Amy Halpern Movies

An opera in the public domain. A film about duration. “I tremble for my country when I think that god is just.” (Thomas Jefferson)

A rhythmic montage of almost 200 faces, human and animals, that Halpern pans vertically, creating a cascade of visages suggesting that while...

Literally, a glance. A dedication; my emissary. –A. C. H.

A short sweet film concerning torture. For Lynda Gudde.

Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new...

1981, 16mm, b&w, silent, 2 mins. Shots of Halpern cutting her fingernails, biting them, and dunking them in water.

Illusions of surface, abstract to pictorial. Initially the grain of the film emulsion, complete with scratches, variations in framing – the...

A woman from Nigeria seeks work in the United States while her daughter struggles with premonitions and homesickness.

with Adnan Ibrahim "Stand up and use your ears like a man" - Charles Ives

With Asha Wilson and Joyce Campbell.

Two palindromes. One resurrection. No happy ending.

“Trying to get in, trying to get out. Encounters from the plague year.”