Andrew Noren Movies

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow,...

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

Energy pictures; mindful kinesis. Light and shadow vigorously conjoin, conjuring delusion of depth and duration, fiction of space and time. The...

Reveberation detaches a few static shots of a posed portrait to expand them for twenty-three minutes.

"Intuitive conjuring and orchestration of retinal phantoms, refined by abstraction into music for light and mind. Light, both wave and particle,...

Aberration of starlight: the apparent displacement of a star resulting from Earth’s orbital motion around the Sun. It depends on the ratio of ...

Lost film featuring vignettes of individual couples in a bathtub

The only film that remains from Noren's early period. "a thirty-minute, single-shot interrogation of an actress/character that hovers between...

Part II of Andrew Noren's The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse

A meditation on the winter light flowing through two windows, as it is modulated and transformed by the window curtains blowing in the breeze.

A series of eight portraits. Lost in a fire in 1970

“Cinema isn’t materials…it is refined, imaginative seeing…darkness made visible…[it] existed long before modern...

"Single-take, 100-foot rolls of 16mm film in which Noren documented 'absolutely every aspect of my life.'" - Scott MacDonald

A brief excerpt from Huge Pupils that has been shown on its own. Portrait of filmmaker Ernie Gehr shown at FIAF's Symposium on the Importance of...

Noren's first film is a Godard-inspired experimental narrative that was lost in a fire in 1970

"A double projection of buildings exploding in slow motion, in forward and reverse, that 'was intended as mantra, to run perpetually, viewer to...

GROUP VII: PORTRAIT OF DIANA (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) PORTRAIT OF ANDREW NOREN (1972, 4 min, 16mm, silent) These films are personal light...

A rhythmic study of materiality and melancholy in human form.