Jamie Nares Movies

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting...

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...

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 “sci-fi povera” film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit...

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,...

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...

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

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

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

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

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

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

A symbiosis of man and pole.

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

Mini-document of sculptural activity, involving the effects of gravity on weighty objects.

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

Taking stock of the city block. A measuring of sorts. One of the first films made by Nares after moving to New York City.

“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),...