Barbara Sternberg Movies
- 2014

Love Me
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Using only text-on-screen, Love Me distills the emotions of an earlier film, Beating – emotions which conflict, confuse, are difficult to...
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- 2002

Burning
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"Your life is like a candle burning. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is burning." (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)
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- 2005

Praise
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- 2010

Carl Brown
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A short video documentary by Barbara Sternberg, approximating the dual-screen approach of the titular filmmaker. Brown speaks candidly, is shown in a...
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- 1979

Opus 40
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Opus 40” is about repetition: repetition in working and living, repetition through multiplicity and series, repetition to form pattern and...
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- 2011

In the Nature of Things
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The central image of in the nature of things is the Forest- sometimes fearful, sometimes a refuge, always mysterious, and the multiple associations...
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- 1999

Like a Dream that Vanishes
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"Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal...
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- 1997

midst
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In midst, Barbara Sternberg has made a lyrical film about attachment, integration, belonging. Many of the familiar elements of Sternberg's work are...
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- 1997

Awake
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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...
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- 2019

Untitled #1 (sun vision)
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There were two initial impulses for the film: the paintings of John Turner (whence the bracketed title ”sun vision”) whose...
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- 2017

The Earth in the Sea
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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...
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- 1996

What Do You Fear?
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A dog and two cats in France living, naturally.
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- 2004

So What?
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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...
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- 2023

touch
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touch (ing), -(ed): Feel, move, affect, be in contact, tangent to, in relation; injure slightly; slightly crazy "My window tonight casts light out...
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- 2004

Surfacing
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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...
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- 2014

Time Being V-VI
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Brief moments of being, fleeting bits of the surrounding chaos.
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- 1990

At Present
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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...
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- 2023

Sunprints 1, 2, 3
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Based loosely on the tripartite plan of Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), the film was made by applying cyanotype chemistry to...
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- 2003

Tabula Rasa
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The sensual, with its beauty and possibility of decay, is set beside immutable statues of the Virgin Mary. Images from technological viewing of the...
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- 2014

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