Amy Halpern Movies

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

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

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

With Asha Wilson and Joyce Campbell.

What can I say about a private letter?

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

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

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...

with Indigo Cohan.

Endangered animals on an endangered medium. A heartbeat 4/4 Slow cinema, with a sex scene.

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

Presents the physically necessary film “leaders”; at the front and back end of movies as aesthetic in themselves. (Amy Halpern)