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.

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...

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

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

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...

"A day stands still and can be seen sprouting from its socket, a long toothed day eats its quiet bread and stands as still as ears of corn drying in...

"Metaphysical sketches of my stay at the Neil Ives house in Woodstock where the artist lived and painted" — S.D.H. Film 6 of 6 in the...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Film 1 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program.

"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....

Eighteenth century Indian miniatures enact a traditional wedding ceremony of a Hindu Prince and Princess. An exotic landscape of the mind;...

"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.