Barbara Sternberg Movies

  • 2025
    Elemental Vision or a film for the rest of my life

    Elemental Vision or a film for the rest of my life

    Elemental Vision or a film for the rest of my life

    02025HD

    “Elemental Vision or a film for the rest of my life" is 'about' light and time - moments captured in their passing, light events shot in...

    Elemental Vision or a film for the rest of my life
  • 2023
    Sunprints 1, 2, 3

    Sunprints 1, 2, 3

    Sunprints 1, 2, 3

    02023HD

    Based loosely on the tripartite plan of Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), the film was made by applying cyanotype chemistry to...

    Sunprints 1, 2, 3
  • 2017
    The Earth in the Sea

    The Earth in the Sea

    The Earth in the Sea

    02017HD

    Videoed off projected super 8 footage, this short film in four parts (titles from Artaud: “ the earth in the sea, the air in the earth, the...

    The Earth in the Sea
  • 1990
    At Present

    At Present

    At Present

    01990HD

    This film is about love - relations between men and women, conversations in the air. Men are heard in voice-over speaking a love-talk which is...

    At Present
  • 2005
    Praise

    Praise

    Praise

    02005HD

    Praise
  • 2016
    The Human Condition

    The Human Condition

    The Human Condition

    02016HD

    Ideas about how we live in the world as humans, the difficulties faced, the conditions of our brief existence, accompany us consciously or...

    The Human Condition
  • 2020
    Once I Am

    Once I Am

    Once I Am

    02020HD

    The day as it went along – feeling the light of the present…what else is there?

    Once I Am
  • 2003
    Tabula Rasa

    Tabula Rasa

    Tabula Rasa

    02003HD

    The sensual, with its beauty and possibility of decay, is set beside immutable statues of the Virgin Mary. Images from technological viewing of the...

    Tabula Rasa
  • 2011
    In the Nature of Things

    In the Nature of Things

    In the Nature of Things

    02011HD

    The central image of in the nature of things is the Forest- sometimes fearful, sometimes a refuge, always mysterious, and the multiple associations...

    In the Nature of Things
  • 1988
    Tending Towards the Horizontal

    Tending Towards the Horizontal

    Tending Towards the Horizontal

    01988HD

    The voice-over text, written and performed by France Daigle, creates three images which recur alternately throughout the film: a bird flapping its...

    Tending Towards the Horizontal
  • 1996
    What Do You Fear?

    What Do You Fear?

    What Do You Fear?

    01996HD

    A dog and two cats in France living, naturally.

    What Do You Fear?
  • 2007
    Time Being I – IV

    Time Being I – IV

    Time Being I – IV

    02007HD

    Brief moments of being, fleeting bits out of the surrounding chaos. These 4 shorts films can be shown separately or one after the other on the roll.

    Time Being I – IV
  • 2004
    Surfacing

    Surfacing

    Surfacing

    02004HD

    Our busy comings and goings, on the move, working at life are pictured, but layers of images and scratched emulsion make viewing through the depths...

    Surfacing
  • 2023
    touch

    touch

    touch

    02023HD

    touch (ing), -(ed): Feel, move, affect, be in contact, tangent to, in relation; injure slightly; slightly crazy "My window tonight casts light out...

    touch
  • 2021
    Anything is Everything

    Anything is Everything

    Anything is Everything

    02021HD

    Anything is Everything is composed of sequences of disparate footage, but with threads to follow: circular shapes from outer and terrestrial space;...

    Anything is Everything
  • 2008
    Beginning and Ending

    Beginning and Ending

    Beginning and Ending

    02008HD

    Images flutter and flicker in orgasmic rhythms. Visual references to Bataille’s “solar anus”, to romantic coupling, to monkeys and...

    Beginning and Ending
  • 2004
    In the Garden

    In the Garden

    In the Garden

    02004HD

    Where does 'I' leave off and the 'world' begin; when does 'past' end and 'present' begin? Images blurring boundaries suggest the relatedness of...

    In the Garden
  • 2004
    So What?

    So What?

    So What?

    02004HD

    Emotions come & go; so do people. The world is an awful & awesome place; so is the mind. We hear dark inner thoughts of a person & see people taking...

    So What?