Joel Schlemowitz Movies

Five variations on an unfriendly-looking object.

"A memorial film for my mentor."

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

Poem by Wanda Phipps beginning "pink around a circle of pink" heard on the soundtrack. The poem appears as flickering words and colors.

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

3 minutes of painful and pleasurable images glimpsed in negative juxtaposed with a single long scratch played on an optical reader on the soundtrack.

Jonas Mekas's loft. Two rolls of 16mm film shot one week after his passing. In memoriam.

A short and lively 16mm portrait of comic book artist and performer Dame Darcy, seen through a filmic tour of her comic book, “Meat...

A film-portrait of the Loudmouth Collective and Ugly Duckling Presse. These poet-provocateurs are the creators of the infamous "Anti-Reading" series,...

A short film consisting of “Little Nothings,” a poem by Wanda Phipps, read by her with the accompaniment of in-camera superimpositions....

A miniature city symphony wrought in the sounds of the street and rain-smeared black-and-white. - Max Goldberg

A garden portrait for Doris Kornish.