Jamie Nares Movies

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

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

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...

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

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,...

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

Throwing and catching the same.

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

A symbiosis of man and pole.

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.

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

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

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

“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),...

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

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

A semi-visible pianist plays. In memory of the poet, pianist and Judo black belt, David Rattray.