Jamie Nares Movies

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

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

Studies in repetitive movement.

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

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

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

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

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...

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

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

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

"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...

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

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

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

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

A symbiosis of man and pole.

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

Throwing and catching the same.