Screenplay: Amy Halpern

Direction Amy Halpern

Plot The horizon like a blade, constant across California’s landscapes—from the ocean to the desert and back to the ocean. (Amy Halpern)

Direction Amy Halpern

Direction Amy Halpern

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

Direction Amy Halpern

Plot Two palindromes. One resurrection. No happy ending.

Direction Amy Halpern

Direction Amy Halpern

Plot A short sweet film concerning torture. For Lynda Gudde.

Direction Amy Halpern

Plot Abstract but obvious musical notation featuring palm trees, precise species of Filifera washingtonia—the only native American palm—the fan palm, friend and provider for North American indigenous people.

Direction Amy Halpern

Plot Illusions of surface, abstract to pictorial. Initially the grain of the film emulsion, complete with scratches, variations in framing – the meat of film – are the most apparent elements...

Direction Amy Halpern

Plot In three parts: Statice/frameline; Drops; The Cannonball Section. Unpopulated (except for the cheap ending on the Cannonball Section). (Previously shown as Slow Flush.) (Amy Halpern)

Direction Amy Halpern

Direction Amy Halpern

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

Direction Amy Halpern

Direction Amy Halpern

Direction Amy Halpern

Plot Yellow, the color. (Amy Halpern)

Direction Amy Halpern

Plot Endangered animals on an endangered medium. A heartbeat in 4/4. Slow cinema with sex scene. (Amy Halpern)

Direction Amy Halpern

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

Direction Amy Halpern

Direction Amy Halpern

Plot Gesturing hands emerge from the darkness, readying us for the cinematic experience.

Direction Amy Halpern

Direction Amy Halpern