Preserved Film Movies

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experime...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experime...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experime...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experime...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experime...

Using fixed frame timelapse, 15 hours of a day in the mountains, showing the changes in the sea and sky, is compressed into eight minutes. Designed or...

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

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 i...

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 Archive in 2...

A rapid fire montage, a dynamic juxtaposition of the world’s vital and destructive forces, the title originating from a Chinese text which refers to t...

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

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 i...

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 distant plac...

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 2016...

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

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