Preserved Film Movies

Olivia may have felt no need to change, but the world around her was not bound by such an impractical sentiment. Olivia’s Place is gone. The...

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

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

Blue Movie was made for the international Dome Show where it was projected down onto the muslin surface of David Rimmer's geodesic dome. The audience...

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

A documentary record of the day-to-day existence of a pair of young married heroin addicts. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Shots of city and country life come together to form an impressionistic whole. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

RAINDANCE plays directly on the mind through programmatic stimulation of the central nervous system. Individual frames of the film are imprinted on...

Filmed at Mission San Francisco de Guayo on the Orinoco River Delta in Venezuela, in 1965. A Franciscan nun and an Indian woman describe the Indian...

Beckett cycles through a limited number of drawings, but adds new information to each drawing every time we see it, giving the sense of a world that...

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement]...

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...

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.

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

1972, color, sound, 6 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

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.