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...

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

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

“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),...

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 gestural inflection, born of repetition.

A young girl in the last summer of her childhood, alternates between solitary play and the discovery of her power to influence the world around her....

Studies in repetitive movement.

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

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,...

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

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...

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

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

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.