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...

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.

Camera roll film about meeting new people.

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

After a twenty year period of multiple illnesses and injuries, the filmmaker turns the camera on herself as a way to analyze her chances for a...

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

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

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...

A film of "morning poem #43," by Wanda Phipps. The color was created through hand-printing black and white film with a flashlight and colored filters...

A short filmic portrait of Morris Engel’s watch-part collages.

A film by Joel Schlemowitz

A scratch film.

American experimental filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz here pays tribute to Joe of Swiss Camera, a friend who repaired all of his Bolex 16mm cameras. A...

A garden portrait for Doris Kornish.

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

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

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 film by Joel Schlemowitz

The day the Film-Makers' Cooperative was forced by loss of lease to move from their offices at Lexington Ave and 31st Street in New York City.