Cinematic Era: 1969 Vintage

A tactile description of London, made up of photographs, fragments and different types of film stock.

This film is a reconstruction of a Bath Brothel as illustrated in a Mediaeval Manuscript painting.

Thai horror film.

Performing in the work The Female Christ, Lene Adler Petersen walks – entirely unannounced – through the building’s vast hall while carrying a cross. The artists introduce a new, vibrant image depicting one of our grand narratives and carry out a startling intervention within the pulsating business world. The resulting clash has become an iconic modern-day image. The footage created for this work should also be viewed within the context of the film community ABCinema, which worked with e.g. collectively produced film and collective film screenings where several films were screened simultaneously. (National Gallery of Denmark)

A woman wakes up in the grips of a nightmare: a spirit has possessed her. To be cured, she has to go to a healer who practises exorcisms. With an ethnological slant, the film concentrates on the healing ceremony, the N'Doep.

Produced at the start of the golden age of Azerbaijani animation, Akhundov and Efendiyev’s Jirtdan (meaning “small” or “dwarf”) is a magical little treat in which the titular tiny hero and his brothers must outwit the child-eating Div.

A documentary feature detailing the engraving of the original plate for this celebrated print; the artist's experimental use of different papers and methods of inking, and the later re-working of the plate.

Educational film about exclusion and anger meant to be shown in classrooms, with a discussion afterwards.

Film record of the 1969 wake of Jan Palach in Prague, Bratislava and Brno.

Moods, rhythms, and images of sheep. Natural sounds without commentary. The slowly grazing sheep shuffle, gather, and begin flowing through the valley, a soft, blurry river of wool. They stop, clump together, collect their feet, and lie down quietly to chew their cuds. Sleep. Awake! Pressing together along the road; moving to the highlands, hooves thundering; voices yowling. Fresh grass. Ewes call their lambs. Bouncing over nothing, bleating, the lambs search out their mothers. Milk. Heads banging, the lambs play. pushing, jostling, and scurrying together into the darkness.

After a millionaire playboy is murdered, police enlist a look-alike of the victim to impersonate him in a sting operation.

Auto-poetical collage announcement of a filmmakers future motion picture works.

A class struggle " Music Video ", in which Colette Magny sings a song in honor of the workers of the textile factory Rhodiacéta, whose six-week strike in 1967 caused a stir

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

Taiwanese drama film.

The Princess of Oobieland is interviewed in a television studio in New York City. Her responses, sometimes only barely discernible over the whir and clang of obscure machinery, are testimony to the closing of those gateways which we encountered in the first part (INTRODUCTION TO OOBIELAND).

Abstract visual poem celebrating the freedom of bodies moving through water. A filmmaker unconcerned with plot films the practice of an olympic swimming team and creates a visually stunning work.

The work and preoccupations of British painter and collage artist Richard Hamilton.

The second film adaptation of the legend of Aysel who, seduced by her boss, becomes pregnant. Giving birth to the child, she applies to the court for alimony, but the father rejects the child.

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

A musical comedy, shot on location in the Sussex village of Lurgashall, during August 1969.

A car talks to a young boy to teach him safety rules to remember as a pedestrian.

In the silence and tranquility of the early morning, between four dimly lit walls, the machines are activated and the ovens heated. A morning like any other, a black-and-white film that closely follows the movements, kitchen appliances, and machines. And a son, Jean-Pierre Bonneau, who films his father, a baker, performing his daily, repetitive, and equally precise and skillful tasks.

A programme dedicated to the Icelandic poet, Jóhannes úr Kötlum.

US-Erotica starring Yolanda Signorelli.

The first film by Steve Carver ("Big Bad Mama"), focusing on the life of a young man growing up in Pruitt-Igoe. Featuring an evocative jazz score and sharp editing, this impressionistic cinematic portrait follows William Townes as he discusses life in and outside the projects, romance, fights, friendship and his aspiration to someday do "more than one thing."

A young man and his girlfriend visit his parents at their lake house for the weekend. While there, the couple meets an eccentric artist who comes between them.

TV reporter Armand Laqueue travels to Ibiza and gets caught up in a world of loose women and drug smugglers.

Experimental film by Paolo Brunatto.

From the ruins of the Santa María School in Iquique, the events of the saltpeter strike in the north, which ended in 1907 with the slaughter of thousands of workers, are recounted. The documentary looks at this history through the eyes of a survivor.

A follow-up to Be Seeing You (À bientôt, j’espère), this collective work—initiated by Chris Marker and the Medvedkin Group—was made in collaboration with workers at the Yema Watch Factory in Besançon. It follows a female worker who becomes active in labor organizing, depicting everyday struggles and the growing consciousness within the French labor movement.

“Palestine Vaincra (Palestine Will Win)" is regarded as the first French documentary film made in support of the Palestinian liberation movement. Shot in 1969 by Jean-Pierre OLIVIER de SARDAN in a student dorm, the film blends historical testimonies by Palestinians, photographs, stock footage, maps, and music. The documentary centers on the 1968 Battle of Karameh, while also tracing the complex story of the past five decades of Palestinian resistance against oppression and colonialism.

In 1969, Penny Slinger and her then partner filmmaker Peter Whitehead were given permission to produce a body of work in Lilford Hall, a decaying mansion in Northamptonshire, England. Shot over the course of several weeks while living in the estate with actress Suzanka Fraey (The Other Side of the Underneath), Lilford Hall documents the fractured intimacy between the three artists.

Self-hating mixed-race woman denies her African heritage.

The movements, routines and gestures that compose an ordinary day in the life of an ordinary housewife, recorded in the minutest every more oppressive details, become a sort of catalyst by the unique and simple means of having the woman played by a man with long hair and a slightly androgynous look.

Maddening and mysterious,with the elements—ocean, wind, rocky terrain—dominating the scenes.

Amid an atmosphere of constant casual sex, a drug addict spirals downward.

He sat and shat knowing all sit and shit and feeling at one with humanity. Introduction by Ron Nameth, music by Grateful Dead and Olivier Messiaen.

Hallelujah is one of Kagel's major works, a surreal story about the mouth and it's many permutations. Hands, eyes, lips, tongues, etc are in quite a quandary without means of escape.

A ghost transforms into a beautiful woman and falls in love with a man but a black magician is after her.

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on static backgrounds to suggest travel and discovery.

A series of Public Information Films eventually compiled and released as a single feature.

A document of a drag show at Los Angeles' Queen Mary nightclub.

Bollywood 1969

A Materialaktion (an art performance/happening in which objects are used to create an art piece) by Viennese Aktionist Otto Muehl. The setting is a solemn Christmas celebration.

One of the immediate consequences of the "temporary stay" of the Warsaw Pact troops on the territory of Czechoslovakia. The garrison of the Czechoslovak People's Army was suddenly transferred to Slovakia in the autumn of 1968, and a unit of the occupying Soviet Army was deployed in its place. The age-old symbiosis of soldiers with the adjacent village is completely disrupted, distrust and fear are beginning to spread among the villagers.

This is a short film reviewing Tire-au-Flanc by Jean Douchet and Eric Rohmer.

An inventor is pursued by two prospective clients at a weekend getaway, both of whom attempt to have their wives seduce him into a deal with them.

A silent film shot on 8mm, Tourist Buses Go Home! is one of the earliest examples of Asian American experimental film. It helped shape the use of film to document social and cultural movements in Asian American filmmaking. Tom Tam follows the activism and protests against tours of New York Chinatown.

A study of the generation gap, this program contains questions on the types of social change and societal restraints the participants would welcome or reject. In addition, participants were asked about their views of their parents' values as well as their own, and which political events had affected their life and values. Other questions covered abortion, sexual relations, civil disobedience, criticism of American society, drugs, career goals, the draft, and tactics to be used in social change.

Young Eva chats with her Yugoslav friend Joca over a glass of wine about everything that connects their countries. Eva’s grandmother recalled her sojourns in Dalmatia and her romantic affair with the local Mario for her whole life. Eva soon begins to behave coldly to her Czech friend.

"Carousel is a colorful film that takes us on today's merry-go-round through an excellent editing job and the use of music. This 3 1/2 minute work of art is by Louis Grenier of Chicago" PSA Journal, Nov. 1969, 57.