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Jamie Nares

Jamie Nares

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Movies Made By Jamie Nares (32)

Drop (2017)

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks. ...

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Suicide? No, Murder! (2017)

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 cultural upheaval of the 1970s has a presence (not least in its title), Suicide? No, Murder! shares the formal lyricis ...

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Street (2011)

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 mesmerizing experiment in the nuance and beauty of everyday people and people-watching; providing a global view that ...

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Thread (2010)

A hand descends, as though from the heavens, to manipulate a length of ribbon. ...

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To Make a Prairie (2010)

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. "One of the most beautiful cinematic works I've ever seen." Lucy Sante. ...

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Paper Factory (2007)

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

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Drip (2007)

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones. ...

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Cloth (1998)

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

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Weather Bed (1991)

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets. ...

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Lighthouse (1991)

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

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Piano (1991)

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

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Giotto Circle #2 (1990)

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle. ...

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Arabian Lights (1983)

"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 the New York club scene. During an extended romantic holiday in Egypt in 1977 with Jamie (then James) Nares, ...

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No Japs at My Funeral (1980)

After Rome 78, Nares made a political documentary—a controversial 1980 video interview with an IRA member titled No Japs at My Funeral—but turned to other forms of art for much of the remaining decade, never realizing projects like a feature script he ...

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The Wind (1980)

"Nares creates a tornado-like catastrophe with a hand-held super-8 camera, a shooting ratio of three to one (about $100 worth of film stock), and remarkable timing…fine filmmaking control is uses to suggest the terror of a world completely beyond persona ...

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Men in Orbit (1979)

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 New York living room that has been transformed into a spacecraft. ...

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Rome '78 (1978)

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for the imperial palace. The latter location required ingen ...

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TV Faces (1977)

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares ...

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Pendulum (1976)

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings. ...

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Spinning Lead Ball (1976)

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy. ...

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Block (1976)

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

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Studio Pendulum (1976)

Calibration study for the film Pendulum. ...

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Steel Rod (1976)

Throwing and catching the same. ...

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Twister (1976)

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner. ...

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Hammered (1975)

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

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Giotto Circle #1 (1975)

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle. ...

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Giotto Circle Extended (1975)

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

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Game (1975)

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett. ...

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Poles (1975)

A symbiosis of man and pole. ...

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Hand Notes #1 (1974)

Studies in repetitive movement. ...

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Hand Notes #2 (1974)

Studies in repetitive movement. ...

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Knot (1974)

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

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Movies Starring Jamie Nares (6)

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2018)

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision. ...

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Blank City (2011)

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 circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best ...

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Face Addict (2005)

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, known as the downtown scene. ...

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The Wind (1980)

"Nares creates a tornado-like catastrophe with a hand-held super-8 camera, a shooting ratio of three to one (about $100 worth of film stock), and remarkable timing…fine filmmaking control is uses to suggest the terror of a world completely beyond persona ...

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Dear Jimmy (1978)

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

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G-Man (1978)

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

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