Hand Notes #1. 1974. Digital video from half-inch video. Silent. 5 min.
Studies in repetitive motion.
Hand Notes #2. 1974. Digital video from half-inch video. Silent. 5 min.
Studies in repetitive motion.
Block. 1976. Digital video from Super 8mm. Silent. 3 min.
A tribute to the city block.
Snap. 1998. Digital video from 16mm film. Silent. 2 min.
Shot with a high speed 16mm “gun camera”, Nares repeats a snapping gesture of the arm, wrist and hand in a move too fast for the naked eye to perceive, thus revealing the intricacies of muscle and ligament at play in the formation of the complex movement.
Poles. 1976. Digital video from half-inch video. 2 min.
Interaction between body and material.
Ramp. 1976. Digital video from half-inch video. 3 min.
A concrete ball on the off ramp to the old West Side Highway.
Game. 1975. Digital video from half-inch video. 3 min.
A game of the primary kind with long forgotten rules.
Pendulum. 1976. Digital video from Super 8mm. sound. 17 min.
An enormous pendulum swings in a deserted Tribeca street.
Giotto Circle #2. 1990. Digital video from Hi8 video. 3 min.
Freehand wall drawing of a perfect circle.
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.
Primary Function. 2007. HD video. 2 min.
The struggle for ascendancy between the conceptual and perceptual divisions of the mind presented through the recreation of a standard cognitive function test.
Paper Factory. 2007. HD video. 8 min.
Choreographed and orchestrated, a rhythmic video music, made by hurling lengths of plastic pipe against a cinder block wall. Equally, a scrutiny of things in motion.
Drip. 2007. HD video. 2 min.
Rhythmic video music made by dropping stones on stones.
Runtime 57 min.