Joel Schlemowitz Movies

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

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"Made in the intentionally amaturish in style. No plot. No story. Just a series of suggestive tableaus."

American experimental filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz here pays tribute to Joe of Swiss Camera, a friend who repaired all of his Bolex 16mm cameras. A...

"A memorial film for my mentor."

SHARE at the Project Room, in the final night in the silo, with a soundtrack of Gowanus environs.

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

3 minutes of painful and pleasurable images glimpsed in negative juxtaposed with a single long scratch played on an optical reader on the soundtrack.

A film of "morning poem #43," by Wanda Phipps. The color was created through hand-printing black and white film with a flashlight and colored filters...

A short film by Joel Schlemowitz

Poem by Bridget Meeds, as read by her, with accompanying text on screen intercut with a contact printed typewriter ribbon.

Jonas Mekas's loft. Two rolls of 16mm film shot one week after his passing. In memoriam.

A tableaux vivant. The sound of the victrola employed "live" for screenings, utilizing the Vitaphone sound system. Created as part of Residency...

A scratch film.

Poem by Wanda Phipps beginning "pink around a circle of pink" heard on the soundtrack. The poem appears as flickering words and colors.

Poem by Wanda Phipps. Film version of an installation piece shown at the Courthouse Gallery at Anthology Film Archives.