Joel Schlemowitz Movies

  • 1997
    Who's the Caboose?

    Who's the Caboose?

    Who's the Caboose?

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    A documentary team gets a grant to do a film on a rare fatal disease that is attacking homeless people. However, they quickly find the film too...

    Who's the Caboose?
  • 1994
    The Search for One-eye Jimmy

    The Search for One-eye Jimmy

    The Search for One-eye Jimmy

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    While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a...

    The Search for One-eye Jimmy
  • 2018
    Beyond the Bolex

    Beyond the Bolex

    Beyond the Bolex

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    Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents...

    Beyond the Bolex
  • 2012
    The Ogre's Feathers

    The Ogre's Feathers

    The Ogre's Feathers

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    A young man sets out on a journey to the Ogre's lair, in search of a feather with the power to save a dying king.

    The Ogre's Feathers
  • 1993
    Poem for the Past

    Poem for the Past

    Poem for the Past

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

    Poem for the Past
  • 2002
    Fogg

    Fogg

    Fogg

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    FOGG was inspired, in retrospect, by Marie Menken’s BAGATELLE FOR WILLARD MAAS.

    Fogg
  • 1991
    Film Poem

    Film Poem

    Film Poem

    01991HD

    A film by Joel Schlemowitz

    Film Poem
  • 2001
    Reverie

    Reverie

    Reverie

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    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
  • 2007
    Dame Darcy

    Dame Darcy

    Dame Darcy

    02007HD

    A short and lively 16mm portrait of comic book artist and performer Dame Darcy, seen through a filmic tour of her comic book, “Meat...

    Dame Darcy
  • 2007
    Silo

    Silo

    Silo

    02007HD

    SHARE at the Project Room, in the final night in the silo, with a soundtrack of Gowanus environs.

    Silo
  • 1990
    Abrasions

    Abrasions

    Abrasions

    01990HD

    Charged ambiguity in a sado-erotic setting.

    Abrasions
  • 1995
    Pillowbook

    Pillowbook

    Pillowbook

    01995HD

    A film by Joel Schlemowitz

    Pillowbook
  • 1995
    Angelbubble

    Angelbubble

    Angelbubble

    01995HD

    A short film by Joel Schlemowitz

    Angelbubble
  • 1991
    Weeping Film

    Weeping Film

    Weeping Film

    01991HD

    A scratch film.

    Weeping Film
  • 1993
    When He Leaves

    When He Leaves

    When He Leaves

    01993HD

    Poem by Bridget Meeds, as read by her, with accompanying text on screen intercut with a contact printed typewriter ribbon.

    When He Leaves
  • 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
  • 2003
    Birth of Eros

    Birth of Eros

    Birth of Eros

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    An unedited, double-exposed camera roll shot at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, NYC, on the occasion of a birthday screening for Bradley Eros.

    Birth of Eros
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1994
    Purple Candle Poem

    Purple Candle Poem

    Purple Candle Poem

    01994HD

    A film by Joel Schlemowitz

    Purple Candle Poem