Jerome Hiler

Jerome Hiler (born 1943)[1] is an American experimental filmmaker, painter and stain glass artist.

Biography

Hiler began his filmmaking career along side Robert Cowan, as a projectionist at The Filmmaker Cinematheque at 125 West 41st St. in New York City.[2] He was the first projectionist for Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls, and went on to project that film more than 150 times.[3][4]

Hiler creates experimental films. An Artforum review by P. Adams Sitney of his 2011 film, Words of Mercury, described Hiler as part of the "rare company of significant if almost invisible filmmakers of the American avant-garde cinema."[5] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that Hiler's "output is limited but stunning."[3] Wheeler Winston Dixon has described his films as “everyday objects, places, things and people are transformed into integers of light, creating a sinuous tapestry of restless imagistic construction”.

Since the 1960s, Hiler's partner has been fellow filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky, with whom he collaborates at times on films.[3][5]

Filmography
  • Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts) [co-made with Nathaniel Dorsky] (1966)
  • Library [co-made with Nathaniel Dorsky] (1970)
  • Gladly Given (1997)
  • Target Rock (2000)
  • Music Makes a City (2010)
  • Words of Mercury (2011)
  • In the Stone House (1967-70/2012)
  • New Shores (1979-90/2012)
  • Misplacement (2013)
  • Bagatelle II (1964-2016)
  • Marginalia (2016)

References
  1. "Luminosity – The Films of Jerome Hiler". Harvard Film Archive. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  2. Anderson, Steve (July 1999). "The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema . Wheeler Winston Dixon". Film Quarterly. 52 (4): 44–45. doi:10.1525/fq.1999.52.4.04a00090. ISSN 0015-1386.
  3. Dargis, Manohla (2015-09-24). "For Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, Film Is the Star". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  4. San Francisco Cinematheque (2014-10-13), The Chelsea Girls: An Interview with Jerome Hiler, retrieved 2020-05-20
  5. Sitney, P. Adams (2012). "P. Adams Sitney on Jerome Hiler's Words of Mercury". Artforum. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
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