Preserved Film Movies

Experimental film by Elwood Decker. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Experimental documentary using a train journey between New York City and Washington, D.C. as the framework for an exploration of American history. ...

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...

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

Krumins’ fantasy sets the world of flora and fauna on its ear. At one moment grotesque greenish mushrooms grow, wither and reverse their...

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

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...

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

In the 1936 short Allegretto, diamond and oval shapes in primary colors perform a sensual, upbeat ballet to the music of composer Ralph Rainger. The...