Jamie Nares Filmes

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting...

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

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...

How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.

An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad...

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....

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...

After Rome 78, Nares made a political documentary—a controversial 1980 video interview with an IRA member titled No Japs at My...

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

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

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,...

Studies in repetitive movement.

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a...

Throwing and catching the same.

Studies in repetitive movement.

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.