Jamie Nares Movies

This hybrid of diary and documentary was shot on Jamie Nares’s first trip home since her arrival in New York three years prior. While the...

How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

Two giant circles forming semicircles, carved with a self-made instrument.

Mini-document of sculptural activity, involving the effects of gravity on weighty objects.

Face Addict tells the story of a unique and unrepeatable experience, that of the artistic community in New York between the late '70s and early '80s,...

A wandering being in search of sustenance in a wintry wasteland experiences a strange transformation, eventually learning that the best way to get is...

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a...

A concrete ball on the off ramp to the old West Side Highway.

A hand descends, as though from the heavens, to manipulate a length of ribbon.

An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad...

STREET is an unscripted 61-minute high definition video filmed by artist James Nares over one week in September 2011. The final video is a...

Hand twirls a piece of fabric at 500 frames per second.

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

“Nares creates a tornado-like catastrophe with a hand-held super-8 camera, a shooting ratio of three to one (about $100 worth of film stock),...

Choreographed and orchestrated, a rhythmic video music, made by hurling lengths of plastic pipe against a cinder block wall.

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.