Jamie Nares Movies

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

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

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

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

Studies in repetitive movement.

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

Studies in repetitive movement.

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

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

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

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....

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 “sci-fi povera” film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit...

"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...

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

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...