As befits a linchpin of film's no wave movement, an anti-commercial culture founded partly in response to downtown NYC's new wave, director James Nares is barely recognized for his impact on cinema. His aesthetic — a ragged, often wordless and colorless zoom on inanimate objects or people oddly reduced to the same state — set a precedent built upon by more accessible filmmakers such as David Lynch. This retrospective presents 34 of his mostly short films and videos, some very recently restored. Watch out for Rome '78 (featuring punk luminary Lydia Lunch in her late-'70s prime), which Voice critic J. Hoberman recently highlighted in his renowned BAM series.