All Films

Porträtfilm: Kurt Kren

1969 • 3 min

Ludwig Schönherr | Federal Republic of Germany | 1969 | 18 fps | 3'25" | silent

Computer Movie No.1

1969 • 8 min • Japan

Computer Movie No. 1 is a CGI animation created by the Computer Technique Group Japan.

The Accompaniment

1969 • 29 min • France

A musician has to compose a commissioned work for a film. But his mind is guided by external solicitations that constantly divert him from his work.

Amén Jesús

1969 • 9 min • Spain

An experimental and iconoclastic journey through the Spanish Holy Week in the late sixties.

The Song

1969 • 5 min • Czechoslovakia

Animated short inspired by 'Yellow Submarine'.

Moments

1969 • 11 min • Soviet Union

A documentary film about Antanas Sutkus.

Return from Paradise

1969 • 44 min • Yugoslavia

The first Macedonian TV drama produced by TV Skopje.

Muffled Dafs

1969 • 30 min • Yugoslavia

Short music film dedicated to the pre-WW2 performer Sofka Nikolić.

Shetland Pony

1969 • 31 min

The rearing of Shetland ponies on island crofts, showing each stage of "a year in the life of Shetland ponies", from winter months to foaling and sale at market. An educational film that captures the strong nature of these small ponies.

Berkeley Bath Brothel

1969 • 30 min

This film is a reconstruction of a Bath Brothel as illustrated in a Mediaeval Manuscript painting.

Safe on the Track?

1969 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Intended for training railway permanent way men, capturing how men working on the track react as a train approaches.

Nütuayin Mapu

1969 • 10 min • Chile

"Nütuayin Mapu", which in Mapuche language means "Let's recover our land", is a documentary about the Mapuche conflict and the struggle of the Revolutionary Peasant Movement and the inhabitants of Camp Lautaro, who in the face of the precarious Chilean legislation seek to recover the ancestral land that belongs to them through the displacement of fences and land seizure.

Öland and Gotland

1969 • 42 min

Beautiful nature experimental film that shows the extraordinary natural experiences that can be seen on the Swedish islands Öland and Gotland respectively. Also footage of significant ancient monuments and sights.

Retrato de una artista como ser humano

1969 • 16 min • Argentina

Experimental documentary by the artist, showing various happenings carried out over the years with Marie Louise Alemann and Walther Mejía. As a ritual, the various elements involved in these events are thrown into a river. A film in the form of a personal diary that documents artistic events that took place over a period of time.

Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

1969 • 11 min • United Kingdom

"1969 period. In the beginning of this experimental film a figure in white ascends spiral staircases and escalators and moves away from the camera down endless tunnels and corridors. A model in a black leotard is painted white, turned into art. Another is filmed as she ascends to a rooftop, then confronts herself in a mirror in a corner of a room. As Alice went through the glass, so in the last section there are two women reflecting each other instead of just the one." - Penny Slinger

Note to Pati

1969 • 7 min • United States of America

Something of an aesthetic convergence between the diaristic autobiographies and quotidian images of Jonas Mekas (as illustrated in his Diaries, Notes and Sketches chronicles) and the hand crafted dissonance and material violence of Stan Brakhage, “Note to Pati” presents a seemingly typical winter scene – the day after a snow storm as a suburban neighborhood digs out from under the accumulation and children make the most of an unexpected day off from school by playing in their winter wonderland. Saul Levine’s images are diffused, faded, and ephemeral, made all the more dissociating by Levine’s disorienting rapid cut editing, restless and twitching camerawork, and destabilized, quick pan sequences – an evocation of a transitory and wide-eyed innocence. —filmref.com

Leo Beuerman

1969 • 13 min • United States of America

Leo Beuerman is a 1969 American short documentary film directed by Gene Boomer. It tells the story of Leo Beuerman (1902–1974), a diminutive, disabled man who sold pencils and became a fixture on the downtown sidewalks of Lawrence, Kansas in the 1950s and 1960s thanks to his determination. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

The Most Holy Brotherhood

1969 • 12 min • Colombia

The High Holy Brothers is a documentary on a mysterious Messianic cult formed by peasants who fled the violence of the forties/fifties in Colombia and are admitted to live in the mountains of southern Tolima. Its members dress in sacks, they have their own dialect and regard everything as “Blessed”, minus the right side of the body, which castrated covering it with the “holy coat”. This group rejects all elements of the consumer society, established institutions, the state, church and political parties.

Uhuka, The Little Owl

1969 • 7 min • Hungary

Story about a family of baby owls who live in a hollow tree. One owlet refuses to learn proper owl skills, and spends his time looking at television until he is forced to take care of himself.

The Stairs

1969 • 7 min • Poland

A figure wanders through a world of endless stairs, seeking purpose to his monotonous existence.

Wind of Jinn

1969 • 17 min • Iran

This documentary shows the Zaar tradition in Bandar Lengeh in south of Iran. It is kind of local dancing and singing to exorcist the Jinn from people who believe to be possessed by evil.

Liber Arce, liberarse

1969 • 10 min • Uruguay

Liber Arce, a student, was killed by the police in a protest march. His funeral became the largest demonstration held in Montevideo. The events leading up to and after this event are portrayed.

Dune Bug

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

The Ant is spending his vacation at the beach, but the Aardvark sniffs him out. A beligirent Life Guard mistakes Aardvark for a dog a repeatedly kicks him off the beach. Ultimately Aardvark is send off to the Dog Pound.

Circle

1969 • 29 min

Circle is a 28-minute film, structured in three parts. Appropriately described by Gene Youngblood as an “extended haiku,” the film weaves elusive meaning out of simple form.