Jamie Nares Movies
- 2025

Adios
Adios02025HD
"Shortly after Amos went into home hospice he began filming ‘Adios’, a short film, compiled of 16mm and Super 8 footage, to premiere at...
![Adios]()
- 2018

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat6.82018HD
Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting...
![Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat]()
- 2011

Blank City
Blank City6.92011HD
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...
![Blank City]()
- 1978

Dear Jimmy
Dear Jimmy01978HD
How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.
![Dear Jimmy]()
- 2005

Face Addict
Face Addict82005HD
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,...
![Face Addict]()
- 1978

Bikers or Vanity in Leather
Bikers or Vanity in Leather01978HD
1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell. Styling by Maripol. With Edwige...
![Bikers or Vanity in Leather]()
- 1978

G-Man
G-Man31978HD
An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad...
![G-Man]()
- 1978

Rome '78
Rome '786.41978HD
Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a...
![Rome '78]()
- 2011

Street
Street02011HD
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...
![Street]()
- 1979

Men in Orbit
Men in Orbit6.51979HD
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...
![Men in Orbit]()
- 2017

Suicide? No, Murder!
Suicide? No, Murder!02017HD
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...
![Suicide? No, Murder!]()
- 2010

To Make a Prairie
To Make a Prairie02010HD
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....
![To Make a Prairie]()
- 1974

Hand Notes #1
Hand Notes #101974HD
Studies in repetitive movement.
![Hand Notes #1]()
- 1976

Spinning Lead Ball
Spinning Lead Ball01976HD
A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.
![Spinning Lead Ball]()
- 1976

Studio Pendulum
Studio Pendulum01976HD
Calibration study for the film Pendulum.
![Studio Pendulum]()
- 2010

Thread
Thread02010HD
A hand descends, as though from the heavens, to manipulate a length of ribbon.
![Thread]()
- 1983

Arabian Lights
Arabian Lights01983HD
"ARABIAN LIGHTS is the second of only two Super 8mm films deAk is known to have fully edited to completion, and the only work she produced outside...
![Arabian Lights]()
- 1991

Weather Bed
Weather Bed01991HD
Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.
![Weather Bed]()
- 1975

Giotto Circle Extended
Giotto Circle Extended01975HD
Two giant circles forming semicircles, carved with a self-made instrument.
![Giotto Circle Extended]()
- 1976

Block
Block01976HD
Taking stock of the city block. A measuring of sorts. One of the first films made by Nares after moving to New York City.
![Block]()










