Joel Schlemowitz Movies

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

The birds in BIRDS OF PREY are made from garbage bags and coat hangers, held together with electrical tape. Their inability to fly gives them a...

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

Charged ambiguity in a sado-erotic setting.

A scratch film.

A one minute prelude for a screening of short films.

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

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

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

Jonas Mekas's loft. Two rolls of 16mm film shot one week after his passing. In memoriam.

A Bacchanalia, kindly provided by the Aesthesians, and set to the music of Saint-Saëns from an old 78 record.

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

A garden portrait for Doris Kornish.

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