Jamie Nares Movies

How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

A semi-visible pianist plays. In memory of the poet, pianist and Judo black belt, David Rattray.

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

A symbiosis of man and pole.

Throwing and catching the same.

This hybrid of diary and documentary was shot on Jamie Nares’s first trip home since her arrival in New York three years prior. While the...

Hand twirls a piece of fabric at 500 frames per second.

Two giant circles forming semicircles, carved with a self-made instrument.

Choreographed and orchestrated, a rhythmic video music, made by hurling lengths of plastic pipe against a cinder block wall.

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

Studies in repetitive movement.

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad...

1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell. Styling by Maripol. With Edwige...

Studies in repetitive movement.

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

"ARABIAN LIGHTS is the second of only two Super 8mm films deAk is known to have fully edited to completion, and the only work she produced outside...