All Films

The Columbus of Sex

1969 • 27 min • Canada

An adaptation of the 1888 Victorian memoir “My Secret Life,” in which an author describes his lifelong pursuit of the perfect sexual experience. This is illustrated with shots of erotic sculpture and paintings of nudes and couples engaged in the act. The producers were arrested shortly after release and its negatives destroyed by the Canadian government.

El espíritu

1969 • 13 min • Spain

The haunting spirit of a woman comes to the call of the participants in a séance.

The Sun's Gonna Shine

1969 • 10 min • United States of America

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

In the Company of Men

1969 • 52 min • United States of America

This multi-award winning film uses psychodrama to help bridge the communication gap between a group of the so-called "hard-core unemployed" - largely Black and "underclass" - and the men who hire, train and supervise them - mostly white and middle class.

Alone

1969 • 9 min

"From the way the film begins, and the way the outside images are used, it is clear that they are not intended to be entirely specific to the girl; not, say, to represent her 'thoughts.' The objects and images are rather metaphors–i. e., the pale, barren snow scenes–for the girl's state. Further, they place her isolation in a more general context than that of a single person's experience. The film creates a whole system which describes that isolation. This is made clearer still by the end, which alters the girl's color and removes her from her relatively personalized room." –B. C.

The Hoarder

1969 • 8 min • Canada

A greedy little blue jay carries away whatever his beak can grasp. Berries, birds' eggs (nests and all), and even the sun in the sky go into his secret cache.

The Story of Bartio

1969 • 20 min • Spain

The story of a man searching for something, who encounters others, and who wanders looking for the truth.

Up Is Down

1969 • 5 min • United States of America

A boy who walks on his hands enjoys a different view of the world, much to the chagrin of the adults in the town in which he lives.

Miriam

1969 • 11 min • Germany

Daniel Schmid's actual first feature, made during his (later abandoned) studies at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), is an attempt at an unusual horror film: A little girl asks an older lady to buy her a cinema ticket. They discover that their names are both Miriam. The precocious girl forces her way into the lady's flat at night and demands a snack and presents. When the impudent child wants to move in with her the next day, the lady asks her neighbors for help.

Black and White: Uptight

1969 • 34 min

Narrated by Robert Culp, this special examines racism in the sixties

Apartamento Edificio España Mario... etc

1969 • 16 min

Recovered Zulueta short.

Boy

1969 • 8 min • Denmark

The life of a boy.

The Last Lonely Man

1969 • 49 min • United Kingdom

What if it became possible for the personality to pass at the moment of death into the mind of someone still alive? Then the big new problem would be, into whom?

Naughty Nurse

1969 • 9 min • United States of America

A doctor and nurse sneak away for a kinky encounter, only to be interrupted by a cop... with a secret of his own.

Georgian Ancient Songs

1969 • 21 min • Soviet Union

Under the premise of documenting for the sake of preservation the various forms of Georgian religious chanting, a distinct kind of sonorous psalmody passed over from generation to generation, what Otar Iosseliani captures in reality is the snapshot of a not-so-distant past that coexists with the world we might know yet transports us to what used to be.

The Freudian Thing

1969 • 55 min • United States of America

A photographer picks women up at the beach and invites them back to his house for photographs. He entices them with a large pay out. Little do they know what he has in store for him when he gets them home.

The Victoria Line Report No. 5: London's Victoria Line

1969 • 45 min • United Kingdom

The final episode of five reports on the construction of the Victoria Line in London. This one is edited highlights from the first four with very little new information.

Calaveras

1969 • 11 min • France

Tintin et la SGM

1969 • 8 min • Belgium

This short animated advertising cartoon promotes the Société Générale des Minerais belges, a Belgian mining company. Tintin follows the company endeavours in Belgium, Congo, the USA, France and Japan.

Comics

1969 • 9 min • Brazil

Documentary short that synthesizes the evolution of comic books since Yellow Kid until Spirit.

Great Cold

1969 • 19 min • Soviet Union

The boy offended his mother and great colds came on the earth. And only when the boy realized his guilt and asked for forgiveness, everything bloomed again.

Above It All

1969 • 6 min

A short documentary about the groundbreaking aerial photography filming of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and the pioneer work of the late great cameraman John Jordan.

7th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival

1969 • 3 min

The 7th Avant Garde Festival was presented in 1969 on two islands, Wards and Mill Rock, in the East River. Here Yalkut's rare documentation records performances on Wards Island, beneath one of Buckminster Fuller's famous geodesic domes.

Capture

1969 • 17 min • Canada