Preserved Film Movies

Short film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

Short film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

Described as "a collection of 'windows' on a personal past" "Time's Wake (Once Removed)" incorporates material from an earlier version. On the...

This film is hand-painted and is essentially about the interplay between hypnagogic vision and words, the effect of the one upon the other, the...

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

“When one likes something very much, or someone, it is hard to do anything but like it. I didn’t want to take anything away or add...

This film, photographed and edited by Les Blank, produced and directed by Pieter Van Deusen, documents a spontaneously improvised concert by musician...

This short film is an illustration of Niver's preservation process of paper print films. Renovare—from the Latin "to renew"—was an apt...

“A conversation with a friend – Ahmed Akbar. A short interview-type film portrait with Akbar, a black filmmaker and former student of...

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

Women Are Warriors is a 14-minute 1942 Canadian documentary film, made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the wartime Canada...

Experimental documentary using a train journey between New York City and Washington, D.C. as the framework for an exploration of American history. ...

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

"Light animation and original poetry in this initiatic journey by Dennis Pies, who is now known as Sky-David." - Daily Psychedelic. Preserved by the...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into...