James Herbert

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-01-01 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

James Herbert

Biography

James Herbert is an internationally known American painter and filmmaker. His work is known for its obsession with the nude figure in romantic and erotic figurations with an emphasis on the role of sexuality and scene context. Herbert was born in 1938 in Boston and grew up in Rhode Island. He began his informal art education as a teenager attending nude figure drawing classes at the Rhode Island School of Design. He earned his B.A. degree in art history from Dartmouth College in 1960 and his M.F.A. in painting in 1962 from the University of Colorado where he studied briefly with Clyfford Still and Stan Brakhage.

Production

1997

Scars

as Director

1984

2007

Abandoned House

as Director

2007

Abandoned House

as Cinematography

2007

Abandoned House

as Screenplay

2007

Abandoned House

as Producer

2000

Jumbo Aqua

as Director

2004

Rabbit Pix

as Director

1970

Porch Glider

as Director

1999

Speedy Boys

as Director

1975

Night Horses

as Director

1988

Automan

as Director

1980

Two Figures

as Director

1983

Carnival

as Director

1986

Soundings

as Director

1993

Di Luce in Luce

as Director

1991

Low

as Director

1993

1995

Wind

as Director

1996

Kolja & Sana

as Director

1993

2002

La Presenza

as Director

1964

Earth Red

as Director of Photography

1974

Three

as Director

1992

John Five

as Director

1968

Outscape

as Director

1969

Arc

as Director

1970

Pluto

as Director

1972

Pear II

as Director

1972

Plum

as Director

1975

Glass

as Director

1972

Pear I

as Director

1973

January

as Director

1975

Cloth

as Director

1977

Silk

as Director

1972

Fig

as Director

1971

Maypops

as Director

1971

Primigravida

as Director

1977

Clove

as Director

1979

Mars

as Director

1981

Pony

as Director

1982

Cantico

as Director

1974

Apalachee

as Director

1983

Herodiade

as Director

1990

1982

Cameo

as Director

1978

Dearing

as Director

1983

Window

as Director

1987

Trains

as Director

1984

Hotel

as Director

1980

Solitaire

as Director

1984

Frontier

as Director

1987

Piano

as Director

1985

Theater

as Director

1985

River

as Director

1988

Fish

as Director

1986

Island

as Director

1978

Dearing II

as Director

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