Amy Halpern

Filmmaker

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Screenings

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

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 [email protected] 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]

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 [email protected] 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]