Jamie Nares Movies

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

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

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

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

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

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...

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

A hand descends, as though from the heavens, to manipulate a length of ribbon.

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

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

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

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

A symbiosis of man and pole.

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

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

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.