Dan Barnett Movies

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...

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...

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...

Legendary among filmmakers who have witnessed it, White Heart is a symphonic exploration of cinematic meaning that unfolds through a multi-layered,...

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...

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

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...

Third segment in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy.

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

This video is about WATER WHEEL

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...

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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...

"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...

Although constructed from thousands of still images of Chicago, ENDLESS maintains a complex relationship to the photographic image. Time and space...

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

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

The Chinese Typewriter is about education and language, and the way a society is shaped by them. Exemplifies the politically committed film that...

The second film in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy

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