repurposed footage movies

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
6.607 / 10

Comedy, Mystery, Crime

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese...

Action in Arabia (1944)
5.9 / 10

Drama, Thriller

Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.

Decasia (2002)
6.4 / 10

Documentary

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015)
6.6 / 10

Documentary

Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, Mark Cousins presents an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times –...

Re: Awakenings (2013)
6.1 / 10

Original Super 8 footage shot by Dr. Oliver Sacks of his patients at Beth Abraham Hospital, Bronx, NY, who were administered the drug L-Dopa in the...

Triple Fisher: The Lethal Lolitas of Long Island (2012)
7 / 10

Comedy, Documentary, Crime

In 1992, a suburban New York teenager named Amy Fisher captured the national media's attention when she shot her lover's wife in the face. This...

let me come in (2021)
6.5 / 10

Music

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928).

Rite of Spring (2013)
0 / 10

Documentary

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

The Letter (2018)
0 / 10

Using the discarded, deteriorating remnants from seven silent film titles, filmmaker Bill Morrison braids a story of intertwining love triangles that...

Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist (2013)
0 / 10

Documentary

Things fall apart, but they are also reassembled and given new life, in an enlightened form. Meet the New York based artist and filmmaker Bill...

Cinema of Decay: The Films of Bill Morrison (2017)
7 / 10

Documentary

This documentary focuses on the artistry of director Bill Morrison, who leverages decaying film stock from years past to tell new stories that are...

The Midnight Party (1969)
5.2 / 10

Fantasy

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

The Goal Is To Live (2019)
10 / 10

The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which chronicles...

Rose Hobart 2 (1969)
0 / 10

An ongoing exploration of the films of Rose Hobart and a re-duplication of Joseph Cornell's infamous found footage masterpiece

The Unchanging Sea (2016)
0 / 10

The film The Unchanging Sea (2018) was inspired by the discovery of a decaying print of DW Griffith's The Unchanging Sea (1910) in the nitrate vaults...

Little Orphant Annie (2016)
0 / 10

Little Orphant Annie is a re-edit of a silent film of the same title from 1918, directed by Colin Campbell. Two reels from an original nitrate print...

Jack's Dream (1938)
6.2 / 10

Animation, Drama, Fantasy

A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's most...