Jamie Nares Movies

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

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...

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

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

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

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

A symbiosis of man and pole.

Hand twirls a piece of fabric at 500 frames per second.

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

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

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

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

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

Studies in repetitive movement.

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

Throwing and catching the same.

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.