Preserved Film Movies

Two aspiring Italian actors, hoping to become movie stars, dream of moving to New York City to study at the Actors Studio. Preserved by the Academy...

Non-orange negative hand-painted film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Here are a couple films from the mid-'60s, given to Gordon Rosenblum at the time, which surfaced this year needing preservation. I don't know what to...

"Black Vision is inspired by the only passage in Jean Paul Sartre's writings which has ever specifically concerned me – the passage from Nausea...

Curt McDowell has a confession for his parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

A documentary/recruitment film originally intended for showings outside the United States to promote careers in public health and American methods in...

A writer sells his masterpiece to a film company. It gets butchered horribly in the process of getting made into a movie. Preserved by the Academy...

This film examines the reasons why the United States decided to engage in the Korean War. Scenes describe Russia's attempt to gain power following...

Documentary short about the American Civil War. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures...

An Oscar Nominated short film about the adventures of a red pair of legs. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

"A surreal meditation on a cigarette billboard using a very strange ballerina as an allegory for something or other Indescribably funny." - Seattle...

The acclaimed poet is examined in this film completed just prior to his death at age 88, with his speaking engagements at Amherst and Sarah Lawrence...

1974, b/w, sound, 10 min., aka Express Implication

Celebrates the music and influences of contemporary Asian American culture on Dan Kuramoto, June Okida Kuramoto, and Johnny Mori — three...

"I think of Odalisque as my first film. It was completed after film school and I worked with just a graphite pencil, a small group of colored pencils...

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...

SELF SONG documents a body besieged by cancer. The amber glow of flesh suggests both victory and submission to death. Blackness surrounds the image...

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.

First the Beaulieu documentation of the shoot, then the Arri footage, the porn loop, and the reprise. VT was shown from 1979–1981, with Jim...