All Films

Tina Turning

1969 • 2 min

A short film by Richard Serra

The End of an Old Song

1969 • 30 min • United States of America

John Cohen, founding member of the ‘50s folk troupe the New Lost City Ramblers, started making films in order to bring together the two disciplines he was heavily active in: music and photography. The End of an Old Song brings us to North Carolina, and demonstrates the power of old English ballads sung with gusto while soused in a saloon.

The Expulsion from the Temple/Female Christ

1969 • 1 min • Denmark

Performing in the work The Female Christ, Lene Adler Petersen walks – entirely unannounced – through the building’s vast hall while carrying a cross. The artists introduce a new, vibrant image depicting one of our grand narratives and carry out a startling intervention within the pulsating business world. The resulting clash has become an iconic modern-day image. The footage created for this work should also be viewed within the context of the film community ABCinema, which worked with e.g. collectively produced film and collective film screenings where several films were screened simultaneously. (National Gallery of Denmark)

Bronbeek bijvoorbeeld

1969 • 13 min • Netherlands

The short documentary Bronbeek bijvoorbeeld sketches a portrait of KNIL (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army) veterans living out their last days in the Bronbeek home for retired servicemen in Arnhem. Here, the old soldiers live surrounded by memories of days gone by. Flags, uniforms, photos: all reminders of a world that no longer exists. The home is also a museum, its residents a part of the past on display.

Blue Movie

1969 • 12 min

Blue Movie is a metric color-and-form trip orchestrated with psychedelic sounds, the latter is a symbolic story about individual/collective drug use, which can be read as a model for, or a critique of society ... Both Kren and Radax had experience with other art forms but were for the most part filmmakers. Adrian, on the other hand, was an artist and filmmaker and poet/writer. Adrian, in a sense, already defied any kind of brewer´s purity requirements through his diversified talents.

Two Laws

1969 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary about the conflict between the law on education and the unwritten law of traditional Bosnian village life, which dictates that daughters stay at home.

Me, Too?

1969 • 3 min • United States of America

Educational film about exclusion and anger meant to be shown in classrooms, with a discussion afterwards.

Postface : Le Dernier des hommes

1969 • 26 min • France

Discussion between the critics André S. Labarthe, Jean Domarchi and director Marc'O, on a film of Murnau.

Jenny is a Good Thing

1969 • 18 min • United States of America

Jenny is a Good Thing is a 1969 American short documentary film about children and poverty, directed by Joan Horvath. Produced by Project Head Start, it shows the importance of good nutrition for underprivileged nursery school children. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

VTR St. Jacques

1969 • 26 min • Canada

This short film was an experiment in using video recordings and closed circuit television to stimulate social action in a poor Montreal neighbourhood. A citizen's committee filmed people's concerns and then played back the tapes for the community. Upon recognizing their common problems, people began to talk about joint solutions. It proved an important and effective method of promoting social change.

Caracas, dos o tres cosas

1969 • 16 min • Venezuela

Ugo Ulive took his camera for a walk though the streets of Caracas, contrasting daily reality with a soundtrack taken from radionovelas, news broadcasts and popular music.

Paykan

1969 • 22 min • Iran

Short documentary about the Paykan automobile assembly-line

The White Land of Enderby

1969 • 37 min • Soviet Union

A road movie about the vast and icy Antarctica.

Die Grundordnungsversammlung der Universität Freiburg - Debatten

1969 • 42 min • Germany

According to the Baden Württemberg Higher Education Act of 1968, the University of Freiburg forms a Basic Regulations Assembly: 22 full professors, 10 lecturers, assistants and academic councillors, 10 students. Three commissions draft paragraphs. The students are defeated in votes. Under threat of withdrawal, they force further negotiations to be made public. Professor Jeschek, Criminal Law, Councillor of the Higher Regional Court, criticizes the public nature of the negotiations. This is a people's assembly, not a consultation, which could serve as a model for self-government matters. A student named Berger replies.

Darkness

1969 • 12 min • France

French horror short from 1969.

Black Cap Drag

1969 • 42 min • United States of America

A rare surviving record of 1960s drag performance at Camden’s Black Cap pub. Drag queens Shane and Laurie Lee perform and discuss their craft in this home-made documentary by US-born filmmaker Richard Benner.

I've Got Ants in My Plans

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

The Aardvark finds further opposition, in the form of another hungry aardvark, to his aim of ant intake - and so ensues a battle of aardvarks for digestive possession of Charlie, with use of spread-on-ground thumb tacks and rubber cement, plus jet-powered stilts and a tripping rope.

Blues Maker

1969 • 14 min • United States of America

Shows Mississippi blues singer, Fred McDowell, singing and talking about his blues. Includes scenes of the area which helped to shape his country blues.

Medea

1969 • 39 min

"Medea gathers all my important relatives and friends. Above all my daughter Alida as a child when they found out she had diabetes while she was hospitalised. It was my feeling of being a bad mother and a transmitter of hereditary that made me name the film Medea. All of the characters somehow transmit the inner pains of birth, body and life in a symbolic way" - Pia Epremian

Children of the Underground

1969 • 50 min • Soviet Union

Based on the story by V.G. Korolenko “In a Bad Society.”

Hey Al, Baby

1969 • 34 min

Life inside a late 1960s Carlton student share house plays out across six alternately comedic and melancholy real-time vignettes. When his friend takes a trip, cinephile Al is left alone for the weekend with three female housemates, a situation that only serves to exacerbate his social awkwardness. One of the most distinctive works to emerge from the ‘Carlton ripple’, David Minter’s 1969 slice-of-life comedy carries echoes of Éric Rohmer’s moral tales.

Homo sapiens

1969 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

The first film in Vlatko Gilić’s Sisyphean trilogy, Homo sapiens follows a suited man as he takes a trek back and forth across a sandy desert to fill an oversized barrel using a woefully small tub of water. Shot in stark black and white and edited to achieve a dreamlike quality, the man’s devotion to this task is tested and taunted by a young couple that frolics around the barrel.

The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor

1969 • 55 min

About the life of the notorious 1920s Melbourne Australian gangster Squizzy Taylor including interviews and re-enactments.

Bridegroom From Medvedkino

1969 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A young woman dreams of marrying a rich and influential man, but her heart treacherously beats for a simple guy from the village of Medvedkino.