Amy Halpern
Biography
Amy Halpern was the maker of nearly forty short films, almost all in 16mm, and of the feature film FALLING LESSONS (1991). Halpern was born and raised in New York City and lived and worked in Los Angeles for more than 40 years. After completing a suite of 12 new films in June 2022 and premiering them at a festival in Spain, Halpern suddenly contracted severe leukaemia (AML) and died 6 weeks later.
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Movies (50)
Slow Fireworks
Director (Directing)
2023
My Dear Evaporant,
Director (Directing)
2022
Emit a Beam, See a Light
Director (Directing)
2022
4 Fingers, 5 Toes
Director (Directing)
2022
Chabrot
Director (Directing)
2022
Hula
Director (Directing)
2022
VERGE for my sisters
Director (Directing)
2022
I Tremble / 8:46
Director (Directing)
2022
Ginko Yellow
Director (Directing)
2022
Fire Belly
Director (Directing)
2021
Unowned Luxuries #3
Director (Directing)
2020
#27
Director (Directing)
2020
My Mink (Unowned Luxuries #2)
Director (Directing)
2020
Jane, Looking
Director (Directing)
2020
Newt Leaders
Director (Directing)
2020
Birds in the Window
Director (Directing)
2020
Vezelay Curtain
Director (Directing)
2018
The Deer's Blessing
Director (Directing)
2017
Newt Pauses
Director (Directing)
2016
My Diamond
Director (Directing)
2015
Maya Double-Bottomed Bowl
Director (Directing)
2014
Elixir
Director (Directing)
2013
By Halves
Director (Directing)
2012
Palm Down
Director (Directing)
2012
Cheshire Smile
Director (Directing)
2012
Injury On A Theme
Director (Directing)
2012
Three Minute Hells
Director (Directing)
2012
Shooting Women
as Self
2008
Women Behind the Camera
as Self
2007
The Decay of Fiction
Gaffer (Lighting)
2002
Access to the View
Director (Directing)
2000
Pouring Grain
Director (Directing)
2000
Falling Lessons
Director (Directing)
1992
Ma Sewing
Director (Directing)
1991
Ready-Made
Director (Directing)
1985
Grey Area
Director of Photography (Camera)
1982
Invocation
Director (Directing)
1982
Cuticle Torture
Director (Directing)
1981
African Woman – USA
Lighting Artist (Lighting)
1980
Kristallnacht
as Herself
1979
Soft Fiction
1979
Pythoness
Director (Directing)
1979
Cigarette Burn
Director (Directing)
1978
Self-Portrait As A City
Director (Directing)
1977
Plausible Light Source
Director (Directing)
1976
Study for Cigarette Burn
Director (Directing)
1976
Filament (The Hands)
Director (Directing)
1975
Peach Landscape
Director (Directing)
1973
Three Preparations
Director (Directing)
1972
Roll #1 For Nancy
Director (Directing)
1972