Amy Halpern Movies

Two palindromes. One resurrection. No happy ending.

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...

with Indigo Cohan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Halves uses appropriated footage from rejected 35mm prints that were cut in half and readjusted to be used as spacers for 16mm to sync sound...

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