Amy Halpern Movies

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

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 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.

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

Presents the physically necessary film “leaders”; at the front and back end of movies as aesthetic in themselves. (Amy Halpern)

Statement and demonstration.

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

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

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

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

with Adnan Ibrahim "Stand up and use your ears like a man" - Charles Ives

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

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

with Indigo Cohan.

Endangered animals on an endangered medium. A heartbeat 4/4 Slow cinema, with a sex scene.