Jamie Nares Movies

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

“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),...

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

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

A symbiosis of man and pole.

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

Throwing and catching the same.

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

Studies in repetitive movement.

Studies in repetitive movement.

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

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

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

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

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 schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

"ARABIAN LIGHTS is the second of only two Super 8mm films deAk is known to have fully edited to completion, and the only work she produced outside...