Cinematic Era: 1969 Vintage

Official (as per the box) NASA Super 8 release of footage from the journey to, and landing on, the moon.

In this brisk but sweeping tour of lunar imagery, art critic Aline B. Saarinen offers a poetic consideration of the moon’s significance across time and cultures. Tracing this symbolism from the Roman goddess Diana to the Japanese myth of the moon rabbit, Saarinen presents a spellbinding survey of mythological associations that illustrates how people have always sought to understand the moon’s mysterious powers. This curious short film, originally meant to be televised during the first moon landing on July 20, 1969, never aired.

The authorities in this country, both central and local, have failed absolutely to solve the housing situation. The situation still gets worse... the time is ripe for ordinary people themselves to take action against the authorities.

Gay horror short double-billed with Frankenstein de Sade.

The tour group's trip to Ladoga is interspersed with the filming of an unfinished project about primitive people.

Film seems to tackle frustrations in communication in the relationship between two men and a woman, which are resolved in the end? Shot in Kirkwall and surrounding area. Ola Gorie, who plays Helen in the film is renowned Orcadian jewellery designer, and one of the founders of the modern craft movement in Scotland.

Two youth groups with one aim in common. They profess hate for the older generation and they're out to shock and disgust by any means.

Obscure adaptation of the classic story “ The Living Koheiji”.

Portrays the complete life cycle of the alligator and its important role in the ecology of the Everglades. 16mm

A jazz-infused introduction into the milieu and musical environment of Andrzej Kurylewicz’s Piwnica Artystyczna club. With appearances by artists Wanda Warska, Włodzimierz Nahorny, Barbara Brylska, Stanisław Tym and Jean Chavrain – a representative of the Estates General of the French Cinema.

The late 60s saw globetrotting filmmaker Tony Williams shoot and edit two films for Iranian director Mahmoud Khosrowshahi. Here Williams chronicles an east meets west festival held in the Iranian city of Shiraz. Williams’ love affair with music and montage helps lend pace and life to a film whose sonic interests range from Iranian lutes and Indian oboes to American Cathy Berberian, who is busy turning comic strips into song. A glimpse of cosmopolitan Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution, it includes a rare interview with New Yorker classical music critic Andrew Porter.

Based on the play by Demetrius K. Toteras, itself based on his own experiences as a prisoner-of-war.

A young gas station attendant falls in love with the flower seller across the street. Every day he buys flowers from her until one day his apartment is full of them. So he decides to write her a letter. Because he doesn't really succeed, he tears it up again. He sees no way out but to drown himself, but that doesn't work either...

It is an anti-film, a verbo-filmic corollary to the classic O bottetò, which engages a concept of "de-cultural film" brought to exasperation, determining the provocation of the public through a parodistic technique of the most forbidden amateur cinematographic attitude (the film is part of the "filmosophical manifestos" series).

Short documentary that follows a group of expeditioners across the Famatina

Documentary about about cultural life and the socio-economic situation in Iraq in the late 1960s.

Directed by Anant Mane.

Murali Malhari Rayachi is directed by Govind Kulkarni, and stars Chittaranjan Kolhatkar and Jayshree Gadkar.

Movie starring Arun Sarnaik, Ratna, Vasant Shinde and directed by Yeshwant Pethkar.

Directed by Raja Bargir. With Mai Bhide, Chandrakant, Leela Gandhi, Jog.

Directed by Datta Dharmadhikari. With Asha Kale, Majnalkar, Lalita Pawar.

Directed by Raja Paranjpe.

A group, they didn't know of 'landscape theory'

A documentary shot in Zagreb in 1968, showing the local orchestra playing for the Czechoslovak people who escaped their country after Soviet invasion.

Catherine's dream, full of anxieties about sexual pursuit and their resolution in her liberation, comes to dominate her waking hours. Elements of the dream keep intruding on her day, through coffee and love. The dream replaces her fragmented experiences with a more lyrical mood that persists for the rest of the film.

Subject made on 8 mm film in 1969

After winning independence in 1961 from the British, President Julius K. Nyerere set to instill ideas of self-development, self-governance and social justice in Tanzania. This short film describes the idea of African Socialism aka. "Ujamaa" as a response to the challenge of development in terms of the pressures under which newly emerging nations labor and emphasizes the strength of working together for the benefit of their nation.

This film traces the painful story of a worker in a lime factory who, due to a lack of professional safety and given the non-existence of sickness benefit, finds himself in a most dramatic situation. To provide for the needs of the family, his wife sees herself obliged to part with all that constituted the already poor furnishings of the home. Anything goes, but the needs are still pressing. With nothing left to sell, she will ignore any concept of dignity and sell her own body. The mine continues to operate nonetheless. The film is worth especially by the first sequences which make burst the screen by their force and their realism. In their concern to transport the harsh, noisy, inhuman, destructive reality of the workers, the images manage to touch and convince the spectators, more than the (rather melodramatic) sequences of the degradation of family life. 16mm, black and white, mute

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 Jacques Drouin and Nicole Morisset

This work is an extension of Jonouchi’s documentation of Hi-Red Center’s performance event, Shelter Plan (1964). Using the same unique shooting and editing techniques adopted in the Gewaltpia series, Jonouchi put on record the process of destruction of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned architectural piece [the Imperial Hotel], which was the site where Shelter Plan took place.

One young man pitted against three women: Charlotte claims she is a French aristocrat; Carola, a student whose hobby is walking around Milan; Carol, a professed hippy. A fourth woman, Carla, makes an appearance in the film now and again, in the company of the director.

Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, The Wilburn Brothers, Loretta Lynn, Jim Ed Brown, Del Reeves and more gather for a holiday special from Nashville in 1969.

A documentary charting the building and opening of Stourbridge Ring Road in 1969.

Documents Harpur College's Afro-Latin Alliance.

A continuous dissolve into a series of happy nude couples in various configurations: female/male, female/female, male/male, as the Rolling Stones sing 'We Love You'. –F.

The last chord is a montage of archival photos showing the participation of the 1st and 2nd Polish People's Army in the Berlin operation and its part of the Lusatian operation (Battle of Bautzen) during the final phase of World War II.

The youth of the 60's will make their own decisions about the place they will occupy in the social world. A process in which their perspectives on the different aspects of the present will possibly be different from those of their parents.

In The measuring of Time the counting of grains and sand in the desert, as an instrument of measure, represented an infinite action beyond time.

Computer Movie No. 1 is a CGI animation created by the Computer Technique Group Japan.

The Day Before the Moon Landing (1969) is the first in a series of videos Tambellini made to capture broadcast television as it was experienced live. Unlike more involved works such as Black TV, the video simply records Tambellini channel surfing between the networks on July 19, 1969, the day before Apollo 11 landed.

Short experimental film by Robert Frerck.

Vomit-filled short film by British filmmaker Nicholas Gosling.

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

Short film by Tonino De Bernardi.

Story about abandoned children who found shelter in different villages with different stepmothers.

With a very personal style, Marilyn Contardi, which will materialize in the films that will be made at the Film Workshop, tells the story of Santa Fe, and its laborious transfer to its current location.