Kind of a Drag: Experimental Films, Documentaries, and Scratch Animation by Heather McAdams, 1980-1995

Often scratched, painted, manipulated, or otherwise defaced by Adams, the new images reference pop culture with a distinctly feminist lens, their frames upsetting gender norms and outmoded concepts of American home life.

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Barbara Hammer: History Lessons

World Building in Experimental Animation

★ by Johann Lurf 

Strain Andromeda The

Latent Image: Three Films on Space, Time, and Change

Images of the World and the Inscription of War 

An Evening with Christopher Harris: New Restorations  - still/here

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Animation from Another World: Chronopolis and Shorts by Piotr Kamler

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Sally Cruikshank & Vince Collins: Cartoons for Convoluted Craniums!

A SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

Mike Henderson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth

THOM ANDERSEN

Mar4 BEHINDERT Available-Space-(1)

Three Minute Hells

Harry Gamboa Jr.

Made in Hollywood by Bruce and Norman Yonemoto

You & Me & the Cosmos Makes Three: An Evening with Deborah Stratman

James Benning: ALLENSWORTH

The Tawdry Visions of George and Mike Kuchar

Early and Late Brakhage: Academy Restorations

Maureen Selwood

Derek Jarman’s Blue  

Welcome to the West Coast Underground 

Mar30_TAKASHIITO_AnimatedSpirits

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So Dreamy, So Sinister: Animation by Suzan Pitt 

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available-space-July2024 Maryam Tafakory CodeNames-banner

Los Angeles Site Seeing: Views of the City from the Academy Film Archive

Harry Smith’s Film #18, Mahagonny

Betzy Bromberg Transparency

Afterlife by Ishu Patel

The Lateness of the Hour

March14 Narcisa Hirsch Aida 1976

Apr25 Avail Space Nao John Waters

6 Honda Color Correction (reel 1 cue 10)

Railway Sleepers (2016)

The Tube Thieves (2023)

Sep2025 Out In the Garden

Oct2025 Memories of milk city

Girls on Film: Two by Su Friedrich

  Glimmers and Ghosts: The Cinema of Tomonari Nishikawa 

  Moons Pool

Reverse Shadow 
2019. 8 min. USA. Color. Sound. Digital  

Reverse Shadow  2019. 8 min. USA. Color. Sound. Digital  

Bearing Witness

Pride

The Uncles

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