Jamie Nares Movies

  • 2025
    Adios

    Adios

    Adios

    02025HD

    "Shortly after Amos went into home hospice he began filming ‘Adios’, a short film, compiled of 16mm and Super 8 footage, to premiere at...

    Adios
  • 2011
    Blank City

    Blank City

    Blank City

    6.92011HD

    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...

    Blank City
  • 2018
    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

    6.82018HD

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

    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • 1978
    Bikers or Vanity in Leather

    Bikers or Vanity in Leather

    Bikers or Vanity in Leather

    01978HD

    1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell. Styling by Maripol. With Edwige...

    Bikers or Vanity in Leather
  • 1978
    G-Man

    G-Man

    G-Man

    31978HD

    An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad...

    G-Man
  • 1980
    No Japs at My Funeral

    No Japs at My Funeral

    No Japs at My Funeral

    01980HD

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

    No Japs at My Funeral
  • 2005
    Face Addict

    Face Addict

    Face Addict

    82005HD

    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,...

    Face Addict
  • 1978
    Dear Jimmy

    Dear Jimmy

    Dear Jimmy

    01978HD

    How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.

    Dear Jimmy
  • 1980
    The Wind

    The Wind

    The Wind

    01980HD

    “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),...

    The Wind
  • 2007
    Paper Factory

    Paper Factory

    Paper Factory

    02007HD

    Choreographed and orchestrated, a rhythmic video music, made by hurling lengths of plastic pipe against a cinder block wall.

    Paper Factory
  • 1978
    Rome '78

    Rome '78

    Rome '78

    6.41978HD

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

    Rome '78
  • 1975
    Poles

    Poles

    Poles

    01975HD

    A symbiosis of man and pole.

    Poles
  • 1976
    Steel Rod

    Steel Rod

    Steel Rod

    01976HD

    Throwing and catching the same.

    Steel Rod
  • 1975
    Giotto Circle #1

    Giotto Circle #1

    Giotto Circle #1

    01975HD

    Freehand wall carving of a perfect circle.

    Giotto Circle #1
  • 1983
    Arabian Lights

    Arabian Lights

    Arabian Lights

    01983HD

    "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...

    Arabian Lights
  • 1991
    Weather Bed

    Weather Bed

    Weather Bed

    01991HD

    Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

    Weather Bed
  • 1976
    Twister

    Twister

    Twister

    01976HD

    Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.

    Twister
  • 1974
    Hand Notes #1

    Hand Notes #1

    Hand Notes #1

    01974HD

    Studies in repetitive movement.

    Hand Notes #1
  • 2010
    To Make a Prairie

    To Make a Prairie

    To Make a Prairie

    02010HD

    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....

    To Make a Prairie
  • 1970
    Ramp

    Ramp

    Ramp

    01970HD

    A concrete ball on the off ramp to the old West Side Highway.

    Ramp