Preserved Film Movies

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement]...

Beckett cycles through a limited number of drawings, but adds new information to each drawing every time we see it, giving the sense of a world that...

Blue Movie was made for the international Dome Show where it was projected down onto the muslin surface of David Rimmer's geodesic dome. The audience...

A motley cast of characters offer their thoughts on what’s most important in life. Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film...

A rapid fire montage, a dynamic juxtaposition of the world’s vital and destructive forces, the title originating from a Chinese text which...

An abstract animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the iotaCenter, in 2007.

A “found object of paint and mold” given to Brakhage by the poet David Meltzer. According to Jane Brakhage, Stan did nothing to it but...

Agitprop short made in West Germany. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

Short film produced by Visual Communications, the United States first Asian American film production company. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive...

Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2000.

Shot while LaPore was on a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship to Sri Lanka in 1993-1994. “I have made a film about travelling and living in a...

The hand-painting of this film is interrupted by, and interspersed with, a geometrically structured Mask of Death (one of those frightening human...

A kinetic film sketch designed to involve the viewers muscles. The rocky seaside cliffs near Stinson Beach, California, hold the wrecked carcass of a...

Beydler performs the ultimate SoCal shade-tipping, satirizing LA art-cool with comic pixillated effect. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

Documentary short explaining proper techniques for handling and disposal of incendiary bombs. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the...

Documentary short about the government census of unemployed but employable workers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film...

A documentary about four African-American comediennes set in 1984. Restored in 2021 by the Academy Film Archive. 

As the Carter Family sings "Wildwood Flower" an elaborate embroidered border is created around an image of a nude woman riding slowly toward the...

Curt McDowell relates an idea for a film to Ted Davis. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.