Cinematic Era: 1969 Vintage

hong kong film

Short experimental film by Enrique Butti made at the prestigious Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

The adventures of Possible Possum and his swamp-bound friends.

Abstract exercise in pattern recognition.

A plain in the countryside. The wind is blowing. A white fabric flutters in the wind. Grey clouds. A farm. A hand pushes a bucket into a well and the chain keeps turning.

Lost horror movie.

The conflict between the innocence and commercialism of Christmas is illustrated by urban scenes of a parade featuring a spaceman and rollerskating donkey, the observations of an entrepreneur selling wildly colored trees, and the operation of a “Rent-a-Santa” service.

The uneven gait of one soldier forces the entire army to conform to his unusual way of marching.

A road movie about the vast and icy Antarctica.

This film records the activities Nauman performed four years earlier in 1965. Both in this performance and in this work he strikes and holds a variety of poses on the floor in relation to a glowing fluorescent light fixture.

Archaeological exploration encourages the filmmaker to reflect on the flow of time and life.

In Frame (1969), Richard Serra emphasizes the disconnect bewteen the real space of the cinema and the illusory space of the screen. We first see Serra's hands methodically measuring and marking the boundaries of the film frame, followed by the projected image of a blank surface whose perimeter is similarly marked. The surface is then moved aside to reveal a window which looks out upon a bustling city street. The In the final stage, Serra interacts with the projected image of the window, remeasuring and remarking its borders.

In this film, Nauman applies black makeup to his testicles. The action was recorded with an industrial high-speed camera capable of shooting between one thousand and four thousand frames per second.

German agitprop film.

Experimental short by Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi.

The dangers of drug use by teenagers are illustrated by showing how well-dressed, happy teens are turned into slovenly, long-haired, drug-addled potheads who don't know that, according to the film's drug expert, “in high dosages, it [marijuana] parallels LSD.”

He took up the camera as other people take the pencil and paper. In 1968 he presented his first film Lydia at the Solothurner Filmtage. His appearance as a Filmmaker was absolutely unexpected: the only lyric poet of the film, who succeeded virtually without effort in turning his inner life outwards, creating dreamlike images. With a juvenile absoluteness, innocently arrogant, the pale, gaunt man had put the following sentence in the festival paper: "Look, what kind of a film Reto Andrea Savoldelli has created for you with five thousand Swiss Francs." He pitched himself as "First exponent of the Swiss Immigrant's Cinema". (Martin Schaub)

Leo Beuerman is a 1969 American short documentary film directed by Gene Boomer. It tells the story of Leo Beuerman (1902–1974), a diminutive, disabled man who sold pencils and became a fixture on the downtown sidewalks of Lawrence, Kansas in the 1950s and 1960s thanks to his determination. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

First, assembly line work in a printer's. As one, the workmen put together newspapers. Then other hands assemble, punch holes in, and attach together sometimes mysterious materials, using machines of ultimate design. Then there is no more human presence; only a ballet of automated machines. Finally, we are in a foundry, amid sparks and smoke.

A greedy man sends his wife to prison on the pretext of debt in order to obtain the woman he desires. The woman, who is in financial difficulty, turns to the greedy man, but resists his demands and is severely injured. The greedy man, thinking that he has murdered the woman, abandons her in the desert and escapes. The wife is released from prison with the help of her friends. Based on the evidence, she initially becomes suspicious of her husband, but soon the truth is revealed and the greedy man is caught in the law. The wife and her husband also start a new life.

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

Anthology comedy made by the director of "The Given Word" among other directors.

1969 film from India

A Taiwanese language film.

Diploma film by John Abraham

The Urdu film Meri Bhabhi (1969) was directed by S.A. Hafiz.

The leading actor from a traditional itinerant theatre troupe decides to leave, seeking for fame and fortune as a nightclub singer in Bangkok.

A look at the peerages, knighthoods and memberships of the various grades of the Orders of Chivalry to men and women who have deserved well of their country.

Lost film: Abandon all illusions, prepare for the fight (co-director Marco Melani, Stefano Beccastrini, 1969, 16mm, 24fts, 40’, col.-bw)

Orpheus reconsidered, starting from animations of mosaic images. Eventually, there is lava.

Stamatis Kokoras leaves the profession of the fakir and accepts to work for diplomat Petros. Stamatis, however, must sleep during the day and stay up at night.

A 1969 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Predrag Bajčetić, starring Sima Janicijevic, Rahela Ferari and Ljuba Tadić.

6th Antalya Film Festival, Best Short Film Award. 1969

A home movie with Fulton behind the camera.

Among other topics, includes a documentary on Malcolm X’s influence on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of his death, featuring Betty Shabazz, the widow of the brutally murdered leader.

What does a young construction worker do after running a CAT all day? You're right! He undresses and jumps into the tub. Soaking...soaping...rubbing...and drying he's ready for bed and a phone call to his gal.

Don't Talk To Strangers

Tells the story of Matt Dower who is trying to find Nukulom who has made his village impoverished because of blackmail. On his journey, Matt Dower arrives at the lair of Matt Geledek, who has just been released from prison and handed over his power to Munafik. Because he wants to change the place for the better, Natt Dower is removed by Munafik. When Matt Geledek returns home, Munafik is removed because now he has changed.

Figures in a side-scrolling landscape.

Friends and contemporaries of the great English writer recall remarkable episodes from his life and times.

Political history of the 1930s in France.

The friendly neighborhood antique dealer moonlights as a homicidal sex maniac. He's bewitched by a statue his ex-girlfriend gave him and he sells it to one beautiful woman after another, seduces them and kills them.

1968 8mm color sound 10'

«Lasting barely ninety seconds, the images from 'Solo' show a lone woman who is masturbating with a statue of St Anthony in a domestic and religious setting. It was shown just once at the 5th Jornal do Brasil Mesbla Amateur Film Festival, in 1969. The masculine gaze of the time merely declared these images “iconoclastic”, “erotic” and “comical”. Ashamed by the negative response to her work, the director decided to self-censor, hiding her artistic past and her films from the world» —Izabela Silva.

A documentary short which presents the way and philosophy of life of a homosexual transvestite.

A group of Palestinian freedom fighters carries out operations in Israeli-occupied lands. When they recruit Fady, his sister Hayam decides to help him with his mission. As Fady is arrested and beaten, he gives up the freedom fighters' location to the Israeli commander.

16mm work by Marinella Pirelli.

TV-documentary about the German painter Carl Spitzweg

Short educational film about digestion.