Joel Schlemowitz Movies

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

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...

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...

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

A short film consisting of “Little Nothings,” a poem by Wanda Phipps, read by her with the accompaniment of in-camera superimpositions....

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

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

A garden portrait for Doris Kornish.

A short filmic portrait of Morris Engel’s watch-part collages.

A filmic analogy for the elusiveness of the past. The operations of unconventional printing techniques representing the processes of memory. The film...

The birds in BIRDS OF PREY are made from garbage bags and coat hangers, held together with electrical tape. Their inability to fly gives them a...

Multiple camera passes of baroque statuary with a soundtrack of dripping water and a Louis Couperin prelude highly distorted. The centerpiece of the...

Charged ambiguity in a sado-erotic setting.