Joel Schlemowitz Movies

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...

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...

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...

After a twenty year period of multiple illnesses and injuries, the filmmaker turns the camera on herself as a way to analyze her chances for a...

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

Camera roll film about meeting new people.

This film is a collaboration with filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz, on ALL SAINTS DAY 2001 we each shot 100 ft of film, at the same time of the day, 3000...

A collaboration between filmmakers Jon Behrens in Seattle, Washington, and Joel Schlemowitz in Brooklyn, New York, shot on ALL SAINTS DAY, November...

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

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 film-portrait of the Loudmouth Collective and Ugly Duckling Presse. These poet-provocateurs are the creators of the infamous "Anti-Reading" series,...

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

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

A three minute roll of film shot by Joel Schlemowitz of Brooklyn, NY and mailed to Nicole Koschmann in Nederland, just outside Boulder, CO. The two...

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

Lights at night on Avenue A, shot on black and white and extensively and laboriously hand-colored.

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

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

Two camera rolls shot at the Collective Unconscious during a performance of "Teslamania" featuring Gecko Saccomanno and Tesla Coil Engineer Jamie...