Jamie Nares Movies

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

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

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 symbiosis of man and pole.

“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),...

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

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

Throwing and catching the same.

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...

Choreographed and orchestrated, a rhythmic video music, made by hurling lengths of plastic pipe against a cinder block wall.

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

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

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

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

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

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

Studies in repetitive movement.

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.