All Films

Joop

1969 • 10 min • Netherlands

Joop tries to tell his friend Loes that he loves her but is repeatedly interrupted.

Lemon

1969 • 7 min • United States of America

Light begins to illuminate the small, nipple-like end of a lemon on the right edge of the frame and gradually spreads until the entire lemon is clearly visible. Then the light recedes across the frame.

La doma

1969 • 19 min • Argentina

Documentary short film that portrays the taming of horses.

Professoren in Freiburg, Wintersemester 1968/69

1969 • 30 min • Germany

In three episodes, the Freiburg University professors Schramm, Hassenstein and Dr. Bresch and their lectures are portrayed. What is the basis for becoming a university teacher? Is it possible to redesign the classic lecture? Can the illegal, the conflict, be legalized? What do reforms consist of? What about study committees with equal representation?

Fantasmatic

1969 • 8 min • Switzerland

Surreal animation with sand and metal slivers by Ernest Ansorge, Gisèle Ansorge

Violin Tuned D.E.A.D

1969 • 55 min

In an earlier film, Playing A Note on the Violin While I Walk Around the Studio (Violin #1), Nauman played a single note on the violin as he walked around his studio. In this video work, he remains in a stationary position while he plays four strings together. (These have been tuned to the notes of the title, as opposed to the normal G, D, A, and E.) The camera is fixed and turned on its side.

The Cat Lady

1969 • 1 min • United States of America

“A portrait of Carla Liss, evoking the atmosphere of the old horror films we both loved.”

Polizeifilm

1969 • 12 min • Germany

New times have come for the way demonstrations are handled by the police. No more crude repression... "Policemen come from the people, just as demonstrators". Therefore, if you're a cop, now it's a matter of "convincing" your "comrade" who's demonstrating to forget about it.

The National Prizes

1969 • 5 min • Spain

With musical accompaniment from the zarzuela 'The drum Grenadiers' by Ruperto Chapí, a pair of custodians are in the basement of the National Library of Madrid showing some canvas awarded with the National Prize for Painting between 1941 and 1969.

Football Without a Ball

1969 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Soccer scenes that do not show the ball.

Tapp and Tastkino

1969 • 2 min

The film is ‘shown’ in the dark. But the cinema has shrunk somewhat – only two hands fit inside it. To see (i.e. feel, touch) the film, the viewer (user) has to stretch his hands through the entrance to the cinema. Tap and Touch Cinema is an example of how re-interpretation can activate the public. Extract fom the documentary "Wiener Underground"

Fun and Games for Everyone

1969 • 53 min • France

“FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset's exhibition openings. A psychedelic game of improvisation joins the Zanzibar group with Salvador Dalí, Barbet Schroeder and Jean Mascolo... the solarized image reminiscent of thick strokes of a paintbrush.” - Philippe Azoury

An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer

1969 • 22 min • United States of America

Oscar nominated documentary short from 1969

Silver City Revisited

1969 • 25 min • Germany

A series of ten shots, three minutes in length, of various locales in Munich.

Ron and Chuck in Disneyland Discovery

1969 • 25 min • United States of America

Two young men meet and fall in love in Disneyland.

Zona Quarta. Progetto Per Uno Spettacolo.

1969 • 10 min

In an abandoned house, behind a wall, a series of photographs appears, a collage that brings back to the past.

Meilensteine aus der Chronik der Post

1969 • 22 min • Germany

A Shadow Among Others

1969 • 6 min • Poland

Settling of scores among international Marxist revolutionaries. A spirit of Mhedi Ben Barka inspired revolt.

Autour de L'Enfance nue

1969 • 50 min • France

Documentary about the making of Maurice Pialat's 1969 film "L'Enfance nue" (Naked Childhood).

Azione Con Rullo Compressore

1969 • 4 min

Performance by Eliseo Mattiacci at the gallery "L'Attico". The action involved the artist entering the space directed by Sargentini with a yellow steamroller with which a path was drawn by crushing a mound of sand and creating a trail that extended from the entrance to the gallery.

Enough!

1969 • 21 min • Venezuela

“Through the use of violent symbols (loosely associated with Artaud’s notion of cruelty), some of the consequences of the current social organization in Latin-America are exposed: the alienation, marginalization and reification of men, and the continuous presence of imperialism, considered as rape.” (UU)

Passing Days

1969 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Story about a man whose environment doesn't let him live his simple life.

The Rehearsal

1969 • 17 min • United States of America

The Rehearsal is a 1969 short comedy, written and directed by Stephen F. Verona. It is a humorous short where a director becomes frustrated with a quisitive actress during the rehearsal of a play. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Ski The Outer Limits

1969 • 28 min • United States of America

"Ski The Outer Limits" is a poetic exploration of man's "conquest of the useless," his quest to expand the limists of his abilities. Racing, clowning, teaching, flipping and flying - the world's finest skiers define their limits. A philosophical narration brings the story home to anyone wishing to explore their limits.