All Films

Soc. Sci. 127

1969 • 21 min

A "comedy in a Houston tattoo parlour during the Vietnam war"-- In reality, a vérité-style documentary centered around Bill Sanders's 'painless' tattoo shop. Various clients are highlighted, and Sanders spouts his unique brand of wisdom.

The Temptations Show

1969 • 60 min • United States of America

A television special starring the vocal group The Temptations.

No Name City

1969 • 9 min • United States of America

Behind the scenes during the filming of 1969's 'Paint Your Wagon'

The Tuxedo Theatre

1969 • 21 min • United States of America

About this film, Sonbert wrote in the London Filmmakers' Co-op catalogue: "New York again and some Morocco. First sketches of varieties of people. East west city country, rich poor, old young. Many levels. Less movement but more editing and geometric progressions. It's over before you know it." -- Jon Gartenberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1998.

Electronic Opera no. 1

1969 • 5 min

Nam June Paik’s Electronic Opera no. 1 first aired in 1969 as part of The Medium is the Medium, a special “artist transmission” commissioned by WGBH-Boston featuring experimental segments by Paik and artists Allan Kaprow, Otto Piene, James Seawright, Thomas Tadlock, and Aldo Tambellini. Set to classical music and featuring “hippies,” a dancing model, and national political figures, Paik’s five-minute contribution is a form of what he called “participation television.” Here, he instructs you — his audience — to open or close your eyes while the hallucinatory images swirl and twist into frame. The original premiere marked Paik’s first foray into television broadcast and remains an early and ironic example of his ambition to turn inherently passive viewers into active and integral participants.

Marvel

1969 • 31 min

The quintessential student film of 1969.

Captain Voyeur

1969 • 7 min • United States of America

A dull office worker transforms into a costumed peeping tom at night.

Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante

1969 • 25 min

Collective manifesto by the members of C.C.I. It is a collective film, the result of an operation devoid of any aesthetic purpose: to verify the existence of any harmony between a fairly large group (twelve people) of members of the independent Cooperative. Someone, who had the idea, turned 60 meters of Ektachrome according to the moods –or discontent – of the moment and gave them to others to see. The others reacted, each with their own piece. It was then thought to call the film “circular letter”. It was not so simple and so quick: the operation, which started in June of ’68, ended in March of ’69.

Tomorrow Come Someday

1969 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A musical comedy, shot on location in the Sussex village of Lurgashall, during August 1969.

The Clown

1969 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The doctor recommends the circus for a patient with insomnia and depression, where one clown brings joy to all. But what if that clown is the patient himself?

The Good Friend

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

"...about how 'friends' abuse and use people, eventually destroying them." - Jimmy Murakami the film as 'a man literally giving himself to another man -- eyes, mouth and so on -- until the latter leaves with the donor's woman.

The Color of Armenian Land

1969 • 15 min • Soviet Union

In his wordless debut film, Mikhail Vartanov presents the ancient and modern art of Armenia through the post-impressionist painter Martiros Saryan’s silent commentary of gestures. Biblical landscapes, the ruins of temples, frescos, cross-stones, contemporary sculptures of Tchakmakchian (Chakmakchyan), the first appearance on film of iconic modernist painter Minas and his paintings, as well as the world famous behind-the-scenes episodes of Sergei Parajanov’s landmark "The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova)." The film had its first public screening at one of the world’s largest and prestigious cinematic events, the Busan International Film Festival, 43 years after it was made.

Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman

1969 • 60 min • United States of America

An enchanting variety special which reunites Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore in song and dance. Numbers include "On The Other Hand", "Life Is Like A Situation Comedy", "Food Medley", "Do You Love Me?". Moore's participation in this special led directly to her being offered her own series by the network . This was the beloved "The Mary Tyler Moore Show".

Nova Scotia Fires

1969 • 3 min

"Along the South Shore of Nova Scotia, I poured a mixture of gasoline and oil on various stone configurations and along some beaches, lit them and filmed the results. I composed a soundtrack with a small synthesizer, tuning forks and voice, processed through a homemade distortion chamber." - David Askevold

Laila Wakes Up

1969 • 14 min • Sweden

Laila wakes up in the morning. Directed by Eugen Vöhrmann, owner of the adult cinema Fenix in Stockholm, Sweden.

D'un Céline l'autre

1969 • 53 min • France

Passers-by, those who knew him in his youth, René Barjavel, witness of his beginnings, his wife, his doctor, writers ... By questioning them Michel Polac tries to better understand the troubled personality of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Notorious anti-Semite and genius writer.

The Crow and the Fox

1969 • 3 min • Canada

A satirical, updated take on the classic Jean de La Fontaine fable.

Ce n'est pas que le début

1969 • 12 min • Greece

This is a document that Pantelis Voulgaris filmed illegally during the years of the dictatorship. More specifically, it includes images from the funeral of George Papandreou, which developed into the first major popular anti-dictatorship event. The film was completed in Paris thanks to the Greeks abroad who showed it at political gatherings against the Junta.

The Great Carrot-Train Robbery

1969 • 7 min • United States of America

Bunny and Claude are still at their carrot caper. This time, they rob a train as the Sheriff is once again called out to stop them..

Class of Struggle

1969 • 37 min • France

A follow-up to Be Seeing You (À bientôt, j’espère), this collective work—initiated by Chris Marker and the Medvedkin Group—was made in collaboration with workers at the Yema Watch Factory in Besançon. It follows a female worker who becomes active in labor organizing, depicting everyday struggles and the growing consciousness within the French labor movement.

Cross-Cut–A Blue Movie

1969 • 1 min • United States of America

In CROSS-CUT--A BLUE MOVIE, Huot presents a minimal passage of intercutting between found footage of a hoochy-coochy dancer and a blue leader, organized as a pair of inversely related geometric progressions. The resulting film is amusing (because of the pun in the title, the speed of the editing, and the funny fast-motion shimmy of the dancer); highly rhythmic (both because of the intercutting itself, and because of the rhythms added by the dancer's movements, the flutter of dust particles on the blue leader, and the waver of scratch marks on the footage of the dancer); and formally interesting because of Huot's creation of a montage which so energetically goes nowhere.

Wild Geese Calling

1969 • 48 min • United States of America

A young boy nurses an injured Canadian goose back to health before it flies south for the winter.

Drugs Are Like That

1969 • 16 min • United States of America

[…] Though the highs and lows of human experience are all here, it's often the gimcrack set design and fashion chops in these vintage clunkers that really wow – the pot-holder sweater vests, ponytails decorated with yarn, hippies with crumb-catching moustaches, banana-seat bikes and a hard rain of Quaaludes and amphetamines to illustrate the dangers of drug addiction. It is hard to believe anyone would buy the goofball cause-and-effect of that pill-popper's weather pattern in "Drugs Are Like That". Co-produced by the Miami Junior League and narrated by Anita Bryant in this cheery little hand-slapper, a kid stealing cookies from a cookie jar is implied to be headed down a bad road to Bowery bum rolls and LSD parties. (from: http://clatl.com/atlanta/av-geeks-greatest-hits-lessons-learned/Content?oid=1268313)

Introduction to Oobieland

1969 • 9 min • United States of America

Using hand-painted film, animation and an inventive soundtrack, INTRODUCTION TO OOBIELAND is an exploration of gateways: a repeated series of movements from the familiar and safe to the unknown and dangerous. Cycles are left incomplete. Chases are never consummated; the day ends with no promise of rebirth. In this way the film touches on our oldest instincts, leaving us saddened and scared by the knowledge of a world that will never know freedom through the completion of action; safety through the sanctification of place.