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Prostian Neurosis (1999)
"This film is a collaboration with friend-filmmaker, Mia Roozen Separately filming footage, unknown to the other, and splicing it together to create an abstract prosaic, a symphony of sight and sound, a subconscious exploration of neurotic origins"
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Six Arms - Homage to Mekas (2006)
"I was asked to participate in a film program were filmmakers were asked to each shoot a 100ft roll of film in the style of legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas. This short burst cinematic film diary was shot on a nice Saturday Afternoon at my favorite Pub The Six Arms, I documented my afternoon as it happened. Their was no editing at all on this film it was all done in Camera. I liked the film so much that I decided to add a sound track and released it."
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The Last Ten Minutes of Existence (2000)
This is a film that I had planed on making for more than two years before I began to shoot it. The Idea was to shoot an entire 400 ft. magazine of film from start to finish without stopping.
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Reflections (1992)
This film was the second installment of what I call the URBAN LANDSCAPE SERIES. The film is more like an extension my earlier film Exposures, but this time I made a much more valiant attempt to say what I wanted to say. By the time I made this film I felt that I had mastered the art of cinematography.
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Difficult Cinema (1993)
Film by Jon Behrens
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Light Color and Water (1987)
Film by Jon Behrens
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Undercurrents (1994)
"This film was the third and final installment of my Urban Landscape Series and is my personal favorite of the three. In this film I utilized all the techniques that I had learned over the years and put them all into this film. I finally felt that my mission was complete regarding structures and that I could move forward and try other ideas. RUBATO provided the films sound track."
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Anomalies of the Unconscious (2003)
"This is the second film of the Anomalies Cycle. It is a hand Painted and manipulated film. I also used the technique of bleaching and batiking of the film emulsion. The footage was then step printed on a J-K Optical Printer. Although similar in style to The Flickering of the Minds Eye I began to experiment more with other colors and different textures such as dried leaves and flowers, hair, insect parts, and a variety of different types of inks and paints. The sound track for this film was preformed by NEGATIVLAND."
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Symmetry (1990)
Symmetry was a film I made in 1990 at that time I wanted to experiment more with narrative elements in my films. Looking back on this film I see Ernie Steeles, O.K. Hotel, Virginia Inn, The Viaduct and James Carbo’s eastlake silver house all gone now. This film is different from the films I made before .. and the films I have made after. I was grateful to Pony Mourice for agreeing to be in this picture, if it wasn't for her the film never would have been made because she was the only one I could picture in my mind to be in my film.
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Desert Abstractions (1997)
"This is a film that I had wanted to make for many years. It was not until the summer of 1996 that I actually got it together and shot it. Again with the help of Steve Creson we packed up all our equipment and loaded on to a plane and flew to Arizona were we rented a car and drove around the desert for week and filmed everything that we thought looked interesting. This film is similar to the films in my urban landscapes series, only this film was shot in eye popping full color and there are no man made elements in this film at all. Lots of rock formations, colors, and shapes only things made my mother nature. This film also has a film score by RUBATO."
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The Flickering of the Minds Eye (2001)
This film is made up of hand painted and batik sections of film that I then step printed on an optical printer. I also used fingers, potatoes, sponges to print textures and patterns. The film was then cut into a rhythmic pattern that may play a few tricks on your brain.
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The Movement of Light at Night (1996)
This was the first film that I collaborated with fellow filmmaker and friend Steve Creson. We each shot a 100ft roll of film and we did not know what each other were shooting. The only thing that our footage had in common was the fact that it was all shot in color and at night. At the time that we did this we were each experimenting with new techniques of our own. This took place on a nice summer evening in July of 1996. This film sparked the beginning of a very prolific partnership. Film score by RUBATO.
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The Production and Decay of Strange Particles (2008)
"In this film I began to experiment more with creating mats with liquid latex directly on the film emulsion then bleaching of all the excess image around the latex and using the clear bleached sections of film as a canvas to paint my film poem I used special inks that were custom made just for me called Keneville Dyes I then to re-photographed it all on my beloved JK optical printer. I also created this films sound design."
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Seven Minutes in May (1995)
I made this film in the summer of 1995 and released it in the fall, this film is made up from mostly images I shot of my friend Kitty doing her fire eating routine at the Pike Street Cinema, and other images I had.
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Road Trip 21 (2022)
This is a film I made from footage I shot during a road trip to the Washington coast.
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Kirsten McCory (2016)
This film features Kirsten McCory drinking coffee and telling me about her day.
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A Beginning a Middle and an End (2013)
"Reconstituted found footage hand painted optically printed wonder, with a beginning a middle and an end."
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Modular on the Spot (2017)
Behrens’ unedited film shot at Gas Works Park on July 16, 2016, with his newly acquired Arriflex camera.
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Bipacking Experiments No 1 (1999)
Behren’s unreleased hand painted film
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Vernal Obeisance (2003)
“The second collaboration I did with R.K. Adams, we proceeded to experiment with the Idea of using panels in our films. When we talked about doing this we decided that we wanted to pay homage to the upcoming spring, the result was this film"
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a meditation in color and light (2009)
Film by Jon Behrens
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Recycled Realizations (2019)
I made this film from manipulated and hand painted 35mm trailers of main stream Hollywood films from the 1990's. -JB
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I Love Synthesizers (2016)
Film (not) by Jon Behrens
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Retina Circus (2014)
Film by Jon Behrens
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Found Footage Film (2017)
Film by Jon Behrens
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One Minute Movie No. 1 (2013)
Film by Jon Behrens
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Viaduct (2020)
Film by Jon Behrens
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Bleach Bypass (2019)
Made from sections of random family photos that I acquired while working at a film lab in the early 1990's. -JB
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Girl and a Bicycle (1995)
This film was made in collaboration with fellow filmmaker and friend Rasha Refaie.The film was inspired by a dream that Rasha had about a girl and a bicycle and a silver colored egg. The viewer sees Rasha peddling all over Seattle through city streets, parks, all over and ultimately ending up a graveyard were she begins to experience the nosebleed of her life. This film was going to be the first in a series of films based on Rasha's dreams; however, shortly after this film was completed Rasha moved to New York City and this was the only film that was made. Rubato composed the films sound track.
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Look closely and you will see (2020)
A 2020 short film directed by Jon Behrens.
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Late Summer Superimpositions
Kaleidoscopic images in and about an apartment as the sun sets on a clear, late-summer day.
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My Stars (2021)
A hand painted/manipulated 35mm found footage film.
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All The Pretty Summer Colors (2020)
Shot during the summer months around my neighborhood and manipulated on my Optical Printer.
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The Astrum Argentinum (2006)
Is the third film in a series that is being called the Anomalies cycle. It is mostly a hand painted and step printed film. This time I used stained glass dyes and also experimented with photographing growing crystals with time laps cinematograhy. I also created the sound design for this film.
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In the Autumn Before the Winter Comes Man's Last Made Surge of Youth (2019)
Optically printed fragments of film I shot in the autumn months in Seattle. -JB This film was made in response to seeing some of Caryn Clines films. Caryn re introduced me to shooting my films outside. -JB
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The Colors of Boulder in the Summer (2015)
"in the summer of 1997 I went to Boulder Colorado for a holiday. During this time we attended some poetry things at Naropa and and some cinematic things at the University of Colorado. I had my bolex with me the whole time and I shot little bursts of images along the way. The film sat in its can on a shelf in my studio until the early part of 2014 when I began to experiment with the images on my optical printer."
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A Winter Song (2019)
This film was made from optically printed fragments of footage that I shot during the winter months in Seattle. -JB
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Two Roll Camera Roll (2016)
"This was film was shot on a train trip down to Portland Oregon in the Summer of 2016 with one of my Bolex’s . I was using film from a large supply of 7222 double X negative donated to me from a friend that became outdated in 1972. I shot the film normal and processed it normal, the film turned out to be very grainy which worked well. I then rephotographed everything on my optical printer. The sound for the film was made of sound I recorded of the train."
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Snow Film (2019)
"I wanted to capture the beautiful snow as it fell onto the trees on Christmas morning. Shot it one long take on my Arriflex camera from the deck of my home, in homage to the late great Peter Hutton."
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Me And My Friend (2016)
"I made this film on an evening out with my dear friend Kirsten McCory."
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Light Coins (2018)
"This film is a collaboration between myself, Caryn Cline and Luke Sieczek. We made this film using a matte box. We used three different coin sized mattes, and we took turns exposing them."
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An Optical Printer Duet (2007)
"I did this collaboration with filmmaker Caryn Cline. Two filmmakers, two direct animation technics, two optical printers one roll of 16mm film."
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Meandering (2015)
"Kirsten McCory is the mending woman who is meandering through this hand painted and optically printed film."
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A Film Containing Trees (2018)
I fixed my camera onto the trees around my lower Queen Anne area home in Seattle from my deck. I then backed up the film to beginning and re-exposed the film from another angle. I passed my hand in front of the lens during the second exposure to blend the two images together. The sound for this film was created from industrial sounds I recorded also in the same area and manipulated with effects.


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