Jhana and the Rats of James Olds

Jhana and the Rats of James Olds

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

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

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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High Zero Healing Machine

High Zero Healing Machine

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

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Nature as a Metaphor for Economic, Emotional and Existential Horror

Nature as a Metaphor for Economic, Emotional and Existential Horror

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

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3 peonies

3 peonies

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

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Oh My Homeland

Oh My Homeland

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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Palace of Pope

Palace of Pope

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

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In The Jungle

In The Jungle

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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Letters, Notes

Letters, Notes

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

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The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment

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

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Dogs

Dogs

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

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Bust Chance

Bust Chance

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

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Another Horizon

Another Horizon

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

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the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor

the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor

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

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Horizon

Horizon

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

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what is a theater?

what is a theater?

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

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the parent trap

the parent trap

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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Razor's Edge

Razor's Edge

One friend tells another friend what she remembers from reading the Somerset Maugham novel "The Razor's Edge" ten or fifteen years ago. It is a...

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The Forest Is Offended

The Forest Is Offended

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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Memories of the Space Age II

Memories of the Space Age II

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

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