Jamie Nares Movies

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

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

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

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

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

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

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

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

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

A symbiosis of man and pole.

After Rome 78, Nares made a political documentary—a controversial 1980 video interview with an IRA member titled No Japs at My...

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

Throwing and catching the same.

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

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

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

Studies in repetitive movement.

Studies in repetitive movement.

"ARABIAN LIGHTS is the second of only two Super 8mm films deAk is known to have fully edited to completion, and the only work she produced outside...