Preserved Film Movies

Coming in the wake of a whole movement of wild, ecstatic, psychedelic films loaded with unchecked energy and abandon, Throbs demonstrates a...

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

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012. The film melds still photos, Hollywood film, television footage, and speeches...

What remains, unedited, of the first episode of a serial by several hands, subject to a form of supervision-control by Fischinger. It opens with an...

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

Documentary short film demonstrating the war activities of the American Red Cross. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

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

"Like Los Ojos, Glass Face shows off Beydler's more whimsical side, but his consistently fresh approach to the transformation of still frames into...

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

Short by Stuart Schulberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

"Whereas SQUARE INCH FIELD was composed largely in the camera, Rimmer's next film, MIGRATION, made full use of rear-projection rephotography,...

A rapid fire montage, a dynamic juxtaposition of the world’s vital and destructive forces, the title originating from a Chinese text which...

Adopting its title from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, What’s Out Tonight Is Lost is an elegiac film sifting through the unrecoverable. The...

A surrealist translation of Catholic devotional postcard imagery set into unsettling motion. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

A documentary about four African-American comediennes set in 1984. Restored in 2021 by the Academy Film Archive. 

"A sort of collage film, using images shot for other films that somehow never were finished. The sound comes from various sound gathering adventures....

Chick Strand's first film, made while living in the Bay Area, features her young son Eric as a little boy traipsing through a mysterious landscape,...

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...

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

"Bump City is a colour film about the symbolic destruction of Los Angeles. It was never a very finished film, but it was about signs and advertising,...