First Film

Reward Unlimited

Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

1944

Moon Breath Beat

Moon Breath Beat is a hand-drawn experimental 2D film that depicts a woman and her two cats and how external forces such as birds and the moon impact

1980

Projection Instructions

Regrettably, the labour of projectionists is usually only considered by the audience when they ‘screw up’. This film offers an alternative opportunity

1976

Venusville

No montage, no human subjects, minimal visual content, and the artists basically pissing on the fourth wall by calling attention in every way possible

1973

Kristallnacht

A bewitching, mysterious work of enveloping beauty, the film’s ominous title and a dedication to Anne Frank deeply inform our reading of its haunting

1979

I Don't Know

A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender person who prefers to be identified somewhere in betwee

1971

Boy and Crows

An early short film by Penelope Spheeris about a boy enjoying the age-old pleasures of making a wish on a dandelion. Preserved by the Academy Film Ar

1968

Moonbird

Two boys go outside at night to capture a bird. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.

1959

Tight Spot

A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the Distri

1955

Babobilicons

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

1982

Why Man Creates

A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

1968

The Matinee Idol

The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally

1928

Eclipse

In ECLIPSE a child survivor wanders barefoot across a stunningly evocative landscape. Director Jason Ruscio expresses the profound loneliness of a dec

1995

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive i

1950

Drums Along the Mohawk

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosper

1939

The Moon Is Blue

Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedd

1953

Money

Experimental short 16mm film directed by Mike Henderson. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

1970

Picasso

“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

1973

Eyes

“After wishing for years to be given the opportunity of filming some of the more “mystical” occupations of our Times – which the average imagination t

1970

The Chair

Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, from the electric chair. Preserved by the Academy

1963