All Films

Split

1969 • 16 min

David Avidan was perhaps most known as one of Israel’s leading poets of the 1950s and ‘60s however, at the same time, he was also dabbling in quite a bit of experimental filmmaking. Avidan described Split as "a film about the need to get rid of film," in which he explores the line between visual media and the written word.

The Girl with the Green Dress (The Female Christ I)

1969 • 10 min • Denmark

Streets of Paris

1969 • 47 min • United States of America

Naive virginal American hippie chick Roxanne Miller visits Paris, France and has various bawdy sexual misadventures in the city of love.

Fauna, Flora, Fledermaus

1969 • 14 min

A young gas station attendant falls in love with the flower seller across the street. Every day he buys flowers from her until one day his apartment is full of them. So he decides to write her a letter. Because he doesn't really succeed, he tears it up again. He sees no way out but to drown himself, but that doesn't work either...

Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano No. 466: Celebration of the VI Amateur World Series in the Dominican Republic. Cuba-USA Final.

1969 • 10 min

¡Yankis, Go Home!

Three Attention Studies

1969 • 9 min

In 'Looking Around Piece', the performer stands before a fixed camera, which records his eye and head movements as he follows a moving object outside the frame. In 'Starting Piece', the performer starts too far away to be captured by the camera; as he walks down the hill, he gradually enters the frame. In 'Catching Up', the performer and cameraman walk side by side across a field. Sometimes the performer falls as the camera continues its pace; the performer must make an effort to catch up and return into the frame.

Kungur ice cave

1969 • 12 min

In the depths of the Ice mountain Kungur ice cave has hidden. Beauty, greatness and history of the cave's exploration are reflected in names of the grottos: Brilliant, Cosmic, Dante, Ruins, Geologists, Brave, Giant, Polar. But how did such magic as ice diamonds, pearls and silver appear?

The New-Ark

1969 • 25 min • United States of America

Beginning as a city-symphony of Newark streets, buildings, and people set to wordless chanting, The New-Ark quickly arrives at its political imperatives: Black Power must be accomplished through nationalism, and "a nation is organization." The film focuses on black education, urban public theater, and political consciousness-raising inside and outside of Spirit House - director Amiri Baraka's Black nationalist community center.

Dance of Bojnourd

1969 • 5 min

First work of Iranian director, Sohrab Shahid Saless.

La autonomía ha muerto

1969 • 3 min • Venezuela

In 1969, the Renovación Universitaria movement and the subsequent raid on the Central University of Venezuela by the government of Rafael Caldera, triggered a strong wave of protest in the Institutes of Higher Education in Venezuela. This documentary collects part of the events that took place in the city of Mérida, Mérida State, where the University of the Andes is located.

Osdorfer Born. Werbefilm für die “Hamburger Bautage 1969”

1969 • 11 min • Germany

On the occasion of the »Construction Days« in the autumn of 1969, the Hamburg Building Authority commissioned five HFBK film students to film one Hamburg commercial each. Christian Bau opted for a critical portrait of Osdorfer Born, Hamburg's first large-scale, prefabricated housing estate, which had been built from 1967 by Neue Heimat, SAGA and other housing companies on the western edge of the city. The images, shot on 16mm, were accompanied by interview passages and a text taken from SAGA's housing construction program. The client was less than enthusiastic, the film disappeared into a closet for decades and can now be shown for the first time in the cinema.

Tidy up at Night

1969 • 1 min

Tidy your shit up fool

Koduküla

1969 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Pictures of Estonian village life in the second half of the 20th century. Against the backdrop of the seasons, people in the countryside are working their farms. Mostly these are old people. Villages are becoming empty and old farmhouses are falling apart.

Pescadores

1969 • 24 min • Argentina

A survey on the economic exploitation of Paraná fishermen.

Scary Beast

1969 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Amon Duul II: Plays Phallus Dei

1969 • 28 min

Directed by German filmmaker Rüdiger Nüchtern, this behind-the-scenes rock documentary captures Amon Düül II, as the progressive rockers record their debut album, "Phallus Dei," in a Munich recording studio in 1968. Blending performance footage with a collection of psychedelic nature clips, Nüchtern's meditative film captures the true essence of the legendary krautrock collective. The movie premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Impudence in Grunewald

1969 • 12 min • Austria

A subversive and experimental film from Otmar Bauer and Günter Brus.

Jimi Hendrix - Live at the Royal Albert Hall

1969 • 40 min

This is the much-bootlegged Royal Albert Hall show from London, filmed on Feb. 24, 1969. The show has never been released commercially but has always been popular on the underground circuit.

My Mtn. Song 27 Part II: Rivers

1969 • 33 min • United States of America

Second Part of Song 27 (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Prince Ruperts Drops

1969 • 7 min

"Two repetitive, banal rhythmic acts - as it were from the observe and reverse of a phenakistiscope disk - factored and expanded into a cinema filmstrip. Note: Prince Ruperts Drops are not a confection or a nose candy, but a physical demonstration of extreme internal stresses in equilibrium." - HF

Mai 68, la belle ouvrage

1969 • 52 min • France

Filmed at the heart of the events, composed of interviews and exclusive archives, this film sheds light on this social revolution. It denounces police brutality at the forefront of the action. Beginning with General de Gaulle's famous speech, composed of interviews and powerful testimonies from opposing camps (world figures, barricade activists, artists, and students), the film transports us to the heart of the action.

Apocalipopótese

1969 • 9 min • Brazil

Apocalipopótese documents a public art happening organized by Rogério Duarte with Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Pape. Duarte coined the event’s title by fusing the words apotheosis, hypothesis, and apocalypse, in order to describe a series of artistic actions that distanced themselves from artistic institutions to approach the streets as the main stage. Apocalipopótese shows a search for the margins as creative methodology.

The Star Curtain Tantra

1969 • 18 min • United States of America

A trance film originally released in 1966 as THE STAR CURTAIN, about the settling and relaxation of the senses after a climax. "Sentences" of cosmic imagery were added in 1969 to form the vision glimpsed in the trance. Dialectic opposition of picture and sound. TANTRA played at the San Francisco Film Festival of 1970.

Armando

1969 • 37 min • Bulgaria

Yanko, a young partisan, arrives in a small coastal town. He has to carry out a mission and return to his unit immediately. However, he runs into Armando, a former schoolmate. The guitarist Armando is genuinely overjoyed. He throws back a glass or two, plies his friend with questions, and indulges in memories. Yanko's heart is torn between conflicting emotions: Should he kill Armando and thus avoid the risk of detection? On the other hand, should he take a chance and spare his onetime friend? In a moment of lucidity, Armando realizes the tight spot that he is in. He offers the partisan his own, better clothes and wishes him god luck. Just when Armando is at his happiest, the police, who have mistaken him for the outlaw they want, shoot him.