Barbara Sternberg Movies

  • 2014
    Love Me

    Love Me

    Love Me

    02014HD

    Using only text-on-screen, Love Me distills the emotions of an earlier film, Beating – emotions which conflict, confuse, are difficult to...

    Love Me
  • 2002
    Burning

    Burning

    Burning

    02002HD

    "Your life is like a candle burning. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is burning." (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)

    Burning
  • 2005
    Praise

    Praise

    Praise

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    Praise
  • 2010
    Carl Brown

    Carl Brown

    Carl Brown

    02010HD

    A short video documentary by Barbara Sternberg, approximating the dual-screen approach of the titular filmmaker. Brown speaks candidly, is shown in a...

    Carl Brown
  • 1979
    Opus 40

    Opus 40

    Opus 40

    01979HD

    Opus 40” is about repetition: repetition in working and living, repetition through multiplicity and series, repetition to form pattern and...

    Opus 40
  • 2011
    In the Nature of Things

    In the Nature of Things

    In the Nature of Things

    02011HD

    The central image of in the nature of things is the Forest- sometimes fearful, sometimes a refuge, always mysterious, and the multiple associations...

    In the Nature of Things
  • 1999
    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    5.21999HD

    "Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal...

    Like a Dream that Vanishes
  • 1997
    midst

    midst

    midst

    01997HD

    In midst, Barbara Sternberg has made a lyrical film about attachment, integration, belonging. Many of the familiar elements of Sternberg's work are...

    midst
  • 1997
    Awake

    Awake

    Awake

    01997HD

    A bedroom (and life) viewed from the horizontal, while wondering whether to join in the race or wake up to the illusion. The soundtrack quotes from...

    Awake
  • 2019
    Untitled #1 (sun vision)

    Untitled #1 (sun vision)

    Untitled #1 (sun vision)

    02019HD

    There were two initial impulses for the film: the paintings of John Turner (whence the bracketed title ”sun vision”) whose...

    Untitled #1 (sun vision)
  • 2017
    The Earth in the Sea

    The Earth in the Sea

    The Earth in the Sea

    02017HD

    Videoed off projected super 8 footage, this short film in four parts (titles from Artaud: “ the earth in the sea, the air in the earth, the...

    The Earth in the Sea
  • 1996
    What Do You Fear?

    What Do You Fear?

    What Do You Fear?

    01996HD

    A dog and two cats in France living, naturally.

    What Do You Fear?
  • 2004
    So What?

    So What?

    So What?

    02004HD

    Emotions come & go; so do people. The world is an awful & awesome place; so is the mind. We hear dark inner thoughts of a person & see people taking...

    So What?
  • 2023
    touch

    touch

    touch

    02023HD

    touch (ing), -(ed): Feel, move, affect, be in contact, tangent to, in relation; injure slightly; slightly crazy "My window tonight casts light out...

    touch
  • 2004
    Surfacing

    Surfacing

    Surfacing

    02004HD

    Our busy comings and goings, on the move, working at life are pictured, but layers of images and scratched emulsion make viewing through the depths...

    Surfacing
  • 2014
    Time Being V-VI

    Time Being V-VI

    Time Being V-VI

    102014HD

    Brief moments of being, fleeting bits of the surrounding chaos.

    Time Being V-VI
  • 1990
    At Present

    At Present

    At Present

    91990HD

    This film is about love - relations between men and women, conversations in the air. Men are heard in voice-over speaking a love-talk which is...

    At Present
  • 2023
    Sunprints 1, 2, 3

    Sunprints 1, 2, 3

    Sunprints 1, 2, 3

    02023HD

    Based loosely on the tripartite plan of Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), the film was made by applying cyanotype chemistry to...

    Sunprints 1, 2, 3
  • 2003
    Tabula Rasa

    Tabula Rasa

    Tabula Rasa

    02003HD

    The sensual, with its beauty and possibility of decay, is set beside immutable statues of the Virgin Mary. Images from technological viewing of the...

    Tabula Rasa
  • 2014
    COLOUR THEORY

    COLOUR THEORY

    COLOUR THEORY

    02014HD

    Goethe’s colour theory dealt with the optics of colour relations; Rudolf Steiner’s and Kandinsky’s theories attribute emotional,...

    COLOUR THEORY