Amy Halpern Movies

Abstract music notation and something very obvious.

Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s laughter, in a way that has never...

The dilapidated former house/headquarters of South Central LA's Black Panthers is at the center of a clash between radical ideals of the past, and...

Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the documentary...

A private toast. Inspired by a random encounter with this Wikipedia entry, while looking up “Chabrol, Claude” for a full listing of...

A woman from Nigeria seeks work in the United States while her daughter struggles with premonitions and homesickness.

Following Gage-like skull trauma, a woman’s body unravels in dissolving textures and neuronal visions.

Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new...

Two palindromes. One resurrection. No happy ending.

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

A rhythmic montage of almost 200 faces, human and animals, that Halpern pans vertically, creating a cascade of visages suggesting that while...

with Yogi John Franzoni

Statement and demonstration.

A film by Amy Halpern

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