All Films

Four Films

1969 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Early experimentations with film by a materialist sculptor and future structural filmmaker.

Escuela Santa María de Iquique 1907

1969 • 24 min • Chile

From the ruins of the Santa María School in Iquique, the events of the saltpeter strike in the north, which ended in 1907 with the slaughter of thousands of workers, are recounted. The documentary looks at this history through the eyes of a survivor.

Traveling with Father

1969 • 18 min

Swedish filmmaker Vilgot Sjöman takes his old father Wiktor on a drive to his childhood environment.

Minikillers

1969 • 42 min

W Germany/Spain co-feature short in which Diana Rigg capitalising on her role as Mrs Peel in The Avengers comes into contact with deadly toy dolls

Paradise Now: The Living Theater in Amerika

1969 • 45 min

A harrowing, gorgeous, in-your-face-and-mind 45-minute black-and-white film by Marty Topp, produced by Ira Cohen for Universal Mutant. “Marty Topp’s beautiful film of ‘Paradise Now’ reveals how the theories of revolutionary change and the experience of sexual liberation are not separate paths to the beautiful nonviolent anarchist revolution. Practiced together they are a single thrust, encompassing both political action and sensual joy, leading to the dreamed-of terrestrial paradise.

A

1969 • 3 min

Experimental short by Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi.

Adventures of Mowgli: Akela's Last Hunt

1969 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Episode 3. Mowgli has grown and in order that he might take his place in the pack he needed to arm themselves. Kaa helped Mowgli find the Iron Tooth in the abandoned cave. It happened just in time because the old enemy tiger Shere Khan raised havoc in the pack was going to overthrow Akela leader of the wolf.

Illinois Central Transposed

1969 • 19 min • United States of America

A compilation of Schneemann's anti-Vietnam War group performances, this work merges film projection, sound and slide systems, light beams, audience and performer action in a sensory collage linking the exposed Illinois landscape to the devastation in Vietnam. Writes Schneemann: "I think of this work as an exploded canvas, units of rapidly changing clusters. A flow of energy which makes an active audience inevitable and necessary — not to mimic the performance, but to absorb relations within the space and between one another — to be correspondent to the materials and imagery, grasping a conscious and realizable wish to replace the performers with themselves."

The Magnificent Six and ½: It's Not Cricket

1969 • 13 min • United Kingdom

An errant cricket ball causes mayhem as the gang try to recover it.

Todos a la vez

1969 • 27 min • Argentina

Almendra, La joven guardia, Palito Ortega, Donald, Litto Nebbia all together in this little musical short.

Sesame Street Pitch Reel

1969 • 25 min • United States of America

Rowlf the Dog presents the concept of the revolutionary educational children's show, Sesame Street (1969), to Kermit the Frog.

Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?

1969 • 48 min

Banned by the BBC in 1971, director Tony Palmer's profile of the late Peter Sellers was, in the words of the film's subject himself, "the only portrait which really understood me." Sellers was an icon of comedy and a true innovator, but a look inside reveals a tragic figure. How could one of the world's most beloved comic talents have such a morbidly distorted opinion of himself? In this documentary, interviews with such friends, fans, and colleagues as Raquel Welch, Yul Brenner, Spike Milligan, Laurence Harvey, and others reveal the true personality behind the man who was loved by everyone, but still viewed himself as entirely alone.

People

1969 • 3 min

The Red Mountain Tribe hangs out in my backyard. "Lipton's lovely home movie PEOPLE, in its affection for valuable inconsequential gestures, indicates in the course of its three minutes why there has to be a continuing alternative to the commercial cinema." – Roger Greenspun, The New York Times

Tissot Sideral

1969 • 1 min

Short film by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.

I Change I Am the Same

1969 • 1 min • United States of America

A short, hilarious film of a woman and a man in various stages of undress - in their own and each other's clothing.

Of Men and Demons

1969 • 9 min • United States of America

A man lives in peace and harmony. But one day his quiet life is interrupted by demons. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Tattooed Steiger

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

A behind-the-scenes look on the making of the movie "The Illustrated Man" featuring scenes from the movie and the design and application process of tattooing lead actor Rod Steiger by make-up artists.

To Australia with Love

1969 • 5 min

This short opens with a confrontation between a Customs officer and Melbourne actress Robin Bryning naked in a tin trunk.

Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets

1969 • 2 min • Germany

According to Fritz J. Raddatz, Rosa Luxemburg cried when she read Marx's concept of value. I was just as disappointed by the Cine-Tracts made in May 1968 in Paris and shown shortly afterwards in Berlin.

Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!

1969 • 7 min • United States of America

Quick Brown Fox tries to catch speedy fast Rapid Rabbit (who is silent, except for a bicycle horn which he uses). The duo go about some antics similar to those of the Coyote and Road Runner.

Lanton Mills

1969 • 17 min • United States of America

Two cowboy desperados attempt to hold up a modern-day bank in this absurd western.

The Phonograph

1969 • 6 min • France

An old phonograph assembles itself, plays songs on wax drums before self destructing. In many ways The Phonograph is a companion piece to Renaissance, there is nevertheless something quietly affecting about Borowczyk’s final ‘object’ animation.

The Erotic Circus

1969 • 56 min • United States of America

Decadent swinging speed dealer Louie and his two lady friends Mary and Debbie decide to pay a visit to Louie's sister, who lives in a remote woodland area with her meek son Jamie and weird caretaker Yenos. However, things soon turn nasty when a killer decides to start bumping off the unwanted guests.

Pirouette

1969 • 1 min • Switzerland

The very first independent film by animator Georges Schwizgebel, which was made in 1969 as an episode in the anthology film "Patchwork". Along with Schwizgebel, "Patchwork" included the talents of filmmakers Claude Luyet, Daniel Suter, Gerald Poussin and Manuel Otero. "Pirouette" combines a simple drawing of a figure with photographs, cut-outs from magazines and samples of cloth. A prominent motif of this collage mix is a drawn male face slightly inspired by pop-art.