Movies: Storm De Hirsch

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

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

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

"The shape of change, the shape of memory has walked many miles in the mind to recreate a landscape, a manner of subterranean speech which may never reach its destination to the surface but roolls in the bloodstream swollen with speech invisible to t...

super-8 / color / silent...

"Tonight is a snowbird with heart hung hostage in a water drop, its iceflaked starfeet remembering the gargoyle's empty threat to drown in rivulets of melting feather frost." –S.D.H....

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

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...

This Blakean cinematic catalog of closely framed images, often representing oppositional properties such as growth and decay, or nature versus artifice, is an exploration of color and light. As the film progresses, its evocation of an exterior garden...

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

"Reflections on a haunted cove along the banks of the Hudson River." –S.D.H....

"I wanted badly to make an animated short and had no camera available. I did have some old, unused film stock and several roles of 16mm sound tape. So I used that- plus a variety of of discarded surgical instruments and the sharp edge of a screwdrive...

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...

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....

"Cine-Sonnet. The film-maker's impressions of Charlotte Moorman's 9th Avant-Garde Festival of the Arts aboard the old steamboat, 'Alexander Hamilton,' docked at the South Street Seaport...

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 ...

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...

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

A study of the architecture of the Jefferson Market building in Manhattan which employs quick, probing camera work and intentionally arrhythmic editing in stark contrast to the Venetian Gothic styling of the facade’s architectural details. In three b...