Barbara Sternberg Movies

The voice-over text, written and performed by France Daigle, creates three images which recur alternately throughout the film: a bird flapping its...

The central image of in the nature of things is the Forest- sometimes fearful, sometimes a refuge, always mysterious, and the multiple associations...

Videoed off projected super 8 footage, this short film in four parts (titles from Artaud: “ the earth in the sea, the air in the earth, the...

Brief moments of being, fleeting bits out of the surrounding chaos. These 4 shorts films can be shown separately or one after the other on the roll.

The day as it went along – feeling the light of the present…what else is there?

Based loosely on the tripartite plan of Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), the film was made by applying cyanotype chemistry to...

A mini-presentation of consciousness dealing with cosmos. The world in a grain of sand. Connections between life, death, and the world are neither...

A short video documentary by Barbara Sternberg, approximating the dual-screen approach of the titular filmmaker. Brown speaks candidly, is shown in a...

Emotions come & go; so do people. The world is an awful & awesome place; so is the mind. We hear dark inner thoughts of a person & see people taking...

The sensual, with its beauty and possibility of decay, is set beside immutable statues of the Virgin Mary. Images from technological viewing of the...

Goethe’s colour theory dealt with the optics of colour relations; Rudolf Steiner’s and Kandinsky’s theories attribute emotional,...

There were two initial impulses for the film: the paintings of John Turner (whence the bracketed title ”sun vision”) whose...

Ideas about how we live in the world as humans, the difficulties faced, the conditions of our brief existence, accompany us consciously or...

vers(ing) opens in a coffee shop. People, sit, enter and exit. A conversation is heard. The video continues, traveling through the streets of a city,...

A dog and two cats in France living, naturally.

Anything is Everything is composed of sequences of disparate footage, but with threads to follow: circular shapes from outer and terrestrial space;...

Our busy comings and goings, on the move, working at life are pictured, but layers of images and scratched emulsion make viewing through the depths...

The film is silent except for four short segments of sync sound, interviews with a man and a woman, which touch on two areas: control and anger; and...