Jamie Nares Movies

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

"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...

A semi-visible pianist plays. In memory of the poet, pianist and Judo black belt, David Rattray.

“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),...

Hand twirls a piece of fabric at 500 frames per second.

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

A symbiosis of man and pole.

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

Throwing and catching the same.

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

Studies in repetitive movement.

Studies in repetitive movement.

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

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

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

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

Taking stock of the city block. A measuring of sorts. One of the first films made by Nares after moving to New York City.

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.