James Herbert

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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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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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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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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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Experimental short by James Herbert.

Short film from James Herbert

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

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The theme of erotic love and tenderness, longing and desire, expressed through the innocent awakenings of two young men and a woman in three settings. The figures are, for the most part, nude, and move through lush environments of antique and contemporary rooms.

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Short film from James Herbert

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."

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.

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.

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

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

Film from James Herbert

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Music video for R.E.M.'s "Low" from their 1991 album Out of Time

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“A nine-year-old boy is seen in a dark and sometimes sinister setting with an older boy, perhaps a brother, and a young woman who could be the mother. Bare light directed frontally on the nude bodies like a flash bulb adds a stark directness to the expressionism. In a climactic scene the nude boy lies at the feet of the woman, her swirling red satin dress caressing him in re-photographed dream motion”

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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)

Short film from James Herbert

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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.

Pear I illustrates Herbert's obsession with patterns of color as he dallies over curtains, quilts, toys, flowers and other objects, and over lean, youthful bodies that are perfect physical specimens, changing the aura of the figures with bluish, yellowish, dusky reddish and tannish tones.

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