Amy Halpern Movies

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

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

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

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...

Statement and demonstration.

Abstract music notation and something very obvious.

Gesturing hands emerge from the darkness, readying us for the cinematic experience.

Ancient alchemists believed that salamanders can be reborn from fire, like the phoenix or Christ. They do not survive fire, nor extreme dryness. And...

A private toast. Inspired by a random encounter with this Wikipedia entry, while looking up “Chabrol, Claude” for a full listing of...

Following Gage-like skull trauma, a woman’s body unravels in dissolving textures and neuronal visions.

Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the documentary...

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

Illusions of surface, abstract to pictorial. Initially the grain of the film emulsion, complete with scratches, variations in framing – the...

Two palindromes. One resurrection. No happy ending.

What can I say about a private letter?

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