Julie Murray Movies

Things coaxed into light in roughly the order they were encountered. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

Time spent at two shores, one thinly populated, the other a wasteland, joined by the interluency of various paths taken, each bit real enough, though...

"The film’s haunting images are accompanied by the continuous sound of a helicopter circling overhead, which at the close gives way to the...

Much of the footage that comprises Orchard is of a 19c ruins that included a walled orchard in and area known as Rostellen in southwest Ireland. It...

Images from an aerial tram leaving Manhattan are followed by images of a nearly static bird, of bugs fighting, and of light bending as it passes...

The most striking thing about observing Niagara Falls is that they don’t seem to be falling at all. Being so vast they give the impression of...

A dark meditation on father-son relations.

FF is around three years' worth of collected footage culled from all sources in a variety of formats, from dumpsters to video. It is put together in...

Scenes from a found roll of martial arts movie footage is unspooled past a video camera on a light table, stopping and starting to pick out parts of...

In this montage a melding of camera original and found material hints at a realization which is evident only in the fissures of splintered...

A body of water, the body of the sky and figures on ground, shored against one another in rhythms of waves abrading a field framed for a new anxiety....

Children's 3-D toys and insects are the subjects of Julie Murray's look at the violence inherent in the very notion of motion. Music: "Three...

Various reels of found 35mm movie film are pulled over a light box under the fixed gaze of video capture. Through veils of apparent motion, the...

Calculating the angle of awe at a gas station in rural Midwest.

Hidden among the pounding of animal hides, All tamped into maps, their shapes Explicit replicate butterfly wings, lie the motives of Lír. ...

MUSICAL TENSIONS IN THE RESONANT BODIES OF WIND TURBINES

Microfilm model airplanes and their people.

Convolves the aberrations found within two image-making technologies; film and video, which here combine to produce a heap of dichotomies and...