Archive Footage Movies

An ethereal trip, created using archival footage, subverts past expectations and defines the road ahead for two adventurous sisters. A tender...

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.

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

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

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...

"[T]he emotional climax of my larger work Gloria’s Stupid World 2: World Stupider. Told through a relentless barrage of 1-4 frame clips from...

What are you looking for? tackles questions coming from the interweaving worlds of the virtual and the real. It started with me revisiting my old...

The story of building the Golden Gate Bridge is as compelling as its ultimate success. Undaunted by treacherous tides, high winds, and predictions...

Littlewoods was once the largest family-owned business in the UK, employing over 30,000 women at its peak. Using archive images, interviews and...

Actual T. V. Picture (2013) juxtaposes footage of a jungle in Viet Nam being bombed by an American war plane with a late-60s television commercial...

Short film made out of found footage.

One summer, Roberta starred in an independent film shot in her hometown. Years later, as she reminisces about that experience, her nephew talks with...

Rupert Russell sets out on a tragicomic journey to discover who his enigmatic father Ken really was: the dad and the director, the art and the...

Mattias calls in to request a song on the radio. During his conversation with the radio host Eva, he begins to reflect on his life and choices. A...