Jamie Nares Movies
- 2018
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat7.12018HD
Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting...
- 2011
Blank City
Blank City72011HD
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...
- 1979
Men in Orbit
Men in Orbit5.81979HD
A “sci-fi povera” film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit...
- 2005
Face Addict
Face Addict02005HD
Face Addict tells the story of a unique and unrepeatable experience, that of the artistic community in New York between the late '70s and early '80s,...
- 1978
Rome '78
Rome '786.41978HD
Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites like Grant's Tomb and Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse...
- 1977
TV Faces
TV Faces01977HD
Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares
- 1980
No Japs at My Funeral
No Japs at My Funeral01980HD
After Rome 78, Nares made a political documentary—a controversial 1980 video interview with an IRA member titled No Japs at My...
- 1978
G-Man
G-Man3.51978HD
An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad...
- 2011
Street
Street02011HD
STREET is an unscripted 61-minute high definition video filmed by artist James Nares over one week in September 2011. The final video is a...
- 2017
Suicide? No, Murder!
Suicide? No, Murder!02017HD
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...
- 1976
Twister
Twister01976HD
Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.
- 1991
Weather Bed
Weather Bed01991HD
Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.
- 2017
Drop
Drop02017HD
Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.
- 1975
Hammered
Hammered01975HD
Mini-document of sculptural activity, involving the effects of gravity on weighty objects.
- 2007
Drip
Drip02007HD
Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.
- 2010
To Make a Prairie
To Make a Prairie02010HD
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....
- 1991
Lighthouse
Lighthouse01991HD
A wandering being in search of sustenance in a wintry wasteland experiences a strange transformation, eventually learning that the best way to get is...
- 2007
Paper Factory
Paper Factory02007HD
Choreographed and orchestrated, a rhythmic video music, made by hurling lengths of plastic pipe against a cinder block wall.
- 2010
Thread
Thread02010HD
A hand descends, as though from the heavens, to manipulate a length of ribbon.
- 1976
Pendulum
Pendulum01976HD
A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.