Jamie Nares Movies

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

Studies in repetitive movement.

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

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

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

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

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

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

Two giant circles forming semicircles, carved with a self-made instrument.

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

Studies in repetitive movement.

"ARABIAN LIGHTS is the second of only two Super 8mm films deAk is known to have fully edited to completion, and the only work she produced outside...

“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),...

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

A hand descends, as though from the heavens, to manipulate a length of ribbon.

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...

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

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