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...
See moreThe 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...
See moreHigh 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!"
See moreNature 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...
See more3 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...
See moreOh 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.
See morePalace of Pope
An experimental video composed of found photographs, original text and sound art, balancing between an essay film and poem.
See moreIn 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...
See moreLetters, Notes
Conceptually, Stephanie Barber's short film LETTERS, NOTES is simplicity itself: found photographs hold the screen as animated texts transcribe...
See moreThe 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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A mini-revolution. Wrong choices. The divorce of ethereal beauty and mystery so common in experimental films. In Stephanie Barber's films. What...
See moreBust Chance
Found footage film with a Chinese circus. The audience embraces the spectacular, theatrical elements. The appreciation is clearly mutual...
See moreAnother 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...
See morethe 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...
See moreHorizon
“Why is she talking like that?” A child is not Lost Horizon’s most appreciative viewer.
See morewhat is a theater?
Stephanie Barber's moving reflection on movie theaters and Anthology Film Archives.
See morethe parent trap
What goes when the body goes? How many parents have we got stacked upon us into eternity like ladders to the afterlife?
See moreRazor'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...
See moreThe 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...
See moreMemories 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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