Jamie Nares Movies

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

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

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

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.

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

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

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...

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

A symbiosis of man and pole.

Throwing and catching the same.

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

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

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

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

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....

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

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

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

A concrete ball on the off ramp to the old West Side Highway.