Preserved Film Movies

Shared intimacy mingles with unabashed voyeurism in a distilled, complex rumination on the pleasures and problems of gazing. Mark LaPore had intended...

The film does not end, is never rewound, and each frame is seen twice in a single viewing: a palindrome illustrating the Chicago "elevated," the...

Bay Area filmmakers and Canyon Cinema co-founders Ben Van Meter and Bruce Conner were invited to L.A. to talk about Underground Film on the Art...

As a guitar screeches, the image comes into focus. Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

"Gary Beydler's last, and possibly least-seen, film is an exhilarating tour down the length of the Venice Pier, shot over the course of an entire...

UCLA Student Color Film. "a documentary film of marked lyrical and experimental tendency which was photographed and recorded in a L.A. supermarket....

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.

Krumins’ fantasy sets the world of flora and fauna on its ear. At one moment grotesque greenish mushrooms grow, wither and reverse their...

Adopting its title from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, What’s Out Tonight Is Lost is an elegiac film sifting through the unrecoverable. The...

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...

Strand spent over twenty years documenting her friend Anselmo Aguascalientes’ life, eventually creating a stunning trilogy of...

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

This is one of those abstract animated films in which colored, richly textured light moves in a black, three-dimensional space. The pictures and the...

A film poem using found film and stock footage altered by printing, home development and solarization. It is a film using visual relationships to...

An experimental film poem in celebration of life and visions. Techniques include live action, animation, montage and found images. Preserved by the...

A sci-fi/occult/psychedelic performance film set to an original soundtrack by Rhys Chatham. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

One of the most profound themes coursing throughout Sonbert's work is that of love between couples in all its pitfalls and perfect moments. To...

The inherent kinetic qualities are brought into actuality in GYROMORPHOSIS, as seen in the construction-sculpture of Constant Nieuwenhuys of...

Whether at the stage of conceptualization or "editing", the blending and multiple impression of the images were done in-camera. In this sense, I...