Filmes

With Asha Wilson and Joyce Campbell.

Statement and demonstration.

Presents the physically necessary film “leaders”; at the front and back end of movies as aesthetic in themselves. (Amy Halpern)

Literally, a glance. A dedication; my emissary. –A. C. H.

My mother, now 94. Filmed more than 30 years ago. (Amy Halpern)

A private toast. Inspired by a random encounter with this Wikipedia entry, while looking up “Chabrol, Claude” for a full listing of...

A short sweet film concerning torture. For Lynda Gudde.

1981, 16mm, b&w, silent, 2 mins. Shots of Halpern cutting her fingernails, biting them, and dunking them in water.

Two palindromes. One resurrection. No happy ending.

“Trying to get in, trying to get out. Encounters from the plague year.”

with Arwa Ibrahim 1 - Detention 2 - Hollywood Hills 3 - Reptile 4 - Bestiary 5 - Abstract and Concrete 6 - Doorway Occupation 7 - Sideways

A rhythmic montage of almost 200 faces, human and animals, that Halpern pans vertically, creating a cascade of visages suggesting that while...

with Adnan Ibrahim "Stand up and use your ears like a man" - Charles Ives

Illusions of surface, abstract to pictorial. Initially the grain of the film emulsion, complete with scratches, variations in framing – the...

with Indigo Cohan.