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Joel Schlemowitz

Cinematographer Director Writer

Joel Schlemowitz is an experimental filmmaker based in Brooklyn who works in 16mm film, shadowplay, and stereographic media. He has recently completed his first feature film 78rpm, an experimental documentary about the gramophone. His short works have been shown at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and Tribeca Film Festival and have received awards from the Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Dallas Video Festival, and elsewhere. Shows of installation artworks include Anthology Film Archives, and Microscope Gallery. He teaches experimental filmmaking at The New School and was recently the Resident Film Programmer and Arcane Media Specialist at the Morbid Anatomy Museum.

Known For

Camera Roll (for Taylor)

Filmography

Sontag Shogun - It Billows Up

Jonas at the Gershwin

2019 Director Writer

2019 Director Writer

2016 Director Writer Cinematographer

Kannon, the Goddess of Mercy

Louis Armstrong Obon

2015 Director Writer

16 mm Optical Printing Examples

2014 Director Writer

The Traditional Day for Eating Grilled Eel

2014 Director Writer

Spielpalast Cabaret

The Ogre's Feathers

Scenes from a Visit to Japan

Victrola Cinema

2010 Actor Director

Joel Schlemowitz: Film Portraits and Experimental Documentaries

2008 Director Writer

Camera Roll (for Taylor)

Nocturne (Avenue A, No Lens)

Morning Poem #43

The Dream King - A Tableaux for Magic Lantern

2007 Director Writer

Morning Poem #38

The Glowing Woman

Dame Darcy: A Film Portrait

2007 Director Writer

Loudmouth Collective/Ugly Duckling Presse

The Odds of Recovery

The Odds of Recovery

2002 Cinematographer

All Saints Day 2

2002 Writer Director

Not Nude Though: A Portrait of Rudy Burckhardt

2002 Cinematographer

Typeoclavecin Film - Variations on the Blues for JoJo #10

Morning Poem #40

2001 Director Writer

Boulder-Brooklyn, a Correspondence Film

2001 Director Writer

Moving Images - The Film-Makers' Cooperative Relocates

2001 Director Writer

Bagatelle Biologique

1998 Director Writer Cinematographer

In the Orbit of Marie Menken

1998 Cinematographer

Bagatelle in Neon

Invitation to a Voyage

Little Nothings

Filmpoem for Wanda Phipps

1994 Director Writer Cinematographer

Morris Engel Time Sculpt

Purple Candle Poem

Tombeau for Arnold Eagle

Channeled Energies

1993 Director Writer

Poem for the Past

Unmeasured Prelude for Kerry Laitala

1992 Director Writer

1992 Director Writer

On the Fragility of Existence

1992 Director Writer

A Film for J.W.S.

1992 Director Writer

1991 Director Writer

We Came... We Filmed... We Left

1991 Director Writer

Broken Angel: The Final Chapter

1991 Cinematographer

1991 Director Writer

1990 Director Writer

1989 Director Writer

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