Jamie Nares Movies

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting...

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...

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...

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

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

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

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,...

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...

An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad...

A symbiosis of man and pole.

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

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

A wandering being in search of sustenance in a wintry wasteland experiences a strange transformation, eventually learning that the best way to get is...

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

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

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

Throwing and catching the same.

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.