Joseph Bernard

2021

"Raised on the east coast of the U.S., I received degrees from the Hartford Art School and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. All my work is collage-based and all images, though silent, are heavily influenced by music and poetry. I've painted & photographed all my life, but from the late 70's to mid 80's I made over 100 super-8, silent films. These are highly subjective, non-narrative observations often on filmmaking itself."

Фильмы

Provincetown Pieces

Joseph Bernard

This is a shortened version of a three-movement film made over a summer’s stay in Provincetown, MA (Cape Cod), first alone, then with family. A journal of sorts, it renders the place with obvious affection. The town remains today, to an amazing degree, as it appears in this film from decades ago.

Provincetown Pieces

8.9 ⚠️ 1979

США

Variant Chants

Joseph Bernard

A sometimes very rapid montage of stills & short clips referencing aspects of filmmaking, as well as my own paintings on glass and photographs. So then -- a film about filmmaking, a dervish dance, a celebration of light, color, movement and all the charged beauty I was capable of then, or since. Super-8, silent, non-narrative. - Joseph Bernard

Variant Chants

8.2 ⚠️ 1983

США

Common Air

Joseph Bernard

The frantic opacity of being alive.

Common Air

7.9 ⚠️ 1984

США, мультфильм

Crematorium: A Collaborative Self-Portrait

Joseph Bernard

A film by Joseph Bernard

Crematorium: A Collaborative Self-Portrait

7.2 ⚠️ 1979

620 Commercial

Joseph Bernard

A film by Joseph Bernard.

620 Commercial

6.8 ⚠️ 1980

США, документальный

Diversion

Joseph Bernard

"My attempt to repeat 'success'...this was the companion follow-up to RITUAL. Both films are densely compressed and they opened up many more options for future work. Super 8, silent."

Diversion

6.5 ⚠️ 1980

White Film

Joseph Bernard

Spectrum and prism divide the screen; whites and light, etc. "Out of this purity comes all colors. I've always been attracted to refracted light and prismatic phenomena" says Bernard. For Richard Devereaux. Super 8, silent, non-narrative.

White Film

6.4 ⚠️ 1978

США, документальный

Film for Untitled Viewer

Joseph Bernard

A splice-less, text soliloquy acknowledging an unknown, random audience of one I'm sharing this film with. Originally shot in b&w, the digital version has gone pink. Super-8, silent. - Joseph Bernard

Film for Untitled Viewer

5.9 ⚠️ 1983

США, мультфильм

Drawings on Africa

Joseph Bernard

"Totally under-exposed 35mm slides of African maps were drawn over by a 10 & 12 year old. The slides, with their emulsion-scratched images, were then rephotographed... as a wonderful collaboration."

Drawings on Africa

5.6 ⚠️ 1981

Fugue

Joseph Bernard

"Bach implied; splice-free, light, airy, soft-focus reflections out the back window of a car returning from the beach on a perfect summer's day. Super 8, silent, non-narritive."

Fugue

5.2 ⚠️ 1981

Broken Nights

Joseph Bernard

A film by Joseph Bernard

Broken Nights

1980

Intrigues (IV)

Joseph Bernard

"From a series of 7 "Intrigues", (as referenced by Delmore Schwartz), this fourth one pries the curious poetry of light and darkness within filmmaking. Super 8, silent, non-narrative,"

Intrigues (IV)

1981

Implications of a Totality

Joseph Bernard

A film by Joseph Bernard

Implications of a Totality

1979

Ritual

Joseph Bernard

This is one of those rare, total in-camera edits that provided options for many of my later, densely layered films. The timing and lap dissolves were a pitch-perfect gift! Super 8, silent, experimental.—Joseph Bernard

Ritual

1979

The Function of Film

Joseph Bernard

"A declarative and somewhat facetious circular text weaves through many sampled versions of what "film" might be, i.e., home movie, Hollywood, training, documentary, newsreel, sports, abstraction, etc. Shot in b&w and silent, yet two more categories. Along the way, this film provides an identity of its own. Super 8, silent, experimental."

The Function of Film

1982

Chamber

Joseph Bernard

"The film's title takes into account meanings and implication of the word 'chamber', as well as of the heart, intimate music, darkness, room, camera, prison, gun part...both empty and loaded. CHAMBER provided my conversion from painter to filmmaker." -JB

Chamber

1977