Andrew Noren Movies

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

A brief excerpt from Huge Pupils that has been shown on its own. Portrait of filmmaker Ernie Gehr shown at FIAF's Symposium on the Importance of...

"Reverberation began as an attempt at a portrayal, a representing of a life situation by way of film, and turned in the making of it into a...

GROUP VII: PORTRAIT OF DIANA (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) PORTRAIT OF ANDREW NOREN (1972, 4 min, 16mm, silent) These films are personal light...

Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow,...

A rhythmic study of materiality and melancholy in human form.

The only film that remains from Noren's early period. "a thirty-minute, single-shot interrogation of an actress/character that hovers between...

“Cinema isn’t materials…it is refined, imaginative seeing…darkness made visible…[it] existed long before modern...

Energy pictures; mindful kinesis. Light and shadow vigorously conjoin, conjuring delusion of depth and duration, fiction of space and time. The...

“Aberration of starlight: the apparent displacement of a star resulting from Earth’s orbital motion around the Sun. It depends on the...

"Intuitive conjuring and orchestration of retinal phantoms, refined by abstraction into music for light and mind. Light, both wave and particle,...

A series of eight portraits. Lost in a fire in 1970

"Fifteen focumentaries, each about two minutes long, each about some common thing: talking eating, the morning shits, the afternoon fucks with the...

Noren's first film is a Godard-inspired experimental narrative that was lost in a fire in 1970

Ghost pictures from the "other" world, which is this world. The ghost is in love, at work, at play with bright companions. Flutter of phantoms, trick...

"A double projection of buildings exploding in slow motion, in forward and reverse, that 'was intended as mantra, to run perpetually, viewer to...

A meditation on the winter light flowing through two windows, as it is modulated and transformed by the window curtains blowing in the breeze.