Amy Halpern

Biography

Amy Halpern was the maker of nearly forty short films, almost all in 16mm, and of the feature film FALLING LESSONS (1991). Halpern was born and raised in New York City and lived and worked in Los Angeles for more than 40 years. After completing a suite of 12 new films in June 2022 and premiering them at a festival in Spain, Halpern suddenly contracted severe leukaemia (AML) and died 6 weeks later.

Known For

7.6%

Soft Fiction

Nov 16, 1979

WBt

7.0%

Women Behind the Camera

Aug 15, 2007

9.0%

Kristallnacht

Nov 16, 1979

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Shooting Women

Oct 5, 2008

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Acting

2008

Shooting Women as Self

2007

Women Behind the Camera as Self

1979		Soft Fiction
1979		Kristallnacht as Herself

Camera

1982

Grey Area as Director of Photography

Directing

2023

Slow Fireworks as Director

2022		My Dear Evaporant, as Director
2022		Chabrot as Director
2022		4 Fingers, 5 Toes as Director
2022		Hula as Director
2022		Emit a Beam, See a Light as Director
2022		VERGE for my sisters as Director
2022		I Tremble / 8:46 as Director
2022		Ginko Yellow as Director

2021		Ma Sewing as Director
2021		Fire Belly as Director

2020		Unowned Luxuries #3 as Director
2020		#27 as Director
2020		My Mink (Unowned Luxuries #2) as Director
2020		Jane, Looking as Director
2020		Newt Leaders as Director
2020		Birds in the Window as Director