Joel Schlemowitz Movies

A short film by Joel Schlemowitz

A scratch film.

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

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...

A short travelogue shot in super-8 and divided in three sections. Eschewing narration, the film is more of a poetic (rather than prosaic)...

A film-portrait of the Loudmouth Collective and Ugly Duckling Presse. These poet-provocateurs are the creators of the infamous "Anti-Reading" series,...

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

An unedited, double-exposed camera roll shot at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, NYC, on the occasion of a birthday screening for Bradley Eros.

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

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

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 miniature city symphony wrought in the sounds of the street and rain-smeared black-and-white. - Max Goldberg

A filmic analogy for the elusiveness of the past. The operations of unconventional printing techniques representing the processes of memory. The film...

Corpuscles dash about. Nerves twitch. Neurons fire. Anatomical illustrations, overlaid with the body's activities scratched and handpainted directly...

A garden portrait for Doris Kornish.

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

This film is a collaboration with filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz, on ALL SAINTS DAY 2001 we each shot 100 ft of film, at the same time of the day, 3000...

Spiraling colors and abstracted rotating text, with a poem by Wanda Phipps on the soundtrack both layered and singular.

A three minute roll of film shot by Joel Schlemowitz of Brooklyn, NY and mailed to Nicole Koschmann in Nederland, just outside Boulder, CO. The two...

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...