Movies: Joel Schlemowitz

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 depressing. Ducking into a nightclub, they discover a young Manhattan comedienne and decide instead to fol...

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 local resident and the strange characters who are conducting the search to find him....

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....

Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents that belonged to her great-grandfather Jacques Bolsey. Among the many boxes, she spots an old movie came...

A Bacchanalia, kindly provided by the Aesthesians, and set to the music of Saint-Saëns from an old 78 record....

A camera roll. Forty years celebrated in four-thousand frames....

Two camera rolls shot at the Collective Unconscious during a performance of "Teslamania" featuring Gecko Saccomanno and Tesla Coil Engineer Jamie Mereness. The film's visual effects, double exposures and refracted images were all done in camera, just...

A short travelogue shot in super-8 and divided in three sections. Eschewing narration, the film is more of a poetic (rather than prosaic) documentary, conveying impressions through the aesthetic concept of yūgen (evocation by what is left unsaid)....

Spiraling colors and abstracted rotating text, with a poem by Wanda Phipps on the soundtrack both layered and singular....

A tableaux vivant. The sound of the victrola employed "live" for screenings, utilizing the Vitaphone sound system. Created as part of Residency Unlimited: Special Features....

Poem by Wanda Phipps. Film version of an installation piece shown at the Courthouse Gallery at Anthology Film Archives....

A short and lively 16mm portrait of comic book artist and performer Dame Darcy, seen through a filmic tour of her comic book, “Meat Cake,” and ending with the artist herself. On the soundtrack, a turn-of-the-last-century recording from a 78rpm Victro...

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

A film of "morning poem #43," by Wanda Phipps. The color was created through hand-printing black and white film with a flashlight and colored filters onto unexposed color film in the dark....

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

"Made in the intentionally amaturish in style. No plot. No story. Just a series of suggestive tableaus."...

A scratch film....

A one minute prelude for a screening of short films....

Five variations on an unfriendly-looking object....

"A memorial film for my mentor."...