Joel Schlemowitz Movies

A Bacchanalia, kindly provided by the Aesthesians, and set to the music of Saint-Saëns from an old 78 record.

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

A one minute prelude for a screening of short films.

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...

"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...

The day the Film-Makers' Cooperative was forced by loss of lease to move from their offices at Lexington Ave and 31st Street in New York City.

FOGG was inspired, in retrospect, by Marie Menken’s BAGATELLE FOR WILLARD MAAS.

"A memorial film for my mentor."

"My earliest experimental film. The result of a conversation with filmmaker Carl Wiedemann on the subject of ripping film to vary the size of the...

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

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

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

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