Joel Schlemowitz Movies

"A memorial film for my mentor."

Poem by Bridget Meeds, as read by her, with accompanying text on screen intercut with a contact printed typewriter ribbon.

An unedited, double-exposed camera roll shot at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, NYC, on the occasion of a birthday screening for Bradley Eros.

The day the Film-Makers' Cooperative was forced by loss of lease to move from their offices at Lexington Ave and 31st Street in New York City.

A short film of Emily Dickinson’s poem number 1734, which begins with: “Oh, honey of an hour”. The words of the poem appear hand...

Multiple camera passes of baroque statuary with a soundtrack of dripping water and a Louis Couperin prelude highly distorted. The centerpiece of the...

A filmic analogy for the elusiveness of the past. The operations of unconventional printing techniques representing the processes of memory. The film...

Poem by Wanda Phipps. Film version of an installation piece shown at the Courthouse Gallery at Anthology Film Archives.

A miniature city symphony wrought in the sounds of the street and rain-smeared black-and-white. - Max Goldberg

Lights at night on Avenue A, shot on black and white and extensively and laboriously hand-colored.

Spiraling colors and abstracted rotating text, with a poem by Wanda Phipps on the soundtrack both layered and singular.

Jonas Mekas's loft. Two rolls of 16mm film shot one week after his passing. In memoriam.

Poem by Wanda Phipps beginning "pink around a circle of pink" heard on the soundtrack. The poem appears as flickering words and colors.

After a twenty year period of multiple illnesses and injuries, the filmmaker turns the camera on herself as a way to analyze her chances for a...