Jamie Nares Filmes

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting...

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

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a...

“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),...

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

After Rome 78, Nares made a political documentary—a controversial 1980 video interview with an IRA member titled No Japs at My...

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

Throwing and catching the same.

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

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

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

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

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

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

Studies in repetitive movement.

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

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

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