“When Picasso died I wanted to make the first post-mortem documentary, as I knew would happen anyway, and cheaply. The film took four hours to finish from camera to print and cost a little under $5." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.
The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents ...
Two young women, frustrated by war rationing, have a dream illustrating the likely results on prices...
In 1948 Pablo Picasso met the hairdresser Eugenio Arias. Both were linked by the fate of emigration....
On Christmas Eve, a lonely young boy, shut out from the shiny world of presents and holiday parties,...
A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start s...
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.
Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixi...
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Arch...
Two short fragments resulting from experiments in controlling the mechanical development of the inst...
An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A repo...
Early 'visual music' film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.
The story revolves around a woman, who stays in a large mansion with her husband. She develops an ob...
Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if c...
Oscar nominated short film from 1989. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Shut Up... I'm Crying is a 1970 English language short film directed by Robert Siegler, starring Sal...
The Rehearsal is a 1969 short comedy, written and directed by Stephen F. Verona. It is a humorous s...
Background is a 1973 American short documentary film directed by Carmen D'Avino. It was nominated fo...
Climb is a 1974 short documentary directed by DeWitt Jones featuring Michael Farrell and Russell Mcl...
An Oscar-nominated film with no narration showing the Exploratorium (The Palace of Arts and Science)...