Preserved Film Movies

A portrait of three Los Angeles area residents who create things with their hands. Angelo Austin decorates wedding cakes; Dean Jeffries designs,...

"One continuous, intimate shot from within the commune…Being is seen as transitory; everything is in the infinite process of becoming." ...

Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory,...

Using rapidly edited, superimposed images of plants, trees, water, the sun and the moon, Incantation weaves a dynamic tapestry of organic forms and...

An Oscar Nominated short film about the adventures of a red pair of legs. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

"This hand drawn animated film is a tribute to my hands. It was produced between 1977-79 with the assistance of a grant from the Sinking Creek Film...

Double or Nothing is a 1936 American short musical comedy film directed by Joseph Henabery. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...

Variously relaxed, apprehensive, or relieved, the fractured gestures of a woman and a baby are played backward and forward, frame by frame, like a...

The inherent kinetic qualities are brought into actuality in GYROMORPHOSIS, as seen in the construction-sculpture of Constant Nieuwenhuys of...

Warren Sonbert described Divided Loyalties as a film 'about art vs. industry and their various crossovers.' According to film critic Amy Taubin,...

An Oscar-nominated film with no narration showing the Exploratorium (The Palace of Arts and Science) in San Francisco. It shows many of the exhibits...

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

The style is relatively unchanged, but the images--press conferences, news events, disasters--convey his vision of the world in a new, direct,...

Warhol Factory days... serendipity visits, Janis and Castelli and Bellevue glances... Malanga at work ... glances at Le Mépris and North by...

Produced in association with the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as part of a twelve part series called The Industry Film Project, meant...

ROUNDS is a hand-painted film composed of a series of film loops printed in such a fashion that, while there is a feeling of repetitive familiarity,...

Don’t expect much in the way of a plot from Kick Me Again. When a married student falls for her portly dance instructor, Puffy is forced to...

During the years preceeding his death, Sonbert channeled his energy into making Whiplash. His vision and motor skills impaired, he gave his...

An animated parody of television commercials and the television audience. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Two brothers are stood up and lament through song. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.