Cinematic Era: 1969 Vintage

A training film that teaches girls easily-learned methods for defense against attack and injury.

Liu is a young barrel maker and is recognized by the guild as a master, but no one truly believes in his qualities. After a long wait, he receives a commission from Karata to make him a barrel. Georgi Djulgerov's student film based on 'The Exam' by Nikolai Haitov.

While working at a photo lab, Frampton found that the waste at both ends of the rolls of processed film—where chemicals worked on the emulsion through clips used to attach the film to the machine—produced images far too interesting to be discarded. For Palindrome, Frampton selected images which he described as “tending towards the biomorphic,” resembling abstract surrealist painting. However, the rigid palindromic structure that Frampton imposes on the images—a motorized sequence based on “twelve variations on each of forty congruent phrases”—deviates from the subjective aesthetic of the expressive, demonstrating Frampton’s interest in the “generative power” of films composed by rules and principles.

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A mad scientist invented a new weapon of mass destruction and offered it to the god of war. The animation was shot in the genre of political satire. The visual solution of the tape proposed by the artist Henrikh Umanskyi is reminiscent of the films of the German expressionist cinema of the 1920s, in particular the legendary film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920). There, too, the main character was a mad scientist, and the events unfolded in distorted scenery that emphasized the state of insanity.

Line drawings, flowing freely across the screen, suggest a head-in-the-clouds feeling as Claude Gauthier recalls a lost but sweet love of other days. Part of the Contemporary Songs of French Canada series.

Through soft landscape images of Tilcara, accompanied only by music, Medardo Pantoja, known as "the painter of the Quebrada de Humahuaca", in Jujuy, allows us to access the mysteries of that region.

A young man has his hepatic duct replaced with a plastic tube after an accident but starts to get worried how this will affect his manliness.

Two mysterious men dressed in black and with cigarettes dangling from their mouths drop a large, presumably heavy (since it takes two to carry it) package off on a doorstep and walk away. When the home’s owner returns he drags the package inside, then goes about doing a few more activities before deciding to finally open it. Upon removing the paper, he notices it’s a large steel barrel. Using a blowtorch, he gets the lid off and sees it’s full of oily water… but rising out of the water is a nude, voluptuous, smiling woman, who immediately starts to entice the man by massaging her breasts. Naturally, being in a barrel for who knows how long, she needs to get cleaned off and hops into a bubble bath. While she’s lounging in the tub, the man gets into bed, lights a cigarette and starts to remove him clothes in anticipation. We get to see fantasies from both the man and “the fairy.” —The Bloody Pit of Horror

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A short documentary looking at the career of acclaimed Danish humorist, artist and cartoonist Robert Storm Petersen - “Storm P”.

A soapy, Sirk-inspired '60s low-budget drama filmed in Houston, Texas.

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”.

It was Pakistan's one of the earliest experimental feature films. It had experimentation by the film director with the Freudian sensual themes which was very unusual for Pakistan at that time. So the film received a 'for adults only' rating. In this film, actress Komal had a really interesting foray into the parallel cinema. She portrayed the sensual play thing for actor Mohammad Ali.

During World Word II, the difficult construction of a railroad through the Boom ravine at Kant-Rybachie. One of the construction workers then takes a train ride along the road he helped build.

A tragicomic adaptation of Darwin’s theory of evolution. An earthworm becomes man, goes through all historical epochs until the present day, and in the end happily slips back underground as an earthworm.

Made by the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society, this shows activity along this stretch of track including glimpses of the Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum and engines in action.

A documentary about the events at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) in November 1968, which led to the termination of the training contracts of 18 students. While Director Heinz Rathsack dictates to his secretary Helene Schwarz the letter lifting the ban from the premises against 18 students, the students plan a general assembly inside the dffb despite the ban.

Crazy bit of nonsense in which guys' planes are drawn down from the sky so that they can be taken and used as sex slaves by a group of 'chicks with guns' whose mini dresses don't quite cover their backsides.

The film shows birds and mammals of Spitzbergen: The snow bunting, Phalaropus fulicarius, Stercorarius parasiticus, the red throated loon, the arctic gull, the puffin, the black guillemot, the loon and the common guillemot are photographed at the hatching place. In addition reindeer, arctic foxes and musk oxen are shown. The voices of seven kinds of animals are heard.

The film employs Hungarian folk patterns of decorating art to express the message, atmosphere and rhythm of a chorus version of five Hungarian folk songs.

This movie, made in 1969, documents the shattering story of a concentration camp survivor and his severe traumatisation, treated by Jan Bastiaans M.D. and his method of LSD psychotherapy.

Five experimentations with film as a medium, a physical object and a record of social reality.

“Through the use of violent symbols (loosely associated with Artaud’s notion of cruelty), some of the consequences of the current social organization in Latin-America are exposed: the alienation, marginalization and reification of men, and the continuous presence of imperialism, considered as rape.” (UU)

Katrina is a coloured woman who tries to pass off as white. She rejects her father and mother to ensure that she and her son find a better life in apartheid South Africa. An Anglican priest falls in love with her but their lives are turned upside down when their secrets come out. Based on a story by D. Warner, Try for White.

A portrait of photographer Pavel Hudec Ahasver is also a homage to the young generation, their thirst for freedom, their non-conformism, their narcissism.

Artist group ABCinema's footage from Rødovrecentret, Denmark's first large shopping center in Rødovre, a suburb of Copenhagen. A collage of super 8 footage, shot with multiple cameras. (DFI)

Portrait of a conductor and his job, who also works smaller jobs on the side, in order to earn enough money for his family.

Short experimental film by Swiss filmmaker Robert Schär.

Dr. Bezbarua is a 1969 Assamese language thriller film, the first film of this genre in the language, directed by Brajen Barua and produced by Rangghar Cine Productions.

A visit to the Vauxhall Tavern in London to see the drag acts.

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In 1968, striking students at the University of Chicago occupied an administration building. A year later, two expelled young women were asked by their former classmates to talk about the experience as a class project. The women confront the students about their convictions and how far they are willing to go to defend their values.

STAR FILM stars a hand-made emulsion.

T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G uses flickering frames of solid color juxtaposed with positive and negative still images of a man—sometimes cutting off his own tongue with glitter-covered scissors, sometimes suffering a series of glitter-stained fingernail scratches across the face. Other rapidly alternating still images of eye surgery and a couple in the midst of intercourse. The soundtrack is a continuous looped recording of the word "destroy" over the entire length of the film.

The reason for the film is the continuous stream of reminders that we get more and more often about cruelty practiced in all parts of the world. The film reveals a society completely confused in its deepest value choices.

The likeness of an offspring to its parents, whatever the species, has been traced to a unique molecule that controls the production of proteins and transmits characteristics. This genetic material, dioxyribonucleic acid, or DNA--the hereditary material of life--is described and illustrated in this film by colour animation. Mutations are also discussed.

An interview with film director Josef von Sternberg, produced for Belgium television.

Two cabdrivers accidentally get caught up in criminal/gang activity.

Iraj, whose job is to pickpocket money, forgets his past by starting an honorable life. He meets a rich girl and marries her soon after. Iraj's past friends do not sit still and inform the girl's father about his records, and the girl's father expels Iraj from his house with his child. Years later, during Iraj's engagement, Iraj's wife recovers from her husband and begins a new life.

Eurico intends to make a film about the life of Queen Elizabeth the Catholic. He wants the beautiful Lola Vargas to star in it. But he does not have a refined enough education. He decides to appoint a teacher to improve her manners.

Three phases of the life of guerrilla priest Camilo Torres (the initial caption explains well how Camilo's mother distanced herself from the film, which falsifies in her opinion her son's life and ideology), told in such a way that it is difficult to read the same person in them; also because the protagonist of the first segment, a young bourgeois university student who is seduced by revolutionary ideals dying during a student revolt, is blessed on the lawn at the moment of his death by the very protagonist of the second episode, this one more obviously inspired by the Camilo Torres who felt his vocation and gave himself to the priesthood.

The adventures of quiet butcher-owner after he is visited by an old friend.

"A wedding in 1969 with several dear friends; shot on one reel of 16mm film, with all superimpositions done in the camera. Soundtrack: Gabriel Fauré." - Wheeler Winston Dixon

Sitting on the floor in a narrow room, a man coughing and spitting blood.

A musical taiyupian co-starring King of Improvised Singing, Chang Di, and the Queen of Taiwanese Opera, Yang Li-hua.

A young villager named Nader is interested in Golnar, the daughter of Kodkhoda, but Kodkhoda is against their marriage, and decides to marry his daughter to a steward. Mubasher and Ramal of the village conspire against Nader, but there is a difference between the two of them, whose job it is to make the residents rebellious. Ramal is killed by the butler, and the butler identifies Nader as the murderer and makes him leave the village. Before Mubasher and Gulnar's marriage ceremony is held, he runs away and meets Farrukh Khan, the nobleman who is an educated young man. After hearing the story of Gulnar, Arbab's son makes it possible for him to study and gradually falls in love with him. However, after Golnar insists on marrying Nader and uncovering the secret of Ramal's murder and the butler's arrest, Farrokh, despite his mother's opinion, puts Golnar and Nader on the wedding table.