Amy Halpern
Died: 2022-08-17
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2023
- Slow Fireworks ... (Director)
2022
- Ginko Yellow ... (Director)
- Hula ... (Director)
- Emit a Beam, See a Light ... (Director)
- Chabrot ... (Director)
- 4 Fingers, 5 Toes ... (Director)
- VERGE for my sisters ... (Director)
- I Tremble / 8:46 ... (Director)
- My Dear Evaporant, ... (Director)
2021
- Fire Belly ... (Director)
2020
- Newt Leaders ... (Director)
- Jane, Looking ... (Director)
- #27 ... (Director)
- Unowned Luxuries #3 ... (Director)
- Birds in the Window ... (Director)
- My Mink (Unowned Luxuries #2) ... (Director)
2018
- Vezelay Curtain ... (Director)
2017
- The Deer's Blessing ... (Director)
2016
- Newt Pauses ... (Director)
2015
- My Diamond ... (Director)
2014
- Maya Double-Bottomed Bowl ... (Director)
2013
- Elixir ... (Director)
2012
- Cheshire Smile ... (Director)
- By Halves ... (Director)
- Palm Down ... (Director)
- Three Minute Hells ... (Director)
- Injury On A Theme ... (Director)
2008
- Shooting Women as Self
2007
- Women Behind the Camera as Self
2002
- The Decay of Fiction ... (Gaffer)
2000
- Pouring Grain ... (Director)
- Access to the View ... (Director)
1992
- Falling Lessons ... (Director)
1991
- Ma Sewing ... (Director)
1985
- Ready-Made ... (Director)
1982
- Grey Area ... (Director of Photography)
- Invocation ... (Director)
1981
- Cuticle Torture ... (Director)
1980
- African Woman – USA ... (Lighting Artist)
1979
- Soft Fiction
- Pythoness ... (Director)
- Kristallnacht as Herself
1978
- Cigarette Burn ... (Director)
1977
- Self-Portrait As A City ... (Director)
1976
- Study for Cigarette Burn ... (Director)
- Plausible Light Source ... (Director)
1975
- Filament (The Hands) ... (Director)
1973
- Peach Landscape ... (Director)
1972
- A Glance ... (Director)
- Three Preparations ... (Director)
- Roll #1 For Nancy ... (Director)