Barbara Sternberg Movies

  • 2023
    touch

    touch

    touch

    02023HD

    touch (ing), -(ed): Feel, move, affect, be in contact, tangent to, in relation; injure slightly; slightly crazy "My window tonight casts light out...

    touch
  • 2014
    Far From

    Far From

    Far From

    02014HD

    Constructed with repetitions and variations, in reference to the musical form of a Nocturne, “Far From” is an accumulation of layers, a...

    Far From
  • 1990
    Antigone

    Antigone

    Antigone

    01990HD

    “Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers,...

    Antigone
  • 2020
    Once I Am

    Once I Am

    Once I Am

    02020HD

    The day as it went along – feeling the light of the present…what else is there?

    Once I Am
  • 2007
    Once

    Once

    Once

    02007HD

    "Poetry, film, light, life. An excerpt from Rilke's Ninth Elegy [...] evokes the beauty and brevity of life. Images shimmer in an uncanny light. We...

    Once
  • 2014
    COLOUR THEORY

    COLOUR THEORY

    COLOUR THEORY

    02014HD

    Goethe’s colour theory dealt with the optics of colour relations; Rudolf Steiner’s and Kandinsky’s theories attribute emotional,...

    COLOUR THEORY
  • 1994
    beating

    beating

    beating

    01994HD

    To get beaten or give a beating, to beat oneself up. To beat the odds. Metal is forged by beating. Birds beat their wings, the sun beats down, and...

    beating
  • 2014
    Love Me

    Love Me

    Love Me

    02014HD

    Using only text-on-screen, Love Me distills the emotions of an earlier film, Beating – emotions which conflict, confuse, are difficult to...

    Love Me
  • 2008
    Beginning and Ending

    Beginning and Ending

    Beginning and Ending

    02008HD

    Images flutter and flicker in orgasmic rhythms. Visual references to Bataille’s “solar anus”, to romantic coupling, to monkeys and...

    Beginning and Ending
  • 1999
    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    4.71999HD

    "Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal...

    Like a Dream that Vanishes
  • 1997
    Awake

    Awake

    Awake

    01997HD

    A bedroom (and life) viewed from the horizontal, while wondering whether to join in the race or wake up to the illusion. The soundtrack quotes from...

    Awake
  • 2014
    Time Being V-VI

    Time Being V-VI

    Time Being V-VI

    102014HD

    Brief moments of being, fleeting bits of the surrounding chaos.

    Time Being V-VI
  • 1997
    C’est la vie

    C’est la vie

    C’est la vie

    101997HD

    A mini-presentation of consciousness dealing with cosmos. The world in a grain of sand. Connections between life, death, and the world are neither...

    C’est la vie
  • 2023
    Sunprints 1, 2, 3

    Sunprints 1, 2, 3

    Sunprints 1, 2, 3

    02023HD

    Based loosely on the tripartite plan of Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), the film was made by applying cyanotype chemistry to...

    Sunprints 1, 2, 3
  • 2021
    Anything is Everything

    Anything is Everything

    Anything is Everything

    02021HD

    Anything is Everything is composed of sequences of disparate footage, but with threads to follow: circular shapes from outer and terrestrial space;...

    Anything is Everything
  • 2019
    Untitled #1 (sun vision)

    Untitled #1 (sun vision)

    Untitled #1 (sun vision)

    02019HD

    There were two initial impulses for the film: the paintings of John Turner (whence the bracketed title ”sun vision”) whose...

    Untitled #1 (sun vision)
  • 2002
    Burning

    Burning

    Burning

    02002HD

    "Your life is like a candle burning. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is burning." (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)

    Burning
  • 2017
    The Earth in the Sea

    The Earth in the Sea

    The Earth in the Sea

    02017HD

    Videoed off projected super 8 footage, this short film in four parts (titles from Artaud: “ the earth in the sea, the air in the earth, the...

    The Earth in the Sea
  • 2010
    Carl Brown

    Carl Brown

    Carl Brown

    02010HD

    A short video documentary by Barbara Sternberg, approximating the dual-screen approach of the titular filmmaker. Brown speaks candidly, is shown in a...

    Carl Brown
  • 2004
    Surfacing

    Surfacing

    Surfacing

    02004HD

    Our busy comings and goings, on the move, working at life are pictured, but layers of images and scratched emulsion make viewing through the depths...

    Surfacing