Barbara Sternberg Movies

  • 1990
    At Present

    At Present

    At Present

    91990HD

    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...

    At Present
  • 2010
    Carl Brown

    Carl Brown

    Carl Brown

    02010HD

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

    Carl Brown
  • 1985
    A Trilogy

    A Trilogy

    A Trilogy

    01985HD

    A Trilogy
  • 2014
    Love Me

    Love Me

    Love Me

    02014HD

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

    Love Me
  • 2004
    So What?

    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...

    So What?
  • 2014
    Far From

    Far From

    Far From

    02014HD

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

    Far From
  • 1994
    beating

    beating

    beating

    91994HD

    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...

    beating
  • 1997
    midst

    midst

    midst

    01997HD

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

    midst
  • 2008
    After Nature

    After Nature

    After Nature

    02008HD

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

    After Nature
  • 1997
    Awake

    Awake

    Awake

    01997HD

    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...

    Awake
  • 1982
    Transitions

    Transitions

    Transitions

    91982HD

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

    Transitions
  • 2003
    Tabula Rasa

    Tabula Rasa

    Tabula Rasa

    02003HD

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

    Tabula Rasa
  • 2004
    Surfacing

    Surfacing

    Surfacing

    02004HD

    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...

    Surfacing
  • 2023
    touch

    touch

    touch

    02023HD

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

    touch
  • 2002
    Burning

    Burning

    Burning

    02002HD

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

    Burning
  • 2005
    Praise

    Praise

    Praise

    02005HD

    Praise
  • 2010
    vers(ing)

    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,...

    vers(ing)
  • 2007
    Once

    Once

    Once

    02007HD

    "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...

    Once
  • 1979
    Opus 40

    Opus 40

    Opus 40

    01979HD

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

    Opus 40
  • 2014
    COLOUR THEORY

    COLOUR THEORY

    COLOUR THEORY

    02014HD

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

    COLOUR THEORY