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.

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.

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.

Protective Coloration shows Fisher seated at a mottled table. He wears short-sleeved hospital garb, surgical green ‘scrubs’. Nose-clips...

An animated film drawn in india ink directly on 65 mm film. It was reduced optically to 35mm film with colour added. The story of the film concerns a...

Pure color forms glide across the screen to the music of a vamp in this abstract exercise produced by the world-famous creative photographer. ...

A collaborative piece by Gore and Beckett, the film begins with one of Gore's characters composing a letter, to eventual mail it. Beckett's animation...