Joel Schlemowitz Movies

Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents...

A young man sets out on a journey to the Ogre's lair, in search of a feather with the power to save a dying king.

While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a...

A documentary team gets a grant to do a film on a rare fatal disease that is attacking homeless people. However, they quickly find the film too...

SHARE at the Project Room, in the final night in the silo, with a soundtrack of Gowanus environs.

Lights at night on Avenue A, shot on black and white and extensively and laboriously hand-colored.

Poem by Wanda Phipps (as read by her) and accompanied by the typeoclavecin, a typewriter as a musical instrument, built by the filmmaker for the...

A short filmic portrait of Morris Engel’s watch-part collages.

"After Henri Duparc's setting of the poem by Baudelaire, which is heard in faint echo on the soundtrack. Rococo adhesive transparencies over...

Corpuscles dash about. Nerves twitch. Neurons fire. Anatomical illustrations, overlaid with the body's activities scratched and handpainted directly...

Two camera rolls shot at the Collective Unconscious during a performance of "Teslamania" featuring Gecko Saccomanno and Tesla Coil Engineer Jamie...

Charged ambiguity in a sado-erotic setting.

A short and lively 16mm portrait of comic book artist and performer Dame Darcy, seen through a filmic tour of her comic book, “Meat...

This film is a collaboration with filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz, on ALL SAINTS DAY 2001 we each shot 100 ft of film, at the same time of the day, 3000...

A garden portrait for Doris Kornish.

A camera roll. Forty years celebrated in four-thousand frames.

"My tribute to the filmmaker whose works helped give birth to my inpiration and my joy in experimentation with the medium of film. As a filmmaker, I...

A scratch film.

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

"My earliest experimental film. The result of a conversation with filmmaker Carl Wiedemann on the subject of ripping film to vary the size of the...