1969 Movies

Five experimentations with film as a medium, a physical object and a record of social reality.

Early experimentations with film by a materialist sculptor and future structural filmmaker.

A film by an early British pioneer of computer generated filmmaking, Now foregrounds colour discs and other circular shapes, featuring both abstract a...

A spirited celebration of youthful exuberance and the excitement of shooting with a movie camera. Jonathan Langran, then a young film student in 1960s...

Filmed photo portraits Erwin, Toni, Ilse, is one of Friedl Kubelka’s first films. Influenced by the Nouvelle Vague and Existentialism, it was shot in...

At the beginning of the winter semester 68/69, the students of the Department of Educational Sciences (AfE) at the University of Frankfurt decide to b...

A film about faces, about expressions, about situations. The film is based on a poem by the Danish poet Poul Borum. The recordings are made in the Mun...

Portrays real-life situations where young people become addicted to marijuana and drug use or alcohol use. The destructive effects of drugs and alcoho...

Art, dance, music and poetry became a vital necessity for the liberated areas of South Vietnam in their daily efforts to survive the bombings and napa...

The broadcast (transmitted by Sender Freies Berlin/ARD, 10.40pm, 15 April 1969) begins with a studio-recorded opening that has something of the atmosp...

"A collection of footage from my friends or by my friends and me. It is amazing the number of events recorded by various means around London. Sowesto...

Trixi is Dwoskin’s most convulsive version of his recurrent theme: the confrontation of a solitary girl with the camera. Shot in one continuous 8-hour...

Hygiene education short film from the 60s.

Biscuit Buhler

Working conditions in the Kelton-Timex watchmaking factory: workers working as puppets, fainting, accidents and as a bonus of the "New Society", Sylvi...

Bill Brodie takes a young Marine who has deserted from the Vietnam War and places him in front of a movie camera so that he can tell his own story.

The focus narrows to short cuts relating to the place were the footage was shot, then moves to the portrait´s subject, Franz West, sitting at a wine t...

Cartoon set to songs from The Moody Blues' titular album.

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