Stephanie Barber Movies

“Why is she talking like that?” A child is not Lost Horizon’s most appreciative viewer.

A mini-revolution. Wrong choices. The divorce of ethereal beauty and mystery so common in experimental films. In Stephanie Barber's films. What...

Found footage film with a Chinese circus. The audience embraces the spectacular, theatrical elements. The appreciation is clearly mutual. Suggestive...

METRONOME is both the most straightforward (as well as the most difficult) of Stephanie Barber's films. It is very dear to the filmmaker's heart. The...

A brief, poetic 16mm film on a simple sculptural action. What becomes apparent is the humor possible in material interactions and the tender and...

A portrait of risk and language, the experimental narrative Daredevils, presents a writer as she interviews a well-known artist and feels the...

The horizon, where the sky and the earth meet, is always elsewhere, a promised place where these two elements come together. a metaphor, an...

A sonnet, the fifties family travel, through, say america, or time, a fascination with the exciting future, the image is purposefully jerky and...

A little kitten is pet by a feather.

Yon and Payola find themselves in a Victorian conservatory. They are companionable, disoriented and petulant––they whip wildly through...

Depicts the daily life of "Layton House," a fictional therapeutic community, where doctors live with their schizophrenic patients. The characters and...

A film by Stephanie Barber.

The video hovers tentatively between therapy, documentary, poetics and mystic traipsery and ends, like all good things, in surrender to song. There...

CATALOG is a composition of stillness. An inversion of the spectacle. Actors are posed, recreating various photographs in surroundings unfrozen. The...

According to filmmaker Stephanie Barber, "This is probably the most heartbreaking film I have made." The pacing is romantic and simple, haiku-esque...

A short trip around, like a poem or a nostalgia for what you never had or knew anything about. We pick up speed around the equator. ANGUS MUSTANG is...

Conceptually, Stephanie Barber's short film LETTERS, NOTES is simplicity itself: found photographs hold the screen as animated texts transcribe brief...

“All day this strange pilot had flown his antique aeroplane over the abandoned space center, a frantic machine lost in the silence...”...

Stephanie Barber's moving reflection on movie theaters and Anthology Film Archives.

A film by Stephanie Barber.