Preserved Film Movies

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

A short film in two parts by Curt McDowell. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

A short promotional film directed by Curt McDowell for 'Underground Cinema 12'. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

This remained in limbo for 24 years. The only people to have ever seen it were a few handfuls of Hindle's and, later, Shellie Fleming's students....

Hindle's first all-southern-made work, filmed shortly after moving his studio from San Francisco to the lower Appalachians. Jackie Dicie sings the...

“PEED INTO THE WIND smears across the screen like one of those dirty underground comic books. It’s loaded with a lot of big scenes and...

PASTORAL D'ETE is one of the nation's first works of the Personal Film movement. Hindle dovetails the lyrical images of a singular high summer's day...

"Sky Blue Water Light Sign is best seen in total innocence. My guess is that if one knows what he or she is looking at before seeing this little...

Strand spent over twenty years documenting her friend Anselmo Aguascalientes’ life, eventually creating a stunning trilogy of...

"A sort of collage film, using images shot for other films that somehow never were finished. The sound comes from various sound gathering adventures....

All the winners. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

In this silent color 8mm film shot in Venice Beach in 1961, Taylor Mead plays “the faggot” who persistently cruises a butch guy intent...

RAINDANCE plays directly on the mind through programmatic stimulation of the central nervous system. Individual frames of the film are imprinted on...

Fischinger's abstract designs accompanied by Gitta Alpar singing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Color UCLA Student Film. Surrealist cinepoem overlaying images of oil extraction, sirens, and war veterans, communicating the bizarre violence of the...

A static close-up of a clock. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Filmed at Mission San Francisco de Guayo on the Orinoco River Delta in Venezuela, in 1965. A Franciscan nun and an Indian woman describe the Indian...

A wet hot dream about sensuality. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation and the...

An abstract compilation of found footage. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with National Film Preservation Foundation and ...

A film poem using found film and stock footage altered by printing, home development and solarization. It is a film using visual relationships to...