Barbara Sternberg Movies

  • 1988
    Tending Towards the Horizontal

    Tending Towards the Horizontal

    Tending Towards the Horizontal

    01988HD

    The voice-over text, written and performed by France Daigle, creates three images which recur alternately throughout the film: a bird flapping its...

    Tending Towards the Horizontal
  • 1996
    What Do You Fear?

    What Do You Fear?

    What Do You Fear?

    01996HD

    A dog and two cats in France living, naturally.

    What Do You Fear?
  • 2014
    Love Me

    Love Me

    Love Me

    02014HD

    Using only text-on-screen, Love Me distills the emotions of an earlier film, Beating – emotions which conflict, confuse, are difficult to...

    Love Me
  • 2014
    Far From

    Far From

    Far From

    02014HD

    Constructed with repetitions and variations, in reference to the musical form of a Nocturne, “Far From” is an accumulation of layers, a...

    Far From
  • 2014
    COLOUR THEORY

    COLOUR THEORY

    COLOUR THEORY

    02014HD

    Goethe’s colour theory dealt with the optics of colour relations; Rudolf Steiner’s and Kandinsky’s theories attribute emotional,...

    COLOUR THEORY
  • 1990
    At Present

    At Present

    At Present

    01990HD

    This film is about love - relations between men and women, conversations in the air. Men are heard in voice-over speaking a love-talk which is...

    At Present
  • 1997
    midst

    midst

    midst

    01997HD

    In midst, Barbara Sternberg has made a lyrical film about attachment, integration, belonging. Many of the familiar elements of Sternberg's work are...

    midst
  • 2023
    Sunprints 1, 2, 3

    Sunprints 1, 2, 3

    Sunprints 1, 2, 3

    02023HD

    Based loosely on the tripartite plan of Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), the film was made by applying cyanotype chemistry to...

    Sunprints 1, 2, 3
  • 2023
    touch

    touch

    touch

    02023HD

    touch (ing), -(ed): Feel, move, affect, be in contact, tangent to, in relation; injure slightly; slightly crazy "My window tonight casts light out...

    touch
  • 2004
    In the Garden

    In the Garden

    In the Garden

    02004HD

    Where does 'I' leave off and the 'world' begin; when does 'past' end and 'present' begin? Images blurring boundaries suggest the relatedness of...

    In the Garden
  • 2014
    Time Being V-VI

    Time Being V-VI

    Time Being V-VI

    102014HD

    Brief moments of being, fleeting bits of the surrounding chaos.

    Time Being V-VI
  • 2005
    Praise

    Praise

    Praise

    02005HD

    Praise
  • 1999
    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    4.71999HD

    "Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal...

    Like a Dream that Vanishes
  • 1979
    Opus 40

    Opus 40

    Opus 40

    01979HD

    Opus 40” is about repetition: repetition in working and living, repetition through multiplicity and series, repetition to form pattern and...

    Opus 40
  • 2010
    vers(ing)

    vers(ing)

    vers(ing)

    02010HD

    vers(ing) opens in a coffee shop. People, sit, enter and exit. A conversation is heard. The video continues, traveling through the streets of a city,...

    vers(ing)
  • 2020
    Once I Am

    Once I Am

    Once I Am

    02020HD

    The day as it went along – feeling the light of the present…what else is there?

    Once I Am
  • 2011
    In the Nature of Things

    In the Nature of Things

    In the Nature of Things

    02011HD

    The central image of in the nature of things is the Forest- sometimes fearful, sometimes a refuge, always mysterious, and the multiple associations...

    In the Nature of Things
  • 2017
    The Earth in the Sea

    The Earth in the Sea

    The Earth in the Sea

    02017HD

    Videoed off projected super 8 footage, this short film in four parts (titles from Artaud: “ the earth in the sea, the air in the earth, the...

    The Earth in the Sea