A provisional list of films incorporating leaders as found footage, or based entirely on leader.
Thanks to the members of the listserv Frameworks for some of these references.
Academy Leader Variations (1987) by David Ehrlich and collaborators – animation
Animus (1982) by Gary Schwartz (Made as student at CalArts; Student Academy Award Nominee). Faux animated leader countdown at beginning, using Edweard Muybridge’s walking man.
At the Academy (1974) Guy Sherwin – entirely made of BBC leader
BISCOTTS series by Luther Price
Color Film (1972) by Standish Lawder
The Creature’s Education (2010) by Bill Morrison
Film in Which There Appear… (1966, 3′ 30″) by Owen Land (aka Bruce Landow)
Footprints (1992). Bill Morrison
Girls on Film (2005) by Karin Segal and Julie Buck
Leader (1966, 12′), Cross Cut – A Blue Movie (1968-69, 12′ 30″), Red Stockings (1967, 3′) by Robert Huot
The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World (1968) Anthony Scott
Lost Leaders #1 (2012, 50secs) Matt Soar and Jackie Gallant
Material Film (1976, 35′) Birgit and Wilhelm Hein
A Movie (1958, 12′), Report (1967), and Ten Second Film (1965) by Bruce Conner
Our National Anthem (1968) Wheeler Winston Dixon
Rate of Change (1972) by Bill Brand (“nothing but white leader printed on color stock and printed at the lab according to my timing (grading) instructions”)
Rohfilm (1968) Birgit and Wilhelm Hein
Runs Good (1970, 15′) and others by Pat O’Neill
Seated Figures (1988) Michael Snow
Scenes From Under Childhood by Stan Brakhage
Song for Earth and Folk (2013, 10′ 40″) by Cauleen Smith
Standard Gauge (1984, 35′) and Cue Rolls (5′ 30″) by Morgan Fisher
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1 by Robert Nelson
Unstable Grounds (2011, 7′ 30″) Alexandra Navratil
Works by Alan Berliner; Peter Kubelka