Amy Halpern Movies

with Indigo Cohan.

My mother, now 94. Filmed more than 30 years ago. (Amy Halpern)

“Trying to get in, trying to get out. Encounters from the plague year.”

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

Two palindromes. One resurrection. No happy ending.

Ancient alchemists believed that salamanders can be reborn from fire, like the phoenix or Christ. They do not survive fire, nor extreme dryness. And...

Statement and demonstration.

What can I say about a private letter?

A private toast. Inspired by a random encounter with this Wikipedia entry, while looking up “Chabrol, Claude” for a full listing of...

1981, 16mm, b&w, silent, 2 mins. Shots of Halpern cutting her fingernails, biting them, and dunking them in water.

In three parts: Statice/frameline; Drops; The Cannonball Section. Unpopulated (except for the cheap ending on the Cannonball Section). (Previously...

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...

An opera in the public domain. A film about duration. “I tremble for my country when I think that god is just.” (Thomas Jefferson)