Andrew Noren Movies

A meditation on the winter light flowing through two windows, as it is modulated and transformed by the window curtains blowing in the breeze.

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow,...

"Intuitive conjuring and orchestration of retinal phantoms, refined by abstraction into music for light and mind. Light, both wave and particle,...

Reveberation detaches a few static shots of a posed portrait to expand them for twenty-three minutes.

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

“Cinema isn’t materials…it is refined, imaginative seeing…darkness made visible…[it] existed long before modern...

Aberration of starlight: the apparent displacement of a star resulting from Earth’s orbital motion around the Sun. It depends on the ratio of ...

Part II of Andrew Noren's The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse

A series of eight portraits. Lost in a fire in 1970

Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

Energy pictures; mindful kinesis. Light and shadow vigorously conjoin, conjuring delusion of depth and duration, fiction of space and time. The...

The only film that remains from Noren's early period. "a thirty-minute, single-shot interrogation of an actress/character that hovers between...

"Single-take, 100-foot rolls of 16mm film in which Noren documented 'absolutely every aspect of my life.'" - Scott MacDonald

A brief excerpt from Huge Pupils that has been shown on its own. Portrait of filmmaker Ernie Gehr shown at FIAF's Symposium on the Importance of...

Noren's first film is a Godard-inspired experimental narrative that was lost in a fire in 1970

"A double projection of buildings exploding in slow motion, in forward and reverse, that 'was intended as mantra, to run perpetually, viewer to...

A rhythmic study of materiality and melancholy in human form.

Ghost pictures from the "other" world, which is this world. The ghost is in love, at work, at play with bright companions. Flutter of phantoms, trick...