All Films

Stand Up and Be Counted

1969 • 2 min

A continuous dissolve into a series of happy nude couples in various configurations: female/male, female/female, male/male, as the Rolling Stones sing 'We Love You'. –F.

Fascinations

1969 • 6 min • Romania

1969 Animation by Sabin Balasa

Film Ambiente

1969 • 17 min

Film installation by Marinella Pirelli.

Nico: Evening of Light

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

Shot as a proposed short film behind Iggy Pop's Ann Arbor, MI estate and summarily rejected by Elektra Records as promotional material for Nico's 1968 album, The Marble Index, Evening of Light is a gothic fantasy in a barren cornfield. Nico's song of the same name accompanies the eerie visuals.

La la brun brum

1969 • 6 min • Italy

The DC Five Memorial Film

1969 • 9 min

THE DC FIVE MEMORIAL FILM is structured in five sections: a young man writhing in ecstasy in a deserted house in Massachusetts; rephotographed home movies of my childhood in 1953 Connecticut; footage shot at my farm in upstate New York in the summer of 1969, as some friends of mine share cigarettes in the woods; a party at the Sanctuary Discotheque in the summer of 1969, photographed using the same reel of color film reloaded into the camera at least seven or eight times; and finally the apotheosis of the work, in which a group of young women, arms linked, walk through the Port Authority Bus Terminal in the dead of night.

Crimean Legend

1969 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The animation was shot based on the folk tale about Ayu-Dag (Bear Mountain).

Bathroom

1969 • 25 min

Bathroom shows a somewhat seedy bathroom, beginning with a stab at seeing it “objectively” that soon fails; the forms descend into what I hope is a terrifying, even self-destroying irrationality. One inspiration was the long take depiction of madness at the end of Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour; another, the two out-of-focus shots of the altar near the end of Douglas Sirk’s The First Legion.

Doubutsu Mura no Kodomo-tachi

1969 • 21 min • Japan

The mayor of the animal village, Mr. Goat, has a big news. He says that a train will run through the animal village and the roads will be widened. Everyone is happy that the village will become more lively, but one after another, traffic accidents occur, and rules are made.

Baptism

1969 • 8 min • United States of America

A Mexican boy lost his parents in a fire. Terribly disfigured, he wanders through the country looking for shelter. After being turned away several times, he comes to an orphanage. The young community welcomes him. A parable shows that baptism also means acceptance into the community of Christians.

En julsaga

1969 • 17 min • Sweden

Christmas 1968 in Stockholm. A lot of people are working and promoting an alternative christmas. They gather to talk, paint and play music together.

Old Man, Young Man

1969 • 5 min • Hungary

Al Di Là Della Pittura

1969 • 12 min

16mm film by Marinella Pirelli.

Molds and How They Grow

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

In this educational film, laboratory demonstrations show the effects of moisture and temperature on the growth of molds. Photomicrography reveals the structure of molds: hyphae, mycelium, spore balls, spores. Beginning with spores on a rice culture, time-lapse photography shows the formation of a new colony.

Nuovo Paradiso

1969 • 8 min

16mm film by Marinella Pirelli.

The Mole and the Chewing Gum

1969 • 7 min • Czechoslovakia

The Mole finds chewing gum.

Multiple Aspects

1969 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Captures the work of completely modernising and remodelling the track and signal approaches to Paddington Station in five weeks, showing the important co-ordination, planning and interdepartmental co-operation.

How Much Is That Worth?

1969 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Portrait of a conductor and his job, who also works smaller jobs on the side, in order to earn enough money for his family.

2nd Asian Expo

1969 • 21 min • Iran

video report of the 2nd Asian international trade fair ran from 5 to 24 October 1969 in Tehran-Iran.

The Bear and the Hare

1969 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Windstill

1969 • 12 min • Germany

Figures in a side-scrolling landscape.

Cybernetic Play on Haydn's Symphony in E-Flat ("The Schoolmaster")

1969 • 6 min

Film of a kinetic, sound-activated "Cybernetic Sculpture" developed by Wen-Ying Tsai. One part of an eight film collaboration between WGBH, Boston, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and eight visual artists which explores new ways of presenting symphonic music over television. Each artist was commissioned to create a workvisually interpreting a segment of music selected by themselves from the Orchestra's recorded repertoire. Produced at WGBH by Fred Barzyk.

Cabunia

1969 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Little girl is looking for her father, who went to war, among the wounded soliders in the Samtredia station. No one knows her father, but one solider tell "his stories" to the girl In order to not lose the hope

Living stone

1969 • 12 min

This documental film is about ural stonecutters Anatolyi and Faina Ovchinnikovy, Arkadyi Shadrin and Valerian Vlasov. Kungur is proud of it's stonecutting industry.Following artistic traditions masters create original author pieces from alabaster, anhydrite, soapstone and calcite. One of the most mysterious stones is selenite