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Bio:
Joel Schlemowitz is a New York based filmmaker with over forty-five short experimental films to his credit. He has also made some twenty-four installation pieces called filmboxes.
Schlemowitz is an instructor at the New School University in New York, an adjunct at Cooper Union, and a lecturer at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He received his Bachelor�s Degree in Film from Ithaca College in 1989. From 1988 to 1992 he worked as the assistant of Arnold Eagle, documentary filmmaker and New School instructor.
His films have been shown at Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, Films Charas, Museum of Modern Art, Harvard Film Archives, Orgone Cinema, The London Film Festival, The London Filmmakers' Coop, Berks Filmmakers, The Whitney Museum, and elsewhere.
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Abrasions
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
0,
16 mm,
Sound,
00:03:30
Charged ambiguity in a sado-erotic setting.... more info
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Bacchanale
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
00:03:00
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Channeled Energies
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
16 mm,
Sound,
00:03:00
Three minutes of painful and pleasurable images glimpsed in negative juxtaposed with a single long scratch played on an optical reader on the soundtrack.... more info
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Doris' Garden
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
16 mm,
Color,
Sound,
00:03:00
A garden portrait for Doris Kornish.... more info
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Eye Music
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
16 mm,
Color,
00:02:30
A hand-cranked film of a wind-up record player, hand-colored to simulate the unheard music.... more info
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Filmpoem for Wanda Phipps
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
00:03:30
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Invitation to a Voyage
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
0,
16 mm,
00:04:00
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... more info
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Joel Schlemowitz - Short Experimental Films
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
2007,
B&W/Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:00:00
Disc 1 - Short Experimental Films 1 through 20
1734
40/4000
Abrasions
Angelbubble
Bacchanale
Bagatelle Biologique
Bagatelle in Neon
Birds of Prey
Birth of Eros
Channeled Energies
Dame Darcy - a fi... more info
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Jungian Conflicts
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
0,
16 mm,
00:03:00
A little cipher of straight-faced humor. The two predominant images are a vase formed through two faces in profile and a spinning disk of the sort used in mesmerism. The structured first part is meant to repr... more info
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Morris Engel Time Sculpture
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
16 mm,
Color,
Sound,
00:03:00
A short abstract portrait of Morris Engel’s watch-part collages. The in-camera superimpositions and dissolves are intended to convey the feeling of depth within these precious little creations in a way that w... more info
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Pillowbook
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
16 mm,
Sound,
00:04:00
An erotic flip book of sorts.... more info
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Poem for the Past
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
00:04:50
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Purple Candle Poem
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
16 mm,
Color,
Sound,
00:03:00
A hand-colored double printed abstract meditation centered around a candle.... more info
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Tombeau for Arnold Eagle
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
16 mm,
00:04:30
A personal memorial for the filmmaker's mentor.... more info
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Ubel
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
0,
16 mm,
00:06:00
Five variations on an unfriendly-looking object.... more info
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Unmeasured Prelude for Kerry Laitala
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
16 mm,
Sound,
00:03:00
Multiple camera passes of baroque statuary with a soundtrack of dripping water and a Louis Couperin prelude highly distorted. The centerpiece of the film is Kerry’s Chattertonesque photographic self-portrait.... more info
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Weeping Film
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
16 mm,
Sound,
00:02:00
A scratch film.... more info
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When He Leaves
directed by Joel Schlemowitz
USA, Experimental,
16 mm,
Sound,
00:01:15
A poem by Bridget Meeds, as read by her, with accompanying text on screen intercut with a contact printed typewriter ribbon.... more info
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