Preserved Film Movies

A motley cast of characters offer their thoughts on what’s most important in life. Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film...

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

An abstract animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the iotaCenter, in 2007.

Short film produced by Visual Communications, the United States first Asian American film production company. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive...

A film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2000.

Shot while LaPore was on a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship to Sri Lanka in 1993-1994. “I have made a film about travelling and living in a...

A kinetic film sketch designed to involve the viewers muscles. The rocky seaside cliffs near Stinson Beach, California, hold the wrecked carcass of a...

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

Documentary short explaining proper techniques for handling and disposal of incendiary bombs. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the...

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

As the Carter Family sings "Wildwood Flower" an elaborate embroidered border is created around an image of a nude woman riding slowly toward the...

This remained in limbo for 24 years. The only people to have ever seen it were a few handfuls of Hindle's and, later, Shellie Fleming's students....

Hindle's first all-southern-made work, filmed shortly after moving his studio from San Francisco to the lower Appalachians. Jackie Dicie sings the...

PASTORAL D'ETE is one of the nation's first works of the Personal Film movement. Hindle dovetails the lyrical images of a singular high summer's day...

"Sky Blue Water Light Sign is best seen in total innocence. My guess is that if one knows what he or she is looking at before seeing this little...

"A sort of collage film, using images shot for other films that somehow never were finished. The sound comes from various sound gathering adventures....

All the winners. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

In this silent color 8mm film shot in Venice Beach in 1961, Taylor Mead plays “the faggot” who persistently cruises a butch guy intent...

Color UCLA Student Film. Surrealist cinepoem overlaying images of oil extraction, sirens, and war veterans, communicating the bizarre violence of the...

A wet hot dream about sensuality. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation and the...