Jamie Nares Movies

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

“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),...

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

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

Studies in repetitive movement.

Studies in repetitive movement.

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

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

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

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

Throwing and catching the same.

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

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

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

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 carving of a perfect circle.

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