Jamie Nares Movies

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting...

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...

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 game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

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...

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell. Styling by Maripol. With Edwige...

An epic struggle to tie a knot in a length of fabric using the feet.

A “sci-fi povera” film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit...

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

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

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

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

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

“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),...

Taking stock of the city block. A measuring of sorts. One of the first films made by Nares after moving to New York City.

Studies in repetitive movement.

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

A symbiosis of man and pole.