Amy Halpern

Known for: Directing
Died: August 17, 2022
Movies: 48

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.

Best-Known Movies

8.0

Soft Fiction

1979

7.5

Falling Lessons

1992

6.5

Elixir

2013

6.5

#27

2020

7.0

Three Minute Hells

2012

6.0

Vezelay Curtain

2018

9.0

Kristallnacht

1979

5.0

Invocation

1982

4.0

Emit a Beam, See a Light

2022

7.0

Chabrot

2022

Filmography

2008	Shooting Women	Self
2007	Women Behind the Camera	Self
1979	Kristallnacht	Herself
1979	Soft Fiction

Directing, Writing & Producing

2023	Slow Fireworks	Director
2022	My Dear Evaporant,	Director
2022	Emit a Beam, See a Light	Director
2022	4 Fingers, 5 Toes	Director
2022	Chabrot	Director
2022	Hula	Director
2022	VERGE for my sisters	Director
2022	I Tremble / 8:46	Director
2022	Ginko Yellow	Director
2021	Fire Belly	Director
2020	Birds in the Window	Director
2020	Unowned Luxuries #3	Director
2020	#27	Director
2020	My Mink (Unowned Luxuries #2)	Director
2020	Jane, Looking	Director
2020	Newt Leaders	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	By Halves	Director
2012	Palm Down	Director
2012	Cheshire Smile	Director
2012	Injury On A Theme	Director
2012	Three Minute Hells	Director
2000	Access to the View	Director
2000	Pouring Grain	Director
1992	Falling Lessons	Director
1991	Ma Sewing	Director
1985	Ready-Made	Director
1982	Invocation	Director
1981	Cuticle Torture	Director
1979	Pythoness	Director
1978	Cigarette Burn	Director
1977	Self-Portrait As A City	Director
1976	Plausible Light Source	Director
1976	Study for Cigarette Burn	Director
1975	Filament (The Hands)	Director
1973	Peach Landscape	Director
1972	Three Preparations	Director
1972	Roll #1 For Nancy	Director
1972	A Glance	Director

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