Cinematic Era: 1969 Vintage

"Jotes" is a company from Łódź that manufactures machines. The documentary shows the individual technological stages of its production.

Collection of films created by students ages 11 - 18 at the Newton Arts Center in Newton, Massachusetts. Pixillation, clay, flip-card and paper mache animation.

A man travels to the Isle of Arran to marry his fiancée, only to find that her extended family is part of the package.

a short film by Gianni da Campo

1969 documentary about rugby league, dealing with its difficult relationship with rugby union and featuring classic behind-the-scenes access to a Featherstone Rovers match.

Not having much information about the discovery of the perpetrator of the robbery of the jewelry of the lonely and strange Christina, the security commander, tries through her narratives, to discover the persons with whom she has been associating lately. Christina keeps her personal life to herself, so she sends police officer Dimitris to approach her, pretending to be in love

"Whereas SQUARE INCH FIELD was composed largely in the camera, Rimmer's next film, MIGRATION, made full use of rear-projection rephotography, stop-framing, and slow motion. The migration of the title is interpreted as the flight of a ghost bird through aeons of space/time, through the micro-macro universe, through a myriad of complex realities. A seagull is seen flying gracefully in slow motion against a grainy green sky; suddenly the frame stops, warps and burns, as though caught in the gate of the projector. Now begins an alternation of fast and slow sequences in which the bird flies through time-lapse clouds and fog and, in a stroboscopic crescendo, hurtles into the sun's corona. Successive movements of the film develop rhythmic, organic counterpoints in which cosmic transformations send jelly fish into the sky and ocean waves into the sun." - Gene Youngblood. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

A surreal and horseless approach to classic western tropes.

An unfinished archival short, in which the titular substance plays a key role in determining an outmoded man’s role in a changing society. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Short film about slackers in Berlin.

The title of the film Émet refers to the legend of the Golem. It is an enigmatic film, coming from a reflection on the confrontation of man with his identity.

A film recounting Khe Sanh, often considered the most important battle of the war.

Jason Goldframe, a film producer, is always the best and the first! It's his ambition to be the very first to achieve the inconceivable: making a 270mm film. Obsessed as he is, he even wants to be faster than his shadow. One evening he succeeds…

For selfish and petty gains, the village head enlists the help of the medicine man to conjure a toyol (child spirit) for him to own. However, the medicine man constantly fails in his concoctions. They hear rumours of Mat possessing the ability to conjure toyols and decide to take advantage of him, recruiting Mat as the medicine man’s assistant to do the hard work. Meanwhile, the medicine man’s wife who is frustrated with her husband’s failures, leaves home to reclaim a dark heritage of her own. As Mat seeks the secret ingredient for the concoction, he experiences hysterical encounters with the world of black magic, witches, talking animals and dancing skeletons.

While in England, the ruthless King John has placed his gold crown on a pole and everyone has to bow down to it as they pass. Woody refuses to bow down to it and is chased by the king's guard.

Jeevanlal, who is a thief, lives in a small village in India. He is married to Sita and together they have a daughter Meena and a son, Dharmchand.

Loosely based on a story revolving around a travelling circus and how it deals with the pressures of commercialization with the advent of dancing girls.

A couple on the beach discuss their relationship. They reminisce about how wonderful things once were and find themselves wondering whether that was indeed the case, whilst at the same time also dreading the future. At the same time, a second couple – two elderly men whom we meet, both live entirely in the past whilst dreading the present.

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

Sand or Peter and the Wolf is a loose interpretation of the fable Peter and the Wolf, in which a boy's fear of the dark, the woods, and the wolf, is confronted and resolved. The film shows the extraordinary graphic possibilities of one of nature's most ordinary substances, sand.

On September the 4th, 1969, a group of Brazilian revolutionaries kidnap the U.S. ambassador. In exchange for his release, they demand that the Brazilian authorities publish a manifesto they provide, and release 15 political prisoners.

A figure wanders through a world of endless stairs, seeking purpose to his monotonous existence.

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

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 romantic comedy about a female urologist and a male obstetrician who open clinics in the same building.

Dhammi is a mischievous schoolgirl, Sugath a shy and introverted boy new in school. Dhammi is immediately attracted to him and they become friends. The friendship eventually develops in to a special relationship, but when Sugath reveals his love for her she shuns him.

A ballet film based on a folk legend about a lackey who tried to fly with homemade wings.

A story about forbidden love between student Misa and German girl Ana.

After the end of World War II, a Greek woman who was imprisoned in a German concentration camp returns to Greece. She is a woman broken by the hardships, but at the same time determined to find the man who caused her all this misery, namely the one who reported her to the Gestapo as a Jew.

Jackie has some terrible sins to admit to at his very first confession including a plan to murder his grandmother and cut her body up into little pieces. (Jack Wild, who plays the part of Jackie, recently scored a great success as the Artful Dodger in the film version of Lionel Bart's musical "Oliver!")

Documentary film by Wolfgang Bartsch.

This is a "nowhere tour" of Montréal, a sort of parody of the world we live in, where all is confusion, aimlessness and noise. A recurring figure in the film is a Highland piper walking his beat on a lonely patch of ground beneath an elevated highway. The busload of sightseers encounters him as they do other objects of curiosity. At one point, the tour guide, a young woman, and the piper have a fling at dancing. It is a bus tour where everything is unexpected.

This documentary explores the years following Canadian Confederation, a delicate period in regard to American attitudes towards Canada. This was a critical time for the two countries, and the complex diplomacy of the Treaty of Washington is brought to life. Part 8 of the series Struggle for a Border: Canada's Relations with the United States.

Pelican Motorist

An insight into the life of British models, with a look at the rewards of the job.

António Palolo's first films playfully recombine body parts cut out from magazines that Palolo placed in motion with geometrical shapes. These first engagements with the moving image are in a dialogue with Pop, Dada and Surrealism. Recurrent circles appear throughout the films, echoing Marcel Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema (1926).

A claymation and abstract object animation consisting of organic shapes and crocheted afghan squares synchronized to an original guitar duet by classmates Ray Goldstein and Nick Katzman. This is Bill Brand's first 16mm film completed in 1969 while a student at Antioch College.

Film by Emiel van Moerkerken

Short film by Gerrit van Dijk 1969

Jeffrey finds himself wanting a blue dashiki, but it's more expensive than he can afford. Rather than giving up, Jeffrey attempts to solve his problem by becoming a participating member in his community

Jean Renoir talks about the making of La Petite Marchande d'allumettes.

Colored lights and lovely ladies. Snatches of kinetic beauty.

A documentary about a music school based on finding the rhythmic quality in every child, focused on the visual and auditory rhythm of children’s movements.

Soundtrack: MADE IN AMERICA, by William Russell.

A beautiful depiction of true love. Moina is loved by two people: Moti and Mona. Mona loves Moina in an unrequited way. Poverty makes their life complicated and the story continues. Finally, Mona sacrifices his life, showing his deep love for Moina and helps to reunite Moina Moti.

Are you Virgo Intacta? A man shows up for a job interview unaware of how in depth things may get.

This film documents one of the most important struggles for education in the sixties. In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and Latino communities, the State of New York chose three New York City school districts to become part of an experiment in community-run education. In Ocean Hill-Brownsville, the community board requested the reassignment of several teachers perceived as racists. The request brought the wrath of the United Federation of Teachers, city and state bureaucracies, and ultimately a citywide teacher's strike.

Synchronized swimming, one of the most graceful sports, is a natural for the colour screen. This film, using multi-image photography, shows some of Canada's best water ballet in team and solo free-style competition.

This is a relationship dance involving a sister and brother. –S. E.