Preserved Film Movies

Oscar nominated short film from 1989. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Experimental short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, in 1998.

Documentarian Jon Boorstin follows architect Frank Gehry and his sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, as they attempt a new method of teaching elementary...

The film does not end, is never rewound, and each frame is seen twice in a single viewing: a palindrome illustrating the Chicago "elevated," the...

"A destitute room, transmuted by the startling magic of stop-motion photography into a luxuriant explosion of color. A new work by D’Avino (THE...

An animated film drawn in india ink directly on 65 mm film. It was reduced optically to 35mm film with colour added. The story of the film concerns a...

Study of posters and graffiti on the walls of Paris, using ellipses, brief shots and quick camera movements. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive...

An elegant depiction of landscape and domestic space. One of two films based on David and Diana's life in their house in Colorado, which had just...

A film exposing the staged commodification and banality of the American "beauty contest" with color overlays of fireworks in reverse-motion. ...

Presents a series of goofy romantic and pseudo-professional interludes among its all-male cast in the guise of a soap opera TV spot. Preserved by...

A psychedelic tour de force of animation and time drawing, involving the work of seven artists. A major portion of the drawing was done under the...

As a guitar screeches, the image comes into focus. Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Film of "Dropped Objects" falling from 8,000 ft. altitudes with skydivers as performers. This film of a conceptual artist's work is a document of...

A joyous, chaotic and colorful romp through nature; A psychedelic dance troupe rehearses in a studio.

Nelson sets minimal, repetitive imagery against a looping recording of his daughter Oona, which goes gradually from sweet to curious to mysterious to...

"Picture Without Sound is a film composed of variations on three basic shots that are organized in a pattern signified by the notation...

Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

This short film is an illustration of Niver's preservation process of paper print films. Renovare—from the Latin "to renew"—was an apt...

A collage of human-created worldly surfaces - sidewalks, streets, storefronts - that evoke subtle and mysterious noises. "Chromesthesia" is a...

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