Cinematic Era: 1969 Vintage

Animated short about a little girl that can’t sleep because of the noises in the night.

"This film treats masturbation as a kind of religious ritual; it shows self-love, the passion of the self--the close, fine line between pleasure and pain. This is an extremely graphic and explicit film, recommended for mature audiences." - CL

Experimental short that intersperses, through an associative montage, images of animals in the zoo and images of a military parade in the city of Rosario. This short film is part of a series of films recovered from Chaco cinema pioneers.

Short documentary about nature.

Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, THE MEDIUM IS THE MEDIUM is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public television and the emerging field of video art in the U.S. WGBH commissioned artists – Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, James Seawright, Thomas Tadlock, and Aldo Tambellini – to create original works for broadcast television. Their works explored the parameters of the new medium, from image processing and interactivity to video dance and sculpture.

In black and white, you can see the baking of a hash cake. In color you can see the collection of a TA'-Box bag. The faces of the characters are never seen - only their hands. The two courses are cut in parallel. (DFI)

Luis, a paralyzed elderly man, tells his son the story of his life and how he ended up in this situation after the return of an old flame, Lili. The woman, outraged to see her ex-boyfriend happily married, tried to win him back at any cost, which led to drastic consequences that affected him forever.

A documentary film about the writer Antanas Vienuolis.

In an abandoned house, behind a wall, a series of photographs appears, a collage that brings back to the past.

THE RING MASTERS images were produced on an oscilloscope, and were photographed through filters. The images were produced by electronic music. After editing, I composed a new electronic music sound track. –R. L.

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.

January '69, oil workers in Northern California struck, and for the first time, students at San Francisco State and University of California were asked to join the union in the struggle. This action added a new dimension to the Movement in California.

My first experimental approach to cinema, at the age of 15, made as a game with friends, which results in a tribute to my favorite musicians. (Sergio Levin)

A film about folk plays. "A Play About St. Dorothea" performed by folk artists from Hriňová.

Bathroom shows a somewhat seedy bathroom, beginning with a stab at seeing it “objectively” that soon fails; the forms descend into what I hope is a terrifying, even self-destroying irrationality. One inspiration was the long take depiction of madness at the end of Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour; another, the two out-of-focus shots of the altar near the end of Douglas Sirk’s The First Legion.

Short film by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.

Performance by Eliseo Mattiacci at the gallery "L'Attico". The action involved the artist entering the space directed by Sargentini with a yellow steamroller with which a path was drawn by crushing a mound of sand and creating a trail that extended from the entrance to the gallery.

16mm short by Laura Grisi.

Made during the Vietnam War. He proposes a reflection on two ways of killing...

And then lamppost-high snow sculptures, New Year's rides, hats with earflaps, frozen fingers, a giant snow crocodile! Minus fifteen Celsium at least, but the camera does not fail.

Finch College Project, 1969, by Robert Morris is an installation which consists of a film projected in the same site where it was created. It is a significant precursor to the immersive video installations that gained prominence as a medium for avant-garde art during the 1970s. This project constitutes a continuation of Morris’s earlier interest in installations that produce a total environment, as in his 1961 work, Untitled (Passageway). In 2001, the Whitney Museum of American Art included Finch College Project in the exhibition Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964–1977, placing this piece in conversation with similar moving-image installations created by artists such as Vito Acconci, Simone Forti, Dan Graham, and Joan Jonas.

"A work documenting the VAN Film Science Research Center’s space before shut down. VAN, which Jonouchi was a member, was established by the original and new members of the Nihon University Film Study Club (Nichidai Eiken) in Ogikubo section of Tokyo in 1960. VAN was a place where not only filmmakers but also people working in various media, including fine artists, musicians, photographers, and editors, could assemble, serving as an active center for creating historically important works and events." - Collaborative Cataloging Japan

This vintage U.S. Army instructional film, made for tank crews in training, demonstrates the proper procedures for identifying and engaging targets with the Sheridan M551 light battle tank.

Brother Wang and Brother Liu Walk Hades

In one of the three films Gianfranco Baruchello made in 1968 in response to the war in Vietnam, the artist carefully washes hundreds of coins in a bathtub, and then proceeds to cook and serve them at table.

The Japanese version of the 1968 '44 Gatti,' an Italian song from the TV program Zecchino D'Oro. It was introduced in the Japanese NHK TV program 'Minna no Uta' in 1969.

Filmed in Barcelona.

In this film a car engine is animated with the pulse and passion of wheeled competition and of love. In French with English titles at head.

An X-ray Vision that goes beyond the surface and explorations of "SPACE ODDITY" into the emotional expressions of sensual ecstasy and orgasm. Using a technique I call "FLYING CAMERA" where I use a lightweight camera to roam over the human female body to create the illusion of flying bodies. Also experimenting with quick intercuts of black and white abstractions that create grays in between. Music is a collage of Edgar Varese's "IONIZATION" and Luciano Berio's "VISAGE" with Kathy Berberian's vocals.

They may be a teacher's worst nightmare, but these hoodlums are a dream come true. They spit, they fight, they curse, and they accept their punishment.

Scenes of autumn in New England in relation to the poetry of Robert Frost. The film features Frost's reading of his popular poetry.

A silent film portrait of Kunsthalle Basel, the foremost contemporary art institution in the artist's home town. Unlike "A Study of Relationships Between Inner and Outer Space" realized (also in 1969) by David Lamelas, which opens with a presentation of exhibition spaces, infrastructure and employees of Camden Arts Centre to then move into the city of London and its environs, Mutzenbecher's small odyssey remains contained in and limited to observation of the interiors of the Kunsthalle. The camera pans along the moulding profiles, captures corners of rooms and chevrons of parquet, looks up to skylights, passes through doors - in the complete absence of any exhibited artworks, the space is exposed to the point of exhaustion.

"Along the South Shore of Nova Scotia, I poured a mixture of gasoline and oil on various stone configurations and along some beaches, lit them and filmed the results. I composed a soundtrack with a small synthesizer, tuning forks and voice, processed through a homemade distortion chamber." - David Askevold

Follows the work of sculptor Charles Daudelin. Without dialogue or narration, director Pierre Moretti traces the adventure of creation. We see a gigantic sculpture as it begins to take shape, and finally when it is placed in the National Arts Center in Ottawa.

This slow-motion film is a glass snow globe with dancers who topple and bounce off the sides of the frame. Re-purposed at a later retrospective, projected on the side of a white cup.

From the film cycle "Exposing the Text"

The CBS LP of "Delusion of the Fury" came with a bonus album of Harry Partch introducing his instruments. Unavailable for years, this short film features this talk along with a slideshow of the instruments.

A sunny comedy about a young man who finds himself destined to spill coffee on everyone he meets, whether they be friend or foe. –D. D.

Apocalypsis cum figuris by Jerzy Grotowski.

An attempt to use Slavko Vorkapich's kinesthetic aesthetic theory of film. –B. H.

This is the story of two powerful drug traffickers who fight for the cartel in the region. One of them, Manuel Salcido, helps the men and women of the town, with the harvest and building the church they so badly need, thus earning the friendship and trust of all. The other Jorge Labastida is a despotic mobster, who at any cost wants to kill Salcido and strip him of his territory.

Gently experimental film introducing Zen concepts, narrated by Alan Watts.

Fred Hampton talks eloquently and passionately about the Free Breakfast for Children Program and Free Health Clinic set up by the Black Panthers to feed and tend to the poor and hungry. In response to a specific question about events in Chicago and the conspiracy trial, he talks about how those running the city are "crazy with power," about racism, fascism and imperialism, and the need to educate, organise and lead by example.

The film took place at Villa Pisani (Stra-Venezia), near Venice’s lagoon in Porto Marghera (VE) and in a car cemetery. A beautiful girl covered with a semi-transparent gauze and with a gas mask.

Franco Angeli's experimental short film in Big Apple New York with some reminiscences also to Jonas Mekas' Diaries.

Based on a play by Tom Eyen.

A game of two lovers. One of the eternal themes, it is told with a sense of humor and for a comic portrait of the heroes of this game.

A most original interpretation of an E. A. Poe’s short novel, the film is set in the Belle Époque time and in the golden age of silent films.

This very short documentary from the Hinterland’s Who’s Who series is an introduction to the bighorn sheep.

Australian feature-length documentary, filmed by shark bite survivor and rock musician Henri Bource.