Amy Halpern Movies
- 1978

Cigarette Burn
Cigarette Burn71978HD
With Nancy Halpern and Yves Marton. "Sitting home smoking cigarettes during the occupation. Very nasty and sophomoric. And beautiful." — A.H.
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- 2012

By Halves
By Halves42012HD
By Halves uses appropriated footage from rejected 35mm prints that were cut in half and readjusted to be used as spacers for 16mm to sync sound...
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- 1973

Peach Landscape
Peach Landscape01973HD
Illusions of surface, abstract to pictorial. Initially the grain of the film emulsion, complete with scratches, variations in framing – the...
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- 1979

Pythoness
Pythoness01979HD
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- 2020

#27
#276.52020HD
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- 2020

Birds in the Window
Birds in the Window02020HD
“Trying to get in, trying to get out. Encounters from the plague year.”
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- 2017

The Deer's Blessing
The Deer's Blessing9.52017HD
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- 1981

Cuticle Torture
Cuticle Torture01981HD
1981, 16mm, b&w, silent, 2 mins. Shots of Halpern cutting her fingernails, biting them, and dunking them in water.
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- 1982

Invocation
Invocation51982HD
Gesturing hands emerge from the darkness, readying us for the cinematic experience.
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- 2020

Jane, Looking
Jane, Looking62020HD
A portrait of Jane Wodening (Brakhage). “A person who was the subject of the camera for many years looks back at us with an interrogating...
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- 2018

Vezelay Curtain
Vezelay Curtain62018HD
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- 1985

Ready-Made
Ready-Made01985HD
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- 1979

Soft Fiction
Soft Fiction7.61979HD
Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the documentary...
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- 1976

Study for Cigarette Burn
Study for Cigarette Burn01976HD
A film by Amy Halpern
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- 1972

Roll #1 For Nancy
Roll #1 For Nancy01972HD
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- 1972

Three Preparations
Three Preparations01972HD
In three parts: Statice/frameline; Drops; The Cannonball Section. Unpopulated (except for the cheap ending on the Cannonball Section). (Previously...
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- 2020

Unowned Luxuries #3
Unowned Luxuries #362020HD
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- 2022

I Tremble / 8:46
I Tremble / 8:4602022HD
An opera in the public domain. A film about duration. “I tremble for my country when I think that god is just.” (Thomas Jefferson)
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- 2022

VERGE for my sisters
VERGE for my sisters02022HD
A horizon like a blade. Consistent across landscapes in California – ocean to desert and back to the ocean.
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- 2022

4 Fingers, 5 Toes
4 Fingers, 5 Toes02022HD
Endangered animals on an endangered medium. A heartbeat 4/4 Slow cinema, with a sex scene.
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