Jamie Nares Movies

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

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

Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

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

Throwing and catching the same.

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

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

“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),...

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....

Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.

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

Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

Observing the trajectories of falling rocks.

Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.

Studies in repetitive movement.

Studies in repetitive movement.

A symbiosis of man and pole.

A schematic animation of matter transforming into energy.

"ARABIAN LIGHTS is the second of only two Super 8mm films deAk is known to have fully edited to completion, and the only work she produced outside...

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...