Joel Schlemowitz Movies

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...

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...

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.

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

"Made in the intentionally amaturish in style. No plot. No story. Just a series of suggestive tableaus."

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

Spiraling colors and abstracted rotating text, with a poem by Wanda Phipps on the soundtrack both layered and singular.

An unedited, double-exposed camera roll shot at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, NYC, on the occasion of a birthday screening for Bradley Eros.

"My tribute to the filmmaker whose works helped give birth to my inpiration and my joy in experimentation with the medium of film. As a filmmaker, I...

A hand-cranked film of a wind-up record player, hand-colored to simulate the unheard music.

Charged ambiguity in a sado-erotic setting.

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

Two camera rolls shot at the Collective Unconscious during a performance of "Teslamania" featuring Gecko Saccomanno and Tesla Coil Engineer Jamie...

A miniature city symphony wrought in the sounds of the street and rain-smeared black-and-white. - Max Goldberg

The birds in BIRDS OF PREY are made from garbage bags and coat hangers, held together with electrical tape. Their inability to fly gives them a...

"My earliest experimental film. The result of a conversation with filmmaker Carl Wiedemann on the subject of ripping film to vary the size of the...

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

"After Henri Duparc's setting of the poem by Baudelaire, which is heard in faint echo on the soundtrack. Rococo adhesive transparencies over...

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

This film is a collaboration with filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz, on ALL SAINTS DAY 2001 we each shot 100 ft of film, at the same time of the day, 3000...