Preserved Film Movies

Short film from Elwood Decker preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Demonstrates the importance of parks and open spaces in an urban environment through a young woman's exploration of New York City's variety of...

Experimental short shot on reel to reel video tape and preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Experimental short film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Daily Rains is a measured, poetic work that confronts head-on the micro- and macro-aggressions faced by young Black women. Restored by the Academy...

The mechanized production of Duro-Test light bulbs is filmed as a dance to the tune of the Brandenburg, as choreographed filaments, glass, and metal...

Gracias Amigos was a 1944 propaganda short produced by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to educate the American public about...

35mm experimental short film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Shared intimacy mingles with unabashed voyeurism in a distilled, complex rumination on the pleasures and problems of gazing. Mark LaPore had intended...

The film does not end, is never rewound, and each frame is seen twice in a single viewing: a palindrome illustrating the Chicago "elevated," the...

The filmmaker courts the muse of computer art. At the gods' demand Calypso grants Odysseus freedom, but gives a cloak designed to drown. The melodic...

Computer generated. "With all the grace and flair of an elegant proof." - Carol Mickett. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Cruisin’ for a bruisin’. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

"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 destitute room, transmuted by the startling magic of stop-motion photography into a luxuriant explosion of color. A new work by D’Avino (THE...

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

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

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