Joel Schlemowitz Movies

A documentary team gets a grant to do a film on a rare fatal disease that is attacking homeless people. However, they quickly find the film too...

While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a...

Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents...

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.

Multiple camera passes of baroque statuary with a soundtrack of dripping water and a Louis Couperin prelude highly distorted. The centerpiece of the...

SHARE at the Project Room, in the final night in the silo, with a soundtrack of Gowanus environs.

A garden portrait for Doris Kornish.

A film in the manner of the Symbolists. A cascade of dream images in a gothic setting. The dreamer imagines flames and fur, Gustave...

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

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

Poem by Wanda Phipps (as read by her) and accompanied by the typeoclavecin, a typewriter as a musical instrument, built by the filmmaker for the...

Lights at night on Avenue A, shot on black and white and extensively and laboriously hand-colored.

Five variations on an unfriendly-looking object.

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

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

A short travelogue shot in super-8 and divided in three sections. Eschewing narration, the film is more of a poetic (rather than prosaic)...

Charged ambiguity in a sado-erotic setting.

A collaboration between filmmakers Jon Behrens in Seattle, Washington, and Joel Schlemowitz in Brooklyn, New York, shot on ALL SAINTS DAY, November...

A three minute roll of film shot by Joel Schlemowitz of Brooklyn, NY and mailed to Nicole Koschmann in Nederland, just outside Boulder, CO. The two...

A one minute prelude for a screening of short films.