Amy Halpern Movies

with Indigo Cohan.

My mother, now 94. Filmed more than 30 years ago. (Amy Halpern)

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

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

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

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

A horizon like a blade.  Consistent across landscapes in California – ocean to desert and back to the ocean.

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

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...

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

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

A film by Amy Halpern

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

An opera in the public domain. A film about duration. “I tremble for my country when I think that god is just.” (Thomas Jefferson)