Andrew Noren Movies

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Reveberation detaches a few static shots of a posed portrait to expand them for twenty-three minutes.

"Intuitive conjuring and orchestration of retinal phantoms, refined by abstraction into music for light and mind. Light, both wave and particle,...

Energy pictures; mindful kinesis. Light and shadow vigorously conjoin, conjuring delusion of depth and duration, fiction of space and time. The...

“Cinema isn’t materials…it is refined, imaginative seeing…darkness made visible…[it] existed long before modern...

Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow,...

A series of eight portraits. Lost in a fire in 1970

Aberration of starlight: the apparent displacement of a star resulting from Earth’s orbital motion around the Sun. It depends on the ratio of ...

Part II of Andrew Noren's The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse

A meditation on the winter light flowing through two windows, as it is modulated and transformed by the window curtains blowing in the breeze.

Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

The only film that remains from Noren's early period. "a thirty-minute, single-shot interrogation of an actress/character that hovers between...

"Single-take, 100-foot rolls of 16mm film in which Noren documented 'absolutely every aspect of my life.'" - Scott MacDonald

A brief excerpt from Huge Pupils that has been shown on its own. Portrait of filmmaker Ernie Gehr shown at FIAF's Symposium on the Importance of...

Noren's first film is a Godard-inspired experimental narrative that was lost in a fire in 1970

"A double projection of buildings exploding in slow motion, in forward and reverse, that 'was intended as mantra, to run perpetually, viewer to...

GROUP VII: PORTRAIT OF DIANA (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) PORTRAIT OF ANDREW NOREN (1972, 4 min, 16mm, silent) These films are personal light...

A rhythmic study of materiality and melancholy in human form.