Amy Halpern Movies

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

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

A horizon like a blade.  Consistent across landscapes in California – ocean to desert and back to the ocean.

Endangered animals on an endangered medium. A heartbeat 4/4 Slow cinema, with a sex scene.

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

Two palindromes. One resurrection. No happy ending.

Presents the physically necessary film “leaders”; at the front and back end of movies as aesthetic in themselves. (Amy Halpern)

A bewitching, mysterious work of enveloping beauty, the film’s ominous title and a dedication to Anne Frank deeply inform our reading of its...

My mother, now 94. Filmed more than 30 years ago. (Amy Halpern)

A portrait of Jane Wodening (Brakhage). “A person who was the subject of the camera for many years looks back at us with an interrogating...

With Asha Wilson and Joyce Campbell.

Ancient alchemists believed that salamanders can be reborn from fire, like the phoenix or Christ. They do not survive fire, nor extreme dryness. And...

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

What can I say about a private letter?

with Arwa Ibrahim 1 - Detention 2 - Hollywood Hills 3 - Reptile 4 - Bestiary 5 - Abstract and Concrete 6 - Doorway Occupation 7 - Sideways

with Indigo Cohan.