All Films

Ala

1969 • 12 min • United States of America

Documents Harpur College's Afro-Latin Alliance.

Samuel Beckett - Mute Interview

1969 • 2 min

A wordless, silent interview with Samuel Beckett for Swedish Television after Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Uruguay 1969: El Problema de la Carne

1969 • 21 min • Uruguay

After the meat industry workers stop receiving 2 kilograms of meat a day as a part of their salary, they organize the biggest strike in Uruguayan history. Images of farms. Meeting at the workers' society. Relations between the Uruguayan economic and political leaders and the United States. Scenes of decay and misery. Workers' demonstrations. Clashes between police and demonstrators.

Abbruch

1969 • 16 min • Switzerland

The film was found in the estate of HHK Schoenherr and digitized as part of the "Swiss Film Experiments" research project. The title is taken from the label on the film canister. The film does not appear on any HHK Schoenherr filmography. The attribution to HHK Schoenherr's films is questionable.

The Way We See It

1969 • 59 min

Ed Pincus and David Neuman were commissioned by Public Television to do a film on a Hispanic film project on the Lower East Side of New York City where disadvantaged kids were given the opportunity to make their own films.

How They Dug the Victoria Line

1969 • 40 min • United Kingdom

First transmitted in 1969, this documentary follows the construction of the world’s most advanced underground system. Macdonald Hastings narrates the story of one of the most complex tunnel engineering feats of its time. He reveals the isolation felt by the miners who spent six years burrowing deep beneath the streets of London, shows what they did beneath one of London's most famous department stores and explains why the ground at Tottenham Court Road had to be frozen during the hottest weeks of 1966. The result is a brave new world of transport with automated trains, two way mirrors, automatic fare collection and closed-circuit television, all choreographed by a computer programme played out by an updated version of a pianola located in a control room somewhere near Euston station.

Made in USA

1969 • 16 min

The Inscription On The Log

1969 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The old fisherman Vechora has lived all his life in his native village, everything here is familiar and dear to him. He invested his labor into this land and defended it from enemies in difficult times.

Echoes in Freestone

1969 • 14 min • Australia

Using sounds from the past, over pictures of the present, the film glimpses a man’s life in pioneering days. Set in the historic town of Richmond, Tasmania, the film shows some of the classic colonial Georgian houses and churches.

Ecstasis

1969 • 11 min • Japan

Repetitive abstract experimental film. A bearded man flickers past a hundred times.

City Under Siege

1969 • 20 min • Soviet Union

In the postwar years, many photographs and newsreels taken during the Siege were confiscated and destroyed for presenting too “subjective” a view of the events of that time. This film is the result of a long search through the Leningrad archives. Out of thousands of surviving wartime photographs, the director selected four hundred that had never before been used in cinema. The film is a montage of these historical documents, accompanied by the voices of poets Olga Berggolts and Alexander Prokofyev, radio announcer Yuri Levitan, and the sounds of air raid sirens…

Life-Raft Earth

1969 • 37 min

Liferaft Earth opens with a newspaper report from Hayward, California: "Sandwiched between a restaurant and supermarket, 100 anti-population protesters spent their second starving day in a plastic enclosure...The so-called Hunger Show, a week-long starve-in aimed at dramatizing man's future in an overpopulated, underfed world…." This film was made for Stewart Brand, the visionary founder of the international ecological movement and publisher of the bestselling Whole Earth Catalog (1968-85).

Oslofilm: Ansikter

1969 • 7 min • Norway

A film about faces, about expressions, about situations. The film is based on a poem by the Danish poet Poul Borum. The recordings are made in the Munch Museum in Oslo and based on the faces of Munch's pictures.

Musicians

1969 • 13 min • Soviet Union

Misha observes the area with binoculars. In the infinite white, he notices Gia, as lonely as himself.

Om Ii

1969 • 22 min

From the Psychedelic Series: 1968-1972. Painting on Film, Optical Printer work, Multiple exposure, pioneering techniques from Psychedelic era.

Medardo Pantoja

1969 • 12 min • Argentina

Through soft landscape images of Tilcara, accompanied only by music, Medardo Pantoja, known as "the painter of the Quebrada de Humahuaca", in Jujuy, allows us to access the mysteries of that region.

Asalto

1969 • 9 min • Colombia

Documentary that portrays the events that occurred in 1967, during the military takeover of Ciudad Universitaria, which marked a before and after in the relationship between students of the National University of Colombia and the military forces.

69

1969 • 5 min • United States of America

Robert Breer animation from 1969. 16mm, color, silent, using spray paint & stencils.

British Rails Are Long and Fast

1969 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Intended as a sales tool for manufacturers, this short film details the production installation and maintenance for long welded track in use on British Railways.

Cinéma-Cinéma

1969 • 12 min • France

A tragic spin on the futility of revolution, in cinema and elsewhere.

Sin in '69

1969 • 53 min

Ginger and Curt, a weirdly incestuous brother & sister act, throw swinger parties for the neighborhood trash, but a mysterious killer in white shoes is strangling their guests.

At Lukomorye

1969 • 30 min • Soviet Union

After the death of his father, a sea captain, Ilka got even closer to his mother and older sister. Increasingly, he consults with them and reads his poems, laughing while closing his eyes. Zoya, who was in love with Yura Borikovsky, a student of the nautical school, gave him, with the consent of her brother, a cherished notebook with poems to look at. But the very next day, Ilka is forced to take her back, from Yura, who turned out to be a scoundrel.

High School Rising (Newsreel #38)

1969 • 17 min • United States of America

An analysis of how the schools by using the tracking system, exploit and oppress people in terms of class origins and how students can begin to organize.

Never Happened

1969 • 6 min • Italy

The almost impassive recording of a common jacket hanging on a balcony slowly slides into the analysis of the mechanisms of perception, where the lines between reality and illusion are revealed somewhat labile.