Jamie Nares Movies
- 2018
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat7.1672018HD
Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting...
- 2005
Face Addict
Face Addict02005HD
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,...
- 2011
Blank City
Blank City7.2312011HD
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...
- 1978
Rome '78
Rome '786.41978HD
Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a...
- 2011
Street
Street02011HD
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...
- 1979
Men in Orbit
Men in Orbit5.81979HD
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...
- 1978
G-Man
G-Man3.51978HD
An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad...
- 1978
Dear Jimmy
Dear Jimmy01978HD
How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.
- 2010
Thread
Thread02010HD
A hand descends, as though from the heavens, to manipulate a length of ribbon.
- 1980
The Wind
The Wind01980HD
“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),...
- 1975
Poles
Poles01975HD
A symbiosis of man and pole.
- 1976
Pendulum
Pendulum01976HD
A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.
- 1975
Game
Game01975HD
A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.
- 1976
Block
Block01976HD
Taking stock of the city block. A measuring of sorts. One of the first films made by Nares after moving to New York City.
- 1991
Lighthouse
Lighthouse01991HD
A wandering being in search of sustenance in a wintry wasteland experiences a strange transformation, eventually learning that the best way to get is...
- 1976
Steel Rod
Steel Rod01976HD
Throwing and catching the same.
- 1974
Hand Notes #2
Hand Notes #201974HD
Studies in repetitive movement.
- 1970
Ramp
Ramp01970HD
A concrete ball on the off ramp to the old West Side Highway.
- 2010
To Make a Prairie
To Make a Prairie02010HD
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....
- 2017
Suicide? No, Murder!
Suicide? No, Murder!02017HD
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...