Dan Barnett Movies

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid...

In the near future, glacial melting has covered 98% of earth's landmass. Sharks have flourished and now dominate the planet, operating as one massive...

Third segment in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy.

DEPARTURE is a film that was shot in 1976-77 during a year when I lost my job due to both cutbacks at the campus at which I taught and my involvement...

Joseph, a young gay male, finds himself the random target of a hate crime and is severely beaten. He retreats into his own world and loses all faith...

The Chinese Typewriter is about education and language, and the way a society is shaped by them. Exemplifies the politically committed film that...

Legendary among filmmakers who have witnessed it, White Heart is a symphonic exploration of cinematic meaning that unfolds through a multi-layered,...

Science Without Substance follows a hapless band of the lost through a shifting landscape as they try to figure out WHAT’S GOING ON? Movie #1...

"This video is about some of the people of Burma" -DB.

The second film in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy

A Full Life is the sequel to the 1968 3 min silent film: "Anticipation of a Full Life" which was actually the first roll of film that I ran through...

This video is about WATER WHEEL

A digitally-manipulated rumination on travel, "observed" by Dan Barnett.

"The images in this film were recomposed from photographs I took of street art in the Mission District in San Francisco." - D.B.

A young girl drying her hair; a woman wringing a cloth washed in the river; a funeral in the early yellow light.

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The film I made from Gary Henoch and Harlow Robinson’s footage, An Anagram is not a documentary at all, but rather a poetic essay on the impact...

"Born in the 1960's. Died young." Boston and NYC, 1970.

"Untoward Ends, along with Dead End, Dead End and Endless are a kind of cross between diaries and structural films and span the main part of my...