Joel Schlemowitz Movies

Poem by Bridget Meeds, as read by her, with accompanying text on screen intercut with a contact printed typewriter ribbon.

A one minute prelude for a screening of short films.

"A memorial film for my mentor."

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

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

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

Spiraling colors and abstracted rotating text, with a poem by Wanda Phipps on the soundtrack both layered and singular.

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

A hand-cranked film of a wind-up record player, hand-colored to simulate the unheard music.

American experimental filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz here pays tribute to Joe of Swiss Camera, a friend who repaired all of his Bolex 16mm cameras. A...

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

A filmic analogy for the elusiveness of the past. The operations of unconventional printing techniques representing the processes of memory. The film...

Multiple camera passes of baroque statuary with a soundtrack of dripping water and a Louis Couperin prelude highly distorted. The centerpiece of the...