Movies: Storm De Hirsch

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s....

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....

Film 1 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program....

“Third Eye Butterfly” is a double 16mm projection piece in which the two screens – at times divided within into additional “mini-screens” causing textured kaleidoscopic effects – blur to create a third wider frame, encouraging the viewers to extend ...

Film 5 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program....

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry....

"Cine-Sonnet. Rome to Venice. A study of time in motion. An accelerated montage of reflections and landscapes framed in the window of an express train running from Rome to Venice. Dedicated to the writings of J.W. Dunne, the collage of Kurt Schwitter...

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan Sontag, Storm De Hirsch, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, and George and Mike K...

"In Spring, 1963 Show Magazine called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I told them, why did they want me to make it - didn't they know I was a bit unusual? ... 'We want something unusual,' they said. So I went out and made a newsr...

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War. Part of the protest festival W...

Peyote Queen opens with black-and-white perforations that pulsate to the beat of drumming and escalate to light-bathed split screens and kaleidoscopic effects. Switching to lively organ accompaniment, the film pours out a stream of simple scratchings...

"De Hirsch's Aristotle is a succinctly percussive appreciation of the visual rhythms of a country stream." Film 3 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program....

Geometrics of the Kabbalah (1975) Short film Dir. Storm De Hirsch "5 is water, 5 is the letter X. 5 is distance. 5 says no. 5 laughs when divided into 2. 5 swims backwards, and space is five. The cherry tree is one. The hurt is 1 plus 1, the wish ...

A newsreel of Jonas Mekas shooting his filmed version of The Brig on the set of the Living Theatre production....

Dedicated to all the magic makers of the world who weave a talisman for man's rebirth in his house of breath....

Children of the water world drift the ocean in an empty crystal ball, swim in beaded beds of mist, and spawn in pools of murder to see a lantern sunk in the pit of an empty space....

An Angry Arts "protestfilm" with black and white visuals. –S. D. H....

"Homage to the life and works of Kasimir Malevich" — S.D.H. Film 4 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program....

super-8 / color / silent...

A meditation upon the interior space of London’s Heathrow Airport, contrasting the ceaseless movements of the silhouetted passengers against the angles of the metal structural framing which are then replicated upon the reflective surfaces of the buil...