Jamie Nares Movies

A young girl in the last summer of her childhood, alternates between solitary play and the discovery of her power to influence the world around her....

A gestural inflection, born of repetition.

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

This hybrid of diary and documentary was shot on Jamie Nares’s first trip home since her arrival in New York three years prior. While the...

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

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

Studies in repetitive movement.

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

A hand descends, as though from the heavens, to manipulate a length of ribbon.

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

A wandering being in search of sustenance in a wintry wasteland experiences a strange transformation, eventually learning that the best way to get is...

Choreographed and orchestrated, a rhythmic video music, made by hurling lengths of plastic pipe against a cinder block wall.

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

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

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

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

A symbiosis of man and pole.