Movies: Dan Barnett

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake di...

In the near future, glacial melting has covered 98% of earth's landmass. Sharks have flourished and now dominate the planet, operating as one massive school led by a mutated alpha shark....

Joseph, a young gay male, finds himself the random target of a hate crime and is severely beaten. He retreats into his own world and loses all faith upon hearing that he has permanently lost sight in one eye. In a loving, albeit misguided attempt to ...

The Chinese Typewriter is about education and language, and the way a society is shaped by them. Exemplifies the politically committed film that defies the strict rubric of avant-garde. Barnett seems less interested in challenging traditional form th...

This video is about WATER WHEEL...

Legendary among filmmakers who have witnessed it, White Heart is a symphonic exploration of cinematic meaning that unfolds through a multi-layered, contrapuntal audio-visual montage of numerous and disparate ingredients: images of city streets, verda...

Third segment in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy....

A digitally-manipulated rumination on travel, "observed" by Dan Barnett....

"This video is about some of the people of Burma" -DB....

Science Without Substance follows a hapless band of the lost through a shifting landscape as they try to figure out WHAT’S GOING ON? Movie #1 in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy....

The second film in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy...

DEPARTURE is a film that was shot in 1976-77 during a year when I lost my job due to both cutbacks at the campus at which I taught and my involvement in the movement against them. I collected footage and imagined I would edit the film together the ni...

"The images in this film were recomposed from photographs I took of street art in the Mission District in San Francisco." - D.B....

A Full Life is the sequel to the 1968 3 min silent film: "Anticipation of a Full Life" which was actually the first roll of film that I ran through my new 16mm bolex . "A Full Life" is also the first silent film I've made in more than 30 years. –Dan ...

A young girl drying her hair; a woman wringing a cloth washed in the river; a funeral in the early yellow light....

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The film I made from Gary Henoch and Harlow Robinson’s footage, An Anagram is not a documentary at all, but rather a poetic essay on the impact of the sudden collapse of a belief system on a culture. It has a 17 part quasi-musical structure inspired ...

"Born in the 1960's. Died young." Boston and NYC, 1970....

"Untoward Ends, along with Dead End, Dead End and Endless are a kind of cross between diaries and structural films and span the main part of my career working in 16mm. These were not happy years for me and they are not happy films. They were all conc...