All Films

The Day of Saint Valentine

1969 • 4 min

Short movie based on Picnic at Hanging Rock

Hides and Strings

1969 • 6 min • India

A short film on the traditional art and craft of making the musical instruments Sitar and Tabla.

Palm Sunday

1969 • 11 min

Impressionistic short student film set on the title day.

Moments Ago

1969 • 5 min

"Nancy and I were aware that our daughter Jennifer was getting ready to walk. She'd push her stroller around with great determination, and so I did some 'home movie' filming to document her efforts. On impulse, I also shot some images of Nancy, along with bits of our living surround, and built a curious little B&W film comprised of both 'positive' and 'negative' images. Something about worlds of the adults and the infant as different. Maybe that. Got it printed. Decided it needed more. Shot some color footage. Re-edited. This went on and off for a few years. Moments and moments of it. Finally I decided it had some cohesiveness. You might agree, or not. And Jennifer now teaches third graders and has two kids in college. Oohblah -di - Oohbla- dah!" —Abbott Meader

Hinterland Who's Who: Ruffed Grouse

1969 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the ruffed grouse.

ELECTRONIC GEMISCHT (Sonate für 4 Fernseher)

1969 • 27 min

Ludwig Schönherr | Federal Republic of Germany | 1968-69 | 18 fps | 26'48" | silent.

Routine

1969 • 19 min

Routine unfolds like an uninterrupted long take, and depicts a taxi ride from Tsim Sha Tsui Pier to the office of the Chinese Student Weekly in Kowloon Tong. It shows the street scenes of Hong Kong in 1968 and the state of mind of a Hong Kong young man after the 1967 Riot.

Her

1969 • 3 min • Italy

"Her was shot as my contribution to a collective film of the Italian Film-makers' Cooperative, "Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante", which started out as a Dadaist protest against police brutality. I used a "Newsweek" cutting about the Chicago Convention riots, about a woman being beaten up, and isolated in every line a symbolic word, which returns in the second part with an extension of its original meaning. I remember showing it with an 8mm projector at the USIS Rome Library in winter 1970 as part of a concert of American music." Massimo Bacigalupo

Les Fleurs de macadam

1969 • 3 min • Canada

In this film, Jean-Pierre Ferland sings Les Fleurs de macadam, about the industrial workers of Montréal who are tied to the grind and grime of the city.

Retour d'enfance

1969 • 14 min • Netherlands

Photos and film footage are edited, damaged, scratched, and painted. The original images are only vaguely recognizable, as if they are already part of our ‘tainted’ memory. The film was made in response to the death of Janis Joplin.

Kastoria

1969 • 24 min • Greece

The third part of the informal “excursion” to Macedonia – that began with Macedonian Wedding (1960) and continued with Thasos (1961) – Kastoria, with its foreign traveler on horseback seeking a fairy in the modern but rather timeless everyday life of the Macedonian city, closes a perfect cycle of uncompromising documentation right as the curtain rings down on the 1960s. Takis Kanellopoulos has now definitively exchanged history for myth (and its representation), and here he uses it as a bridge between past and present, finally mythologizing a city which, through his gaze, regains anew the characteristics of a rare Greekness, carved from Byzantine ghosts, ancient Greek outbursts, materials of soil and water that are stateless yet deeply rooted in a Greece that remains to be discovered.

Moje ruke na tvojim bedrima

1969 • 10 min

A game of two lovers. One of the eternal themes, it is told with a sense of humor and for a comic portrait of the heroes of this game.

Avant-Garde Prayer

1969 • 10 min • Italy

An artist's self-portrait problematizing the choice between tradition and the avant-garde, between being free or being disciplined.

The Art of Exaggeration: Designs for Sweet Charity by Edith Head

1969 • 8 min • United States of America

Edith Head exhibits her process for the costume design for "Sweet Charity" (1969)

Percussion Sounds

1969 • 17 min

This creative educational film by Pieter Van Deusen features a variety of percussion instruments performed by noted musicians Bruno Hoffmann, Eric Remsen, and Taranath Rao. The film crew included Les Blank and Skip Gerson. This film was part of a music film series for Churchill Films: Wind Sounds, Percussion Sounds, and an offshoot film by Pieter with Les Blank entitled Christopher Tree.

Skyjacker

1969 • 9 min

Mostly animated from 35mm slides, Skyjacker slips to a dream world of Ohio woods, British Columbia winter, and New York. A critical aspect to film work that interested me was the second phase effort found in the editing choices. While placing two still photographs next to each other creates a combined effect that neither image transmits alone, the editorial options in cinema are considerably more complicated.

Are you...?

1969 • 28 min • Finland

A dramatized enlightenment documentary from 1969 that fictionally depicts homosexuality. It was censored at the time on the basis of an incitement clause and was presented only in 1999. At the beginning of the program, psychiatrist Claes Andersson defines the characteristics of different sexual identities.

Suite

1969 • 7 min • Hungary

The film employs Hungarian folk patterns of decorating art to express the message, atmosphere and rhythm of a chorus version of five Hungarian folk songs.

Black Like Me

1969 • 60 min • Soviet Union

John Griffin, made up as black, learns what the life of a black-skinned man in the USA is like.

Black Spiral

1969 • 11 min

A high-contrast spiraling white light [which] shimmers, radiates, contracts, twists in orgasmic ecstasy, dwindles to nothing, and blazes forth again on the black video field.

It's Your Accident

1969 • 24 min • United States of America

A film about safety in the feedmill and around heavy machinery. Points out that a person's mood can affect their judgment and lead to accidents.

Sheep, Sheep, Sheep

1969 • 12 min

Moods, rhythms, and images of sheep. Natural sounds without commentary. The slowly grazing sheep shuffle, gather, and begin flowing through the valley, a soft, blurry river of wool. They stop, clump together, collect their feet, and lie down quietly to chew their cuds. Sleep. Awake! Pressing together along the road; moving to the highlands, hooves thundering; voices yowling. Fresh grass. Ewes call their lambs. Bouncing over nothing, bleating, the lambs search out their mothers. Milk. Heads banging, the lambs play. pushing, jostling, and scurrying together into the darkness.

boxed-in

1969 • 9 min • United States of America

This slow-motion film is a glass snow globe with dancers who topple and bounce off the sides of the frame. Re-purposed at a later retrospective, projected on the side of a white cup.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

1969 • 10 min • Soviet Union