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James Herbert

Born January 1, 1938 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA (age 88)

James Herbert is an internationally known American painter and filmmaker. His work is known for its obsession with the nude figure in romantic and erotic figurations with an emphasis on the role of sexuality and scene context. Herbert was born in 1938 in Boston and grew up in Rhode Island. He began his informal art education as a teenager attending nude figure drawing classes at the Rhode Island S…

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Abandoned House

Abandoned House · 2007

Abandoned House

Abandoned House is about a group of young people in Italy who exchange stories. The protagonist Maria listens to young men and women who report on sexual abuse and warped pleasure and she seems to feel the need to manipulate their vulnerability and rediscover her own lost love. Pictures of Tuscany and the sensual light within which the young naked figures in the film bathe serve to temper the darker aspects of the film with a tangible lyricism. In the end, the scars of abuse give way to the tenderness of the visual language itself.

Theater

Theater · 1985

R.E.M.: Succumbs

R.E.M.: Succumbs · 1987

R.E.M.: Succumbs

Athens, GA Inside/Out

Athens, GA Inside/Out · 1987

Athens, GA Inside/Out

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Led by the success of the B-52's and R.E.M., Athens, Georgia was the most happening music scene in the country by the mid 80's. Following several different bands from different genres, this film paints Athens as a magical artistic environment where bands are not in competition, but co-exist in harmony and share the ideals of the land. Live performances of R.E.M.'s "Swan Swan H" and "Dream (All I Have To Do)" at the Lucy Cobb Institute chapel are included. Also featured are performances and interviews frm the B-52's, Pylon, B-B-Que Killers, Time Toy, Jim Herbert, Flat Duo Jets, Love Tractor, Kilkenny Cats, Squalls and more

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Island

Hotel

Three

Experimental short by James Herbert.

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Abandoned House

Abandoned House · 2007

Abandoned House

Abandoned House is about a group of young people in Italy who exchange stories. The protagonist Maria listens to young men and women who report on sexual abuse and warped pleasure and she seems to feel the need to manipulate their vulnerability and rediscover her own lost love. Pictures of Tuscany and the sensual light within which the young naked figures in the film bathe serve to temper the darker aspects of the film with a tangible lyricism. In the end, the scars of abuse give way to the tenderness of the visual language itself.

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Theater

Theater · 1985

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R.E.M.: Succumbs

R.E.M.: Succumbs · 1987

R.E.M.: Succumbs

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Athens, GA Inside/Out

Athens, GA Inside/Out · 1987

Athens, GA Inside/Out

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Led by the success of the B-52's and R.E.M., Athens, Georgia was the most happening music scene in the country by the mid 80's. Following several different bands from different genres, this film paints Athens as a magical artistic environment where bands are not in competition, but co-exist in harmony and share the ideals of the land. Live performances of R.E.M.'s "Swan Swan H" and "Dream (All I Have To Do)" at the Lucy Cobb Institute chapel are included. Also featured are performances and interviews frm the B-52's, Pylon, B-B-Que Killers, Time Toy, Jim Herbert, Flat Duo Jets, Love Tractor, Kilkenny Cats, Squalls and more

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Cameo

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Island

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Hotel

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Three

Experimental short by James Herbert.

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Pony

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Scars

A young man and woman trade stories about their scars - psychological, sexual and otherwise - in a variety of settings. Their relationship is at once immediate and immediately complicated by the depth of their revelations and their nakedness.

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Silk

In Silk [James Herbert] films a man and a woman, exploding the quality of silk out of the house into the back yard, where everything becomes a sheen of texture. It too has great sensuosity, but it’s like tearing silk, like being up against silk, your face wrapped in it as you watch the screen. (Stan Brakhage)

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Maypops

Maypops · 1971

A boy, a girl, several horses, a mother, and a nursing baby provide the central focus for a study of movement.

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La Presenza

La Presenza · 2002

Film from James Herbert

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Apalachee

Apalachee · 1974

Apalachee is a beautifully impressionistic study of a couple interacting with the foliage of the forest and the water of the stream. They touch and embrace each other, "neither making love nor not making love."

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Automan

Automan · 1988

Shot on 16mm, this experimental film by James Herbert portrays a boy, a girl, a car and the ever lasting desire of the flesh.

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Carnival

Carnival · 1983

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Porch Glider

Porch Glider · 1970

A cyclical film, without sound, that goes from day to night and back again. First, from the porch glider, daytime movement is seen--children running and bicycles and cars going by. The nighttime scene is a long poetic and dream-like look at adolescent lovemaking.

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Soundings

Soundings · 1986

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Night Horses

Night Horses · 1975

Herbert's silent films are noted for their study of texture and motion and for his use of nude imagery. "Night Horses" is his longest and his most sensual film to date.

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Piano

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Speedy Boys

Speedy Boys · 1999

Director James Herbert and editor Mark Jordan -- both visual artists who work in other media -- crafted this non-narrative look at Carter and Andy, two American artists summering in an unnamed Tuscany city. The young men discuss art and each other as they explore the city and its women, while the camera explores Carter and Andy.

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Cantico

Cantico · 1982

James Herbert's experimental homage to St. Francis of Assisi.

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Two Figures

Two Figures · 1980

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