Jamie Nares Movies

  • 2025
    Adios

    Adios

    Adios

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    "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 Basquiat

    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

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    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 City

    Blank City

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    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 Jimmy

    Dear Jimmy

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    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 Addict

    Face Addict

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    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 Leather

    Bikers or Vanity in Leather

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    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-Man

    G-Man

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    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 '78

    Rome '78

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    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

    Street

    Street

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    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 Orbit

    Men in Orbit

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    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!

    Suicide? No, Murder!

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    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 Prairie

    To Make a Prairie

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    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 #1

    Hand Notes #1

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    Studies in repetitive movement.

    Hand Notes #1
  • 1976
    Spinning Lead Ball

    Spinning Lead Ball

    Spinning Lead Ball

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    A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

    Spinning Lead Ball
  • 1976
    Studio Pendulum

    Studio Pendulum

    Studio Pendulum

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    Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

    Studio Pendulum
  • 2010
    Thread

    Thread

    Thread

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

    Thread
  • 1983
    Arabian Lights

    Arabian Lights

    Arabian Lights

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    "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 Bed

    Weather Bed

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    Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

    Weather Bed
  • 1975
    Giotto Circle Extended

    Giotto Circle Extended

    Giotto Circle Extended

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

    Giotto Circle Extended
  • 1976
    Block

    Block

    Block

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    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