Jamie Nares Movies

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...

"Shortly after Amos went into home hospice he began filming ‘Adios’, a short film, compiled of 16mm and Super 8 footage, to premiere at...

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting...

An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad...

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...

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,...

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a...

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...

How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.

1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell. Styling by Maripol. With Edwige...

After Rome 78, Nares made a political documentary—a controversial 1980 video interview with an IRA member titled No Japs at My...

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

Mini-document of sculptural activity, involving the effects of gravity on weighty objects.

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

A concrete ball on the off ramp to the old West Side Highway.

Studies in repetitive movement.

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....

Hand twirls a piece of fabric at 500 frames per second.

Taking stock of the city block. A measuring of sorts. One of the first films made by Nares after moving to New York City.