Hand Notes #1. 1974. Digital video from half-inch video. Silent. 5 min.
Studies in repetitive movement.
Hand Notes #2. 1974. Digital video from half-inch video. Silent. 5 min.
Studies in repetitive movement.
Arm and Hammer. 1976. Digital video from Super 8. Silent. 3 min.
A gestural inflection, born of repetition.
Steel Rod. 1976. Digital video from Super 8. Silent. 5 min.
Throwing and catching the same.
Knot. 1974. Digital video from half-inch video. 2 min.
An epic struggle to tie a knot in a length of fabric using the feet.
Poles. 1975. Digital video from half-inch video. 2 min.
A symbiosis of man and pole.
Roof. 1975. Digital video from half-inch video. 12 min.
Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.
Twister. 1976. Digital video from Super 8. Silent. 2 min.
Wind currents on a debris-strewn street corner.
Cloth. 1998. Digital video from 16mm. Silent. 3 min.
Hand twirls a piece of fabric at 500 frames per second.
Thread. 2010. HD video. 4 min.
A hand descends, as though from the heavens, to manipulate a length of ribbon.
Hammered. 1991. Digital video from Hi-8. 2 min.
Narrow escape from a rain of hammers.
Waiting for the Wind. 1982. Digital video from Super 8mm. 8 min.
“Nares creates a tornado-like catastrophe with a hand-held super-8 camera, a shooting ratio of three to one (about $100 worth of film stock), and remarkable timing…fine filmmaking control is uses to suggest the terror of a world completely beyond personal control…Nares opens up the possibility of metaphor, evoking forces both terrifying and exhilarating.” Amy Taubin
Drip. 2007. HD video. 2 min.
Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.
Total runtime 55 min.