Amy Halpern Movies

With Asha Wilson and Joyce Campbell.

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

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

Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new...

with Indigo Cohan.

A woman from Nigeria seeks work in the United States while her daughter struggles with premonitions and homesickness.

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...

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...

A portrait of Jane Wodening (Brakhage). “A person who was the subject of the camera for many years looks back at us with an interrogating...

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.