Jamie Nares Movies

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

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

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...

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

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

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

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....

Studies in repetitive movement.

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

Throwing and catching the same.

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

1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell. Styling by Maripol. With Edwige...

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

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...

Studies in repetitive movement.

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

"ARABIAN LIGHTS is the second of only two Super 8mm films deAk is known to have fully edited to completion, and the only work she produced outside...