Jamie Nares Movies

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

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

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

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

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

Throwing and catching the same.

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

Studies in repetitive movement.

Studies in repetitive movement.

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

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

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....

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

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

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...

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

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.