Jamie Nares Movies

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

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

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

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

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

Throwing and catching the same.

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

Studies in repetitive movement.

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

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

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

Choreographed and orchestrated, a rhythmic video music, made by hurling lengths of plastic pipe against a cinder block wall.

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

A symbiosis of man and pole.

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

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

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