Jamie Nares Filmes

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...

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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...

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

“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),...

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

Throwing and catching the same.

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

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...

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

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

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 gestural inflection, born of repetition.

Studies in repetitive movement.