All Films

The Race

1969 • 8 min • Poland

The race does not begin at the start line, it does not end at the finish line either. The camera observes the participants of the Polish 4x100 metres relay team not racing, but getting ready for the race and slowing down after the finish line. The competition would not exist without the following stages: mobilization, full of anxiety, and composure of the red-hot organism.

Los cuatro elementos

1969 • 11 min

"It's a perfect movie. Apart from the beautiful in the purely plastic, there is an inspired poetic creation in each of the planes and in their intelligent conjunction. And it has mystery. and continually play with the surprise factor. You never know what will come after. As if it were a suspense movie." Rafael Alberti

Images from The Seaside

1969 • 36 min • France

The Feather Farm

1969 • 48 min • United States of America

Ostrich raising in 1915 is not as easy as it seems, as a Boston matron and her niece sadly discover. They almost lose their investment as the ostriches run away, but the hired men finally find them.

Dance

1969 • 4 min

« I made several underground films in the period between 1966 and 1969: "Two Sisters", "Drums", "Hommage è Marlene", "Dance", "Indian Summer", "Brigitte", "Gut dass es den Fußball gibt" and others. Most of them are experimental films shot on 8 mm material without sound. During the editing the films were synchronized with alienated, deformed music from magnetic tapes. The films were shown in universities, during parties or in music clubs. Some of the films were used later on as elements of scenery in the theatre piece "Zigger Zagger" by Peter Terson. They were projected contemporaneously on different screens in front, behind and on both sides of the audience in the theatre of Münster. » (Georg Brintrup)

Life in Pink

1969 • 18 min • Romania

Filmed exclusively outdoors, without dialogues, 'Life in Pink' presents a mysterious pursuit between two young handsome men. Their motivation is not clear, nor the type of relationship they have, nor whether they knew each other beforehand or not. But there's a certain fascination between them, even a possible attraction, one of an erotic nature.

Rhodesia Countdown

1969 • 33 min • United Kingdom, Zimbabwe

This film explores the conflicts within Rhodesian society in 1969.

Permanencia

1969 • 6 min

Ricardo Güiraldes narrates the origin of the ideas that gave rise to Don Segundo Sombra, within the framework of the film adaptation made by Manuel Antín.

What's a Girl Like You?

1969 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A visit to the Vauxhall Tavern in London to see the drag acts.

British Rail Is Travelling

1969 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A compilation film on the recent technical achievements of British Rail; made for screening in Washington on the signing of the 'Budd' contract. Material obtained from various BTF films directed and shot by others.

Melodrama infernal

1969 • 30 min • Spain

Oblivion

1969 • 6 min

“Approximately thirty images comprise Oblivion. Most obsessively repeat themselves. Although the images appear to be solarized, the film was actually contact-printed, combining high contrast black and white negative with a colour positive of the same image. The high contrast accounts for the tendency of shots to flood. Images in the film swell and contrast, often disappearing into pure colour… Oblivion employs extremely rapid cutting. Some of the images last as briefly as two frames. The fact that we see so few frames, that a shot is representationally ambiguous, or shown upside down and sideways, often causes the viewer to project his/her own fantasies… When Jean Genet was asked to what end he was directing his life he responded, “To oblivion.” (J.J. Murphy, “Reaching for Oblivion”) (mikehoolboom.com)

La Chapelle de Ronchamp

1969 • 11 min • Belgium, France

Harmonious, inspired by nature, moving, luminous... there is no shortage of words to describe La Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut in Rochamp (France) and its curves. To create this Catholic place, at the beginning of the 1950s, Le Corbusier was inspired by the mosque of the Algerian Sahara of Sidi Brahim, by a crab shell for the shapes of the roof, and by the nearby Vosges valleys. .. Multiple influences for a building full of contradictions, a mixture of round and square lines, slender or squat depending on the angle of view, apparently vast from the outside, but small and intimate from the threshold crossed. Both a place of contemplation and major architectural innovation, the Chapelle de Ronchamp has been listed as a Historic Monument since 1965. Labeled “Heritage of the 20th century” in 1999, it entered the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2016 with 16 others works of Le Corbusier.

The Southern Contest Myth

1969 • 17 min • Brazil

Image of a cinematic camera, described off by a female voice. Two students talk about film school. In a classroom, students stand up, one by one, attack and murder a classmate; the wallets fill up with corpses. A boy dances naked in front of a screen on which different images are projected. At the top of a platform, a man in a suit speaks to two naked young men who crawl across the floor. Two boys with clown makeup shed tears looking at the camera. Then they get in a car. Red spots explode and spread slowly across the screen.

People Soup

1969 • 12 min

People Soup is a 1969 short film written and directed by Alan Arkin, with Adam Arkin and Matthew Arkin. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Reformversuche von Professoren

1969 • 24 min • Germany

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Müller.

Rugged Men

1969 • 32 min

A masculine exhibition of men in and out of leather and denim.

De la pauvreté du dessin Shadoks attribuée au manque de crédits de l'Office

1969 • 3 min

Far Away from Home

1969 • 11 min

A film documenting Al-Sabineh camp for Palestinian refugees in Syria, with an unprecedented experience at the time, as he took the children after filming to show them the footage he filmed of them, the camp and its people, and recorded their reactions, laughter and speech, and added them to the film.

Song 28

1969 • 3 min • United States of America

Song 28: Scenes as texture (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Guckloch

1969 • 13 min • Austria

A film about floating and stored time, about the shades of white and the scream of birds.

Studenten in Freiburg, Wintersemester 1968/69

1969 • 33 min • Germany

In seven episodes, the biographies and study motivations of six students in higher semesters and four students in their first semester are presented.

Group II: Water/Contemplating

1969 • 16 min • United States of America

GROUP II: WATER (1969, 4 min, 16mm, silent) Two images of a lapping water level, used at the beginning and end of the film, counterpointing the middle section consisting of flying through clouds and mist. CONTEMPLATING (1969, 12 min, 16mm, silent) The body fluids reacting in unison with the ocean waters.

Andy’s Love Concert

1969 • 60 min • United States of America

Flower Power blooms as Andy presents his second special of the season. Joining him on the flower-bedecked stage are Jose Feliciano; Donovan (who recites a fable about the lost continent Atlantis in addition to singing) the Smothers Brothers, who spoof food faddism; and the Ike and Tina Turner Soul Revue.