Storm De Hirsch Movies

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.

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

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

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....

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...

"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...

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

A dramatic feature shot on location in Rome. Centered around the adventures and illusions of three girls living abroad, the film explores their...

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

super-8 / color / silent

"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....

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

Film 2 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program.

"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.

Film 5 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program.

"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...

Six films in one reel: The Reticule of Love; The Recurring Dream; Aristotle; Malevitch at the Guggenheim; Silently, Bearing Totem of a Bird; Ives...

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

This Blakean cinematic catalog of closely framed images, often representing oppositional properties such as growth and decay, or nature versus...