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...

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

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

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 “sci-fi povera” film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit...

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

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

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

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

“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),...

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....

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

A symbiosis of man and pole.

Studies in repetitive movement.

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

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