Amy Halpern Filmes

  • 2008
    Shooting Women

    Shooting Women

    Shooting Women

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    Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new...

    Shooting Women
  • 2022
    Hula

    Hula

    Hula

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    Abstract music notation and something very obvious.

    Hula
  • 2007
    Women Behind the Camera

    Women Behind the Camera

    Women Behind the Camera

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    Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s laughter, in a way that has never...

    Women Behind the Camera
  • 2022
    VERGE for my sisters

    VERGE for my sisters

    VERGE for my sisters

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    A horizon like a blade.  Consistent across landscapes in California – ocean to desert and back to the ocean.

    VERGE for my sisters
  • 2018
    Vezelay Curtain

    Vezelay Curtain

    Vezelay Curtain

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    Vezelay Curtain
  • 2017
    The Deer's Blessing

    The Deer's Blessing

    The Deer's Blessing

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    The Deer's Blessing
  • 2002
    The Decay of Fiction

    The Decay of Fiction

    The Decay of Fiction

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    The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles serves as the backdrop of Pat O’Neill’s artfully-crafted film. Shot in the classic Hollywood style,...

    The Decay of Fiction
  • 1980
    African Woman – USA

    African Woman – USA

    African Woman – USA

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    A woman from Nigeria seeks work in the United States while her daughter struggles with premonitions and homesickness.

    African Woman – USA
  • 2000
    Access to the View

    Access to the View

    Access to the View

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    with Yogi John Franzoni

    Access to the View
  • 2012
    Palm Down

    Palm Down

    Palm Down

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    Two palindromes. One resurrection. No happy ending.

    Palm Down
  • 1982
    Grey Area

    Grey Area

    Grey Area

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    The dilapidated former house/headquarters of South Central LA's Black Panthers is at the center of a clash between radical ideals of the past, and...

    Grey Area
  • 1992
    Falling Lessons

    Falling Lessons

    Falling Lessons

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    A rhythmic montage of almost 200 faces, human and animals, that Halpern pans vertically, creating a cascade of visages suggesting that while...

    Falling Lessons
  • 1975
    Filament (The Hands)

    Filament (The Hands)

    Filament (The Hands)

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    In the politically charged atmosphere of the early 70s, Mikis Theodorakis conducted a concert of his music in Philadelphia. His music was banned in...

    Filament (The Hands)
  • 2023
    Jane, Looking

    Jane, Looking

    Jane, Looking

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    A portrait of Jane Wodening (Brakhage). “A person who was the subject of the camera for many years looks back at us with an interrogating...

    Jane, Looking
  • 2012
    Cheshire Smile

    Cheshire Smile

    Cheshire Smile

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    with Adnan Ibrahim "Stand up and use your ears like a man" - Charles Ives

    Cheshire Smile
  • 1979
    Soft Fiction

    Soft Fiction

    Soft Fiction

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    Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the documentary...

    Soft Fiction
  • 1982
    Invocation

    Invocation

    Invocation

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    Gesturing hands emerge from the darkness, readying us for the cinematic experience.

    Invocation
  • 1973
    Peach Landscape

    Peach Landscape

    Peach Landscape

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    Illusions of surface, abstract to pictorial. Initially the grain of the film emulsion, complete with scratches, variations in framing – the...

    Peach Landscape
  • 1979
    Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

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    A bewitching, mysterious work of enveloping beauty, the film’s ominous title and a dedication to Anne Frank deeply inform our reading of its...

    Kristallnacht
  • 2022
    Emit a Beam, See a Light

    Emit a Beam, See a Light

    Emit a Beam, See a Light

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    Statement and demonstration.

    Emit a Beam, See a Light