Jamie Nares Movies

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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...

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...

A pendulum swings among old NYC buildings.

Calibration study for the film Pendulum.

Collage of faces taken from television by James Nares

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

A game of stones, with Seth Tillett.

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

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

Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

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

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

A semi-visible pianist plays. In memory of the poet, pianist and Judo black belt, David Rattray.

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