Jerome Hiler Movies

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds...

Warren Sonbert described Divided Loyalties as a film 'about art vs. industry and their various crossovers.' According to film critic Amy Taubin,...

Commissioned by Frederick Eberstadt

“Misplacement” focuses on a social event — it looks like a funeral — with an implied but withheld story. The people Mr. Hiler...

Stoned people, music, movement, fields.

In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary...

Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.

"My only film shot in color negative… and its been a challenge, this sort of stock. […] The film is, to me, some kind of a rhapsody...

“Now that I’m in motion again, I look forward to the passage from this life to future wanderings in unknown places. My film alludes to...

NEW SHORES is a sister film to IN THE STONE HOUSE in many ways. Like the latter film, it consists of earlier footage edited in recent years. It could...

"This footage was shot and edited from 1966 to 1970 and then edited to completion over a two year period ending in July 1982. Hours for Jerome (as in...

More than eight hundred years ago, a confluence of technological, philosophical, and financial upswellings converged to create the most advanced form...

The fourth of the “cinematic songs,” followed by two new works “made by someone closer to passing on, by someone whose sense of...

This film is to be projected at silent speed: 18 frames per second. Although "Marginalia" has no story, it reflects my concern with the feel of...

“With Bagatelle II, I seem to have come full circle by returning to the so-called polyvalent style of my earliest film endeavors from 50 years...

Words of Mercury is a silent film projected at 18fps. It has many layers of super-impositions which were all shot in the camera. It moves from a...

"Shot in early 1990 on outdated Ektachrome reversal stock, Acid Rock exists only in the original (that is, Hiler has never made a print of it), and...

“This modest little film completely turned me around. Up until that point I had been using the world to make a film, and what Jerome showed me...

In the Stone House records and recollects a period of life of four years in rural New Jersey. In the latter 1960s, two young guys with monastic...

"A portrait of a young painter, a friend of mine, who I also feature in Marginalia."