Jamie Nares Movies

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

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

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

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

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

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

Throwing and catching the same.

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

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

A symbiosis of man and pole.

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

Studies in repetitive movement.

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

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....

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...

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

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

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

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

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