Preserved Film Filmes

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...

"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. ...

Gore's second solo film, DREAM OF THE SPHINX is highly representative of his fluid, expressive line work and characteristic traversals through space....

Rephotographed pornographic playing cards rhythmically intrude upon a piercing 5-beat score of different-sized black parallel lines, creating an...

Study of posters and graffiti on the walls of Paris, using ellipses, brief shots and quick camera movements. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive...

Film sketches constructed over the past five years investigating temporal composition via single frame-time lapse techniques: light struck...

Constantly changing forms, a plains landscape. One of two films based on David and Diana's life in their house in Colorado, which had just burned...

An elegant depiction of landscape and domestic space. One of two films based on David and Diana's life in their house in Colorado, which had just...

Presents a series of goofy romantic and pseudo-professional interludes among its all-male cast in the guise of a soap opera TV spot. Preserved by...

A psychedelic tour de force of animation and time drawing, involving the work of seven artists. A major portion of the drawing was done under the...

A psychedelic time-painting using positive, negative, and black light illuminated alternate frames, moving to the beat of a steel guitar blues music...

A film which seems deceptively simple, Dead Reckoning comprises three identical-length shots which explicitly demonstrate the process of shooting a...

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