Jamie Nares Movies

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...

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

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

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

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,...

Throwing and catching the same.

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

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...

A symbiosis of man and pole.

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

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

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

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

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

“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),...

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.