All Films

Rhythm of Two Figures

1969 • 5 min • United Kingdom

"This film was part of my thesis presentation at Chelsea College of Art in 1969. It expresses my interest in the human form and how two human forms can come together in various ways. My morphology teacher was also a dancer and he is the one in black moving with the white me in the cube. The film also includes photos I took, a number with multiple exposures, and drawings I did from the photos and from the work of Eadweard Muybridge, whose studies in motion inspired me." - Penny Slinger

To Live

1969 • 50 min • Yugoslavia

An unknown traveler disembarks from a steamship on a rainy day in a small and deserted coastal town, where he will spend the night and find a girl who will remain in his heart forever.

Displacement

1969 • 3 min

Abstract exercise in pattern recognition.

The Fountain of Youth

1969 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

This film is based on the engravings of Hristofor Žefarović, an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet. He was exclusively engaged in copper engraving and book illustration after 1740. he engraved copper plates for his books, and printed them in the "etching-typographical workshop" of his collaborator Thomas Mesmer in Vienna. His engraving was of great cultural-historical importance to the Baroque art of the time. His style of 'bright cut' engraving was thoroughly masterly and original, specializing in the higher branches -- engraving for printing -- of the engraver's art.

Canada the Land

1969 • 8 min • Canada

Filmed for the most part from a low-flying aircraft, this documentary short presents a breathtaking view of Canada from coast to coast. Showing the varied terrain, from craggy coast to towering glacier, the film illustrates Canada’s pristine wilderness as well as today's industrial and urban realities. Canada the Land was specially commissioned for the Canada Pavilion at the Osaka World Fair in 1970.

Some of My Best Friends...

1969 • 30 min

Jewish people - and a few Gentiles - muse on what it means to be Jewish in 1960s Britain. The challenges of maintaining faith and culture outside Israel, and in a society where ‘Jewish’ and ‘English’ are seen as mutually exclusive identities are perceptively explored in this astute documentary. Some secular Jews are keen to distance themselves from traditional Judaism and especially Zionism (one defines himself simply as a Marxist). Gentiles are on hand to cheerfully perpetuate some of the old stereotypes, and we’re treated to colourful snapshots of the Jewish community in London: the rag trade, a kosher butcher and restaurant.

Dita at the Front

1969 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

An animated anti-war short. Between explosions and submachine guns, Dita lands and kindly calms the senseless aggression.

The Crowd Around the Cowboy

1969 • 9 min • United States of America

A short documentary made on location during the filming of John Schlesinger's 1969 film "Midnight Cowboy."

Death of a Black Panther: Fred Hampton

1969 • 27 min • United States of America

Chronicles he police raid and assassination of American activist Fred Hampton.

Rødovrefilmen

1969 • 10 min

Artist group ABCinema's footage from Rødovrecentret, Denmark's first large shopping center in Rødovre, a suburb of Copenhagen. A collage of super 8 footage, shot with multiple cameras. (DFI)

A Catch

1969 • 50 min • Soviet Union

A leisurely message about the people of the Zvejnieks collective farm, created in the style of Riga's poetic documentary cinema.

Chameleon

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

A young man (Jean Yves Pitoun) keeps awakening from a nightmare in which he kills a young child (Kim Beeson).

The Magic Machines

1969 • 15 min • United States of America

The Magic Machines is a 1969 American short documentary film directed by Bob Curtis about kinetic artist Robert Gilbert, a young hippie sculptor who makes bright-colored, motor-driven machines from metal trash and spare parts. It won an Oscar at the 42nd Academy Awards in 1970 for Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.

Salty Slops

1969 • 4 min • Hungary

A mother's constant grumbling about her daughter-in-law's dish poisons her son's marriage bit by bit.

Setsudan

1969 • 15 min

Voted in Sight & Sound 2022 Poll

BiBici Story

1969 • 8 min • Spain

While waiting to get started on the production of his feature Liberxina 90 (1970), Carlos Duran shot this short (with very expressive support by several Escuela de Barcelona professors): a grimly colourful satire on modern society as such, and on its fascist Spanish variety in particular. "The intrusion into the private life of a human being, of the distinct tendencies that exist in the society we live in, until they fall into chaos." Carlos Durán

The Ant from Uncle

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

To bar the Ant from subterranean refuge, the Aardvark strives to plug every ant hole in existence and, to his dismay, discovers a hole of volcanic proportions which is the dwelling of Charlie's huge, older kin.

Artificial Light

1969 • 25 min • United States of America

Artificial Light repeats variations on a single filmic utterance twenty times. The same phrase is a series of portrait shots of a group of young New York artists talking, drinking wine, laughing, smoking, informally. The individual portrait-shots follow each other with almost academic smoothness in lap-dissolves ending in two shots of the entire group followed by a dolly shot into a picture of the moon... There is a chasm between the phrase and its formal inflections. That chasm is intellectual as well as formal. Frampton loves an outrageous hypothesis; his films, all of them, take the shape of logical formulae. -- P. Adams Sitney, Film Culture Reader

Isle of Caprice

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

The setting: two South Sea islands. On one: a hungry, shipwrecked Aardvark. On the other: an army of (food) Ants. The Aardvark knows that this is true because he sees the Ants in his spyglass. All that you have to do is swim right over there... except that there's a mean old shark who won't let that happen. The Aardvark tries, but he fails. Next, he gets a surfboard. The shark eats that as if it's newspaper.

Cerveau gelé

1969 • 2 min • Canada

Musician and composer 'Claude Dubois' presents his view of the effects of the growth of urban areas, specifically industrialization and overuse of non-human elements resulting in a need to overly control how we as people live within this environment. Human images are interspersed with more controlled mechanized ones. Those human images are first free flowing, then floundering under that mechanization, then ultimately trapped into chaos or into death.

Metermass Kaputt

1969 • 8 min • Switzerland

The Parents

1969 • 4 min

a short film by Gianni da Campo

Moving Statics

1969 • 28 min • Australia

Will Spoor is a Dutch performer, working in the abstract side of movement and mime. He has considerable knowledge of the potential of film and his intention was to extend his work into realms that were impossible for live theatre. We used a combination of animation and in-camera superimpositions to create structures of body movement. Our work on sound composition came to a head in this film with organically and electronically complex sounds. It was the most valuable collaboration we had done with another artist since Larry Sitsky; an intense concentration of our energies and skills and of his energies and skills. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

Everyone's Duty

1969 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About how a carefree jay did not react to other people's troubles, but when she got into trouble, she realized that it was important to help each other.