Movies

"Shortly after Amos went into home hospice he began filming ‘Adios’, a short film, compiled of 16mm and Super 8 footage, to premiere at...

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...

1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell. Styling by Maripol. With Edwige...

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,...

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

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

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

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

A symbiosis of man and pole.

Throwing and catching the same.

“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 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....

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...

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

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

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...

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

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