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...

Camera roll film about meeting new people.

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...

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

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

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

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

FOGG was inspired, in retrospect, by Marie Menken’s BAGATELLE FOR WILLARD MAAS.

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

A garden portrait for Doris Kornish.

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

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

A Bacchanalia, kindly provided by the Aesthesians, and set to the music of Saint-Saëns from an old 78 record.

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...

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 scratch film.

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

"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...