Amy Halpern Filmes

A portrait of Jane Wodening (Brakhage). “A person who was the subject of the camera for many years looks back at us with an interrogating...

A horizon like a blade.  Consistent across landscapes in California – ocean to desert and back to the ocean.

Endangered animals on an endangered medium. A heartbeat 4/4 Slow cinema, with a sex scene.

Gesturing hands emerge from the darkness, readying us for the cinematic experience.

A film by Amy Halpern

Presents the physically necessary film “leaders”; at the front and back end of movies as aesthetic in themselves. (Amy Halpern)

Illusions of surface, abstract to pictorial. Initially the grain of the film emulsion, complete with scratches, variations in framing – the...

My mother, now 94. Filmed more than 30 years ago. (Amy Halpern)