Julie Murray

Parts & Labour (2020)

Scenes from a found roll of martial arts movie footage is unspooled past a video camera on a light table, stopping and starting to pick out parts of the narrative. The archly formal play of fights, betrayal, dishonour and ruined friendships is accompanied ...

STANZA (Standing Place) (2018)

The stanza in poetry is analogous with the paragraph that is seen in prose; related thoughts are grouped into units. In music, groups of lines are typically referred to as verses. The stanza has also been known by terms such as batch, fit, and stave. This ...

House of Stones (2018)

A low light montage using Black Magic Ursa on a bean bag pod. ...

WIND WIRE WOUND (2018)

MUSICAL TENSIONS IN THE RESONANT BODIES OF WIND TURBINES ...

Frequency Objects (2017)

Frequency Objects, a photogram, creates a rhythmic friction between a chaotic animation of old family photographic negatives and the smooth motion of found movie images. Through imprecise stops and starts image fragments appear. The glacial motion of figur ...

Our Eyes Are Armed (2017)

A composition of scenes and sounds in a montage reflecting poetic and musical forms. The camera, a toy, records only in black with a crude plastic lens which softens and distorts pictorial detail, creating ample room for the mind's eye to roam and query, o ...

Radius (2017)

Calculating the angle of awe at a gas station in rural Midwest. ...

1162017 (Nov 6th 2017) (2017)

A brief account of visual moments recorded at Kalona Horse Sales Barn auction, IA. The animals are numbered as in some cases are their days. ...

Shored Against a Ruin (2016)

A body of water, the body of the sky and figures on ground, shored against one another in rhythms of waves abrading a field framed for a new anxiety. ...

Their (2015)

Microfilm model airplanes and their people. ...

MATERIA MEDICA (2015)

IN AN EYE/EAR DUET, MOVEMENTS AND CUTS IN THE IMAGE ARE IN CONTRAPUNTAL MOMENTUM, FIRST WITH SATIE'S DANCE DE TRAVERS AND THEN WITH TWITTERING BIRDS AND BEES IN A FIELD. ...

Line of Apsides (2014)

Things coaxed into light in roughly the order they were encountered. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014. ...

Cyan (2014)

Cyan is assembled from numerous 16mm film workshops. Some of the footage is found, most is made, much of it filmed by participants themselves. Accumulated between 2004 and 2014. ...

End Reel (2014)

Convolves the aberrations found within two image-making technologies; film and video, which here combine to produce a heap of dichotomies and forensic textures of process, like human imprints in sand. ...

Obscura Camera (2013)

A cardboard box with a pinhole in one end and a sheet of vellum on the backside, so that the sun fluttering among the trees is projected onto it. This moving image edit is derived from about 4 or 5 takes on the day venus was to cross the sun's path. As it ...

The Astronomer’s Dream (2010)

THIS IS THE FIRST CUT OF EARLY MATERIAL SHOT FOR THE “ASTRONOMER” INTERLUDE IN BRADEN KING’S FEATURE FILM, HERE (2012). AN EDITED VERSION OF THE ABOVE OCCURS AFTER WILL’S MONOLOGUE TO GADARINE IN MEGHRI (THEY GET A BIT DRUNK AND HE FALLS ASLEEP, ST ...

Distance (2010)

Time spent at two shores, one thinly populated, the other a wasteland, joined by the interluency of various paths taken, each bit real enough, though exact measures being obscurely indicated. Notions of home and its ache are, to borrow a phrase, "not capab ...

YSBRYD (spirit) (2008)

A liebestod from the secret life of slugs. ...

Elements (2008)

This atmospheric landscape is largely un-peopled but nevertheless expresses the busy presence of ghosts that reside in the snowy fog-bound woods, the movement of the moon and in the hesitancy of the clouds. It is an exploration of location/place both macro ...

Detroit Park (2006)

The enormous carcass of the Michigan Theatre, a ruin among ruins, now serves as an inner-city car park and home for ghosts. ...

Orchard (2004)

Much of the footage that comprises Orchard is of a 19c ruins that included a walled orchard in and area known as Rostellen in southwest Ireland. It is set deep in the woods and the crumbling brick and mortar of the broken walls has become the anchor for th ...

Deliquium (2003)

Hidden among the pounding of animal hides, All tamped into maps, their shapes Explicit replicate butterfly wings, lie the motives of Lír. The king who paid improper attention to his children. From that first fascination And it's lascivious gaze, Cam ...

Apollo (2003)

"It shows my interest in materials, medium, and apparatus of cinema. The sound will be produced from the visual on the optical soundtrack – for some parts, I used a 35mm still camera to expose the soundtrack area, and I scratched off the film emulsion di ...

I Began to Wish (2003)

A dark meditation on father-son relations. ...

Fl.oz (2003)

The most striking thing about observing Niagara Falls is that they don't seem to be falling at all. Being so vast they give the impression of doing just the opposite. This idea comes to mind and the body to feel elevated and rotated with its force. Like as ...

Micromoth (2000)

A camera attached to a microscope facilitates the trawling of spaces shaped by small dead things in tiny chambers between the naked eye and the mansions of molecules. Infinitely devisable focal planes denote the topography and tilt of an insect limb, larg ...

Otherrehto (2000)

Otherrehto is a short digital video construct of re-agitated film frames of a roiling rorschach set to the rhythm of the rolling text of a small excerpt from S.T. Coleridge's "night-conversations" in which he speculates upon the "force of suppressed Instin ...

Domain (1999)

Children's 3-D toys and insects are the subjects of Julie Murray's look at the violence inherent in the very notion of motion. ...

If You Stand with Your Back to the Slowing of the Speed of Light in Water (1997)

Images from an aerial tram leaving Manhattan are followed by images of a nearly static bird, of bugs fighting, and of light bending as it passes through glass. Near the film's end the tram lands in Manhattan, as if it had reversed direction; as in all of M ...

Anathema (1995)

A 16 mm. experimental film. ...

Conscious (1993)

In this montage a melding of camera original and found material hints at a realization which is evident only in the fissures of splintered associations. Obscured among visceral absurdities and lightweight witticisms there seeps a viscera, an acrid recollec ...

Mantilla (1991)

A film by Julie Murray ...

A Legend of Parts (1990)

A Legend of Parts presents a history of civilization in a less-than-historically-accurate manner where the actions of the prehistoric animals changing into those of sociopolitical "man" careening towards the organized chaos of ultimate annihilation become ...

Expulsion (1990)

Experimental short by Julie Murray. ...

Tr'Cheot'My P'sy (1988)

Tr'Cheot'My P'y is a hiccuping audio news segment to which footage from many sources is loosely choreographed. The film is intended as a portrait of the body and embodiment, systems of information and representations of the body itself. ...

FF (aka Fuck Face) (1986)

FF is around three years' worth of collected footage culled from all sources in a variety of formats, from dumpsters to video. It is put together in such a way as to provide miniature, almost instantaneous fictions, confined and numerous, where meaning can ...

Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump (2014)

Elements (2008)

This atmospheric landscape is largely un-peopled but nevertheless expresses the busy presence of ghosts that reside in the snowy fog-bound woods, the movement of the moon and in the hesitancy of the clouds. It is an exploration of location/place both macro ...