All Films

Carna

1969 • 10 min • Netherlands

Although it was actually an impersonal commissioned film, the director's style is clearly recognizable. Once again he manages to make something that is normal very strange: the dancing people in costumes are filmed in such a way that they look bizarre and absurd. Jan de Bont's camerawork shows a series of color images of dancing people, edited to the rhythm of the music. Halfway through the film, a lonely clown can be seen among the dancing crowd, accompanied by sad music. This clown is played by Ditvoorst himself.

Venus of Ille

1969 • 26 min • Poland

Janusz Majewski adapts Prosper Mérimée’s 1835 tale of the same name, centering on a mysterious statue unearthed in a provincial town. The figure, sculpted as a tormented woman, becomes an ominous presence during a wedding celebration. When the groom impulsively slips his ring onto the statue’s finger—and cannot remove it—the joyous occasion descends into a nightmarish spiral of superstition, obsession, and the uncanny.

The Rainy Day

1969 • 30 min • Sweden

Swedish children's program about what you can do when it's raining outside. Perhaps paint, sing or bake a cake?

The Game

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

An educational short produced by Disney which poses three questions to children in how they should deal with a given situation. This time a game at school.

Voices

1969 • 44 min

Documentary about Jean-Luc Godard filming Sympathy for the Devil with The Rolling Stones.

Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt

1969 • 30 min

Dramatically portraying the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the film reveals the conditions of virtual slavery which persisted throughout the Middle Ages, and the weaknesses of the feudal system; its oppressive tax structure, its cruelty and its social inequality

Topology

1969 • 10 min • United Kingdom

One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.

The Lady, or the Tiger?

1969 • 16 min • United States of America

A visually experimental adaptation of the classic Frank Stockton short story.

Doc

1969 • 30 min • United States of America

An aging doctor in a small town decides to pack up his little black bag, but when a young doctor assumes his practice, the older practitioner can't resist butting in with comic results.

The Story

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

Presents a story told by a young boy to his younger sister about various zoo animals. Records the spontaneous tale with all the interruptions, comments and reactions of the sister. The film was made by their father Homer Groening and features Matt, Lisa and little Maggie.

It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown

1969 • 24 min • United States of America

School is out for the summer and Charlie Brown, Linus, Schroeder and Pig Pen are planning to spend it reading every comic book, watching television, practicing ballplay, and classical music, and having clean thoughts. However, Lucy tells them that she signed them up for camp. The girls are eager to go, but the boys hate the idea.(Linus adding that its like finding out that he was drafted.) The boys shove each other to get on the bus, while the girls line up in order. At camp, Charlie Brown is chosen captain of the boys camp. The boys and girls have a swim race which the girls win easily. Then they have a softball game, which the boys lose with only one run. Other competitions are just as lopsided. Afterwards, the boys sit around the campfire and reflect on how miserable they are. In one scene, the colors of the shirts of Schroder and Linus are mixed up during this scene.

The Hub

1969 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

A new, modern train station in the province of Croatia, where the only problem seems to be the numerous, unemployed people or as the station master complains: Why do films always have to show the bad side?

When Twilight Draws Near

1969 • 43 min • Japan

Bored by the emptiness of everyday life, four students gather to play dangerous games in an apartment.

Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution

1969 • 49 min • Japan

Nagisa Oshima's documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the Communist Party's struggle and cultural upheaval. Made in 1969 for NTV station, this TV documentary also questions Mao's dictator tendency during the cultural revolution.

Krag-filmen

1969 • 16 min • Denmark

The ABCinema group dispatched Jørgen Leth to make the arrangements with Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag, who good-naturedly put himself at their disposal. Relaxing on a bench in the garden of Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Krag is scrutinised by camera-wielding collective members almost like a model in a life-drawing class. Every possible angle, distance and framing is tried. The result is an image of the prime minister that is both fragmented and multi-facetted, describing his visual appearance as a man and an icon. At the same time, the ABCinema members film each other filming Krag, which gives the film a highly self-reflective character. Like "The Deer Garden," this is a film about a film being filmed. A showdown with the documentary portrait genre, "Jens Otto Krag" is devised according to the principle of keeping the material alive by not editing it but randomly piecing it together. (DFI)

The Deserted Archipelago

1969 • 56 min • Japan

A young man reaches adolescence and escapes the nunnery where he survived a tortured upbringing; the world outside suddenly seems even more frightening than before.

Ensino Vocacional

1969 • 12 min • Brazil

The experiences of the vocational education at Oswaldo Aranha Highschool, São Paulo, based on a ideia of creating a social microcosm to put the children in a direct touch with their Country reality.

Akakage: 3-D Adventure Movie

1969 • 52 min • Japan

Heroic masked ninja Akakage (Red Shadow) and his two companions fight evil warlords in feudal Japan with their superhuman powers and high tech gadgets. Theatrical film with 3-D sequences based on the TV series KAMEN NO NINJA AKAKAGE.

Village of Eight Tombs

1969 • 48 min • Japan

Japanese horror thriller from 1969.

The Scar

1969 • 60 min • Yugoslavia

The drama questions what would happen in private and professional terms to a man who would start telling his friends and work colleagues everything he really thinks.

Indústria

1969 • 12 min • Brazil

Documentary that uses metaphors to deal with industrial development in Brazil. From the attempt to build a national industry to the almost immediate invasion of foreign capital.

J.t.

1969 • 50 min • United States of America

J. T. Gamble, a shy, withdrawn Harlem youngster, shows compassion and responsibility when he takes on the care of an old, one-eyed, badly injured alley cat days before Christmas and secretly nurses it back to health.

Lupin the Third: Pilot Film

1969 • 12 min • Japan

The first animated adaptation of the popular manga series, this pilot introduces the main characters of "Lupin the Third" with montages, presented through a short frame narrative illustrating a typical gang escape.

Baron Olavo, The Horrible

1969 • 60 min • Brazil

Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Part of it is missing sound and final editing because the director was forced to leave Brazil. Horror and humor to deal with the subject of insanity: “In the end everyone leaves the house as though they were laboratory mice escaping, they invade the city and contaminate the world”. “If we talk about horror, this film deals with national horror, with Mojica Marins as an emblem. There might be a few touches of Corman and English horror, but it is another level of horror. What transformed the film was the location where we were shooting, the house of a 19th century painter, a receptacle of light. When I arrived and saw that house, that light, I said: ‘This is the film. This is the horror’. The meaning of the film, its appeal, derives from this laboratory of light” (J. Bressane). — Torino Film Festival