Preserved Film Movies

Short film by Frank Stauffacher. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

[1970/2003, color, 7.5 min] Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Short film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

Made for Intercat '73, Pola Chapelle's Cat Film Festival in New York. In the early 70's, a New York cat-lover and film-maker named Pola Chapelle prod...

Van Meter had three camera rolls of 7242 Ektachrome EFB, which he fully ran through his camera each day of the 3-day Trips Festival. The end result wa...

“Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron) is less a depiction of 'reality' than an exploration of the implications of the mediation of Black his...

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

Created in 1968 by Robert Comings and Ben Van Meter in Bolinas, CA. Original sound & music performed on homemade acoustic instruments. Including a ver...

1975, b/w, sound, 3 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Things coaxed into light in roughly the order they were encountered. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

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

1974, b/w, sound, 10 min., aka Express Implication

In three virtuosic sequences created entirely in-camera, Benning alternates contrary camera movements in a trio of Chicago locations with increasing r...

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

This film is hand-painted and is essentially about the interplay between hypnagogic vision and words, the effect of the one upon the other, the contes...

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

In Warren Sonbert's Honor and Obey soldiers march in formation, a tiger stalks through the snow, religious processions wind through the streets, and p...

The fourth film by a member of the '2nd generation' of computer filmmakers, artists who do their own programming. Abstract imagery includes some hand...

"The insinuation of camera movements and the familiarity of the same forms recurring in black and then luminous white shapes, makes X an intriguing vi...

ca. 1974, b/w, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.