Preserved Film Movies

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

ca. 1975, 35mm, color, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A chaotic film featuring the Grateful Dead. The songs that are included are Sitting on Top of the World, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Cold Rain...

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

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

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

A ‘film wake’. Though celebratory in mood, it has a mournful subtext… death and dying. We dedicated it to Dr. Sam West, departed...

A joyous, chaotic and colorful romp through nature; A psychedelic dance troupe rehearses in a studio.

A short promotional film directed by Curt McDowell for 'Underground Cinema 12'. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

ca. 1973-4, b/w, silent, 9 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

1973, b/w, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

1973, color, sound, 6 min., aka Immaculate Gate. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

color, sound, 15 min., never shown. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.