James N. Kienitz Wilkins

Movies5

• Movie5.7

  Drama

  In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device.

  Invention

  2025 · 3 votes

• Movie5.3

  DramaMystery

  A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks.

  Notes on an Appearance

  2018 · 7 votes

• Movie7.0

  Documentary

  An ode to movie culture and its beguiling hold on our imagination, modeled on an actual legal deposition, and accompanied by a procession of 35mm publicity stills from studio press kits.

  Still Film

  2023 · 1 votes

• Movie

  Documentary

  Special Features is an apparent interview with three highlights. Presented as a lo-fi fragment from a forgotten video production, an interviewee interacts with an interviewer, recounting a special experience at once unique and shared.

  Special Features

  2014

• Movie

  This Action Lies is a movie about the limits of observation, about staring very hard at something while listening to something else. It is a paranoid polyphonic apology of a simple act: offering three perspectives of an object that may not exist in a room that cannot exist, while at the mercy of a mistrustful monologue. In other words, a defense of cinema. This project expands ideas introduced in one of Kienitz Wilkins’ previous films, Indefinite Pitch (2016), and is similarly voice-driven, using an extended monologue to analyze a common and underappreciated commercial product, elevating it to the status of an almost Platonic form.

  This Action Lies

  2019