Jamie Nares Movies

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

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...

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...

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

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

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

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

“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),...

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

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

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

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,...

A symbiosis of man and pole.

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

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

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.

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.