Joel Schlemowitz Movies

  • 1991
    Film Poem

    Film Poem

    Film Poem

    01991HD

    A film by Joel Schlemowitz

    Film Poem
  • 2001
    Moving Images - The Film-Makers' Cooperative Relocates

    Moving Images - The Film-Makers' Cooperative Relocates

    Moving Images - The Film-Makers' Cooperative Relocates

    02001HD

    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.

    Moving Images - The Film-Makers' Cooperative Relocates
  • 2001
    Typeoclavecin Film - Variations on the Blues for JoJo #10

    Typeoclavecin Film - Variations on the Blues for JoJo #10

    Typeoclavecin Film - Variations on the Blues for JoJo #10

    02001HD

    Poem by Wanda Phipps (as read by her) and accompanied by the typeoclavecin, a typewriter as a musical instrument, built by the filmmaker for the...

    Typeoclavecin Film - Variations on the Blues for JoJo #10
  • 1989
    Rip

    Rip

    Rip

    01989HD

    "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...

    Rip
  • 1994
    Doris' Garden

    Doris' Garden

    Doris' Garden

    01994HD

    A garden portrait for Doris Kornish.

    Doris' Garden
  • 1997
    Eye Music

    Eye Music

    Eye Music

    01997HD

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

    Eye Music
  • 1995
    Angelbubble

    Angelbubble

    Angelbubble

    01995HD

    A short film by Joel Schlemowitz

    Angelbubble
  • 1998
    Bacchanale

    Bacchanale

    Bacchanale

    01998HD

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

    Bacchanale
  • 2007
    morning poem #38

    morning poem #38

    morning poem #38

    02007HD

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

    morning poem #38
  • 1991
    we came... we filmed... we left...

    we came... we filmed... we left...

    we came... we filmed... we left...

    01991HD

    A one minute prelude for a screening of short films.

    we came... we filmed... we left...
  • 2001
    morning poem #40

    morning poem #40

    morning poem #40

    02001HD

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

    morning poem #40
  • 1993
    Channeled Energies

    Channeled Energies

    Channeled Energies

    01993HD

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

    Channeled Energies
  • 1995
    Filmpoem for Wanda Phipps

    Filmpoem for Wanda Phipps

    Filmpoem for Wanda Phipps

    01995HD

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

    Filmpoem for Wanda Phipps
  • 2001
    Reverie

    Reverie

    Reverie

    02001HD

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

    Reverie
  • 1996
    Weimar

    Weimar

    Weimar

    01996HD

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

    Weimar
  • 1996
    For Joe

    For Joe

    For Joe

    01996HD

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

    For Joe
  • 1997
    Invitation to a Voyage

    Invitation to a Voyage

    Invitation to a Voyage

    01997HD

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

    Invitation to a Voyage
  • 2001
    All Saints Day

    All Saints Day

    All Saints Day

    02001HD

    A collaboration between filmmakers Jon Behrens in Seattle, Washington, and Joel Schlemowitz in Brooklyn, New York, shot on ALL SAINTS DAY, November...

    All Saints Day
  • 2007
    40/4000

    40/4000

    40/4000

    02007HD

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

    40/4000
  • 1997
    1734

    1734

    1734

    01997HD

    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...

    1734