Jerome Hill 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.

The life of Jerome Hill corresponded with the first formative decades of cinema and a greater part of the 20th century. Through fragments of...

1950 short film portrait of the octogenarian folk artist. Nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Short Subject, One-reel".

“After seeing Taylor Mead’s diaries I can’t look around myself anymore. There is so much to see! So now I sit with my back to...

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic...

Based on Jerome Hill's unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the relationship between two aging sisters.

Live-action footage of canaries and beachgoers overlaid with hand-painted effects.

In a European seaside village, a maiden takes clean sheets down from the clothesline. Carrying her basket of linens home, she stops to consult a...

In 1950 Jerome Hill went to Zurich with the intention of making a film about Dr. Carl G. Jung. The project was abandoned when Hill decided that Jung...

This biographical docudrama traces the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his birth in Alsace, up to the age of 30 when he made the decision to go...

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams...

Footage of a bullfight, shot by Hill in 1934, hand-painted by the artist three decades later.

A little boy and his sister forced to spend a day at the beach build a sand castle, to the delight and interest of others. Rich black and white...

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....

A magic umbrella saves a girl from a mysterious attacker. Filmed in 1927, tinted and hand-colored in the early 60s.

An "autobiographical sketch" centered around small group of vacationers to Hill's estate in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. A gorgeous and relaxing...

The first student film made at Yale, and one of the earliest student feature films ever made, this adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel was made in...

This film uses an experimental painting technique on documentary footage of the bustling New York streets during Christmastime: Mary, Joseph and the...