Archive Footage Movies

Degraded found footage, primarily of a cowboy.

A portrait of the performance artists in colorful clothes and painted faces whom have transitioned from a symbol for joy and laughter, to horror and...

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret’s life,...

In an audiovisual collage of nostalgia and magnetism, “Prelude to a Flash” fuses images from early cinema with elements of contemporary...

Neither the skin nor the filmic material is exempt from the temporal becoming and its consequent growing degradation. Both have such a fragile...

An undocumented immigrant explores his and his family's immigration trauma while grasping hope through a voicemail.

The creation of the atomic bomb did not only unleash a destructive force—it transformed the imagination of the nation that made it, haunting...

On the way to the supermarket, a family discusses the history of the old zoo in Poznan, Poland, and Darwin’s absurd fear of peacocks.

Deaf artist Seo Hye Lee gives new subtitles to a selection of archive films about pottery, ones which playfully examine the disparity between how...

Focusing on a photograph of a migrant woman, known as the “Mona Lisa” of the Great Depression and a symbol of poverty, this study...

Degraded found footage of a silent comedy.

Is My Living in Vain is a meditation on the continuing history and emancipatory potential of the Black church as a space of belonging, affirmation...

I Will Always Be Your Girl :P is a video-art piece made of archival footage documenting a specific part of the artist’s transition: the six...

In the fall of 1986, Richard Fung made his first visit to his father's birthplace, a village in southern Guangdong, China. This experimental...

An archival fiction feature about the eternal battle of the sexes, in which two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows fight to keep...

An interactive 1973 educational slide presentation exploring personal finance and budget management, developed for a USDA Special Needs Project....