Preserved Film Movies

The theme of the film is political assassination and it is presented with lightening-fast collage. The figures of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, John...

16mm short from 1978. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A "filmed biography" of Kirk Douglas -- literally. Pages of a book -- the lines of text, and the tiny dots comprising the half-tone photographs -- cre...

A filmic Pandora's Box full of my version of "trouble" (death, loss, cultural imperialism) as well as the trouble with representation as incomplete un...

A documentary about rock 'n' roll. The Canned Heat, City Lights, Seeds of Time, LA Tymes, Llyn Foulkes, Charlie Watts, Chris & Craig, Duke of Earl, Se...

In Filmmakers' Monthly, Edgar Daniels described GRAIN GRAPHICS as a structural film "which begins with two frames of a film strip, one above the other...

John H. Whitney Sr. explains the graphic art potential of the computer and the methods and philosophy involved in his computer filmmaking. Preserved...

A sight/sound combine of exotic imagery shot semi-randomly in superimposition off a TV and then cut to make a fast moving but extremely ambiguous ‘sto...

"The cinematic mechanism cannot be completely deconstructed without resort to other means of mechanical image reproduction; a double system of represe...

Shots of city and country life come together to form an impressionistic whole. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Naturalness willfully corrupted by inevitable self-consciousness, unwittingly corrupted by unavoidable naturalness, a role played with incredible nuan...

The inevitable subjectivity and diaristic potential of landscape is foregrounded in this semi-structuralist work of weird poetic beauty. Preserved by...

A sci-fi/occult/psychedelic performance film set to an original soundtrack by Rhys Chatham. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

No montage, no human subjects, minimal visual content, and the artists basically pissing on the fourth wall by calling attention in every way possible...

Cube and Room Drawings begins with a view looking down at an angle toward grey paper covering the floor. A performer enters from the back of the scene...

Experimental short 16mm film directed by Mike Henderson. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

A found footage film that innocently plays with many of the elements I explore in my own work. A family's playful interaction with a 16mm sound movie...

The surviving print of Mules and Gob Talk (the original introduction is missing) begins with spectacular vistas of Yellowstone National Park and majes...

"Beydler's magical Hand Held Day is his most unabashedly beautiful film, but it's no less complex than his other works. The filming approach is simple...

Possibly the most lucid, vivid, and awesome demonstration of the building up of still images to create moving ones, Pasadena Freeway Stills simply, gr...