Jamie Nares Movies

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

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

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.

An epic struggle to tie a knot in a length of fabric using the feet.

A semi-visible pianist plays. In memory of the poet, pianist and Judo black belt, David Rattray.

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

“Nares creates a tornado-like catastrophe with a hand-held super-8 camera, a shooting ratio of three to one (about $100 worth of film stock),...

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

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

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

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

Studies in repetitive movement.

Studies in repetitive movement.

A symbiosis of man and pole.

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

"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...

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...