Divided Loyalties

An animated parody of television commercials and the television audience. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

The film reflects Dewdney's conviction that the projector, not the camera, is the filmmaker's true medium. The form and content of the film are shown...

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.

A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore clas...

The first Studies were synchronized with records (Fischinger made a total of 13 Studies all without sound). It was only with the introduction of sound...

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for...

A walking figure emerges from a changing, circular cycle; his inner self emerges and precipitats a series of violent struggles with himself, adapting...

"Marlborough" and "The Arab", lounging on the pool terrace, are alienated characters in some future time, living in a world where art work comes to li...

Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he felt the sovereignty of Sikkim was under threat f...

Made in an environment and at a time when frequent and gratuitous images of nude women permeated the work of her male counterparts, director Penelope...

An unfinished archival short, in which the titular substance plays a key role in determining an outmoded man’s role in a changing society. Preserved...

Two years before Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park (1971),director Penelope Spheeris takes the McCarran Act to its inevitable next step and shows us—via...

Picking up the story first presented in I Don’t Know (1970),Hats Off to Hollywood (1972) brazenly and brilliantly mixes documentary reality with full...

One-time carny, bartender, and married 10 times, director Penelope Spheeris’ mother was an uncommon woman. In this sweet, funny, and moving video por...

"The Open Track" is a short action film from the action series of short films "The Hazards of Helen". This is episode 63 from a total of 119 weekly o...