Amy Halpern Movies

With Asha Wilson and Joyce Campbell.

In three parts: Statice/frameline; Drops; The Cannonball Section. Unpopulated (except for the cheap ending on the Cannonball Section). (Previously...

Ancient alchemists believed that salamanders can be reborn from fire, like the phoenix or Christ. They do not survive fire, nor extreme dryness. And...

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

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

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

A bewitching, mysterious work of enveloping beauty, the film’s ominous title and a dedication to Anne Frank deeply inform our reading of its...

A horizon like a blade.  Consistent across landscapes in California – ocean to desert and back to the ocean.

By Halves uses appropriated footage from rejected 35mm prints that were cut in half and readjusted to be used as spacers for 16mm to sync sound...

Endangered animals on an endangered medium. A heartbeat 4/4 Slow cinema, with a sex scene.

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

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

What can I say about a private letter?