Amy Halpern Movies

Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s laughter, in a way that has never...

Abstract music notation and something very obvious.

with Yogi John Franzoni

The dilapidated former house/headquarters of South Central LA's Black Panthers is at the center of a clash between radical ideals of the past, and...

Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new...

Statement and demonstration.

“Trying to get in, trying to get out. Encounters from the plague year.”

Gesturing hands emerge from the darkness, readying us for the cinematic experience.

A rhythmic montage of almost 200 faces, human and animals, that Halpern pans vertically, creating a cascade of visages suggesting that while...

A short sweet film concerning torture. For Lynda Gudde.

with Indigo Cohan.

A horizon like a blade.  Consistent across landscapes in California – ocean to desert and back to the ocean.

A bewitching, mysterious work of enveloping beauty, the film’s ominous title and a dedication to Anne Frank deeply inform our reading of its...

with Adnan Ibrahim "Stand up and use your ears like a man" - Charles Ives

Ancient alchemists believed that salamanders can be reborn from fire, like the phoenix or Christ. They do not survive fire, nor extreme dryness. And...

What can I say about a private letter?

Presents the physically necessary film “leaders”; at the front and back end of movies as aesthetic in themselves. (Amy Halpern)