Stephanie Barber Movies
- 2017

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...
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- 2018

Nature as a Metaphor for Economic, Emotional and Existential Horror
Nature as a Metaphor for Economic, Emotional and Existential Horror02018HD
An expanded text piece which considers human’s press against (alienation from?) the natural world. An installation utilizing words as...
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- 1970

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...
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- 1997

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...
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- 1996

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...
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- 2015

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...
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- 2010

to the horse dream of arms
to the horse dream of arms02010HD
Stephanie Barber plays with old found footage of a boy on a street.
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- 2005

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...
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- 1999

I Began by Walking into Rooms Slowly
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A film by Stephanie Barber.
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- 2018

Palace of Pope
Palace of Pope02018HD
An experimental video composed of found photographs, original text and sound art, balancing between an essay film and poem.
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- 2007

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...
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- 2011

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...
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- 2010

The Hunch That Caused the Winning Streak and Fought the Doldrums Mightily
The Hunch That Caused the Winning Streak and Fought the Doldrums Mightily02010HD
Originally created for Milwaukee International with The Suburban's exquisite corpse video for the "No Soul For Sale" show at the Tate Modern. "The...
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- 1997

A Little Present (For My Friend Columbus the Explorer)
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While referencing the explorer Christopher Columbus, the film is actually a gift for filmmaker Stephanie Barber's friend, the performance artist...
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- 2019

Oh My Homeland
Oh My Homeland02019HD
Great soprano Leontyne Price attempts to maintain her composure on stage as she receives adoration from her audience at her 1985 farewell opera.
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- 2017

the parent trap
the parent trap02017HD
What goes when the body goes? How many parents have we got stacked upon us into eternity like ladders to the afterlife?
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- 2017

In The Jungle
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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...
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- 2008

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...
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- 2008

the visit and the play
the visit and the play02008HD
A playful and dark conversational study—wrapping prose poetry into the recognizable conversational form and allowing both connections and...
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- 1996

It Fell Possum
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A film by Stephanie Barber.
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