Barbara Sternberg Filmes

Emotions come & go; so do people. The world is an awful & awesome place; so is the mind. We hear dark inner thoughts of a person & see people taking...

touch (ing), -(ed): Feel, move, affect, be in contact, tangent to, in relation; injure slightly; slightly crazy "My window tonight casts light out...

vers(ing) opens in a coffee shop. People, sit, enter and exit. A conversation is heard. The video continues, traveling through the streets of a city,...

The central image of in the nature of things is the Forest- sometimes fearful, sometimes a refuge, always mysterious, and the multiple associations...

The voice-over text, written and performed by France Daigle, creates three images which recur alternately throughout the film: a bird flapping its...

Constructed with repetitions and variations, in reference to the musical form of a Nocturne, “Far From” is an accumulation of layers, a...

In midst, Barbara Sternberg has made a lyrical film about attachment, integration, belonging. Many of the familiar elements of Sternberg's work are...

"Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal...

Opus 40” is about repetition: repetition in working and living, repetition through multiplicity and series, repetition to form pattern and...

Transitions is a film of inner life and speaks of time, reality, power. It depicts the disquieting sensations of being in-between-between falling...

There were two initial impulses for the film: the paintings of John Turner (whence the bracketed title ”sun vision”) whose...

Images flutter and flicker in orgasmic rhythms. Visual references to Bataille’s “solar anus”, to romantic coupling, to monkeys and...

Brief moments of being, fleeting bits out of the surrounding chaos. These 4 shorts films can be shown separately or one after the other on the roll.

Brief moments of being, fleeting bits of the surrounding chaos.

Videoed off projected super 8 footage, this short film in four parts (titles from Artaud: “ the earth in the sea, the air in the earth, the...

Our busy comings and goings, on the move, working at life are pictured, but layers of images and scratched emulsion make viewing through the depths...

The film is silent except for four short segments of sync sound, interviews with a man and a woman, which touch on two areas: control and anger; and...