All Films

La peau dure

1969 • 53 min • France

In a snow-covered Juras, two elderly couples talk about their past, one dealing lightly with death, the other with Christian mysticism.

Argila

1969 • 36 min • Germany

Werner Schroeter's stunning split-screen short deals with what the director called "archaic, fundamental themes" of love and mourning.

A Wilful Princess

1969 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The capricious princess mocks the grooms invited by her father, allowing her jester to humiliate their appearance. Angered by the behavior of his daughter, the king orders her to be married off to the first beggar who entered the city. By chance, the "beggar" turns out to be one of the knights rejected by the capricious woman - the prince, who teaches the princess a harsh lesson that changed her attitude towards life.

Olga's Dance Hall Girls

1969 • 60 min • United States of America

This last gasp of the grindhouse "Olga" series is a tossed off shrug of a movie that nonetheless entertains in a tacky, surreal style. Audrey Campbell no longer stars as the sinister femme fatale Olga, and her replacement retains none of her clumsy menace. Instead she languidly lounges about the flimsy sets smoking cigarettes and looking pale and sweaty. This new Olga is apparently too bored by the proceedings to even torture her white slaves. Instead the dirty work is handled by her partner Nick (Larry Hunter), a slimy, weasel faced man who lures innocent housewives into prostitution by offering them jobs as "dance instructors" in Olga's dance hall. Group sex, nude dancing and pretty ladies wrestling in their underwear are the results, along with several long, seemingly impromptu scenes where the characters talk endlessly and in circles.

Richard Hamilton

1969 • 25 min

The work and preoccupations of British painter and collage artist Richard Hamilton.

The Ant and the Aardvark

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

An aardvark tries to catch one ant without success.

Hanoi, Tuesday 13th

1969 • 38 min • Cuba

In December 1967, a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, travelled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this short documentary all in one day - Tuesday 13. The film is the story of that day and what happened to the North Vietnamese people in the course of it.

The Madam

1969 • 58 min • United States of America

A young man on a motorcycle passes a pretty young girl on the road whose car has broken down. He stops and offers her a ride home, and she accepts. It turns out that she lives in a brothel run by her mother, and they offer the young man a job--to have sex with all of the hookers who live in the house.

Because That Road Is Trodden

1969 • 23 min • United Kingdom

Dream-like confessional concerning the fantasies of an English public schoolboy, created by an English public schoolboy

It's a Camp

1969 • 5 min

A documentary short which presents the way and philosophy of life of a homosexual transvestite.

Tumble Weed Greed

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody wins a cash prize and goes on a vacation with it. Buzz Buzzard stops at nothing to get the cash away from Woody. The story plays out like a Road Runner cartoon.

Donkey, Herring and Broom

1969 • 15 min • Soviet Union

The first story is based on an Indian fairy-tale. It is a story about a donkey who wants to win favour with its master and starts to mock the master’s favourite – his dog. The second story is based on a humorous Estonian song and tells the story of a land herring that became a sea creature and made the seawater salty. The third story is based on a Czech fairy-tale, which tells of two boys, who find a witch's broom and start to fly with it.

Aktiver Streik

1969 • 52 min • Germany

At the beginning of the winter semester 68/69, the students of the Department of Educational Sciences (AfE) at the University of Frankfurt decide to boycott all courses and at the same time organize counter-seminars. The strike was directed against the effects of the technocratic university reform that had just been introduced and was supported by all the student councils, especially the sociologists, students of Frankfurt Critical Theory. But this solidarity strike developed into a tangible dispute over the dismantling of authoritarian teaching situations and new emancipatory research strategies. The sociology seminar is occupied and renamed the "Spartakus Seminar". Working groups now meet there. The SDS discusses with Professors Habermas, Mitscherlich and v. Friedeburg shortly before the police occupy the seminar at night.

Quadrinhos no Brasil

1969 • 6 min • Brazil

The short film traces a historical overview of comic book production, focusing here on the Brazilian market.

The Wings of Uncle Marabou

1969 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Big Game America

1969 • 60 min • United States of America

Burt Lancaster hosts a review of the first 50 years in NFL history.

Well, Just You Wait! 1

1969 • 9 min • Soviet Union

As Volk is walking through the city he sees Zayats on a balcony of an apartment block watering the plants. Imagining him as as a tasty meal Volk tries to climb up the balcony. A chase ensures, the first of many.

Mr. Charlie, Your Rollin’ Mill Is Burnin’ Down

1969 • 8 min • United States of America

This short film by Les Blank with Skip Gerson features the charismatic legendary blues icon Lightnin' Hopkins sing a beautiful song about a stuttering boy who learns that he can communicate through singing. Also features Billy Bizor on harmonica.

Bath

1969 • 6 min

Made in an environment and at a time when frequent and gratuitous images of nude women permeated the work of her male counterparts, director Penelope Spheeris produced this intimate and sensual observation of a woman bathing. The appearance of Spheeris’ credit at the beginning of the film seems to ask the question: how does voyeurism change when we know the voyeur is actually a voyeuse? 16mm, b/w, 6 min. Director: Penelope Spheeris. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

Nature's Better Built Homes

1969 • 46 min

Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore hosts a look at beavers, birds, squirrels, bees, and other animals, with cartoon and live-action film clips.

Greedy Kuzma

1969 • 11 min • Soviet Union

About cat Kuze, who strove to carry off all the tasty morsel, and made ​​himself an annoying lot.

Ship a-Hoy Woody

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody Woodpecker, a swabby on a pirate ship, must protect the ship's massive supply of doubloons from bartender-cum-crook Buzz Buzzard.

Impasse

1969 • 12 min • Argentina

Short film by Jorge Acha filmed in 16mm, about two young men who share the memory of a woman.

I Want to Buy Kyoto

1969 • 25 min

Buddhist statues are disappearing from temples in Kyoto. Maki pays a visit to Professor Fujimori, an archaeological authority, and encounters his assistant Miyako. At night in a disco hall, Miyako hands out flyers with the words “Please sell me Kyoto”. Made for "Operation: Mystery".