Preserved Film Movies

During the years preceeding his death, Sonbert channeled his energy into making Whiplash. His vision and motor skills impaired, he gave his...

In Friendly Witness, Sonbert returned, after 20 years, to sound. In the first section of the film, he deftly edits a swirling montage of images -...

In Warren Sonbert's Honor and Obey soldiers march in formation, a tiger stalks through the snow, religious processions wind through the streets, and...

The style is relatively unchanged, but the images--press conferences, news events, disasters--convey his vision of the world in a new, direct,...

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...

Following Sonbert's death in 1995, we recovered a 16mm reversal print of THE TENTH LEGION among the materials in the filmmaker's estate, which...

Directed by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

One of the most shocking documentary films ever made. A young anti-war American, to avoid the draft, calmly aims a rifle at his foot and shoots. For...

Directed, assembled by Hy Hirsch.

Animated short film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

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

One of Les Blank's industrial films, which follows a Holly Farms "broiler" chicken from factory incubation to the county fair barbecue pit. A...

A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors'...

The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents an idealized vision of American life, shown in...

Optical printing pioneer Pat O’Neill uses “his skills in special effects production to extrapolate metaphysical meaning from the...

An ode to queer sex and drugs, boys shooting up and kissing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1998.

Stop-motion puppetry version of the classic fairy tale. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

A classic tale retold with Harryhausen's trademark animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure...

A prehistoric writer sells his masterpiece to a film company, which is butchered horribly in the process of getting made into a stone-age movie. ...