Amy Halpern Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

Literally, a glance. A dedication; my emissary. –A. C. H.

A film by Amy Halpern