Movies: Jamie Nares

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...

“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 per...

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings....

Throwing and catching the same....

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

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 l...

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

Calibration study for the film Pendulum....

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....

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....

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle....

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle....

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets....

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

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

Studies in repetitive movement....

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

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

Studies in repetitive movement....

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