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 game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

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...

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

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

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a...

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

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,...

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...

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...

“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),...

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

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

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

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....

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

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

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

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