All Films

Antonio Delle Nevi

1969 • 9 min • Italy

Sun Seed

1969 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The sea is raging near the shore. Fishes are merrily circling in the water. Meanwhile, numerous shells were sleeping peacefully at the bottom. Suddenly a ray of sunlight comes through the sea. One shell woke up and, seeing a glowing (as it seemed to her) fish, was very surprised by this. The fish explains that this is the reflection of the sun on its scales. Intrigued, the shell asks the fish to bring her some sun, but fish says that this is impossible.

Adolescence

1969 • 11 min • Romania

"This wonderful age in life where every thought strives toward an ideal, toward work, toward the future." Sahia Studios propaganda flick about how adults and their "those darn kids" attitudes affect adolescents.

Cine-Songs Program

1969 • 30 min

Six films in one reel: The Reticule of Love; The Recurring Dream; Aristotle; Malevitch at the Guggenheim; Silently, Bearing Totem of a Bird; Ives House: Woodstock.

After Effects

1969 • 3 min

Short by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.

Evoluon

1969 • 12 min • Netherlands

A 12 minute film about the Evoluon [a conference centre and former science museum erected by the electronics and electrical company Philips at Eindhoven in the Netherlands], of which is thought that it was made in 1969 by Bert Haanstra or Pim Heytman. British TV viewers will probably remember this movie, since the BBC used it for test transmissions. In those transmissions a number of films was broadcast every day in the early seventies so technicians could adjust the new color TVs they installed at customers homes. —http://www.dse.nl/~evoluon/film-e.htm

Tai Chi Ch'uan

1969 • 10 min

During the 1960s, Tom DAVENPORT was commissioned by National Geographic to film in Taiwan. This was his first documentary, in which he captured philosopher NAN Huai-chin practicing Tai-chi at Taiwan’s northeastern coast. Shot with a 16mm camera, the film features sound created by composer Tom JOHNSON.

The Tale of the Copper

1969 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Based on the tale of Karlis Skalbe about an irreplaceable copper coin that brought wealth to a poor bathhouse attendant and ruined his soul.

Summer '68 (Newsreel #505)

1969 • 56 min • United States of America

This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It documents draft resistance, the growth of G.I. coffee houses, the development of alternative media and the early days of Newsreel itself. It is particularly useful in its exploration of the problems the movement faced in using mainstream media to broadcast its message. It is also a document of the philosophies, tactics, and problems of the student movement in the crucial year of 1968. It is most useful when background information can also be provided.

testing, testing, how do you do?

1969 • 4 min

Women’s Liberation protesters target the 1969 Miss America Pageant… The movie shows the boardwalk action — Women’s Liberation protest and crowd reactions — as well as behind-the-scenes pageant preparations inside Convention Hall.

Rapid Transit

1969 • 3 min

Edible animation. Silhouettes of black beans creating mandala patterns with frenzied percussion on track.

La Ruta de los Libertadores

1969 • 17 min

The liberation campaign begins with the publication of the Rights of Man in New Granada. Later, Bolívar, at the Congress of Angostura, raised the idea of ​​Gran Colombia and began his journey of independence, which culminated in the Battle of Boyacá.

Puerto Piojo

1969 • 15 min • Argentina

Documentary short film about life in Puerto Piojo, Santa Fe.

Capriccio

1969 • 6 min

Experimental dance film

Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte

1969 • 13 min • United Kingdom

"This film was presented as part of my 1969 thesis on Max Ernst. It was a personal tribute where I filmed his collages, then intercut live footage I shot with other reference material into a surreal visual collage." - Penny Slinger

Kirsa Nicholina

1969 • 16 min • United States of America

Kirsa Nicholina records the birth of a child at home by the Lamaze method. The father assists in the birth, while a physician guides him. At the moment of birth, the mother reaches down and grasps the hand of the emerging child and guides it out of her body and into her arms.

Fred Hampton: Black Panthers in Chicago

1969 • 24 min • United States of America

Fred Hampton talks eloquently and passionately about the Free Breakfast for Children Program and Free Health Clinic set up by the Black Panthers to feed and tend to the poor and hungry. In response to a specific question about events in Chicago and the conspiracy trial, he talks about how those running the city are "crazy with power," about racism, fascism and imperialism, and the need to educate, organise and lead by example.

Bin Defa Ölürüm

1969 • 60 min

How We Stopped the War

1969 • 28 min • United States of America

This short film follows Country Joe and the Fish on their way to an anti-Vietnam War rally.

Le Départ d’Eurydice

1969 • 11 min

“Le Départ d’Eurydice” (1969) is a metaphor of the time, a sort of "documentary allegory" on the 60 s and on its “underground bohemia“. In spite of its impressionist and fragmentary aspect, in a poetic and musical structure, the film includes some narrative elements. A young writer hesitates between the love for his girlfriend and the obedience to the command of the “guru” of an artistic group which requires of him, like pledge of fidelity, to kill his love partner. He executes the Death ritual in front of the sea…but in vain.

The Dreams of the Centenarians

1969 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Though created to commemorate the centenary of Lenin, the documentary is far from celebrating Soviet ideology. In the film people who are one hundred years old talk about their lives. Their remembrances illuminate traditions and past of Lithuania.

Tijuana Toads

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

Poncho and Toro turn their hunger pangs toward a certain grasshopper with attitude who sounds just like John Wayne!

Lost Note

1969 • 10 min

Saul Levine began Lost Note as a love poem to his wife but before he finished the film everything had changed. This film is all that was left – 68/69 was a period of violent transition for many. The film was formally challenging, editing footage with in-camera superimpositions and cutting b&w with color.

Le réglement

1969 • 42 min

In 16mm, black and white, silent, a fiction about a solitary character who walks the streets of Paris respecting certain discreet rituals. Arriving at the public garden, he can finally sit in front of the regulation sign. The satisfaction of the completed ritual becomes bliss.