Jamie Nares Trailers
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Most Popular Jamie Nares Trailers
Total trailers found: 41
Hammered Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Mini-document of sculptural activity, involving the effects of gravity on weighty objects.
Suicide? No, Murder! Trailer (2017)
01 January 2017
This hybrid of diary and documentary was shot on Jamie Nares’s first trip home since her arrival in New York three years prior.
Lighthouse Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
A wandering being in search of sustenance in a wintry wasteland experiences a strange transformation, eventually learning that the best way to get is to give.
Knot Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
An epic struggle to tie a knot in a length of fabric using the feet.
Block Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
Taking stock of the city block. A measuring of sorts. One of the first films made by Nares after moving to New York City.
Rome '78 Trailer (1978)
23 December 1978
Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for the imperial palace.
Street Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
STREET is an unscripted 61-minute high definition video filmed by artist James Nares over one week in September 2011.
To Make a Prairie Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
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.
Paper Factory Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
Choreographed and orchestrated, a rhythmic video music, made by hurling lengths of plastic pipe against a cinder block wall.
Arabian Lights Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
"ARABIAN LIGHTS is the second of only two Super 8mm films deAk is known to have fully edited to completion, and the only work she produced outside the New York club scene.
The Wind Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
“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), and remarkable timing…fine filmmaking control is uses to suggest the terror of a world completely beyond personal control…Nares opens up the possibility of metaphor, evoking forces both terrifying and exhilarating.
Men in Orbit Trailer (1979)
10 April 1979
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 New York living room that has been transformed into a spacecraft.
Blank City Trailer (2011)
06 April 2011
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 circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works.
No Japs at My Funeral Trailer (1980)
12 January 1980
After Rome 78, Nares made a political documentary—a controversial 1980 video interview with an IRA member titled No Japs at My Funeral—but turned to other forms of art for much of the remaining decade, never realizing projects like a feature script he penned with Gary Indiana.
Adios Trailer (2025)
01 January 2025
"Shortly after Amos went into home hospice he began filming ‘Adios’, a short film, compiled of 16mm and Super 8 footage, to premiere at his memorial, chronicling all the family and friends who have come to visit.
G-Man Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad succumbs to his dominatrix.
Piano Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
A semi-visible pianist plays. In memory of the poet, pianist and Judo black belt, David Rattray.
Bikers or Vanity in Leather Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell.
Face Addict Trailer (2005)
15 November 2005
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, known as the downtown scene.
Thread Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
A hand descends, as though from the heavens, to manipulate a length of ribbon.
Giotto Circle Extended Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Two giant circles forming semicircles, carved with a self-made instrument.
Spinning Lead Ball Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat Trailer (2018)
19 December 2018
Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.
Dear Jimmy Trailer (1978)
25 August 1978
How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.
