Amy Halpern Movies

A bewitching, mysterious work of enveloping beauty, the film’s ominous title and a dedication to Anne Frank deeply inform our reading of its...

Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s laughter, in a way that has never...

The dilapidated former house/headquarters of South Central LA's Black Panthers is at the center of a clash between radical ideals of the past, and...

Abstract music notation and something very obvious.

A woman from Nigeria seeks work in the United States while her daughter struggles with premonitions and homesickness.

Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new...

The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles serves as the backdrop of Pat O’Neill’s artfully-crafted film. Shot in the classic Hollywood style,...

with Yogi John Franzoni

A horizon like a blade.  Consistent across landscapes in California – ocean to desert and back to the ocean.

Statement and demonstration.

What can I say about a private letter?

“Trying to get in, trying to get out. Encounters from the plague year.”

1981, 16mm, b&w, silent, 2 mins. Shots of Halpern cutting her fingernails, biting them, and dunking them in water.

A rhythmic montage of almost 200 faces, human and animals, that Halpern pans vertically, creating a cascade of visages suggesting that while...

An opera in the public domain. A film about duration. “I tremble for my country when I think that god is just.” (Thomas Jefferson)