Jerome Hiler Movies

  • 1967
    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

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    Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds...

    The Illiac Passion
  • 1967
    Letter to D.H. In Paris

    Letter to D.H. In Paris

    Letter to D.H. In Paris

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    Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

    Letter to D.H. In Paris
  • 1970
    Library

    Library

    Library

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    Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.

    Library
  • 1978
    Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties

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    Warren Sonbert described Divided Loyalties as a film 'about art vs. industry and their various crossovers.' According to film critic Amy Taubin,...

    Divided Loyalties
  • 2015
    Intimations

    Intimations

    Intimations

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    The fourth of the “cinematic songs,” followed by two new works “made by someone closer to passing on, by someone whose sense of...

    Intimations
  • 2018
    Facades

    Facades

    Facades

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    "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...

    Facades
  • 1982
    Hours for Jerome

    Hours for Jerome

    Hours for Jerome

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    "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...

    Hours for Jerome
  • 2023
    Cinema Before 1300

    Cinema Before 1300

    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...

    Cinema Before 1300
  • 1967
    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)

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    “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...

    Fool’s Spring (Two Personal Gifts)
  • 2024
    Careless Passage

    Careless Passage

    Careless Passage

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    “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...

    Careless Passage
  • 2011
    Words of Mercury

    Words of Mercury

    Words of Mercury

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    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...

    Words of Mercury
  • 2013
    Misplacement

    Misplacement

    Misplacement

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    “Misplacement” focuses on a social event — it looks like a funeral — with an implied but withheld story. The people Mr. Hiler...

    Misplacement
  • 2012
    New Shores

    New Shores

    New Shores

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    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...

    New Shores
  • 2012
    In the Stone House

    In the Stone House

    In the Stone House

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    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...

    In the Stone House
  • 2018
    Bagatelle I

    Bagatelle I

    Bagatelle I

    02018HD

    "A portrait of a young painter, a friend of mine, who I also feature in Marginalia."

    Bagatelle I
  • 2016
    Bagatelle II

    Bagatelle II

    Bagatelle II

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    “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...

    Bagatelle II
  • 2019
    Ruling Star

    Ruling Star

    Ruling Star

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    “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...

    Ruling Star
  • 1990
    Acid Rock

    Acid Rock

    Acid Rock

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    "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...

    Acid Rock
  • 2015
    Marginalia

    Marginalia

    Marginalia

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    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...

    Marginalia
  • 2010
    Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story

    Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story

    Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story

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    In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary...

    Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story