Barbara Sternberg Movies
- 1990

At Present
At Present91990HD
This film is about love - relations between men and women, conversations in the air. Men are heard in voice-over speaking a love-talk which is...
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- 2010

Carl Brown
Carl Brown02010HD
A short video documentary by Barbara Sternberg, approximating the dual-screen approach of the titular filmmaker. Brown speaks candidly, is shown in a...
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- 1985

A Trilogy
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- 2014

Love Me
Love Me02014HD
Using only text-on-screen, Love Me distills the emotions of an earlier film, Beating – emotions which conflict, confuse, are difficult to...
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- 2004

So What?
So What?02004HD
Emotions come & go; so do people. The world is an awful & awesome place; so is the mind. We hear dark inner thoughts of a person & see people taking...
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- 2014

Far From
Far From02014HD
Constructed with repetitions and variations, in reference to the musical form of a Nocturne, “Far From” is an accumulation of layers, a...
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- 1994

beating
beating91994HD
To get beaten or give a beating, to beat oneself up. To beat the odds. Metal is forged by beating. Birds beat their wings, the sun beats down, and...
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- 1997

midst
midst01997HD
In midst, Barbara Sternberg has made a lyrical film about attachment, integration, belonging. Many of the familiar elements of Sternberg's work are...
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- 2008

After Nature
After Nature02008HD
After Nature, after the Fall, after all - where do we go from here? Digital imagery and optically printed superimpositions combine in a cascading...
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- 1997

Awake
Awake01997HD
A bedroom (and life) viewed from the horizontal, while wondering whether to join in the race or wake up to the illusion. The soundtrack quotes from...
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- 1982

Transitions
Transitions91982HD
Transitions is a film of inner life and speaks of time, reality, power. It depicts the disquieting sensations of being in-between-between falling...
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- 2003

Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa02003HD
The sensual, with its beauty and possibility of decay, is set beside immutable statues of the Virgin Mary. Images from technological viewing of the...
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- 2004

Surfacing
Surfacing02004HD
Our busy comings and goings, on the move, working at life are pictured, but layers of images and scratched emulsion make viewing through the depths...
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- 2023

touch
touch02023HD
touch (ing), -(ed): Feel, move, affect, be in contact, tangent to, in relation; injure slightly; slightly crazy "My window tonight casts light out...
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- 2002

Burning
Burning02002HD
"Your life is like a candle burning. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is burning." (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)
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- 2005

Praise
Praise02005HD
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- 2010

vers(ing)
vers(ing)02010HD
vers(ing) opens in a coffee shop. People, sit, enter and exit. A conversation is heard. The video continues, traveling through the streets of a city,...
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- 2007

Once
Once02007HD
"Poetry, film, light, life. An excerpt from Rilke's Ninth Elegy [...] evokes the beauty and brevity of life. Images shimmer in an uncanny light. We...
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- 1979

Opus 40
Opus 4001979HD
Opus 40” is about repetition: repetition in working and living, repetition through multiplicity and series, repetition to form pattern and...
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- 2014

COLOUR THEORY
COLOUR THEORY02014HD
Goethe’s colour theory dealt with the optics of colour relations; Rudolf Steiner’s and Kandinsky’s theories attribute emotional,...
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