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For several decades, Jerome Hiler's work remained one of the best-kept secrets of North American cinema. Since the 1960s, his 16mm films had been limited to private screenings, shown only to his entourage, and have only begun to be unveiled in the last fifteen years. Growing up in New York, Hiler trained as a painter and began filming as a self-taught artist, inspired by local experimental filmmakers such as Marie Menken, Stan Brakhage and Gregory J. Markopoulos. Far from any school or dominant style, Hiler has since pursued a cinematic quest dedicated to a lyrical, intensely experiential and very often autobiographical cinema. Without relating to the film diary genre or any other form of narrative, his work transfigures everyday life into a stream of free, poetic associations.
This screening proposes a journey back in time, starting with one of Hiler's most recent creations, Words of Mercury. This delicate work of visual goldsmithery, composed almost entirely of superimposed images made directly in the camera, draws on his experience as a stained-glass artist and his love of polyphonic choral music. The other two films in the program, edited between 2012 and 2016, revisit images shot much earlier, linked - or separated - by moments of total blackness that, according to the filmmaker, echo the mechanisms of memory. The founding moment of his conception of cinema dates back to the period 1967-1971, when the filmmaker left the city to settle in a small country house with his life partner, Nathaniel Dorsky. This retreat gave rise to the final film in the program, In the Stone House, which was made to mirror a film by Dorsky dedicated to him, Hours for Jerome. "My method was to work directly with the Bolex camera as a sort of transformation device rather than to dream up some sort of plan and execute that": this is how Hiler describes his poiesis, in reference to this film made of little glimpses of everyday life, between rural tranquility and urban interludes, which constitutes a great treatise on material imagination.
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WORDS OF MERCURY
by Jerome HILER 2010-2011 / 16mm / color / silent / 25' 00 |
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BAGATELLE II
by Jerome HILER 1964-2016 / 16mm / color-b&w / silent / 16' 00 |
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IN THE STONE HOUSE
by Jerome HILER 1967-2012 / 16mm / color-b&w / silent / 35' 00 |
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