Joel Schlemowitz Movies

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

"After Henri Duparc's setting of the poem by Baudelaire, which is heard in faint echo on the soundtrack. Rococo adhesive transparencies over...

Lights at night on Avenue A, shot on black and white and extensively and laboriously hand-colored.

A hand-cranked film of a wind-up record player, hand-colored to simulate the unheard music.

A short and lively 16mm portrait of comic book artist and performer Dame Darcy, seen through a filmic tour of her comic book, “Meat...

Five variations on an unfriendly-looking object.

"My tribute to the filmmaker whose works helped give birth to my inpiration and my joy in experimentation with the medium of film. As a filmmaker, I...

A camera roll. Forty years celebrated in four-thousand frames.

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

A film in the manner of the Symbolists. A cascade of dream images in a gothic setting. The dreamer imagines flames and fur, Gustave...

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

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

The birds in BIRDS OF PREY are made from garbage bags and coat hangers, held together with electrical tape. Their inability to fly gives them a...

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

A short film of Emily Dickinson’s poem number 1734, which begins with: “Oh, honey of an hour”. The words of the poem appear hand...