Jerome Hiler Movies
- 1967
The Illiac Passion
The Illiac Passion3.51967HD
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds...
- 2023
Cinema Before 1300
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More than eight hundred years ago, a confluence of technological, philosophical, and financial upswellings converged to create the most advanced form...
- 1970
Library
Library01970HD
Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.
- 1967
Letter to D.H. In Paris
Letter to D.H. In Paris51967HD
Stoned people, music, movement, fields.
- 2011
Words of Mercury
Words of Mercury72011HD
Words of Mercury is a silent film projected at 18fps. It has many layers of super-impositions which were all shot in the camera. It moves from a...
- 1982
Hours for Jerome
Hours for Jerome9.51982HD
"This footage was shot and edited from 1966 to 1970 and then edited to completion over a two year period ending in July 1982. Hours for Jerome (as in...
- 1978
Divided Loyalties
Divided Loyalties01978HD
Warren Sonbert described Divided Loyalties as a film 'about art vs. industry and their various crossovers.' According to film critic Amy Taubin,...
- 2012
In the Stone House
In the Stone House02012HD
In the Stone House records and recollects a period of life of four years in rural New Jersey. In the latter 1960s, two young guys with monastic...
- 2015
Intimations
Intimations02015HD
The fourth of the “cinematic songs,” followed by two new works “made by someone closer to passing on, by someone whose sense of...
- 2012
New Shores
New Shores02012HD
NEW SHORES is a sister film to IN THE STONE HOUSE in many ways. Like the latter film, it consists of earlier footage edited in recent years. It could...
- 2024
Careless Passage
Careless Passage02024HD
“Now that I’m in motion again, I look forward to the passage from this life to future wanderings in unknown places. My film alludes to...
- 2015
Marginalia
Marginalia72015HD
This film is to be projected at silent speed: 18 frames per second. Although "Marginalia" has no story, it reflects my concern with the feel of...
- 2019
Ruling Star
Ruling Star02019HD
“For one thing, this was my first film using negative stock after a lifetime of shooting color reversal. This was a time when I had to open up...
- 2013
Misplacement
Misplacement02013HD
“Misplacement” focuses on a social event — it looks like a funeral — with an implied but withheld story. The people Mr. Hiler...
- 2018
Facades
Facades02018HD
"My only film shot in color negative… and its been a challenge, this sort of stock. […] The film is, to me, some kind of a rhapsody...
- 2016
Bagatelle II
Bagatelle II02016HD
“With Bagatelle II, I seem to have come full circle by returning to the so-called polyvalent style of my earliest film endeavors from 50 years...
- 2018
Bagatelle I
Bagatelle I02018HD
"A portrait of a young painter, a friend of mine, who I also feature in Marginalia."
- 2010
Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story
Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story02010HD
In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary...
- 1967
Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)
Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)01967HD
“This modest little film completely turned me around. Up until that point I had been using the world to make a film, and what Jerome showed me...
- 1990
Acid Rock
Acid Rock01990HD
"Shot in early 1990 on outdated Ektachrome reversal stock, Acid Rock exists only in the original (that is, Hiler has never made a print of it), and...