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Joel Schlemowitz

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Biography

Joel Schlemowitz is an experimental filmmaker based in Brooklyn who works in 16mm film, shadowplay, and stereographic media. He has recently completed his first feature film 78rpm, an experimental documentary about the gramophone. His short works have been shown at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and Tribeca Film Festival and have received awards from the Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Dallas Video Festival, and elsewhere. Shows of installation artworks include Anthology Film Archives, and Microscope Gallery. He teaches experimental filmmaking at The New School and was recently the Resident Film Programmer and Arcane Media Specialist at the Morbid Anatomy Museum.

Filmography Movies

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Beyond the Bolex

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Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents that belonged to her great-grandfather Jacques Bolsey. Among the many boxes, she spots an old movie camera with the word "Bolex" embossed on its side and a dangling tag with the date, "1927." Entranced, she embarks on a journey to reveal how Jacques aimed to disrupt the early film industry with a motion picture camera for the masses.

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The Ogre's FeathersMOVIE

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The Ogre's Feathers

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A young man sets out on a journey to the Ogre's lair, in search of a feather with the power to save a dying king.

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The Ogre's Feathers

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Jonas's loftMOVIE

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Jonas's loft

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Jonas Mekas's loft. Two rolls of 16mm film shot one week after his passing. In memoriam.

Angelbubble

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A short film by Joel Schlemowitz

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Angelbubble

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Channeled EnergiesMOVIE

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Channeled Energies

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3 minutes of painful and pleasurable images glimpsed in negative juxtaposed with a single long scratch played on an optical reader on the soundtrack.

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Channeled Energies

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Bagatelle BiologiqueMOVIE

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Bagatelle Biologique

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Corpuscles dash about. Nerves twitch. Neurons fire. Anatomical illustrations, overlaid with the body's activities scratched and handpainted directly onto the film.

Extemporized

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A film by Joel Schlemowitz

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Extemporized

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morning poem #38

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Poem by Wanda Phipps. Film version of an installation piece shown at the Courthouse Gallery at Anthology Film Archives.

Übel

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Five variations on an unfriendly-looking object.

Film Poem

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A film by Joel Schlemowitz

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Film Poem

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Invitation to a VoyageMOVIE

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Invitation to a Voyage

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"After Henri Duparc's setting of the poem by Baudelaire, which is heard in faint echo on the soundtrack. Rococo adhesive transparencies over hand-colored film alternate with Jenn Reeves seen in black and white negative."

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Invitation to a Voyage

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