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Daniel Barnett studied analytic philosophy with K.J. Shah who was a student of Ludwig Wittgenstein's. He has been making films continuously since 1967. He was union-trained as an editor, has worked professionally as director of photography, sound recordist, sound and picture editor, producer, writer and most recently Executive Producer for Educational Projects at bePictures, Inc. in San Rafael CA. He has taught film production and film theory at SUNY Binghamton, Mass College of Art, UMASS, Boston, The San Francisco Art Institute and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is the author of the book 'Movement as Meaning in Experimental Film' published by Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam & NY in 2008. He has produced hundreds of film experiments and experimental films, won a National Endowment for the Arts grant as well as many other regional grants and awards. His films are in collections in New Zealand, Australia and France.
Most Popular Dan Barnett Trailers
Total trailers found: 24
28 July 2019
Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
18 September 2004
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 upon hearing that he has permanently lost sight in one eye.
24 October 2019
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 in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy.
01 April 2019
A digitally-manipulated rumination on travel, "observed" by Dan Barnett.
05 April 2019
"This video is about some of the people of Burma" -DB.
01 January 1991
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 in the movement against them.
27 July 2016
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 school led by a mutated alpha shark.
01 October 1975
Legendary among filmmakers who have witnessed it, White Heart is a symphonic exploration of cinematic meaning that unfolds through a multi-layered, contrapuntal audio-visual montage of numerous and disparate ingredients: images of city streets, verdant forests, and ocean waves; bits of film leader and editor’s marks; oblique footage of Barnett’s colleagues Larry Gottheim and Saul Levine; an interview with two young missionaries; the sounds of classical music, typewriters, video tone, and, most centrally, a brief passage from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.
01 January 1970
"Born in the 1960's. Died young." Boston and NYC, 1970.
03 January 2021
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 my new 16mm bolex .
30 November 1981
"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 career working in 16mm.
01 January 2018
This video is about WATER WHEEL
04 September 2020
The second film in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy
26 December 1990
Although constructed from thousands of still images of Chicago, ENDLESS maintains a complex relationship to the photographic image.
01 June 2016
"The images in this film were recomposed from photographs I took of street art in the Mission District in San Francisco.
01 January 1981
A young girl drying her hair; a woman wringing a cloth washed in the river; a funeral in the early yellow light.
01 June 2003
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 of the sudden collapse of a belief system on a culture.
02 February 2021
Third segment in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy.
09 November 1978
The Chinese Typewriter is about education and language, and the way a society is shaped by them. Exemplifies the politically committed film that defies the strict rubric of avant-garde.
01 January 1970
My only student film by virtue both of my having been an (extremely short lived ) graduate student, but more because I made it explicitly to learn something about perceived screen time by watching it myself over and over again to see what continued exposure would do to the sense of subjective length.
01 January 1968
Essay on dualism in the snow.
01 January 1971
Untoward Ends by Daniel Barnett is an equally profound, mysterious work expanding what appear to be momentary glimpses of familiar images into a universe of intense contrast.
