Andrew Noren Movies

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

"Intuitive conjuring and orchestration of retinal phantoms, refined by abstraction into music for light and mind. Light, both wave and particle,...

Part II of Andrew Noren's The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse

The only film that remains from Noren's early period. "a thirty-minute, single-shot interrogation of an actress/character that hovers between...

"Reverberation began as an attempt at a portrayal, a representing of a life situation by way of film, and turned in the making of it into a...

“Aberration of starlight: the apparent displacement of a star resulting from Earth’s orbital motion around the Sun. It depends on the...

Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow,...

A meditation on the winter light flowing through two windows, as it is modulated and transformed by the window curtains blowing in the breeze.

“Cinema isn’t materials…it is refined, imaginative seeing…darkness made visible…[it] existed long before modern...

Energy pictures; mindful kinesis. Light and shadow vigorously conjoin, conjuring delusion of depth and duration, fiction of space and time. The...

GROUP VII: PORTRAIT OF DIANA (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) PORTRAIT OF ANDREW NOREN (1972, 4 min, 16mm, silent) These films are personal light...

"Fifteen focumentaries, each about two minutes long, each about some common thing: talking eating, the morning shits, the afternoon fucks with the...

An aging, but still lovely woman in New York shoots her last shot and misses. Death is fingered as the last romantic. The devil dies of fantastic,...

A series of eight portraits. Lost in a fire in 1970

"A double projection of buildings exploding in slow motion, in forward and reverse, that 'was intended as mantra, to run perpetually, viewer to...

A rhythmic study of materiality and melancholy in human form.

"Single-take, 100-foot rolls of 16mm film in which Noren documented 'absolutely every aspect of my life.'" - Scott MacDonald