Storm De Hirsch Movies

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

This Blakean cinematic catalog of closely framed images, often representing oppositional properties such as growth and decay, or nature versus...

A study of the architecture of the Jefferson Market building in Manhattan which employs quick, probing camera work and intentionally arrhythmic...

"The shape of change, the shape of memory has walked many miles in the mind to recreate a landscape, a manner of subterranean speech which may never...

Zero are the violated, zero the redeemed, zero always in the round, molested by computation of an ache, a threat of hangman's thread or ballad...

super-8 / color / silent

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

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

"Cine-Sonnet. Rome to Venice. A study of time in motion. An accelerated montage of reflections and landscapes framed in the window of an express...

"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...

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