Storm De Hirsch Movies

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....

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

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.

Hudson River Diary: Book 1 "Chronicles the journey of a train named Cayuga as it travels from New York to Poughkeepsie. There is something profoundly...

"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.

super-8 / color / silent

"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...

Film 5 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program.

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

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

“Third Eye Butterfly” is a double 16mm projection piece in which the two screens – at times divided within into additional...

"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...

"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...

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

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