14 min • Germany

Short film about slackers in Berlin.