Storm De Hirsch Movies

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.

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

Peyote Queen opens with black-and-white perforations that pulsate to the beat of drumming and escalate to light-bathed split screens and...

Film 1 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....

Film 5 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program.

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

"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...

"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...

"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...

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

A meditation upon the interior space of London’s Heathrow Airport, contrasting the ceaseless movements of the silhouetted passengers against...

“Third Eye Butterfly” is a double 16mm projection piece in which the two screens – at times divided within into additional...

super-8 / color / silent

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...

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...