Amy Halpern Movies

The dilapidated former house/headquarters of South Central LA's Black Panthers is at the center of a clash between radical ideals of the past, and...

Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s laughter, in a way that has never...

Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new...

Abstract music notation and something very obvious.

The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles serves as the backdrop of Pat O’Neill’s artfully-crafted film. Shot in the classic Hollywood style,...

A woman from Nigeria seeks work in the United States while her daughter struggles with premonitions and homesickness.

A bewitching, mysterious work of enveloping beauty, the film’s ominous title and a dedication to Anne Frank deeply inform our reading of its...

“Trying to get in, trying to get out. Encounters from the plague year.”

Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the documentary...

Statement and demonstration.

With Nancy Halpern and Yves Marton. "Sitting home smoking cigarettes during the occupation. Very nasty and sophomoric. And beautiful." — A.H.

Endangered animals on an endangered medium. A heartbeat 4/4 Slow cinema, with a sex scene.

with Yogi John Franzoni

A horizon like a blade.  Consistent across landscapes in California – ocean to desert and back to the ocean.

My mother, now 94. Filmed more than 30 years ago. (Amy Halpern)

Presents the physically necessary film “leaders”; at the front and back end of movies as aesthetic in themselves. (Amy Halpern)