All Films

Nailed by Sex

1969 • 9 min • Poland

An attractive but cold woman wearing glasses publishes a matrimonial ad. There are plenty of candidates, but none of them is good enough for the woman. Finally, Mieczyslaw Swiecicki appears on the screen – “The Mood Prince”.

Meze Waltera Hortona

1969 • 38 min • Czechoslovakia

The fact that the man succumbed one morning to an irresistible urge to sit down at the piano and play the entire Chopin Sonata in B Minor would not have been so strange if it had not been for the fact that he had never played the piano in his life and he himself had no idea that he could.

I Love This Dirty Town

1969 • 48 min • United Kingdom

An authored film by Margaret Drabble about the rise of the suburbs and the failure of city planning.

Bugged by a Bee

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

A bee with a vendetta accidentally helps Cool Cat win all the athletic events for Disco Tech.

Jimi Hendrix Live in Stockholm 1969

1969 • 60 min • Sweden

The Jimi Hendrix Experience perform live in Stockholm on 9th Jan 1969 in what would be one of their final performances before Hendrix sadly passed away.

Superstição e Futebol

1969 • 9 min • Brazil

Religious beliefs linked to football.

Nelson Cavaquinho

1969 • 15 min • Brazil

A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/songwriter Nelson Antônio da Silva, whose adopted last name ‘Cavaquinho’ refers to the small guitar-like instrument that he played and used to compose his songs.

Aidez l'Espagne

1969 • 5 min • Spain

The Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya commissioned Pere Portabella to make this film for the Joan Miró retrospective exhibit in 1969. There were heated discussions on whether it would be prudent to screen the film during the exhibit. Portabella took the following stance: "either both films are screened or they don't screen any" and, finally, both Miro l'Altre and Aidez l'Espagne were shown. The film was made by combining newsreels and film material from the Spanish Civil War with prints by Miró from the series "Barcelona" (1939-1944). The film ends with the painter's "pochoir" known as Aidez l'Espagne.

Saturday October 5th

1969 • 47 min • Sweden

One day, Saturday October 5th, in a man's life.

42nd St Movie

1969 • 17 min

Doob’s first longer film begins with a shot of the sun setting over the Hudson River in New York City, and goes on to examine the nighttime street life found in the block of 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. As Doob describes it, “That block was fairly notorious at that time, with pornographic bookstores and theaters, peep-shows, and prostitution. It was also a kind of magnet for exotic personalities, and a visually interesting location.” The film showed at many film festivals, won a prize at the West German Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, and was well reviewed in the New York Times. After making this film, and after the experience of taking Murray Lerner’s filmmaking class at Yale, Doob worked as Lerner’s cinematographer on a number of films, including his 1979 Academy Award-winning documentary FROM MAO TO MOZART. (Yale Film Archive)

Cleansed II

1969 • 7 min

1969, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 7:34 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

Tale of the Kolobok

1969 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A new version of Kolobok, who made friends with the inhabitants of the forest.

A Random Bomb

1969 • 8 min • France

A stranger enters a town that has been evacuated because of an unexploded bomb. Meanwhile the inhabitants are watching through telescopes and are getting restless at the stranger’s antics.

Birthday

1969 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A BAFTA award nominated drama about a young anti-war demonstrator contemplating her pregnancy and recalling her childhood as she prepares to give birth.

Pierre and Cottage Cheese

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

The Inspector tries to arrest a crook in hideout with the "help" of a robot's advice.

You Are on Indian Land

1969 • 37 min • Canada

The territory of Akwesasne straddles the Canada-U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border passage of personal purchases - a right established by the Jay Treaty of 1794 - Kanien'kéhaka protesters blocked the international bridge between Ontario and New York State.

Globe

1969 • 22 min

"Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing tract) blossoms into 3D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the right eye. (Keeping both eyes open, of course. As with all stereo experiences, center seats are best. Space will deepen as one views further from the screen.) The found-sound is X-ratable (not for children or Nancy Reagan) but is important to the film's perfect balance (GLOBE is symmetrical) of divine and profane.. - K.J.

Looking Back on Boudu Saved from Drowning

1969 • 31 min • France

French television program discussing Jean Renoir's 1932 film "Boudu Saved from Drowning".

Two Comedies of Branislav Nušić

1969 • 42 min • Soviet Union

Teleplay based on comedies by Serbian playwright Branislav Nušić and combined with songs by Andrey Mironov

Spider-Man

1969 • 11 min • United States of America

Spider-man must rescue the beautiful daughter of the evil Dr. Lightning.

Children and Matches

1969 • 5 min • Soviet Union

A cut-out animation warning for children about the danger of fire and playing with matches, far from the grim warning of your typical PSA and anticipating the complicated human psychology of Norshteyn's subsequent work. And, no doubt, there is a metaphor aimed at the power structure. 1968-69 was a crucial period of transition for the animator, breaking out of the pack at Soyuzmultfilm and beginning to script and co-direct films. Not listed on imdb, this is one - if not the first - of his first solo works as director.

Pioneers in Petticoats

1969 • 44 min

Abigail Harper comes to Salt Lake and is called to be president of the newly organized Retrenchment Society.

To Our Children's Children's Children

1969 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Cartoon set to songs from The Moody Blues' titular album.

Entretien sur le béton

1969 • 29 min

Rohmer films a discussion between Claude Parent, Paul Virilio and François Loyer about the usage of concrete in architecture.