Jamie Nares Movies

  • 2018
    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

    7.12018HD

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

    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • 2011
    Blank City

    Blank City

    Blank City

    72011HD

    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...

    Blank City
  • 1979
    Men in Orbit

    Men in Orbit

    Men in Orbit

    5.81979HD

    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...

    Men in Orbit
  • 1978
    Rome '78

    Rome '78

    Rome '78

    6.41978HD

    Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites like Grant's Tomb and Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse...

    Rome '78
  • 1977
    TV Faces

    TV Faces

    TV Faces

    01977HD

    Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

    TV Faces
  • 2005
    Face Addict

    Face Addict

    Face Addict

    02005HD

    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,...

    Face Addict
  • 1978
    G-Man

    G-Man

    G-Man

    3.51978HD

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

    G-Man
  • 2011
    Street

    Street

    Street

    02011HD

    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...

    Street
  • 2017
    Suicide? No, Murder!

    Suicide? No, Murder!

    Suicide? No, Murder!

    02017HD

    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...

    Suicide? No, Murder!
  • 1976
    Twister

    Twister

    Twister

    01976HD

    Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

    Twister
  • 1980
    No Japs at My Funeral

    No Japs at My Funeral

    No Japs at My Funeral

    01980HD

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

    No Japs at My Funeral
  • 1975
    Hammered

    Hammered

    Hammered

    01975HD

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

    Hammered
  • 1991
    Weather Bed

    Weather Bed

    Weather Bed

    01991HD

    Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

    Weather Bed
  • 2017
    Drop

    Drop

    Drop

    02017HD

    Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

    Drop
  • 2007
    Drip

    Drip

    Drip

    02007HD

    Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

    Drip
  • 2010
    To Make a Prairie

    To Make a Prairie

    To Make a Prairie

    02010HD

    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....

    To Make a Prairie
  • 1991
    Lighthouse

    Lighthouse

    Lighthouse

    01991HD

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

    Lighthouse
  • 2010
    Thread

    Thread

    Thread

    02010HD

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

    Thread
  • 2007
    Paper Factory

    Paper Factory

    Paper Factory

    02007HD

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

    Paper Factory
  • 1976
    Pendulum

    Pendulum

    Pendulum

    01976HD

    A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

    Pendulum