Stephanie Barber Movies

  • 2017
    The Forest Is Offended

    The Forest Is Offended

    The Forest Is Offended

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    A film poem thinking about the physics of sound, the need sound has to vibrate and bounce off a molecule or atom to return to our ears; thinking...

    The Forest Is Offended
  • 2018
    Nature as a Metaphor for Economic, Emotional and Existential Horror

    Nature as a Metaphor for Economic, Emotional and Existential Horror

    Nature as a Metaphor for Economic, Emotional and Existential Horror

    02018HD

    An expanded text piece which considers human’s press against (alienation from?) the natural world. An installation utilizing words as...

    Nature as a Metaphor for Economic, Emotional and Existential Horror
  • 1970
    At The Shore

    At The Shore

    At The Shore

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    A micro-fiction. "Story" is stripped to the tiniest suggestion as the image is reduced to cartoon with only the merest hint of 'reality' suggesting...

    At The Shore
  • 1997
    They Invented Machines

    They Invented Machines

    They Invented Machines

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    THEY INVENTED MACHINES is about colonialism, entertainment and love. The images are taken mostly on Disney World rides where one is shown facsimiles...

    They Invented Machines
  • 1996
    Salamander O'Dictus

    Salamander O'Dictus

    Salamander O'Dictus

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    A hand-painted, heavily collaged bit of juvenilia thinking about our possessions and what can be lost. What can be retained. Whether our bodies, our...

    Salamander O'Dictus
  • 2015
    High Zero Healing Machine

    High Zero Healing Machine

    High Zero Healing Machine

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    of The One Minutes Series Healing Tool curated by Shana Moulton in 2015.⁠ ⁠⠀ "Take some video and sound. And make a healing tool...

    High Zero Healing Machine
  • 2010
    to the horse dream of arms

    to the horse dream of arms

    to the horse dream of arms

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    Stephanie Barber plays with old found footage of a boy on a street.

    to the horse dream of arms
  • 2005
    Total Power - Dead Dead Dead

    Total Power - Dead Dead Dead

    Total Power - Dead Dead Dead

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    A haiku or love letter to the charm of two-dimensional images. The spectacle awaits our adoration, gives a tender intimation of collusion. (Stephanie...

    Total Power - Dead Dead Dead
  • 1999
    I Began by Walking into Rooms Slowly

    I Began by Walking into Rooms Slowly

    I Began by Walking into Rooms Slowly

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    A film by Stephanie Barber.

    I Began by Walking into Rooms Slowly
  • 2018
    Palace of Pope

    Palace of Pope

    Palace of Pope

    02018HD

    An experimental video composed of found photographs, original text and sound art, balancing between an essay film and poem.

    Palace of Pope
  • 2007
    dwarfs the sea

    dwarfs the sea

    dwarfs the sea

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    Small biographies and musing generalizations--men’s relations to each other and their lives. There is hope and loneliness, companionship and...

    dwarfs the sea
  • 2011
    Jhana and the Rats of James Olds

    Jhana and the Rats of James Olds

    Jhana and the Rats of James Olds

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    Between June 25 and August 7 2011 Stephanie Barber moved her studio into the Baltimore Museum of Art where she created a new video each day in a...

    Jhana and the Rats of James Olds
  • 2010
    The Hunch That Caused the Winning Streak and Fought the Doldrums Mightily

    The Hunch That Caused the Winning Streak and Fought the Doldrums Mightily

    The Hunch That Caused the Winning Streak and Fought the Doldrums Mightily

    02010HD

    Originally created for Milwaukee International with The Suburban's exquisite corpse video for the "No Soul For Sale" show at the Tate Modern. "The...

    The Hunch That Caused the Winning Streak and Fought the Doldrums Mightily
  • 1997
    A Little Present (For My Friend Columbus the Explorer)

    A Little Present (For My Friend Columbus the Explorer)

    A Little Present (For My Friend Columbus the Explorer)

    01997HD

    While referencing the explorer Christopher Columbus, the film is actually a gift for filmmaker Stephanie Barber's friend, the performance artist...

    A Little Present (For My Friend Columbus the Explorer)
  • 2019
    Oh My Homeland

    Oh My Homeland

    Oh My Homeland

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    Great soprano Leontyne Price attempts to maintain her composure on stage as she receives adoration from her audience at her 1985 farewell opera.

    Oh My Homeland
  • 2017
    the parent trap

    the parent trap

    the parent trap

    02017HD

    What goes when the body goes? How many parents have we got stacked upon us into eternity like ladders to the afterlife?

    the parent trap
  • 2017
    In The Jungle

    In The Jungle

    In The Jungle

    02017HD

    In The Jungle, playfully and sorrowfully tells the tale of an unreliable narrator in a self imposed exile. Given a grant to study the equivalent of...

    In The Jungle
  • 2008
    the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor

    the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor

    the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor

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    Stephanie Barber 2008 | 00:13:21 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 4:3 "how looking at what has become the skeletons of photographs is a...

    the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor
  • 2008
    the visit and the play

    the visit and the play

    the visit and the play

    02008HD

    A playful and dark conversational study—wrapping prose poetry into the recognizable conversational form and allowing both connections and...

    the visit and the play
  • 1996
    It Fell Possum

    It Fell Possum

    It Fell Possum

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    A film by Stephanie Barber.

    It Fell Possum