Andrew Noren Movies

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.31997HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1967
    The Unclean

    The Unclean

    The Unclean

    01967HD

    Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

    The Unclean
  • 1968
    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

    01968HD

    In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

    Huge Pupils
  • 1967
    Recognitions

    Recognitions

    Recognitions

    01967HD

    A series of eight portraits. Lost in a fire in 1970

    Recognitions
  • 2004
    Free to Go (Interlude)

    Free to Go (Interlude)

    Free to Go (Interlude)

    8.72004HD

    Energy pictures; mindful kinesis. Light and shadow vigorously conjoin, conjuring delusion of depth and duration, fiction of space and time. The...

    Free to Go (Interlude)
  • 1969
    Reverberation

    Reverberation

    Reverberation

    01969HD

    Reveberation detaches a few static shots of a posed portrait to expand them for twenty-three minutes.

    Reverberation
  • 1968
    The Wind Variations

    The Wind Variations

    The Wind Variations

    01968HD

    A meditation on the winter light flowing through two windows, as it is modulated and transformed by the window curtains blowing in the breeze.

    The Wind Variations
  • 1978
    Charmed Particles

    Charmed Particles

    Charmed Particles

    8.51978HD

    Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow,...

    Charmed Particles
  • 1994
    Imaginary Light

    Imaginary Light

    Imaginary Light

    8.51994HD

    "Intuitive conjuring and orchestration of retinal phantoms, refined by abstraction into music for light and mind. Light, both wave and particle,...

    Imaginary Light
  • 1965
    Say Nothing

    Say Nothing

    Say Nothing

    01965HD

    The only film that remains from Noren's early period. "a thirty-minute, single-shot interrogation of an actress/character that hovers between...

    Say Nothing
  • 2008
    Aberration of Starlight

    Aberration of Starlight

    Aberration of Starlight

    02008HD

    Aberration of starlight: the apparent displacement of a star resulting from Earth’s orbital motion around the Sun. It depends on the ratio of ...

    Aberration of Starlight
  • 1974
    False Pretenses

    False Pretenses

    False Pretenses

    01974HD

    Part II of Andrew Noren's The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse

    False Pretenses
  • 2001
    Time Being

    Time Being

    Time Being

    02001HD

    “Cinema isn’t materials…it is refined, imaginative seeing…darkness made visible…[it] existed long before modern...

    Time Being
  • 1966
    The New York Miseries

    The New York Miseries

    The New York Miseries

    01966HD

    "Single-take, 100-foot rolls of 16mm film in which Noren documented 'absolutely every aspect of my life.'" - Scott MacDonald

    The New York Miseries
  • 1968
    A Portrait of Ernie Gehr

    A Portrait of Ernie Gehr

    A Portrait of Ernie Gehr

    01968HD

    A brief excerpt from Huge Pupils that has been shown on its own. Portrait of filmmaker Ernie Gehr shown at FIAF's Symposium on the Importance of...

    A Portrait of Ernie Gehr
  • 1965
    A Change of Heart

    A Change of Heart

    A Change of Heart

    01965HD

    Noren's first film is a Godard-inspired experimental narrative that was lost in a fire in 1970

    A Change of Heart
  • 1972
    Scenes from Life: Golden Brain Mantra

    Scenes from Life: Golden Brain Mantra

    Scenes from Life: Golden Brain Mantra

    01972HD

    "A double projection of buildings exploding in slow motion, in forward and reverse, that 'was intended as mantra, to run perpetually, viewer to...

    Scenes from Life: Golden Brain Mantra
  • 1972
    Group VII: Portrait of Diana/Portrait of Andrew Noren

    Group VII: Portrait of Diana/Portrait of Andrew Noren

    Group VII: Portrait of Diana/Portrait of Andrew Noren

    01972HD

    GROUP VII: PORTRAIT OF DIANA (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) PORTRAIT OF ANDREW NOREN (1972, 4 min, 16mm, silent) These films are personal light...

    Group VII: Portrait of Diana/Portrait of Andrew Noren
  • 1975
    The Phantom Enthusiast

    The Phantom Enthusiast

    The Phantom Enthusiast

    01975HD

    A rhythmic study of materiality and melancholy in human form.

    The Phantom Enthusiast