Jamie Nares Movies

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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,...

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....

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

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

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

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

A symbiosis of man and pole.

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

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

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...

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

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...