Amy Halpern

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Screenings

2025

CineDoc Paris, “Focus on the Los Angeles Independent Film Oasis”  – OPUS 1: THREE PREPARATIONS / A GLANCE / PEACH LANDSCAPE (March 24)

2025

Kino Kinoteka, co-organized by the Association for Audio-Visual Research 25FPS, Zagreb, Croatia – ELIXIR (March 18)

2025

Luminor-Hôtel de Ville, Paris – HULA (March 18)

2025

Elastic Arts, Chicago – Twenty-two short films retrospective (February 23)

2025

Inga Bookshop, Chicago – Nine short films + book launch (Laura Paul’s “Film Elegy”)(February 22)

2025

The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL – VERGE for my sisters, FALLING LESSONS (February 21)

2025

Musée d’Art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, France – FIRE BELLY (February 5)

2024

LAV (Laboratorio AudioVisual), Madrid – JANE LOOKING (Jan. 11)

2024

Cinematek, Royal Film Archive of Belgium – HULA (December 14)

2024

Acropolis Cinema, at 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles – FALLING LESSONS + book launch (Laura Paul’s “Film Elegy”) (December 7)

2024

CineInfinito, Puntos de Fuga series, D. Madrazo Cultural Center, Santander, Spain – FALLING LESSONS and eleven short films (November 19)

2024

No Name Cinema, Santa Fe – Eight short films + book launch (Laura Paul’s “Film Elegy”) (October 21)

2024

The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York – Screening + book launch (Laura Paul’s “Film Elegy”) (October 17)

2024

Filmes do Gerador, Matosinhos, Portugal – BY HALVES and PALM DOWN (September 20)

2024

Monokino, Oostende, Belgium – VERGE FOR MY SISTERS (September 14)

2024

Rhythmic Hypnosis, Frames Film Series, TAP Centre for Creativity, London, Ontario, Canada – PALM DOWN (August 16)

2024

Cineteca, Madrid – FALLING LESSONS (June 22)

2024

Xcentric – CCCB, Barcelona – FALLING LESSONS (May 19)

2024

Open City Documentary Festival, London – 14 short films, curated by Sophia Satchell-Baeza and presented in association with Sisters of the Extreme (April 26), FALLING LESSONS, with introduction by Kathryn Siegel (April 28)

2024

62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan – A program of short films, curated by David Lebrun (March 31)

2024

Punta de Vista Film Festival, Spain – PALM DOWN (March 14)

2024

The Belvedere museum, Vienna – HULA and FALLING LESSONS (February 29)

2024

Luminor-Hôtel de Ville, Paris – FALLING LESSONS and three short films (February 20)

2024

Xcentric, Barcelona, Spain – There is Something on Your Mind: Restored Los Angeles Artists’ Films from the Academy Film Archive, HULA, (January 19)

2024

Canyon Cinema Salon, San Francisco – ELIXIR as part of Portraits and Short Visual Diaries: A Salon with Margaret Rorison (January 18)

2024

Andre Malraux Museum of Modern Art, Le Havre, France – seven short films (January 17)

2023

Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal – FALLING LESSONS (December 9)

2023

Doc’s Kingdom International Seminar on Documentary Film, Odemira, Portugal – Various films to be shown; Amy’s work inspired this year’s edition of Doc’s Kingdom. (November 30 – December 5)

2023

Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario, Canada – BY HALVES; FOUR FINGERS, FIVE TOES; and UNOWNED LUXURIES #3 (November 7 -11)

2023

The Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile – films including FALLING LESSONS (October 9-15)

2023

Zorthian Ranch, presented by Los Angeles Film Forum and Livonia Cinema – Verge: New Films by Amy Halpern, 17 short films (September 16)

2023

exf f. festival, Frankfurt, Germany – Closing night, Amy Halpern – Part 2: Prolonged Looks, INJURY ON A THEME and FALLING LESSONS (September 10)

2023

exf f. festival, Frankfurt, Germany – Opening Night, Amy Halpern – Part 1: Fleeting Glances, six short films (September 7)

2023

Tabakalera Cinema, San Sebastian, Spain
3-MINUTE HELLS, (August 17)

2023

Tropes and Techniques: Films by Amy Halpern and Pat O’Neill, Deering Estate Visitors Center, Miami (August 12)

2023

Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico – INVOCATION, ELIXIR and FALLING LESSONS (April 22)

2023

Ted Mann Theater at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles CA – The third program of a three-program retrospective, featuring 16 short films. (April 20)

2023

Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles – The second of a three-program retrospective, including the feature FALLING LESSONS and four short films. (April 16)

2023

Los Angeles Filmforum, 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles CA – The first of a three-program retrospective, featuring 15 short films. (April 2)

2023

Light Field festival, The Lab, San Francisco CA – A two-program retrospective featuring 37 films. (March 30, 7 & 9 pm)

2023

Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY – A three-program retrospective featuring 37 films. (February 10-11)

2023

Experimental Tuesdays at the Union Cinema, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee – ASSORTED MORSELS program of short films (February 8) and FALLING LESSONS (February 7)

2023

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Cinematheque, Toronto – A memorial program of INVOCATION, ELIXIR and FALLING LESSONS. (January 11)

2022

XIII S8 Mostra de Cinema Periferico, A Coruña, Spain – A program of INVOCATION, PALM DOWN and FALLING LESSONS

2022

XIII S8 Mostra de Cinema Periferico, A Coruña, Spain – VERGE: A suite of 17 new short films, including 13 world premieres of films completed in 2022

2021

EMAF, European Media Art Festival
Osnabrük, Germany – ELIXIR

2020

XI S8 Mostra de Cinema Periferico – ELIXIR 

2020

Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, United Kingdom, INVOCATION & FILAMENT (The Hands) in “Sisters of the Extreme”
with work of Storm de Hirsch and Betzy Bromberg – ELIXIR

2020

ZumZeig Cine Cooperativa, Barcelona, Spain – Short films of A.H. 

2020

Centro Cultural Contemp. Barcelona, Spain – Access to the View, new and old films A.H.

2020

Echo Park Film Center, 5 new short films incl. MY MINK, #27, UNOWNED LUXURIES #3

2019

San Francisco Museum of Art – INVOCATION & FILAMENT (The Hands) Show “Collective Vision: The L.A. Independent Film Oasis”

2019

Light Field Festival, @ the Lab, San Francisco – FILAMENT

2019

FALLING LESSONS, Black Hole, Oakland, California

2019

Parallel Loves:  films by Amy Halpern & David Lebrun.  Black Hole, Oakland, California

2018

FALLING LESSONS & BY HALVES, Beyond Baroque, Venice, California

2018

THREE MINUTE HELLS, 50th Canyon Cinema, Mostra de Cinema Periferico, A Coruña, Spain

2017

ELIXIR, Light Field, the Lab, Black Hole Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA

2017

FALLING LESSONS, the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

2017

FALLING LESSONS, Sight Unseen, Parkway Theater, Baltimore, MD

2017

Assorted Morsels: a program of shorts, MAC, Baltimore MD

2017

INVOCATION, Hog Farm Family Film Festival

2016

FILAMENT (The Hands), Magic Lantern, Brown University, Rhode Island

2016

FALLING LESSONS, MASSART Film Society, Boston, Massachusetts

2016

FALLING LESSONS, Gaze, ATA, San Francisco, California

2015

FALLING LESSONS, Microscope Gallery, New York City, New York

2015

FALLING LESSONS, Canyon Cinema, San Francisco, California

2015

ELIXIR and INVOCATION, M.O.C.A./FilmForum, Los Angeles, California

2015

PALM DOWN, Egyptian Theater, FilmForum, Los Angeles, California

2014

Images Festival, Toronto, THREE-MINUTE HELLS

2013

EFFP – Portland Experimental Film Festival, INJURY ON A THEME, ELIXIR

2013

Echo Park Film Center, BY HALVES

2012

U.S.C. Cinemateque, FALLING LESSONS

2010

Los Angeles Filmforum, Egyptian Theater, Hollywood, California, ASSORTED MORSELS

2008

Beyond Baroque, Venice, California, PEACH LANDSCAPE

2005

Los Angeles Film Forum/UCLA Archives, FALLING LESSONS, @ Egyptian Theater, Hollywood, California

2003

IOTA Institute@ the Jurassic Museum, Los Angeles, California, CANNONBALL SECTION and SELF PORTRAIT AS A CITY

2003

Cinemateque, University of Southern California, FALLING LESSONS

2002

IOTA Institute, @ the Jurassic Museum, Los Angeles, California, INVOCATION, READY-MADE, PYTHONESS and PEACH LANDSCAPE

2002

University of Southern California, Norris Theater, FALLING LESSONS

2002

Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, FALLING LESSONS

1985

Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, FALLING LESSONS

1999

St. Martin’s College of Art & Design, London, England, Group Show including FILAMENT & INVOCATION

1999

Magdalen College Film Society, Magdalen College, Oxford, England, FALLING LESSONS

1997

Claremont College, visiting artist, FALLING LESSONS

1996

University of Southern California Cinemateque, FALLING LESSONS

1996

University of Montana, Film Centennial Celebration

1995

University of Montana, Missoula, Film Centennial Festival, screening of FALLING LESSONS

1995

Laemmle Theater, Santa Monica, California, Los Angeles, premiere & one week run, FALLING LESSONS

1995

Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, California, FALLING LESSONS

1995

Tribune Theater, Fullerton, California, FALLING LESSONS

1995

University of Southern California Cinemateque, FALLING LESSONS

1994

United States Embassy, American Cultural Center, Damascus, Syria, FALLING LESSONS

1994

Ashbal School, Damascus, Syria, FALLING LESSONS

1994

Art Center College, Pasadena, California, FALLING LESSONS

1993

Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, California, FALLING LESSONS

1992

Millennium, New York City, FALLING LESSONS

1992

State University of New York, Binghamton, FALLING LESSONS

1986

Galaxie Theater, Los Angeles, Poetry/Film Festival, SELF-PORTRAIT AS A CITY

1981

Los Angeles Independent Film Oasis, CIGARETTE BURN

1980

Los Angeles Independent Film Oasis, FILAMENT (THE HANDS)

1979

U.C.L.A. First Women’s FIlm Festival, CIGARETTE BURN

1978

Los Angeles Independent Film Oasis, A GLANCE and PEACH LANDSCAPE

1978

Al’s Bar, Los Angeles, FILAMENT (THE HANDS)

1977

Los Angeles County Museum, The Poetic Eye Series, PEACH LANDSCAPE

1977

Millennium, New York City, Oasis Group Show, PEACH LANDSCAPE

1977

California Museum of Science and Industry, CINEVID Festival, Oasis Group Show, PEACH LANDSCAPE

1977

Los Angeles Independent Film Oasis, FILAMENT (THE HANDS)

1977

Los Angeles Independent Film Oasis, PEACH LANDSCAPE

1975

University of California Los Angeles Film School, PEACH LANDSCAPE, THREE PREPARATIONS, FILAMENT (THE HANDS), A GLANCE

1974

Cornell College, Iowa, Women’s Action Group, Four Films

1974

Collective for Living Cinema, New York City, PEACH LANDSCAPE, FILAMENT, SLOW FLUSH [now titled THREE PREPARATIONS]