Dan Barnett Movies

In the near future, glacial melting has covered 98% of earth's landmass. Sharks have flourished and now dominate the planet, operating as one massive...

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid...

The Chinese Typewriter is about education and language, and the way a society is shaped by them. Exemplifies the politically committed film that...

Joseph, a young gay male, finds himself the random target of a hate crime and is severely beaten. He retreats into his own world and loses all faith...

Third segment in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy.

DEPARTURE is a film that was shot in 1976-77 during a year when I lost my job due to both cutbacks at the campus at which I taught and my involvement...

My only student film by virtue both of my having been an (extremely short lived ) graduate student, but more because I made it explicitly to learn...

This video is about WATER WHEEL

Although constructed from thousands of still images of Chicago, ENDLESS maintains a complex relationship to the photographic image. Time and space...

A Full Life is the sequel to the 1968 3 min silent film: "Anticipation of a Full Life" which was actually the first roll of film that I ran through...

Science Without Substance follows a hapless band of the lost through a shifting landscape as they try to figure out WHAT’S GOING ON? Movie #1...

Legendary among filmmakers who have witnessed it, White Heart is a symphonic exploration of cinematic meaning that unfolds through a multi-layered,...

Untoward Ends by Daniel Barnett is an equally profound, mysterious work expanding what appear to be momentary glimpses of familiar images into a...

A digitally-manipulated rumination on travel, "observed" by Dan Barnett.

"This video is about some of the people of Burma" -DB.

"The images in this film were recomposed from photographs I took of street art in the Mission District in San Francisco." - D.B.

The second film in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy

"Untoward Ends, along with Dead End, Dead End and Endless are a kind of cross between diaries and structural films and span the main part of my...