Preserved Film Movies

"This hand-drawn animation is based on a short story by Hermann Hesse THE HARD PASSAGE. It was produced at Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual A...

"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 BIG O)...

"The film’s haunting images are accompanied by the continuous sound of a helicopter circling overhead, which at the close gives way to the distant sou...

"Color/form, light/shadow, flatness/depth, figuration/abstraction, landscape/paint, all collaging and colliding in an exploratory, arrhythmic, kinetic...

A virtuosic study of sync-sound cinema, Cagean organizational strategies, and montage. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Protective Coloration shows Fisher seated at a mottled table. He wears short-sleeved hospital garb, surgical green ‘scrubs’. Nose-clips block his nost...

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...

Pure color forms glide across the screen to the music of a vamp in this abstract exercise produced by the world-famous creative photographer. Preserv...

A collaborative piece by Gore and Beckett, the film begins with one of Gore's characters composing a letter, to eventual mail it. Beckett's animation...

Gore's second solo film, DREAM OF THE SPHINX is highly representative of his fluid, expressive line work and characteristic traversals through space....

In the 1970s, Californian artist Louis Hock created a number of studies in the effects of pure colour. The late 1960s saw the rise of the ‘colour fiel...

Rephotographed pornographic playing cards rhythmically intrude upon a piercing 5-beat score of different-sized black parallel lines, creating an almos...

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

Film sketches constructed over the past five years investigating temporal composition via single frame-time lapse techniques: light struck metronomes,...

Constantly changing forms, a plains landscape. One of two films based on David and Diana's life in their house in Colorado, which had just burned down...

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 burn...

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 the...

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 infl...

A psychedelic time-painting using positive, negative, and black light illuminated alternate frames, moving to the beat of a steel guitar blues music t...

Primary Stimulus is an integrated sound-image structure which explores the intrinsic qualities of cinematic light. The abstract patterns which are see...