Cinematic Era: 1969 Vintage

Experimental film by Paolo Brunatto.

A musician has to compose a commissioned work for a film. But his mind is guided by external solicitations that constantly divert him from his work.

This “naive” film, as the author himself calls it, is a kind of confession of a young man. Driven by an inexplicable impulse, high school graduates ran away from a formal museum tour.

Adapted from Viswanatha Satyanarayana’s novel, a Telugu tragedy set in Tamil Nadu.

In the first segment, “Yılın Kadını Değil”, a mother risks her own safety by stabbing her friend to protect her daughter from his dangerous influence. The second segment, “İki Günahsız Kız”, follows two innocent young women navigating love and temptation—one’s story remains untold due to production constraints, leaving the anthology incomplete.

Thirst and hunger push the country boy to a seemingly innocent act: he drinks steamed milk right from under a neighbor's cow. But the family of the local rich regards the boy's act as a crime and decides to teach the audacious.

In late 19th century, a carver-cutter arrives in a little town to make the iconostasis of the newly built church. He is being accommodated in the house of a respected family. He is working slowly because of his love for the daughter of his hosts. They resist in every possible way and pay a high price: Their daughter dies. Though in despair, the master completes the iconostasis: a masterpiece the locals perceive as a heresy. And he leaves once again without any destination.

The beginning of the prevalent theme – or question – what keeps us apart, even when together? This question in the later film not just the question, but as a statement…

A group of school students sets up a rebellion that threatens to kill their teacher.

Farce about an out of work actor that one day gets the chance to play the role he never got to play before.

The director travelled to Tanzania and interviewed several European missionaries and plantation owners, shedding light on the negative effects of colonialism.

Glauco Mauri was the first Italian performer of Acte sans paroles. A unique piece that renounces speech and deconstructs language, expressing itself through the suggestion of mime and grotesque gags reminiscent of early silent films.

A film by Naomi Levine from 1969

Section Ill is the most abstract section of the four, and the only one which does not contain old photographic material. The means used in previous sections to achieve abstraction and transformation of the realistic image are here employed in the extreme so that texture, color, and shape predominate. We can recognize some realistic images, such as shots of the family walking in the woods, or the children reading comics and riding in a car, but the overall impression given by this section is one of abstraction. (Artforum)

The film was made for the World Expo '70 in Osaka (Japan), introducing viewers to Latvian folk dances.

According to Fritz J. Raddatz, Rosa Luxemburg cried when she read Marx's concept of value. I was just as disappointed by the Cine-Tracts made in May 1968 in Paris and shown shortly afterwards in Berlin.

Barclays Bank documentary about computers in the UK and how they might be used in the future.

There's dripping and dropping, squishing and squashing, curling and whirling, coming and going; in and out, up and down, when black and white does its thing.

“Le Départ d’Eurydice” (1969) is a metaphor of the time, a sort of "documentary allegory" on the 60 s and on its “underground bohemia“. In spite of its impressionist and fragmentary aspect, in a poetic and musical structure, the film includes some narrative elements. A young writer hesitates between the love for his girlfriend and the obedience to the command of the “guru” of an artistic group which requires of him, like pledge of fidelity, to kill his love partner. He executes the Death ritual in front of the sea…but in vain.

A little girl talks about her life : her mother works in a biscuit-making factory and her father is a truck-driver. Working-class life seen through a child's eyes.

A satirical tale exposing the mores of bourgeois society.

A family drama.

The Bonzo Dog Band freak out at the farm and strange sounds abound.

A cinematic time capsule capturing the “illusion/reality” of the psychedelic 60’s

A woman marries a man after the death of her husband and sends her twelve-year-old son to America. After a while, the woman becomes ill and asks her niece to send a letter to her child, requesting that he come to Iran to visit his mother...

Documentary film.

The Urdu film Buzdil (1969) was directed by Saqlain Razvi.

This is the story of the criminal René Cerón Pardo, author of five murders, and imprisoned in the Santiago Penitentiary along with internationals Julio Ignacio Scarpizzo and El Loco Pepe. Scenes of his life are evoked, including his childhood - acted by the child Héctor Abarca -, his internment in the Penitentiary, the fifth murder and the last capture.

Composed of two short films. The first one "Spring" is about a young couple falling in love. Almost dialogue free and shot in an experimental style. The second film "Fall" is a more traditional comedic love story between a lonely old Jewish-German lady and a lonely old Iraqi Falafel seller.

An experimental film, a register of the peculiarities of life in rural Paraguay.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

Joop tries to tell his friend Loes that he loves her but is repeatedly interrupted.

This independent underground feature films two dancers (Carolyn Carlson and Emery Hermans) in silhouettes and shadows. Other couples discuss their relationships and lives in a candid display of self revelation. Street dances and conversations combine in a collage of people and places in this black and white film.

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.

A short film

Musical comedy about a wedding that takes place in a village in Moldova.

This creative educational film by Pieter Van Deusen features a variety of wind instruments performed by noted musicians Eli Hollander & Tony Plog. The film crew included Les Blank as 2nd Camera along with assistant Skip Gerson. This film was part of a music film series for Churchill Films: WIND SOUNDS, Percussion Sounds, and an offshoot film by Pieter with Les Blank entitled Christopher Tree.

The duck Saturnin is back in another all animal cast adventure. This time he saves a wacky indian, which in return gives Saturnin a magic liquid.

hong kong film

Edible animation. Silhouettes of black beans creating mandala patterns with frenzied percussion on track.

Paean to Navotas and its “fisherfolk who celebrate life and death with small talk, music and rituals of burial in a cemetery by the sea.”

Snow Job, the 1969 Don Walters (billed as "Arlo Shiffen") sexploitation movie ("For the girl that's tried everything but skiing!"; "They were cold outside, but hot inside!"; "The ski resort, where every girl got a snow job") starring Cindy Sugar, Eric Manfred, Lena Jacobson, Natalie Nadel, Elvin Hagen, and Alan Marshall

Directed by Cesar Gallardo. With Dolphy, Dolphy Jr., Liza Lorena, Victor Wood.