All Films

Erwin, Toni, Ilse

1969 • 9 min

Filmed photo portraits Erwin, Toni, Ilse, is one of Friedl Kubelka’s first films. Influenced by the Nouvelle Vague and Existentialism, it was shot in the late 1960s at 16 frames per second and have not been edited.

Five Films

1969 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Five experimentations with film as a medium, a physical object and a record of social reality.

Carolyn And Me: Part Two

1969 • 35 min

David and Carolyn Brooks and friends. Walking in woods, at picnic, in VW bus, 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

Beginning Responsibility: Getting Ready For School

1969 • 11 min

Ricky, who suffers from an extraordinary array of bad habits, learns how to get ready for school by emulating his much more successful friend, Pete. From the series "Beginning Responsibility" by Coronet.

Scheiss-Kerl

1969 • 8 min • Austria

Another try by the Viennese actionists around Otto Mühl, trying to shock the middle-class bourgeoisie with all sorts of explicit sexual and excretory processes.

Carolyn And Me: Part Three

1969 • 35 min

David and Carolyn Brooks and friends. At Tibetan seminar, prison, Chandler Moore's house, 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

The Little Mongrel

1969 • 7 min • Poland

Adventures of a small dachshund.

Whose Shoes?

1969 • 4 min • United States of America

a close look at shoes

Toes Tell

1969 • 6 min

a close look at toes

Black Balls

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

In this film, Nauman applies black makeup to his testicles. The action was recorded with an industrial high-speed camera capable of shooting between one thousand and four thousand frames per second.

Ancientry

1969 • 2 min • Netherlands

Ancientry is an early film by Paul de Mol. He films a vase that is on the edge of a pond in a park. While filming, Mole makes frequent use of the ‘single frame shot’ – an extremely short shot that consists of only of one frame, which is the building block of film. Occasionally the bombardment of images makes way for a longer shot, which enhances the contrast and gives the viewer a moment of rest.

The Urban Crisis and the New Militants: Module 6 - Black Moderates and Black Militants

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

Black Moderates and Black Militants documents an unrehearsed conversation between three members of the Chicago Chapter of the Black Panther Party, including future congressman Bobby Rush, and the principal of an African American high school. The two groups respectfully debate the varied strategies for ending racism.

The Man of Salt

1969 • 12 min • Colombia

The documentary chronicles the methods of work in relation to pre-Columbian man and the current farmer.

Mexican Americans: The Invisible Minority

1969 • 37 min • United States of America

With narration and commentary by Dr. Ernesto Galarza, this film presents the Mexican-American civil rights movement in the Southwestern United States, and introduces community leaders and activists, including footage of Rudolfo "Corky" Gonazles and Cesar Chavez. Special emphasis is given to the challenges faced by newly urban Mexican Americans - rural farm workers who moved into cities where they could not compete for jobs, resulting in a large population confronted with a high poverty rate and its accompanying complications - poor education, substandard housing, and inadequate health care.

Name of a Man

1969 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

The film, among other things, is about the division of sofra, which was eaten by 86 members of a large family because of their deceived daughter-in-law and then the amid. After splitting instead of one, a fire will be lit on several hearths. After that, the land is broken and divided, and when the land is divided, the hayvan is broken, so there are not one of the eight oxen ... and in the evening they returned home to feed their children.

Hank and Mary Without Apologies

1969 • 17 min • United States of America

This film belongs to Higgins' 'hard series', meaning that the formal structure is relatively inflexible. The colors shift from the normal to their complements, producing extraordinary after-images, and this is done to a pulse by means of over 3000 splices to the films. The sound is from a tape recording of the Ray Gun Specs at the Judson Church in 1960, and in which Higgins was one of the featured Happenings artists. –D. H.

Space in the Brain

1969 • 25 min • Sweden

Image analysis in slow motion. Distortion and reversed reality perspective.

The Empire of Things

1969 • 21 min

Haikuesque impressions of things observed, events remembered, nightmares experienced. . . the sky bursts in spectral madness.

Supervisuell

1969 • 8 min • Switzerland

Wisconsin

1969 • 15 min

For Wisconsin, Morris directed a large group of students to run, wander, collide, and form piles in certain patterns on another snowy field. Though their movements hint at mass hysteria, mass hypnosis, and, when they collapse in sequence, mass murder, the film ultimately celebrates the joy of participation.

Bananas

1969 • 1 min • United States of America

Two bananas meet and fall in love.

Fellinikon

1969 • 35 min • Italy

Gideon Bachmann documents the making of Fellini Satyricon

L'Impôt, et tout et tout

1969 • 15 min • Canada

Ego

1969 • 11 min • Italy

An “ordinary” man leaves his small, colorless everyday life for a nighttime dream world – a battleground of imaginative graphics. Society’s taboos are visualized in the dreams - sometimes poetic, sometimes erotic and sometimes violent.