Preserved Film Movies

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

Presents a series of goofy romantic and pseudo-professional interludes among its all-male cast in the guise of a soap opera TV spot. Preserved by...

A psychedelic tour de force of animation and time drawing, involving the work of seven artists. A major portion of the drawing was done under the...

A film which seems deceptively simple, Dead Reckoning comprises three identical-length shots which explicitly demonstrate the process of shooting a...

A documentary abstraction recorded at night in Los Angeles backed by the music of Stockhausen. It is a preliminary effort to organise camera and...

An animated short consisting of 4 segments: bowl, garden, theatre, marble game. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Harvard...

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

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

This film is composed of 4 sections, corresponding to the four directions radiating out from a single house. They are as follows: 1 - daytime, facing...

The original camera footage for STASIS is an 8-minute, 8:1 camera zoom. That footage was then printed with an equal but complimentary optical zoom...

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

Experimental short by Elwood Decker. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Experimental film by Curtis Opliger. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Diana Wilson’s mysteriously beautiful animated tableaux fluidly unfold before our eyes, a generous receptacle for the mournful, harrowing...

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

The basic image derives from a shot of women in (Edwardian era) dresses standing along the edge of the ocean. Within this eight-second loop, [Rimmer]...

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

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

Beydler performs the ultimate SoCal shade-tipping, satirizing LA art-cool with comic pixillated effect. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

Documentary short about the government census of unemployed but employable workers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film...