Julie Murray Movies

Time spent at two shores, one thinly populated, the other a wasteland, joined by the interluency of various paths taken, each bit real enough, though...

Things coaxed into light in roughly the order they were encountered. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

"The film’s haunting images are accompanied by the continuous sound of a helicopter circling overhead, which at the close gives way to the...

A Legend of Parts presents a history of civilization in a less-than-historically-accurate manner where the actions of the prehistoric animals...

Hidden among the pounding of animal hides, All tamped into maps, their shapes Explicit replicate butterfly wings, lie the motives of Lír. ...

In this montage a melding of camera original and found material hints at a realization which is evident only in the fissures of splintered...

FF is around three years' worth of collected footage culled from all sources in a variety of formats, from dumpsters to video. It is put together in...

A duet of found film material and video. The 35mm movie film image is unraveled without a shutter and filtered through video capture electronics....

Children's 3-D toys and insects are the subjects of Julie Murray's look at the violence inherent in the very notion of motion. Music: "Three...

Images from an aerial tram leaving Manhattan are followed by images of a nearly static bird, of bugs fighting, and of light bending as it passes...

Frequency Objects, a photogram, creates a rhythmic friction between a chaotic animation of old family photographic negatives and the smooth motion of...

Much of the footage that comprises Orchard is of a 19c ruins that included a walled orchard in and area known as Rostellen in southwest Ireland. It...

Scenes from a found roll of martial arts movie footage is unspooled past a video camera on a light table, stopping and starting to pick out parts of...

A dark meditation on father-son relations.

Tr'Cheot'My P'y is a hiccuping audio news segment to which footage from many sources is loosely choreographed. The film is intended as a portrait of...

This atmospheric landscape is largely un-peopled but nevertheless expresses the busy presence of ghosts that reside in the snowy fog-bound woods, the...

A film by Julie Murray

A body of water, the body of the sky and figures on ground, shored against one another in rhythms of waves abrading a field framed for a new anxiety....

Various reels of found 35mm movie film are pulled over a light box under the fixed gaze of video capture. Through veils of apparent motion, the...